back to the grind! Hello g5 thrusters (Engineers)
10 Jun 2019Blackleaf
I've been back in the Bubble for a short while. I decided to take on the herculean task of engineering my ships starting with unlocking Professor Palin...Brutal. I spent several days looking for Pharmaceutical Isolators (of course) in space before giving up on that and taking up ground pounding. It went a little quicker after that. The fragments were a little easier, but that still took a couple hours and several logins to accomplish. And the final hurdle was the reputation grind for Palin's g4 & g5 modules. I had already bought up to g3 elsewhere, so I couldn't easily rank up with Palin by merely buying modules.
So... I had to go "exploring" AAAAAggggghhh! As if DW2 didn't sour me on exploration for the rest of my life?
I wasn't about to go exploring in a 20 ly range FDL, so I had to ship down my Python, which wasn't terribly expensive but it's the thought that counts, k'know…
all told I spent about 10-12 game hours trying to do this thing.
The g5 thrusters ARE very nice, but holy crap what a grind...
Next on the shopping list: engineering Multi-cannons, then to max out my lasers (only up to g3 for the moment), then shields, then to go on a galactic murder spree in order to achieve the combat rank of "Dangerous" for Lori Jameson's sweet, sweet booty... of upgrades.
EDIT: currently sidetracked to do some Painite mining in an overlapping hotspot. The profits are just too high to ignore.