So, after slogging through this horrible engineer requirement myself, and seeing very little info out there, I've added together what I found after I snagged my 10 recipes. I also figured out what I was doing wrong, and how to do it right. If you're looking for Culinary Recipes and Cocktail Recipes to unlock Rosa, this is the post for you.
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If you read nothing else on this post, read this: Sell in Colonia SYSTEM, not REGION. That means Ratraii is no good. I screwed this up and had to grind it twice.
If you only read two things, read this: E-Breaches. Did I mention they automatically get added to your inventory here and that they're illegal? Make sure you don't get scanned, and if you do – just run, take off to supercruise and start over. Don't bother clearing your inventory each time, unless you're going to destroy all of them from your ship's hold.
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Where to get them: LOS System planets (Moons?) A1A and A1B. Good news: they're right near Colonia. You'll see a bar and 4 HAB buildings pretty close to each other, the bar doesn't require any ID, but the HABs require SEC auth level1 and are off-limits to visitors, so you'll have to bypass the door (ID or MAV suit) then sneak to the terminal once you're in. Luckily the Bar will have 2-3 L1's and sometimes an L2 that you can discretely clone by hugging the pillars. Also luckily, the patrols are super basic and there's only a couple actual guards, the rest are only pilots and won't check your ID. They WILL get upset if they see you in the HAB buildings
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How:
- Don't land on the pad / autodock, manually land near the bar. This will save you a bunch of time. The only time you should land on the pad is to repair your ship (maybe pay off fines).
- Don't go to the 5th HAB across the bridge unless you have L2 AND landed on a pad. Again, wasted time. If you DO – only check the rooms straight ahead (both floors), the left and right side don't have data.
- Don't download illegal data. It triggers the alarm basically every time and the data isn't worth the hassle.
- Go to the bar first, check the data pad, steal an ID
- Jump between buildings to avoid the incredibly unlikely scan from the patrolling guard
- there's usually a pilot who camps in each HAB, with one empty. Seems to be random
- Once you've collected your recipes and hopped back aboard your ship, take off: Supercruise then immediately drop and fly back to land and start again. You don't have to reach orbit.
- If your game crashes or you log out, you must supercruise again or the terminals will be empty.
- You can mix and match – I tested this out and sold 2 Culinary, 8 Cocktail to unlock
