Deal wrote:
Have you got most of your engineering done apart from chasing optimal results?
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I have, but I was approaching it in terms of engineering a ship from scratch, the Chieftain I'm using in beta is all new equipment, I got a whole chunk of Engineering done with just the junk I was carrying around, then once I'd got the hang of the traders I got a whole lot more done by just trading what I already had.
Would I want to do this with my fleet, absolutely not, but for one ship it is fine more or less.
Deal wrote:
There's also no mats trader for resources or data, as far as I can tell. I've just been trying to gather some cracked firmware and the prospect of having to do this up to 10 times more often has me reaching for the uninstall icon.
There is, RAW for materials (metals and chemicals), MANUFACTURED for, well manufactured items, and ENCODED for data. You can use the 'Services' filter on the galaxy map to see where they are (I think you have had to have visited the system first however, but I could be wrong on that point).