Overall, again, I would recommend Inara. The equipment needed and locations used for the two types of mining are slightly different. This is the difference of becoming locally wanted or wanted in the system with the cops showing up and bounties being issued. Expect to find: Anything with the words “data”, “shield”, or “scan”. A former miner, Selene has a talent for improving a ship's hull defence, although she only offers her services to fellow prospectors. 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. Donate 50 Aberrant Shield Pattern Analysis units. 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). This is normally bound to secondary fire, but you may have to hunt for it in options). Focus on noticing the sounds of each type of rock, sound is a far better tool for this than the scanner itself. If you have input on how to make it better, do not hesitate to post it in a comment below. Buy a cheap commodity (for Lei Cheung, again), then take a Cargo Delivery mission with 5 cargo, minimum. So let’s briefly talk about what to expect while working with them. In this video I will show you the best ways to farm all engineering materials in Elite Dangerous. 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 . This will make the entire guide considerably easier. A good runner will just equip all of these and just have them available. Proceed to Deciat, and donate your Meta Alloy to Felicity Farseer at Farseer Inc. Grab your best exploration ship, and plan a route 5,000 LY away from your starting system. You are primarily looking for anything with the word “Emissions.” There are some new types as well (High security, combat aftermath, etc.). If you parked in sight of the base defenses they will open up on your ship. A 30min run has a decent chance of getting enough of most if not all needs for a few rolls for all but the highest grade blueprints. Elite Dangerous Engineers Guide by LocNor, Greetings! Nothing like getting that favored effect on a sub par roll and having to work your way back up to G5 to try again. 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. A solid cargo ship with at least 50T of capacity (AspX, Type 9, and/or Anaconda) 10 Million CR to burn. As of last patch made surface scanning show the materials, making mining a lot less labor intensive. All feedback is welcome. This should give you the appropriate funds to reach Scout, while also helping you with Liz Ryder down the road. There are are couple ways this can be done. Second after roughly G3.5 you’ll get some more engineer invites. This is pretty self explanatory. 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. Felicity Farseer is a legendary explorer, who engineered her own improvements to her Asp Explorer early in her career. Base Assaults 101: Lets cover what a “base” is. 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. All this can be determined from the system map. 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. Actually building something. 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. Once in Lave, go to Lave Station and buy the max capacity of 12 Tons (10,365 Cr each). Spend time scoping out the base before starting the assault. Time to decide how you want to go about engineering. Thread starter HazardousMatt; Start date Apr 2, 2017; 1; 2; 3; Next. 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. The one exception is those mission only ones. 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. Go back to 78 Ursae Majoris, and get allied with the Alioth Independents, and friendly with the Alliance as a whole. As an ambassador for Elite with nearly 3,000 hours in the chair, I’ve had beautiful experiences in-game and IRL. Players could control their selected ship around and catch sights of … 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. Elite: Dangerous Blog - News and events from the Elite Dangerous galaxy - Engineering has changed. That's the end of the guide. Second thing to note is who owns the base. 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. Notes: Due to the fact that once you have cargo every pirate is emailed your current location, I recommend waiting to get these until you are working on something specific. If you are working on something specific, buy the best one you can power, get the job done, and sell it back. 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. She's rumoured to be the daughter of a rock hermit, but she rarely talks about her childhood. Additionally, collectors have 2 modes of operations, and unlike mining, you will use both. 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 . How to acquire: All can be earned in missions. 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. She doesn't lead to any other engineers, nor does she provide a service that other engineers can't do better. Become an Outsider or Higher in the Empire. 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. Nothing more frustrating than to finally get all the mats for a build and go to get your favorite ship and, boom, can’t swap ships because no cargo space. Take them to Vatermann LLC, donate them, then head back and do it again until you've donated 50 units. DONE, Donate 50 Tons of Bromellite to Bill Turner. Land at Black Hide, donate 500,000 Cr to The Dweller, and rank him up until you get information on Lei Cheung. Scout Rank (requires 270,000 CR profit from Exploration). DON’T attack bases owned by the controlling faction. You already did all of the work during Steps 3 and 8. Dealing with Tod "The Blaster" McQuin and Juri Ishmaak should have you at Competent, or close to it. In the Prismatic Imperium, we have group events to hits 3-4 at a time (called Pub Crawls). The vast majority of these can be bought from stations. Read this basic Elite Dangerous engineers guide for more information. How do engineers work? What you are after is knowing how many you are looking for. Low is almost a walkin closet of data. Expect to find: A grab bag of random types of data, including “firmwares.”. Head on back from Maia and land somewhere outside of Li Yong-Rui Space. which compiles a work from a number of community members and gives you the best shot at understanding where to find each. Engineer resources Below is a list of resources used by the engineers in Elite & Dangerous. Either is fine. However I WILL recommend heavily that the first thing you do is get cozy with either of the two ladies of FSD. 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. 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. Quite a bit. 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. Once clear, everyone has their own instance of the data points and money beam, so everyone has to run it but everyone gets paid. This one's a doozy. This has nothing to do with engineers and everything to do with it being worth 500k-1mil at any station. I won’t cover the pros and cons of each engineer. Sell the remaining cargo to the last black market, then head to the Wyrd System. This guide can always be improved. A useful guide for finding resources can be found here: Elite Dangerous: Scavenger 3.1, At the very least, honk every system, but some scans with a Detailed Surface Scanner will also help down the line. As the builds get into the higher grades, they require more and more rare materials. Hopefully this guide removes a lot of the mystery of the process and gives you the tools you need to dive in. If you are building a runner any will do. You should be well on your way to having traded at 50 markets by now, if you've been buying and selling commodities as you go. Rank him up until you get the invite from The Sarge and Colonel Bris Dekker. To make significant progress through this guide, you will need the following: A high-LY range ship (DBX, AspX, and/or Anaconda preferred). Lori Jameson is stationed in Shinrarta Dezhra, which means you must have at least one Elite ranking to access her. 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. Some can only be earned in missions. All this is documented in many places but I recommend Inara. Both modes have their uses. Everything about commodities benefits from having aligned players. Significant amounts of engineering materials. From there, grab your best trading ship, outfit it for mining, then find a pristine metallic ring. Mining. 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. Best Module: Fuel Scoops, AFMUs, Life Support, Shield Cell Banks, Refineries, and all Utility Scanners. Those mission only ones are: Neofabric Insulation, Micro-Weave Cooling Hoses, Articulation Motors, Modular Terminals, Nanobreakers, Telemetry Suite. In Maia, you can buy 1 Meta Alloy at Darnielle's Progress for 113,355 Cr. That’s all it takes. 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. This is great for filling up on some solid mid-level mats. Data: Here we get to the more complex collectibles in that they require different actions to collect. The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! Please note that some engineers are just a pain in the ass to unlock, regardless of what you do, but through their grind, you can make your life easier down the road in regards to other grinds. Your target goal is G4 or (Grade 4) for a couple reasons. HazardousMatt. Finish out the rank at a Resource Extraction Site or Conflict Zone, then head to Fujin Spaceport in the Fujin system. When selecting a base to attack note the size/security and your own interest and needs. Closing There is a lot to learn and discover with the engineering process and I fully invite you to experiment. Get in the habit of 4 pips to sys before deploying your srv. Your email address will not be published. Provide between 1,000,000 -10,000,000 Cr in Federal Combat Bonds, Become a Midshipman or higher with the Federal Navy. Note: It is recommended that you improve your Frame Shift Drive with the Long-Range mod as far as possible. As of last patch, the rarer materials net you 3 mats per scooped rock. Elite Dangerous is a space simulator game by Frontier Developments based in the year 3307. How to acquire: Mining (surface or ring), Missions in small quantities. 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. Nemo doesn't really provide any meaningful grind that can be used to further your progress with engineers, nor does he engineer a critical module. Complete that mission, head to Kamitra, buy the maximum 14 Tons of Kamitra Cigars (6218 Cr Each), donate them to Hera Tani in The Jet's Hole in the Kuwemaki system, then do it again and again until you've donated all 50 Tons. This category is for the various upgrades that Engineers can apply to modules. Now that you are in Ngurii, go to Cheranovsky City. Special Note: These are a blast in wings. They are cargo, stored in, well, cargo. Rinse and repeat until you have donated 200 Tons, then rank Lei Cheung up until you get the invite from Ram Tah. From Elite Wiki. One thing I noticed lately is that most of the beginners’ guides for Elite are videos. Expect to find: Anything with the words “wake”, “FSD”. Ranking up In order to gain better ranks you need to advance your progress with each engineer. 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. Pick up 7 Sensor Fragment drops (They count as materials, so they don't require any cargo capacity). Here I tried to break it down into the actions needed and what you can expect from said actions. The modifications that Engineers offer vary depending upon their skill sets and personal preferences. Elite: Dangerous/Engineers. It is available in 5 grades, with the highest grade offering up to 40% increase in top speed. Dirty Thrusters is an engineer modification that can be applied to thrusters. 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. Highs will have a perimeter fence so you’ll be going in blind. First, G4 is about as good as G5 and can often times be better. Finish up your trading at various stations around the Laksak system, then land at a station in the Laksak system. 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. Some Engineers will be more beneficial for explorers, while … Given the time investment of getting to G5, I highly recommend that you not use this option till blueprint roll itself is rather appealing. This community is great! The Outfitting Shopping list (for both options): This is the equipment you need, running or not. This guide uses those overlaps to give you a clear pathway to having every engineer unlocked with minimal effort. Its great fun. Rank up Tod McQuinn until you get information on Selene Jean. 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. This give you a higher chance of it surviving once you are notified its being attacked. These are stored in the “Data” section of your inventory and are also not lost on death. Interdictions, Czs, USS (Weapons fired, etc), bounty hunting, etc. Craft mods with Farseer until you receive information on Juri Ishmaak, then head to the Ngurii system. The others do not declare and deploy collector limpets into hunt mode and just follow them around for GOBS of risk free collecting. Inara, is a solid referance of the sum total of player knowledge to date. There, you can buy 3 Soontill Relics for 19,885 Cr per ton (You will need the cargo space). Fly around, wait for one to pop up, and scan it. Some in the air, some on the ground helping each other out. Where to start? High can be an all out war that is difficult to do solo, up to and including on station security vipers. The one that doesn’t is surface combat, for whatever reason destroying a ship on the planet surface does not seem to spawn anything. You may well know that I have a huge amount of love for Elite Dangerous. In a wing, head to a CZ, one or more declare and do what you do in a CZ. The official unofficial subreddit for Elite Dangerous, we even have devs lurking the sub! 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. If not, you want to ensure that it is NOT owned by the controlling faction of the system. From something as simple as scoping out stations for specific types to player trading. Make your trips to and from Broo Tarquin at Broo's Legacy in the Muang System until you've delivered all 50 Tons. Access is via a hotkey and EDEngineer has the following headline features: Specific modifications can be further enhanced with Experimental Effects. Get familiar with the more advanced SRV synth recipes. Use data from the Engineering Database and EDEngineer (an ingame overlay to track materials, data & blueprint progress). Time to decide how you want to go about engineering. Surface ports are especially good here. 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. Surface bases. The lighter one is almost always the right choice. Take your 50 Tons of Bromellite to Bill Turner in the Alioth System. Do not leave until you have 50 Tons of Bromellite and 10 Tons of Painite! You have now completed the Tod "The Blaster" McQuinn line! Roughly a 3rd of everything you need will need to be collected from open space. The other engineers are listed below, with their requirements and why they were omitted from the guide. There will be a crashed Thargoid ship with Unknown Artefacts and Sensor Fragments scattered about. Shopping done? AspX, Python, Courier, DBX, you get the idea. Elite Dangerous is a space simulator game by Frontier Developments based in the year 3307. 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. Provide Juri with 100,000 - 1,000,000 Cr worth of Combat Bonds (it changes). Hi there, gentlemen and gentlewomen of the cosmos! Once you’ve located all of them, plot a route to hit them all efficiently. Travel 300 LY from your starting Location DONE. I think that’s a wrap. Low and Medium security can be largely scouted by SRV (the exclusion zone is MUCH larger for ships). Jump to:navigation, search. The repair is instant and you can cheese your way out of sticky situations by liberally repairing yourself mid combat. Option 1 (laser focus): You could fly your chosen ship around and find the blueprints you like and work toward them. Hunt mode is perfect for dropping into an Unknown Signal Source (USS) and finding a bunch of mats there for the taking. They matter here. These are easy. The hull repair one in particular. Juri's pretty straight forward. If so and your building a runner, it might look like this (sample only): AspX. Those are some times a tremendous pain to track down in the moment. After scanning the last one, watch the data roll in. 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. Once you land at the end of the Data Delivery mission, sell the commodity and buy a new one. Immediately abandon the mission, then search for 5 nearby Black Markets. Rerolls count towards progress. DO NOT RAM SENTRIES WITH YOUR SHIP. Note: Certain recipes spawn additional adjustments to the build. So give it a try! The Elite Dangerous: Horizons expansion is required to access them as they reside in planetary bases. Engineer options. Ok so you’re equipped for working with the Engineers. 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”. This require nearly no effort, just get into the habit of targeting as scanning ships passively. You do not lose these on death. 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. It increases maximum speed at the cost of reduced integrity, increased thermal load, and increased power draw. 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)). The only real tip I can offer here is the advantage of joining a player group for commodities. 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 solid cargo ship with at least 50T of capacity (AspX, Type 9, and/or Anaconda). This one's pretty straight forward. 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. Blueprint Requirements: Now we get to the meat of it. Final general note: Once you’ve completed a base (data points and money beam) you cannot do it again and must find another. 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. Go to Kuk, donate your Painite, and rank up Selene Jean until you get information on Didi Vatermann and Bill Turner. Discovery and Surface (optional) Scanners: Discovery is recommended, Surface is optional. Every week more content!Sup everyone! Features of Elite. The CZ wing method. 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. Lastly, get familiar with SRV synthesis. There is compelling evidence that the type of ship, the state of the system, and the size of the ship are all factors in what drops. Notes: Nearly all combat situations work here. Best Module: Power Plants and Detailed Surface Scanners. Due to your conquest of the galaxy's markets for Lei Cheung, you should be relatively close to having the Merchant rank already. Your mileage may vary. EDEngineer is a Windows Application to track materials, data and cargo acquired in Elite Dangerous The application can be run as a standard window or as a semi-transparent overlay over the game. Blueprint requirements come in 3 types, each with their own inventory. For high value rolls, consider any other ships you might own before re-rolling. Ok, these take a little practice but they are quite fun and engaging once you get them down. Raw (anything that belongs on a periodic table). Notes: These are occasionally ambushes, be ready to run/fight. This will start the timer and tell you how many the base has. Thanks everyone for watching! #EliteDangerous A guide on the basics of engineering in Elite Dangerous. Defeat a ship, collect the bits with your collector or scooping. Anarchy systems are your friends here. Welcome to my guide for unlocking most useful engineers as quickly and painlessly as possible, from scratch! 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. The “Money beam.” If you see a green beam shooting into the sky, go scan that first. With a Universal Discovery Scanner and at least 1 Cargo Rack, jump down to Maia and honk every system you jump through. Once the defenses are down you are looking for a few things. Whichever approach you are using this is best done in bulk at a high traffic port. We are telling you 2 options of Engineers in this Elite Dangerous engineers guide. Once you have the Meta Alloy, go to Eurybia, and turn in your Universal Cartographic data to the Eurybia Blue Mafia. 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. Next Last. Take a new Data Delivery mission for Modular Terminals (or not), rinse, and repeat, until you have 25 Modular Terminals. It's great. Author: Fox (uploaded with permissions from Fox). If not, run a few cargo missions until you get there, then head to the Lave system. Fortunately this is pretty straight forward, pick what you want, have the materials, roll and see. Hop to Maia and turn in your Sensor Fragments, and you've ended the Elvira Martuuk line! Just sit 9k or so off the port and scan all the wakes with your wake scanner. Thus a +Low can be scouted and cleaned out without a shot, and a +++High could involve a multi pronged wing attack. Some larger groups have a shared account that acts as a bank which makes these super easy. This is straightforward, however as a tip, get in the habit of storing all your ships with at least a little cargo space. 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. Base defenses will respawn on a long timer so don’t afk in a base. Who you pick is up to you. Have a maximum distance of 5,000 LY from your starting location. Gain Access to Sirius System (Invitation from Sirius Corporation).