A good runner will just equip all of these and just have them available. Best Module: Mine Launchers, Detailed Surface Scanners, and Sensors. This is straightforward, however as a tip, get in the habit of storing all your ships with at least a little cargo space. Spend time scoping out the base before starting the assault. Raw (anything that belongs on a periodic table). Even the most basic FSD range upgrade will dramatically increase your quality of life. Engineer options. Find a nice Empire system with a station near its star, and grind out a few missions until you get an Imperial Rank Up mission. I grounded the courier mission with a sideweinder until I got a cobra, then graded my vipers and worked on high-resolution sites for vultures. So, some folks that loved my mining guide, and a few have asked that I do one on Engineers. Elite Dangerous is a space simulator game by Frontier Developments based in the year 3307. #EliteDangerous A guide on the basics of engineering in Elite Dangerous. This require nearly no effort, just get into the habit of targeting as scanning ships passively. Low and Medium security can be largely scouted by SRV (the exclusion zone is MUCH larger for ships). The one that doesn’t is surface combat, for whatever reason destroying a ship on the planet surface does not seem to spawn anything. As an ambassador for Elite with nearly 3,000 hours in the chair, I’ve had beautiful experiences in-game and IRL. There will be a crashed Thargoid ship with Unknown Artefacts and Sensor Fragments scattered about. Surface bases. Overall, again, I would recommend Inara. If you get into this habit while doing other things, you will never need to do this intentionally. The one exception is those mission only ones. Every week more content!Sup everyone! Players could control their selected ship around and catch sights of … All feedback is welcome. Your target goal is G4 or (Grade 4) for a couple reasons. Rank Liz Ryder up to grade 3-4, and you should get an invite from Hera Tani. Become an Outsider or Higher in the Empire. You control your own spaceship in which you can participate in exploring a 1:1 scale Milky Way, trade between star systems, participate in bounty-hunting wanted ships, and even pirate other ships for their cargo. These are surface installations that are not “landable” and are categorized in two ways, size(+,++,+++) and security (high, medium, low). Thank you to all the people who continue to support my guides (and others like it), those that support the community at large in their own way, and especially your kind PMs. While you can run around in your favorite Vulture or FDL, if you’re buckling down to do some serious Engineer work you’re going to want a multi-class ship or at least something with a good base jump range and doesn’t fold at the mere sight of light combat. Fly around, wait for one to pop up, and scan it. However I WILL recommend heavily that the first thing you do is get cozy with either of the two ladies of FSD. Some in the air, some on the ground helping each other out. Some of these have an item called “data beacon” these aren’t for collecting they are for scanning (which we’ll cover in the next section). If you or your organization would like to participate in the creation and collection of knowledge-based content to assist the Elite Dangerous community, please contact Exigeous in the Level 11 Discord . The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! You can normally dismiss it before any real damage is done. Highs will have a perimeter fence so you’ll be going in blind. Lastly, get familiar with SRV synthesis. We are telling you 2 options of Engineers in this Elite Dangerous engineers guide. As for, what each stat does or means in each recipe is too large a topic for this guide. This one takes a while, as Fujin Tea is only sold 5 Tons at a time, but has a low cost of 397 Cr/Ton. A useful guide for finding resources can be found here: Elite Dangerous: Scavenger 3.1, Size is the largest factor for how many data resources you will receive and the number of data points you need to scan, + is the smallest, +++ is the largest. The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! Get familiar with the more advanced SRV synth recipes. Blueprint Requirements: Now we get to the meat of it. Thread starter HazardousMatt; Start date Apr 2, 2017; 1; 2; 3; Next. Hi there, gentlemen and gentlewomen of the cosmos! They are cargo, stored in, well, cargo. For a chart of all engineers, click here! From here, fit at least 30T of Cargo Capacity, buy a cheap commodity, and take a Data Delivery mission, preferably with Modular Terminals as a reward, but it's not necessary. Immediately abandon the mission, then search for 5 nearby Black Markets. Both modes have their uses. Best Module: Power Plants and Detailed Surface Scanners. Highly recommended that you get comfortable with your SRV controls before attempting these. There is also guides for each material to help you get started. Finish up your trading at various stations around the Laksak system, then land at a station in the Laksak system. Once you switch to just looking for rare mats, I’ve found that my metallic consumption rate increased dramatically by landing on a low grav plain, preferably in an area that it slightly differently colored than the rest of the world, and BOOKING it in a straight line, flying most of the way. Assaulting a base will make you wanted. It is available in 5 grades, with the highest grade offering up to 40% increase in top speed. From there, grab your best trading ship, outfit it for mining, then find a pristine metallic ring. Option 2 (shotgun approach): You could build an engineer runner and dedicate a relatively small amount of time to collecting materials and unlocking new engineers. Notes: Nearly all combat situations work here. Rank her up until you receive information on Broo Tarquin and Tiana Fortune. G5 is for rolling the dice on a “max”. Here I tried to break it down into the actions needed and what you can expect from said actions. This can be bypassed by engineering the module in version 2.4 once, in order to get the module to grade 5, and then converting to the new engineering system to start out at grade 5 directly. Once clear, everyone has their own instance of the data points and money beam, so everyone has to run it but everyone gets paid. Author: Down To Earth Astronomy There are two main types of mining in Elite: Dangerous, Core mining where rocks are cracked open to access the valuable materials inside and laser mining where rock are mined with a traditional mining laser. This community is great! How to acquire: All can be earned in missions. In the Prismatic Imperium, we have group events to hits 3-4 at a time (called Pub Crawls). They matter here. These are more diverse in acquisition than the raw materials. You are looking for orange “data points.” My advice is to, while clearing out the base, scan one (for those new, this is done in “turret mode” by targeting the data point when close to it, and using your scanner on it. Second thing to note is who owns the base. By this time you’re ears should be tuned to what a metallic signal sounds like and you can pick out the sound out of any background noise, and long before the wave signal is of use. Inara, is a solid referance of the sum total of player knowledge to date. Just sit 9k or so off the port and scan all the wakes with your wake scanner. At each Black Market, sell one stolen commodity, sell your non-stolen commodity, buy a new cheap commodity, then head to the next Black Market until you've sold to all 5. Ship folks can destroy ground targets (over sights only, can’t target anything from a ship) or keep the security ship off the SRVs and the SRVs can take out the larger anti-ship defenses from the inside by destroying generators or scanning certain nodes in the base. A solid cargo ship with at least 50T of capacity (AspX, Type 9, and/or Anaconda). Well guys, firstly, I hope this all fits in one reddit post, but secondly, thanks for reading, and I hope this helps you carve out your way to having a superior ship! Best Module: Beam, Burst, and Pulse Lasers, Gain combat rank of Competent or higher DONE. Getting a mediocre G5 FSD roll on your AspX can be re-rolled or swapped into you Python and rolled again, fresh. Author: Fox (uploaded with permissions from Fox). (edit: Reddit). Ships & Engineers. This will help you down the road with Lei Cheung, as well as unlocking Qwent. The lighter one is almost always the right choice. A former miner, Selene has a talent for improving a ship's hull defence, although she only offers her services to fellow prospectors. Rerolls count towards progress. It increases maximum speed at the cost of reduced integrity, increased thermal load, and increased power draw. These can be readily farmed at Dav’s Hope (Hyades Sector DR-V C2-23, Planet A 5, Coordinates 44.818, -31.389), and the Crashed Anaconda (Orrere, Planet 2 B, Coordinates 43.8122, -173.9722). Jump to:navigation, search. You control your own spaceship in which you can participate in exploring a 1:1 scale Milky Way, trade between star systems, participate in bounty-hunting wanted ships, and even pirate other ships for their cargo. There, you can buy 3 Soontill Relics for 19,885 Cr per ton (You will need the cargo space). You should already be friendly with the Eurybia Blue Mafia from way back in Step One, so all you really need to do is source 200 Tons of Landmines to donate at Demolition Unlimited. Next Last. Who you pick is up to you. Final general note: Once you’ve completed a base (data points and money beam) you cannot do it again and must find another. May require board flipping), donate your Modular Terminals to Marco Qwent, and rank him up until you receive information on Professor Palin and Lori Jameson. A easy to use list that shows you where you can find any engineering material in Elite Dangerous. Notes: These are occasionally ambushes, be ready to run/fight. AspX, Python, Courier, DBX, you get the idea. Now that you are in Ngurii, go to Cheranovsky City. Expand your radar (default on PC is pgup/pgdown), rocks don’t register any farther on the radar but you have a much better view of the surrounding terrain. Best Module: Fuel Scoops, AFMUs, Life Support, Shield Cell Banks, Refineries, and all Utility Scanners. Introducing Mini's ultimate guide to overengineering Frameshift Drives in Elite Dangerous. which compiles a work from a number of community members and gives you the best shot at understanding where to find each. DON’T attack bases owned by the controlling faction. In this video I will show you the best ways to farm all engineering materials in Elite Dangerous. Once you land at the end of the Data Delivery mission, sell the commodity and buy a new one. Much like for materials you are looking for “Emission” USSs and finding “data beacons” to scan. Ok, these take a little practice but they are quite fun and engaging once you get them down. Pick up 7 Sensor Fragment drops (They count as materials, so they don't require any cargo capacity). If not, you want to ensure that it is NOT owned by the controlling faction of the system. Best Module: Missile Racks and Torpedo Pylons, Gain Cordial or Friendly Status with the Eurybia Blue Mafia DONE. In supercruise, at a station, bounty hunting, etc. She's rumoured to be the daughter of a rock hermit, but she rarely talks about her childhood. Hop to Maia and turn in your Sensor Fragments, and you've ended the Elvira Martuuk line! Access is via a hotkey and EDEngineer has the following headline features: Expect to find: Anything with the words “data”, “shield”, or “scan”. Go back to 78 Ursae Majoris, and get allied with the Alioth Independents, and friendly with the Alliance as a whole. Roughly a 3rd of everything you need will need to be collected from open space. I think that’s a wrap. Base defenses will respawn on a long timer so don’t afk in a base. If you are solo you CAN solo every +++High out there, but until you get really good at these it’ll often just be a trip to the nearest station for a new SRV. Take your 50 Tons of Bromellite to Bill Turner in the Alioth System. That's the end of the guide. Rating doesn’t matter much here as most of the time you’ll be collecting only a handful of materials the back to supercruise. Time to decide how you want to go about engineering. Letting them fire first will often give you a few second to get to a better position before the assault starts. The goal here is to get prepared, when it’s time for the big rolls you can bring your ship of choice. Finish out the rank at a Resource Extraction Site or Conflict Zone, then head to Fujin Spaceport in the Fujin system. These are stored in the “Data” section of your inventory and are also not lost on death. Security is the largest factor for the type/rarity of data resources you will receive and the overall difficulty of the assault and scan mini game. Your mileage may vary. For those that aren’t familiar with the options, one weighs more, and the other uses more power. For high value rolls, consider any other ships you might own before re-rolling. Some Engineers will be more beneficial for explorers, while … When selecting a base to attack note the size/security and your own interest and needs. Either is fine. This should give you the appropriate funds to reach Scout, while also helping you with Liz Ryder down the road. Mining. Those are some times a tremendous pain to track down in the moment. DONE, Donate 50 Tons of Bromellite to Bill Turner. Elite Dangerous Engineers Guide by LocNor, Greetings! First things first… let’s get organized and prepared. Anarchy systems are your friends here. Lori Jameson is stationed in Shinrarta Dezhra, which means you must have at least one Elite ranking to access her. Engineer resources Below is a list of resources used by the engineers in Elite & Dangerous. Go. Land at Black Hide, donate 500,000 Cr to The Dweller, and rank him up until you get information on Lei Cheung. How to acquire: Missions, Combat (drops on ship destruction), Unknown Signals. Don’t forget to also buy a SRV for it. Rank up Tod McQuinn until you get information on Selene Jean. Elite Dangerous is a space simulator game by Frontier Developments based in the year 3307. DO NOT RAM SENTRIES WITH YOUR SHIP. Rank him up until you get the invite from The Sarge and Colonel Bris Dekker. Your Runner: If you choose to focus on bulk gathering, you will be doing a lot of running around and needing access to a number of different capabilities while gathering your supplies. These are stores under the “Materials” section of your inventory. The Outfitting Shopping list (for both options): This is the equipment you need, running or not. Have a maximum distance of 5,000 LY from your starting location. If you have input on how to make it better, do not hesitate to post it in a comment below. HazardousMatt. Fdev is on to your shenanigans and the only faster way to a 33mil cutter rebuy is to open fire inside a station. Travel to Long Sight Base in the Khun system, donate the Soontill Relics, and upgrade your modules until you receive information on Zacariah Nemo and Marco Qwent. This give you a higher chance of it surviving once you are notified its being attacked. The CZ wing method. Where to start? What you are after is knowing how many you are looking for. The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! A solid cargo ship with at least 50T of capacity (AspX, Type 9, and/or Anaconda) 10 Million CR to burn. She doesn't lead to any other engineers, nor does she provide a service that other engineers can't do better. That's it. Provide Juri with 100,000 - 1,000,000 Cr worth of Combat Bonds (it changes). Higher the grade the more power it consumes and the farther it scans. If you don’t have the resources to have a separate runner ship that’s ok, while I recommend that if you have but one ship that you may want to consider switching to a multi class (if your sole ship isn’t one already), but it’s not required by any means. Farseer or Martuuk Now that you are all set for starting your engineering and you have a rough idea of what that entails, time to get down to business. Discovery and Surface (optional) Scanners: Discovery is recommended, Surface is optional. You may well know that I have a huge amount of love for Elite Dangerous. Expect to find: Anything with the words “wake”, “FSD”. Scout Rank (requires 270,000 CR profit from Exploration). Target mode is good for when you drop into a USS and it’s a field of illegal biowaste and there is a single worthy chemical manipulator in the mix. The Elite Dangerous: Horizons expansion is required to access them as they reside in planetary bases. Special Note: These are a blast in wings. Some are very common and some require a dark ritual and a goat. Felicity Farseer is a legendary explorer, who engineered her own improvements to her Asp Explorer early in her career. This is pretty self explanatory. Closing There is a lot to learn and discover with the engineering process and I fully invite you to experiment. She is willing to share some of that knowledge with fellow explorers and also operates an extensive training programme for technicians and mechanics heading out into the black. Fight with them until you've destroyed 50 enemy ships (You may need several trips to and from a station to do so), then save up 1,000,000 Cr worth of bonds. They are normally a percentage chance, although you can force an effect by sacrificing 2 grades with the engineer. Travel 300 LY from your starting Location DONE. This guide can always be improved. Your email address will not be published. PSA: 2020 Farming engineering materials, a compiled guide. Sell the remaining cargo to the last black market, then head to the Wyrd System. Nothing like getting that favored effect on a sub par roll and having to work your way back up to G5 to try again. This is a large bulk of your time in collecting materials. DONE, Provide 25 Sensor Fragments (Previously known as Unknown Fragments). Farseer has a better selection of blueprints but Martuuk gets you access to other useful (but ultimately redundant) engineers faster (though you need to pass through the deeply subpar, Qwent, to get to Palin (the best drives)). Specific modifications can be further enhanced with Experimental Effects. Do not leave until you have 50 Tons of Bromellite and 10 Tons of Painite! Best Module: Plasma Accelerators and Sensors, Gain Friendly Status with the Alliance and Allied Status with the Alioth Independents to get a permit to access Alioth. Elite Dangerous. If you don't want to spend the money, you can mine Meta Alloys at in the Merope system at Merope 2 A, but you will need a Detailed Surface Scanner and SRV to find and acquire them. Elite: Dangerous/Engineers. Go back to Sirius with your Modular Terminals, complete a mission to unlock Marco Qwent (provided at any station in Sirius. Rinse and repeat until you have donated 200 Tons, then rank Lei Cheung up until you get the invite from Ram Tah. Additionally, collectors have 2 modes of operations, and unlike mining, you will use both. If not, run a few cargo missions until you get there, then head to the Lave system. Ok so you’re equipped for working with the Engineers. Second after roughly G3.5 you’ll get some more engineer invites. In Maia, you can buy 1 Meta Alloy at Darnielle's Progress for 113,355 Cr. This guide will not have every engineer, as some are less necessary or have requirements above-and-beyond the flow of this guide to unlock, and therefore don't particularly fit into the flow of this step-by-step guide. Data: Here we get to the more complex collectibles in that they require different actions to collect. Some can only be earned in missions. Buy a cheap commodity (for Lei Cheung, again), then take a Cargo Delivery mission with 5 cargo, minimum. The others do not declare and deploy collector limpets into hunt mode and just follow them around for GOBS of risk free collecting. Hopefully this guide removes a lot of the mystery of the process and gives you the tools you need to dive in. Once in Lave, go to Lave Station and buy the max capacity of 12 Tons (10,365 Cr each). The only real tip I can offer here is the advantage of joining a player group for commodities. Elite dangerous dogfight guide Elite Dangerous > General Discussion > How to improve dogfight skills more on the topic?So I have been playing this game religiously since I bought it. The other engineers are listed below, with their requirements and why they were omitted from the guide. All this is documented in many places but I recommend Inara. Defeat a ship, collect the bits with your collector or scooping. Juri's pretty straight forward. Since hunt mode will collect all that bio waste and eventually snag the manipulator, you can instead, target the manipulator, launch a collector, have it expire once the job is done, and you are on your way. Option 1 (laser focus): You could fly your chosen ship around and find the blueprints you like and work toward them. Learn to use the contact menu on the left in conjunction with the two different collector modes to ensure you aren’t picking up a lot of garbage. From Elite Wiki. Ranking up In order to gain better ranks you need to advance your progress with each engineer. So let’s briefly talk about what to expect while working with them. It’s literally just targeting and aiming your ship at the target till the scan completes. You control your own spaceship in which you can participate in exploring a 1:1 scale Milky Way, trade between star systems, participate in bounty-hunting wanted ships, and even pirate other ships for their cargo. The idea here is that you are covering a lot more ground than you would be in more difficult terrain. The vast majority of these can be bought from stations. Make your trips to and from Broo Tarquin at Broo's Legacy in the Muang System until you've delivered all 50 Tons. Expect to find: A grab bag of random types of data, including “firmwares.”. Blueprint requirements come in 3 types, each with their own inventory. Once the defenses are down you are looking for a few things. Most G1 blueprints require but a single, easy to acquire resource. If you are interdicting or dropping into a Seeking Weapons for loads of “free” T9 level drops, doing it in anarchy systems has very little if any consequences. There are are couple ways this can be done. Hunt mode is perfect for dropping into an Unknown Signal Source (USS) and finding a bunch of mats there for the taking. Thanks everyone for watching! You do not lose these on death. Mine there until you've acquired 10 Painite, then move to a pristine icy ring, and mine out the rest of the 500 tons while saving all of the Bromellite possible. From there, buy as much gold as you can fit (All stations in Laksak sell Gold, with Pinto City and Hedin Hub being the least expensive), and donate it to Lei Cheung at Trader's Rest. In a wing, head to a CZ, one or more declare and do what you do in a CZ. Dealing with Tod "The Blaster" McQuin and Juri Ishmaak should have you at Competent, or close to it. Don’t worry about collecting them now you can try again later. You have now completed the Tod "The Blaster" McQuinn line! If so and your building a runner, it might look like this (sample only): AspX. Due to your conquest of the galaxy's markets for Lei Cheung, you should be relatively close to having the Merchant rank already. Note: It is recommended that you improve your Frame Shift Drive with the Long-Range mod as far as possible. Head to the Giryak system and turn in the bonds to unlock Juri. As almost a counterpoint to her secluded upbringing she has gathered a robust and trusted team, mostly fellow ex-prospectors, who work alongside her. This one's pretty straight forward. Use data from the Engineering Database and EDEngineer (an ingame overlay to track materials, data & blueprint progress). I won’t cover the pros and cons of each engineer. The repair is instant and you can cheese your way out of sticky situations by liberally repairing yourself mid combat. This will start the timer and tell you how many the base has. Low is almost a walkin closet of data. This will make the entire guide considerably easier. To make significant progress through this guide, you will need the following: A high-LY range ship (DBX, AspX, and/or Anaconda preferred). 1 of 3 Go to page. Dirty Thrusters is an engineer modification that can be applied to thrusters. Thus a +Low can be scouted and cleaned out without a shot, and a +++High could involve a multi pronged wing attack. Expect to find: Firmware (all types), grab bag of other stuff. That can be an experimental weapon effect or an adjustment to a stat not even present on the build (Mass for example, may be adjusted at random in a build even though it wasn’t on the blueprint.) Features of Elite. If you parked in sight of the base defenses they will open up on your ship. High can be an all out war that is difficult to do solo, up to and including on station security vipers. Read this basic Elite Dangerous engineers guide for more information. From something as simple as scoping out stations for specific types to player trading. Grab your best exploration ship, and plan a route 5,000 LY away from your starting system. Head back down to the Maia region with an SRV on hand, and go to the system HIP 17403. at HIP 17403, land at planet HIP 17403 A 4 A at the coordinates -34.98, -141.30. The goal here is to clear out a base of its defenses then play a mini-game of “scan the data points before time runs out”. It's great. First, G4 is about as good as G5 and can often times be better. All this can be determined from the system map. How to meet them: Each engineer requires a few things. Best Module: Limpet Controllers, Heat Sinks, Point Defense, ECMs, and Chaff Launchers, Have an Exploration Rank of Surveyor of higher, Donate 50 units of Classified Scan Databanks, Best Module: Utillity Scanners, Interdictors, Limpet Controllers, and Sensors, Provide 50 units of Decoded Emission Data. PSA I've annotated this video from Hawkes Gaming, in a handy little text format, this is the work of him and others, and I take no credit for the work except as to turn it into text. Both are legit. Elite Dangerous is a space simulator game by Frontier Developments based in the year 3307. Provide between 1,000,000 -10,000,000 Cr in Federal Combat Bonds, Become a Midshipman or higher with the Federal Navy. Elite Dangerous Lucrative Bounty Hunting Guide. Craft mods with Farseer until you receive information on Juri Ishmaak, then head to the Ngurii system. Some larger groups have a shared account that acts as a bank which makes these super easy. The modifications that Engineers offer vary depending upon their skill sets and personal preferences. Fortunately this is pretty straight forward, pick what you want, have the materials, roll and see. Provide 100,000 Cr worth of Bounty Vouchers to Trophy Camp in Wolf 397. Eg. For players who’ve done ship engineering it’s a matter of personal opinion if the new process is better or worse. This is great for filling up on some solid mid-level mats. Quite a bit. Take a new Data Delivery mission for Modular Terminals (or not), rinse, and repeat, until you have 25 Modular Terminals. You already did all of the work during Steps 3 and 8. If you are building a runner any will do. The “Money beam.” If you see a green beam shooting into the sky, go scan that first. Elite: Dangerous Blog - News and events from the Elite Dangerous galaxy - Engineering has changed. The equipment needed and locations used for the two types of mining are slightly different. Everything about commodities benefits from having aligned players. The staff is dedicated to gathering information from leading experts throughout the Elite Dangerous Galaxy, to coordinate and promote their knowledge and experience for fans of the game. Personally, I enjoy using a runner and shotgunning as I’m actively stocking for some future modifications while getting a chance to swap what I’m doing at any given time. Proceed to Deciat, and donate your Meta Alloy to Felicity Farseer at Farseer Inc. To make significant progress through this guide, you will need the following: A high-LY range ship (DBX, AspX, and/or Anaconda preferred).