What a great idea, I bet the guy who suggested it is an amazing guy 😉

@DowntoEarthAstronomy

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah right :-)

@limitedrespawns

4 жыл бұрын

Excellent video! Exactly what we all needed. I especially like the individual tweaks in the comments

@Alelip1000

4 жыл бұрын

so you .. pinned this comment. ha ha

9:24 Krait just phases through the mail slot wall

Hi, I just wanted to say that I always enjoy your videos for many reasons, but among them are 1) you're always so measured and polite - no "What's up jerks?" but rather "Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome", love that; 2) always full of good, interesting, relevant and as I've said before measured opinions and analysis (just recently I really enjoyed the under-the-hood shield maths); 3) you seem to love the game I love even more than I love it and as a long term player with often not a great amount of opportunities to play, it does my heart good to touch base with someone who makes me feel that ED is still being appreciated so much (for similar reasons I also watch The Buur Pit, OA, DigThat32, The Pilot, good old sweary Yamiks and so on but I really appreciate your particular angle of approach) so thanks D2EA, keep up the good work.

@Einhander49

3 жыл бұрын

Snowflake.

@MrDiaxus

3 жыл бұрын

@@Einhander49 Nothing "snowflake" about appreciating polite speech and intelligent analysis.

@procrasti-nation9517

3 жыл бұрын

Politeness is underrated these days!

@TheOfficialOriginalChad

Жыл бұрын

The Anti-Yamiks

Definitely taking a screencap of the full list. This is a huge help, because engineering is very daunting to a newbie.

@VikingGuard

4 жыл бұрын

Have already typed it and saved it in my word document.

@NFawc

4 жыл бұрын

That's only because the design of it is pi$$ poor!

@Datan0de

4 жыл бұрын

I did exactly the same thing!

@marleyjr00

3 жыл бұрын

Bruh you have Gundams you don't need any of this😂

@Paladin1034

3 жыл бұрын

@@marleyjr00 ore wa gundam!

Can you please put this on the commanders' tool box.

Cheers mate! Cant thank you enough for this, ive been fiddle with an excel trying to map these engineers for awhile, this will help me a lot!

This list is everything I hoped for. Ive been going over my pinned list extensively and I really needed this. Thank you DTEA

This is crazy! I was literally looking for a video to do with this yesterday and I figured you would hopefully do one eventually. Thankyou for this!

Thanks for this very informative and well-structured video, I completely forgot about blueprint-pinning since I tried it out a long long time ago as you could only pin one BP in total and so I struck this option with pinning from my mind, will use this more in the future. Will use increased FSD range, dirty drives and overcharged PP a lot more now!

Thank you for another great Elite Education Vid. I gained 90% of my ED Knowledge from your vids, from the beginning. its awsome they continue. Keep Em coming!

Kudos to the Commander who suggested Astro to do this in his previous online streams, very helpful guide, thanks DTEA o7

I'm happy KZread recommended this to me. I'm currently on my way to Colonia, but had no idea there were engineers there. Definitely fixing those before I go back to the bubble.

fantastic video! I had just hit point in the game where I felt like doing something different, going to see all the engineers sounds like a great idea!

Great guide. Regarding the low emission powerplant modification at 6:30: I find that running cool is sometimes useful for smuggling or stealth, but very useful for fuel scooping on exploration builds.

Thanks for this info DTEA ,very much appreciated and helpful.

I'm 1000 hrs in and only just started to get into the engineering side, so a delayed thanks for this informative video for the 1000hr newbs like me.

Thank you, I've been trying to figure this out for some time now.

Very helpful guide. Thank you for the excellent content on ED.

tip: once you unlocked both Felicity Farseer and Elvira Martuuk, pin engines-3 (=thrusters, clean/drag drive for exploration/combat play) at Felicity (and FSD range at Elvira) as you won't have access to better thruster mods until Colonia (22k ly).

You pretty much went straight down how I have all mine pinned. Thanks for the great info though. I'm sure alot of CMDR'S will find it very usefull. Thanks again for another greatly useful video. o7

excellent topic, and very useful. If I could remember everything you have said about this game I'd be amazing at it lol

Thank you very much. Considering my disorganized thinking, you just saved me a heck of a lot of time. :)

If you're going to use combat heavy ships, get weapon enhanced. You pewpew a lot more with it and, especially for the Mamba and Viper, you won't be boosting much in combat. Shooting for 2-3 times longer with gimbals is super sweet. If you're going fixed, weapon charge isn't as important, and the drain from turrets so low it doesn't really matter if you go heavily either of those two, but if you run gimbals mostly, especially if you use lateral thrust to keep off axis and therefore stay out of fixed guns of the opponent, gimbals allow you to ignore chaff since you can fire pretty much nonstop anyway.

Great video man, keep up the good work! But did anyone else notice that Krait mkll clip through the entrance? Or was that just me?

Not bad, it has given me some ideas. What I disagree most is the Power Plants. *Armoured* is the go-to mod that should get Hera Tani's G5 pin. It both increases the power generation and improves heat efficiency. What's not to like? Overcharged, in my opinion, should be avoided and used on as low grade as you can get away with if you do have to use it. Therefore Qwent could be good for that. Low Emissions is much more niche, though that being said I have 2 G5 ones, for the explorer and installation hacker, and one G2, for the miner with an undersized fuel scoop.

@Kissamiess

4 жыл бұрын

​@theKoshmeister OC isn't too awful if you stay on the lower grades and slap Thermal Spread on it. I think you can usually be more sloppy about it and upgrade it piecemeal as you get more materials. Radically undersized reactors might be an exception. Armoured often requires planning it out beforehand and going straight to full G5 to get enough power. Of course my personal preference factors into it as I have fuel scoops in most of my ships and prefer not to overheat that much while shooting things.

I just recently discovered your channel, and really love it, hope you get more subs

I have been playing for four years. Today I Learnt you can pin more than one blueprint at a time.

@davidtoth3961

Жыл бұрын

how do you do that? it only allow me one per engi

Hull reinforcements are a priority imo as u will be engineering lots of them, which will require a tone of mats, look forward to the shields vid 👍

Something I thought to do for the engineers that do stuff like the DSS and heatsink ammo was to just engineer a bunch of them while i was there, and then pin a different blueprint. I think I made like 8 high ammo heatsinks, then just had them shipped to my home station.

Hello DEA, great video per usual. Im rather new to ED and although Im understanding the principle of pinning a blueprint, Im a bit confused as to what to do next- do I find the right materials on planets via the rover, mining or bying them at stations - I bet its something in the line of a little bit of everything - but it would be nice t get some practical clarification.

Todd also does grade 5 Rail guns might be worth pinning that as well.

I'm a new player and this is extremely helpful for me thanks!

This is legit one of the *most useful* videos I've even seen for Elite. Thank you good sir o7 Cmdr

This is suuuper useful for me. I just dusted off the game and was looking to create the cucumber 2.0

Even if I'm not going to use this verbatim, I've found it to be a somewhat frustrating puzzle trying to work this out on my own. Thanks for putting it into perspective.

I played this game for two years before I learned you could pin engineering recipes :D

Just as an update to one of the engineers you mentioned Down to Earth Astronomy, Mel Brandon out in Colonia does Shield Cell Banks up to grade 5 now

@jasonking5405

4 жыл бұрын

Strange. I'm sitting at Mel as I type this, with grade 5 access, and SCB (plus Burst Lasers & FSD Interdictors) are only at grade 4. Is there something I'm missing here?

Very helpful. Thank you very much!

Thank you! Very useful video!

For FSD I'd recommend pin Faster Boot Sequence for your second. It makes the drive lighter for combat ships that doesn't care about jump distance as much.

@mangoirl6723

4 жыл бұрын

Good call, and power hungry combat builds can shut down the drive when deployed

@VanBurenPhilips

4 жыл бұрын

I don't think I pinned it, but I ran it on my Vulture at first - when I was pretty green at combat, and didn't have the build/mods optimised. Having the FSD boot in 2 seconds saved my butt several times.

very use- and helpful, thanks a lot!

Thank you so much for this!

Nice work! Thank you.

awesome man very useful for new pilot's starting out

@AugustoTobias

3 жыл бұрын

Problem is, this guide is either outdated or misleading. He doesn't mention that you can only pin one blueprint per module. As a new player, I didn't know that. For Farseer and Martuuk, he says one should be FSD range and the other something else. What he didn't say was that something else has to be NOT FSD related. I pinned Farseer with FSD range and went to Martuuk to improve FSD in another way, but I couldn't. He also has Tani and Qwent for power plant, Palin and Sedesi for thrusters. The way he made the chart insinuates that you could have multiple mods on the same module, when it's not true.

I love your videos! They've been so helpful for a newer player. Would you consider re-thumbnailing your info videos that are no longer applicable? For players that have only come in to the game over the past 6mo or so, I've noticed so much info online seems useful, but there have been so many changes to the game that you run into brick walls with some strategies pretty quick. As an example, your videos about G5 engineer mats or the supercruise assist trick have both been patched out of usefulness. Also, you did another video about Long Range being definitively better than Efficient for Beam Lasers, so it'd be nice to know what I'm really looking for in the current meta. Keep up the awesome work!

When I first started on my first Save, I went to Colonia to unlock the engineers thinking it would be easier than doing them in the bubble, so I could finish out my Corvette. 3 months to get there, finding out I can only pin one blueprint per engineer I rage cleared my save LOL. I'm back to where I was and have enjoyed starting over actually... but was a horrible, funny lesson to learn for sure...

@Johnjohnson-zg4ek

2 жыл бұрын

Infuriating.

Thanks. Great source of knowledge!

Thank you for your work.

9:12 That Courier definitely hit the other end of the station

Thank you DTEA!

why ammo over lightweight for heat sinks? Double the weight for 1 more round? You can synthesize additional rounds and you can get 4 rounds with two lightweight launchers for less weight than one 3 round double weight launcher?

You should pin Increased FSD range at Elvira and the Dirty Thrusters at Felicity, since getting to G5 thrusters means going 5k LY away and might not happen for a while / if at all for many players.

@KBBF3

4 жыл бұрын

This is what I did. Only now just went 5k ly after years of playing

this is great, thanks. But IMO *all* Engineer blueprints should be remotely accessible once you unlock the Engineer. its 3301, we still have to go visit a mechanic?

@purplefood1

3 жыл бұрын

Copyright protection in the future is a real bitch

I am wondering what engineering i could do for improved speed and jump range? I what to be able to run run run away for I am not able to do combat. So I need to be able to jump away and run away fast and as far as possible.

There's good reason to put grade 3s in pin, you get enough of the ingredients to have plenty left over just from ordinary playing, and you get enough of the benefit to really benefit.

Great vid Astro, as ever very useful o7

If you pin the Blueprint from Marsha Hicks for the Multicannon you free up Tod McQuinns Grade 5 Railgun Blueprint that you can pin instead

3:03 -- *LULZ* First engineer I unlocked was Tod; made the trip to his base, brung along the class 3 multicannon, *THEN FORGOT TO PIN ANYTHING.*

@TougherLoki

4 жыл бұрын

Same. 😞

As always, great information concentrated in one place.

Good video, thanks.

I know I'm late to the party here DTEA, but I noticed that when you added Etienne Dorn from Colonia that you started changes with Lori Jameson. This caught my attention as a potential misstep. As you have to have Elite status to enter Shinrarta Dezhra (Where Lori is), and all ships and modules are cheapest (or nearly so) at Jameson Memorial in that system, wouldn't the best play be to purchase ships there, pin everything the other Engineers offer that Lori doesn't, then make the journey in system to get everything Lori has and add experimentals right there?

My list, combat ship: FSD shielded - more juice and integrity PD - charge enhanced Thrusters - dirty drive Beam lasers - efficient (focused for AX, with thermal vent effect) MCs - rapid fire Frags - double shot Pow3r Plant - shielded Armor - kinetic (heavy duty for AX) The rest lightweight Shield - thermal

But is it so that when you remote engineer thing for the first time and you want progress that particular engineers skills from 1 to 5 you can't do that when doing it remotely? Or am i wrong? I can't see the progress bar (that 1 to 5) anywhere when doing it remotely.

I pinned overcharged pp to Marco went and g5 armored to hera tani. Ive never needed g5 overcharged in my builds and even when I have OC g4, heat becomes the bottleneck long before power. Armored is such a nice all-round mod

Is it possible to have your list in text form somewhere I can easily reference? I keep having to reload the video and going to a later timestamp to see your table. Thank you

Great video!

THANK YOU SO MUCH MAN

Awesome thank you 😊

Anyone know a overlap for void opals?

Hello I was wondering if you can help me? i have been working hard with my engineering and i am looking for the best FSD I can get. What i don't understand is i have 5 engineers unlocked all to level 5. is there not a second level, 3 level 4th level and so on? All the engineers that do Frame Shift drive seem to have a pad lock on increased FSD. but i have them at level 5. I thought once i get all the engineers that give FSD ranked to level 5 i would be able to add on Increased Frame Shift Drive. I have Elvira Martuuk, Felicity Farseer, Colonel Bris Dekker, Professor Palin, Mel Brandon.

Does anyone know of a good video explaining engineers from first contact to a grade 5 module? What to do, what to get, etc. I'm an old player (vanilla) returning to Elite but this feature is a little ambiguous. Links welcome, thanks all.

do you have this as a document?

whats pinning and how does that work

Very useful, thanks. Petra Olmanova not on the list in case you ever revise the video.

My only recommendation is to ignore his powerplant advice and go with armored powerplant. It's much better, especially bigger ships. Runs a little cooler and gives you a bit more juice, only drawback is it's a little heavier

14:05 pause vid, screenshot, crop image, save image. o7

Great clip. Thank you. Is it possible to stack two upgrades on the same modul?

@DowntoEarthAstronomy

4 жыл бұрын

No

@Darkmattable

4 жыл бұрын

@@DowntoEarthAstronomy Thank you for your answer

Double Shot / Screening Shell still broken?

Mate, I am in Colonia, thank you.

I really wish you'd pin the system each of these are in - it would be quicker to find / set. Thanks

@gamingshowplay

4 жыл бұрын

Look on inara

Why do you have to pip blueprints at all? Why create that needless busy work? Why no allow Engineering at all stations (over a certain level?) with any engineer you've unlocked? What is gained by needless faff and busy work? Allowing CMDRs to Engineer at any station (with Engineers you've unlocked) would then mean CMDRs can Engineer more regularly and in more smaller or organic ways!

As a new player I hated the idea of the engineer grind. But after I got my fully combat outfitted Chieftain to 25lys with just grade 3 upgrades I find myself liking the added benefits of the engineers. I'm definitely not unlocking all of them but Felicity is an absolute must.

You are such a blessed resource. Thank you for all the time and effort (the shield software build) to help us grinders. To say more would detract the appreciation! o7 - DeepArrow35

TIL you could pin one per engineer... I've unlocked only two engineers coz i didn't think there'd be any use ...

Is there anyplace where you have those tables in a place where they can be looked at statically without going to the vid and pausing it? Thank you!

@DowntoEarthAstronomy

4 жыл бұрын

Just uploaded the list i used when making the video: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jH_VbJYTwkwdCD7ARdqrwD6qEjGnTenx9mqRXM4mLUo/edit?usp=sharing

@1heUndertaker

2 жыл бұрын

@@DowntoEarthAstronomy This document has been deleted?

Does it matter when the blueprint is pinned in the end result? For instance, do i get a different engineered FSD on a pinned blueprint?

@gamingshowplay

4 жыл бұрын

No

@djwave28

4 жыл бұрын

@@gamingshowplay - Thank you. I had forgotten completely about this and have already moved on with learning a lot of others stuff. But ... no loose ends .. :-D

I'm accidently heading towards Colonia in my Cobra MK III after going on a personal pathfinder spree.........Help.

@seven9766

4 жыл бұрын

Are you there yet?

Hell, I don't even know why I should pin them.

What does it mean to pin ,what does it do ,

I still think you should at least be able to pin a module at least if not an engineer

Hey DTEA, have you ever tried Star Citizen? If so, thoughts on potential vs how FDev development of elite is so slow..

@brentonlee5535

4 жыл бұрын

How can anything be slower than star citizen, which is absolutely nothing resembling a functional game?

10:10 list for engineers in bubble... 14:43 full list of engineers

Tip: use a text highlighter plugin to mark the pins you want on the Inara engineers page. I use Super Simple Highlighter for Chrome: ibb.co/zVh22gn

Has someone put this in a nice spreadshet already?

@DowntoEarthAstronomy

4 жыл бұрын

I have uploaded the list i used as talking notes fore the video. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jH_VbJYTwkwdCD7ARdqrwD6qEjGnTenx9mqRXM4mLUo/edit?usp=sharing

@1heUndertaker

2 жыл бұрын

@@DowntoEarthAstronomy Hi, and thank you for taking the time to share such valuable information. This helps us new players ! However, the document is no longer available, did you update it? Or was it just removed? o7

?So not understand, but trying to understand, Pinning a BP is just getting that mod installed right? Or is pinning something else? You don't have to Pin, but I don't get the reason you pin a BP. To Pin or Not to Pin-I'm not sure the advantage of doing this? You Vid spoke of remotely using or mod'ing a module... Is this due to having prior pinned BP at an Eng at a diff location? OR some other thing I'm not understanding. Are Pinned BP considered in your inventory? These options sand how they function for you is confusing to me. Is there a link someone can point me to so I can understand the Eng process better? TY to all CMDR's

@jasonking5405

4 жыл бұрын

At many stations, you can have access to engineer any module on your ship, by using the blueprints you have pinned. It means you no longer need to go to the engineer to do it

If it wasn't such a grind...

I have about 5 of those unlocked -.-

I've been playing for a bit, have quite a few engineers unlocked and have upgraded my FSD drive already. I have NO idea what pinning a blueprint means? The engineers has the blueprint? Dont you just go an engineer to get a ship upgraded?

@stefanhager8950

3 жыл бұрын

I've also never had to do something called rolls? I just clicked upgrade and if I had the materials it upgraded. I was never offered the chance to buy a blueprint or "roll" one up? Makes 0 sense.

I only have like 8 fucking engineers unlocked :( didn't know there was gonna be 25

@Cohen.the.Worrier

2 жыл бұрын

You don't need them all, it's not a stamp collection.

this game is really hard