I almost forgot, find an anarchy system, look for a convoy uss (grade 3 is the best) it usually spawns a couple of anacondas and a type 9. You can get a few different materials as well as the ones you're looking for
Until we get better mechanics for material gathering...
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I almost forgot, find an anarchy system, look for a convoy uss (grade 3 is the best) it usually spawns a couple of anacondas and a type 9. You can get a few different materials as well as the ones you're looking for
I used the material traders for the first time today and must say: Wow. What's the whine about the grind?
Read about the bad exchange rates and didn't bother but man, if you just hoard everything you always have materials to trade.
On many trips i decide to drop in every uss and just chill while the limpets do their thing. Everything is good.
Only thing I wish is that it wouldn't necessary to lock on to the uss to see what type it is. Would be so nice if one could scan it just by heading towards it a few seconds.
Also, I wouldn't mind more meaningless uss's to give more life to populated systems. I like fluff
Read about the bad exchange rates and didn't bother but man, if you just hoard everything you always have materials to trade.
On many trips i decide to drop in every uss and just chill while the limpets do their thing. Everything is good.
Only thing I wish is that it wouldn't necessary to lock on to the uss to see what type it is. Would be so nice if one could scan it just by heading towards it a few seconds.
Also, I wouldn't mind more meaningless uss's to give more life to populated systems. I like fluff
I think that terminology was downgraded to "Can't figure out how to make it work" last year.
I'm not saying in any way that collecting mats is a joy. What I meant was it's not worse than any other power creep mechanics I've encountered in mmo's.
I'd actually prefer if the stats were set in stone and one maybe could get unique mods/arms/kitparts/decals/clothes as mission and rank awards.
Maxing is a stressful bore but I know some see it as a purpose.
But after actually using the traders I might be bothered to go full on engineered. It's not that bad. Although if I felt it was a necessity Elite would not be my game.
Which it is.
Engineering is just something to do from time to time. If I tried to max out at once I would propably be doing some childish crying here too.
I'd actually prefer if the stats were set in stone and one maybe could get unique mods/arms/kitparts/decals/clothes as mission and rank awards.
Maxing is a stressful bore but I know some see it as a purpose.
But after actually using the traders I might be bothered to go full on engineered. It's not that bad. Although if I felt it was a necessity Elite would not be my game.
Which it is.
Engineering is just something to do from time to time. If I tried to max out at once I would propably be doing some childish crying here too.
I'll swap you. I was looking for Radiators and found nothing but Alloys.
I don't mind the HGE hunting, it's the getting kicked in the nuts after you find the HGE that I really don't like. They need to separate the mats so none share a state.
I think what they actually meant was "more fun" or "less boring".
I think all of it is just bad gameplay but the base runs are much much easier than they used to be. They fixed the 1 mat per drop thing, it's 3 mats again. But more importantly you can now just relog to keep resetting the same base. It's as monotonous and boring as ever but it goes much quicker now. You can just spend a couple hours at a base and then use the material trader for all your data needs. Still brainless gameplay but at least it's quick.