I have worked my virtual holo-butt off lately, trying to engineer my Anaconda, and my DBX, working to get these ludicrously hard to find wake scans and materials, btw if arsenic is common, why is it so damn hard to find, whilst the rarer materials rain down like gold coins from heaven (Wait is that actually rain)..
So I get there, I run some engineering, and, I've come to the startling conclusion. There is no fricking engineering... See engineering is about taking something, an idea, or concept, and trying to make it happen, by constructing, tweaking, etc.
This damned engineering is just a roulette wheel. You farm the crap out of impossible to find resources, for Locked down engineers (looking at you Qwent and your stupid rep-protected butt in a system stated as locked down) so you can spin a wheel.
This is crap Frontier, its beyond crap, its like you folks took a Free-to-play aspect, and threw it in for kicks, even the free to play games don't pull crap like this.
I've given up on engineering. There's no skill to it, and if I'm going to spend hours acquiring the resources for something I damn well expect some kind of payback to make the effort worth it. Five rolls, to get 1LY out of my drive?! Worst still,thats only after I strip every module from it except the scanner and flight suite, with D rated core parts like thrusters, life support...
I can't be bothered to spend any more time with engineers, the grind to get to them is impossible (see Qwent in his Sirius system, currently in lockdown status making it hard to even do the rep for it let alone get the bloody permit)
Disappointed.
