Mind your Engineering P’s & Q’s

Wading into a quagmire of engineered modules has been something i deliberately put off due to how difficult it sounded. Being the not-a-follower type, i let it marinate in the back of my already ED saturated brain for some way to make it less "grind-y".

What i've come to has not only been the opposite of "grind-y", but actually fun. Collecting mats was one of the biggest complaints and there were supposedly these tricks and maps that made it thru to the end with the least number of mouse clicks <yeah, fun /s>.

But mats (like credits) just naturally come to you as you play. They are literally everywhere. One doesn't really need to go half away across the galaxy to some boiler plate destination, doing the same wrote set of button pushes to achieve the goal. In fact, what i like most about ED is there's no ONE WAY do anything in this game. Curiosity, more than anything else, will lead you to find what you need.

There is, however, a LOT of information to manage in order to progress with engineering your equipment. Obviously the FSD has to be first because it gives you mobility. Two choices exist for FSD, and everyone seems to gravitate toward Felicity Farseer for some reason. But looking PAST my initial two choices, what comes next?

A more robust roadmap to greater early game capability leads you to face-plant right into Qwent's evil clutches.

[lightning — maniacal laughter]

His bark is worse than his bite tho, and the process of accessing much needed power and distributor capabilities is rather strait forward when you approach it from the role of budding CMDR trekking to the "big city" of the Sirius system (and surrounds) to make their mark.

Shout out to INARA here for making it easy to build a shopping list (CRAFTING LISTS) of the needed mats and for giving you a strategy (MISSING COMPONENTS) for dealing with the MATERIAL TRADERS. Highly recommend linking INARA to your Frontier acct so your materials inventory can be viewed and worked with.

Also, props to SDSY for their well designed website regarding engineering so that you can see everything on one screen. It doesn't do everything Coriolis does, but what it does do, it does VERY WELL.

Consider a donation to these 3-party tools, if you can.