Why aren't there shipyards at engineers bases
- Thread starter Jaffz
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A game without challenge is not a game at all.
But all engineer locations have a standard station with a shipyard. So transfer them to that, then supercruise to the engineer.
Or, if you're ludicrously lazy, all engineer bases sell the outfitting of the thing that they engineer. So buy one, engineer it, buy another, store the first, engineer, repeat, fly home, transfer all the stored outfitting.
Or, if you're ludicrously lazy, all engineer bases sell the outfitting of the thing that they engineer. So buy one, engineer it, buy another, store the first, engineer, repeat, fly home, transfer all the stored outfitting.
also engineers are supposedly reclusive geniuses who are invite only. shipyards are big facilities that are hard to hide and sell ships and outfitting to anyone who needs them to make money in vast amounts. co-location of a shipyard would make the engineer look for somewhere less busy. although i see a lot a ships to and fro at the engineers when im docking so...
It's not a challenge, it's just an annoying time sink for no good reason.
This, however, makes some sense, at least lore-wise.
Ok well, while I don't care about lore, this makes some sense - although there are some engineers with shipyards in their systems?
Yes
Hmm they rarely sell, the top end modules.
I guess FD don't want you using engineers stations as a base with many stored ships there. That would be way too much fun
Not entirely true! Can't park ma huge conda in MAIA! Obssidian station does not have a Shipyard rdy and i checked yesterday!
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In the blue corner, at 2,000 hours and Ironman mode, we have 'I Win Button'.
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Seconds away, round Groundhog day.
I wonder sometimes if we should have a subforum called Carousel, and we can keep stuff like Hotel California and other roundabout topics in there. If we could somehow harness it as energy we could save FD enough monies to buy some more server architecture.
verminstar
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When was the last time ye saw a shipyard next to a casino?
The Detroit River. There's a casino on each side actually.
In a game with spaceship's I'm often amazed that people don't want to fly their ships a couple of light seconds from an actual shipyard to an engineers base...
Hence my earlier post about a game with no challenge.
Hence my earlier post about a game with no challenge.
verminstar
Banned
Haha...ok I wasnt expecting that...sounded funnier in me head ^
That's not really a challenge. It's just annoying. Int he same way as engineers often don't sell the very items they engineer, but they will sell other stuff.
In a game that already sucks a lot of time for very trivial tasks, it's the small mercies that are appreciated.
Z...
Only if I can be a Sandman and have the authority to shoot and kill people attempting to escape that forum.
Inconvenience is hardly challenging, in fact beyond PvP there isn't actually anything challenging right now in Elite. NPCs need a serious buff and we could do with Raid style missions.
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If I were a wizard, err, engineer, I'd be selling as many modules as I could at a tidy +15% or more markup, js. Plenty of commanders would pay the inflated price rather than transfer. These engineers are really bad entrepeneurs. Then again, they don't even accept cold hard credits. Not a one. Anyone find that believable?
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