Where can I find these materials?
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Inara is your friend: https://inara.cz/galaxy-components/
The first 2 aren't used in anything, unless they were added to a synthesis recipe in 2.4. Proto Radiolic Alloys come from High Grade Emission USS in Boom Systems. I have no non-combat sources noted for Thermic Alloys but you can get them in CZ's, collection limpets are great for that.
You have to read where they come from. They just dont show up in any random USS.
Compact Composites come from System Authority Vessels and Military Craft.
So go to a system with Civil War/Unrest and stop at Combat Aftermath USS. Or what I do. Bring a collector limpet to a CZ. Scoop what you kill. I get a lot of the harder to find materials this way.
Compact Composites come from System Authority Vessels and Military Craft.
So go to a system with Civil War/Unrest and stop at Combat Aftermath USS. Or what I do. Bring a collector limpet to a CZ. Scoop what you kill. I get a lot of the harder to find materials this way.
The first 2 are used for chaff synthesis, well all 4 of them are (in order, first two for basic, thermic alloys included for standard, and photo radiolic alloys for premium).
In which case you should definitely just ignore the first 3 and farm Proto Radiolics from High Grade Emission USS in Boom state since those are by far the easiest to get and give you the best return? Common sense and all that!
edit: And they are also actually useful in engineering, unlike the first two.
edit: And they are also actually useful in engineering, unlike the first two.
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Compact Composites: military and authority vessels. That's a tough order, unfortunately. You'll have to find a USS which has a shredded low level mil/auth vessel. I'd have expected in this case that you might have more luck in a combat zone, but harvesting materials in a CZ is a bit hairy.
Filament Composites: Same, but slightly higher ship level
Question is, though, what do you want them for? Those are not used in any Engineer blueprint currently stored on Inara.
Thermic Alloys: shredded combat ships or mission rewards. You may have to do some shredding yourself.
Proto Radiolic Alloys: High Grade USS in boom systems. To find a High Grade USS, get off the beaten path (i.e. your scanner on the left side should state "Deep Space", throttle back and wait. Another thread is currently hotly debating whether you should be 1000 ls from the star or 100,000 ls
As for blowing ships up: they have to be the right type and grade. I'd expect to get Compact Composites occasionally (problem is, they're RNG, and there are many, many Very Common materials) from System Security Sideys and Eagles.
The Thermic Alloys are Rare Combat ship salvage - Federal coffins, FdL and above should occasionally drop them.
Good Luck
Compact Composites: military and authority vessels. That's a tough order, unfortunately. You'll have to find a USS which has a shredded low level mil/auth vessel. I'd have expected in this case that you might have more luck in a combat zone, but harvesting materials in a CZ is a bit hairy.
Filament Composites: Same, but slightly higher ship level
Question is, though, what do you want them for? Those are not used in any Engineer blueprint currently stored on Inara.
Thermic Alloys: shredded combat ships or mission rewards. You may have to do some shredding yourself.
Proto Radiolic Alloys: High Grade USS in boom systems. To find a High Grade USS, get off the beaten path (i.e. your scanner on the left side should state "Deep Space", throttle back and wait. Another thread is currently hotly debating whether you should be 1000 ls from the star or 100,000 ls
As for blowing ships up: they have to be the right type and grade. I'd expect to get Compact Composites occasionally (problem is, they're RNG, and there are many, many Very Common materials) from System Security Sideys and Eagles.
The Thermic Alloys are Rare Combat ship salvage - Federal coffins, FdL and above should occasionally drop them.
Good Luck
For synthesis of chaff.
All the thermic alloys I have gotten have come from missions.
Same with multicannon reloads, it just means I can stay out longer. Mats are basically worthless anyway (can't sell them, just takes time to find them).
I guess it's a personal balance/priority issue. There is simply no way I can keep a decent stock of engineering mats and synthesis mats (unless they overlap) with the current limitations so I guess I prioritise the former at the expense of the latter. Horses for courses and all that.
I've tried CZ a few times and always end up having to boost out within a few minutes.
How much time will you spend looking for those mat's vs the time it'll take to fly back to a station and re-arm?
Trouble with stockpiling mat's for synthesis is that storing enough of them to be properly useful means you've got little space for all the every-day mat's you need to collect for engineering.
About the only time I'd consider it would be prior to embarking on a big trip into the black.
...and why would you need chaff reloads out in the middle of deep space? I have a chaff launcher on my unarmed Asp explorer, mainly as a legacy from the days when you returned from exploration and had to run the gauntlet of psycho NPC pirates wanting to steal your nonexistent cargo. I haven't needed to fire it in over a year. I'd need to look up which button to press to launch it. I think I bound it to the tilde key, because it's up in an out-of-the-way corner of the keyboard and a tilde ~ looks like a piece of confetti.
I wouldn't.
I would, however, consider loading up on mat's for synthesizing heat-sink reloads, AFMU reloads, SRV fuel etc.
Even then, it's probably not going to be necessary but at least it'd mean you could get right out there without having to make a pitstop for mat's.
Holy cow, you are right... that IS idiotic! 4x very rare materials for a handfull of chaff?
Sometimes you wonder if FDev has too many interns doing things they don't understand and/or don't care - unchecked, no less...
A game world people would like to keep playing in, should not have in-game mechanics be a complete rip-off, by measure of the time players had to spend to source something. If all the trades with NPCs or basic game mechanics are a rip-off, it disgruntles people and makes them more likely to hop onto another game as soon as the opportunity presents itself with some new game release.
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