When using collector limpets DON'T target a material unless you just want that specific type. If you do target a material, the limpet will expire when there's no more mats of the targeted type!
Dude, I just figured this out while I was farming for my g5 Ax chieftain the other day. I kept moving my ship around, trying to figure out what they were hitting, and finally realized it didn't happen if I didn't target something. Such a relief knowing wtf was causing it. Thank you.
Great guide, thank you for making this! Several years back I made a Dav's Hope guide. I meant well and it was OK for me at the time (I was engineering PvP ships so needed to G5 things), but looking back I can see how it can make things grindy. Your method is a lot better for new and returning players. I also want to emphasize that G5 is endgame-level equipment. For the vast majority of scenarios, you really don't need to G5 engineer everything, so trying to beeline to that level is unwise and will make the game a grind.
Thanks mate, and So true! G5 is overkill for most things and can take a stupid amount of time and effort you could spend doing what you built the ship for 🫡
It's probably been asked a lot, but odyssey materials helper is a great little side app. Also has nearest traders, distance to engineers, what you need to unlock engineers and the list goes on. You'll know that already but some newer guys might not.
I have recommended this so many times to so many people and it always gets dismissed because they've seen some other guide about driving around Dav's Hope in a circle and relogging until they hate the game. Thanks for showing people that, at least for manufactured materials, all you really need to do is bounty hunt and actually stop to pick up what falls out of the ships you blow up.
for "fairly slowly" at 2:25, the requirement is less than 40 for your speed, and yes it's quite fun to keep the cargo scoop powered on with the hardpoints out, makes for a cheeky grab at a few things between the booms
Limpet collectors are so much easier, and you can sometimes get away with 40 or even 41 depending on what you're scooping but yeah 39 is the optimal for 99% of cases.
Thanks for the idea. I've never considered this method. I recently went a couple thousand light-years outside of the bubble to get these materials. Needless to say it was insanely time consuming and tedious. I will try your method soon.
I use this method all the time haha I didnt know if you knew but there is an Elite ranked T-9 ('Big Boo' in Vesper-M4 at "unauthorized installation") that you can kill over and over by relogging to main menu. Drops G5 mats at times, its good way to test loadouts and get combat rank while gathering manufactured mats. For Has Res all you do is drop in, dont scan anything, go to contacts and when you see a name that isnt a cop sounding name attack, then launch collectors, when collection is done go to contacts and repeat, the list will have always have the largest ships on top, so target the largest one with a name and repeat. This saves time scanning trying to find targets. o7
Honestly i forgot about this way of collecting them thank you for reminding me as a vet player i cant believe i fell this deep into the log out retset method ive been needing to freahen up the gameplay loop
A very well made tutorial and nicely narrated and edited..There has been a lull in decent and relevant tutorials of late, I’m sure it will be very welcomed by the community and new players.
I need to put a collector on my Vette and do this. The only reason I do HGE farming is once I find a suitable signal source it's easy to guarantee I can get mats. But it does get boring very quickly. Bounty hunting is one of my favorite activities, so I need to leverage it more often.
Nice! Even better, if you have an engineered Anaconda (or larger ship) and you also like to mine, go mine your valuable minerals in a high res site somewhere between 15-20km away from the RES(High) itself, it will give you more minerals per asteroid mined because you are within 20 km of the RES (staying below 15km will get you constant attacks and you will be engaged by multiple pirates/wings at the same time), and from time to time you will get a pirate/wing of pirates that will check you and demand some of your cargo. Get a SLF hangar if you don't have a friend with you to keep the pirates busy until you deplete the asteroid and able to engage them with 4-5 guns remaining (you can use 3-4 mining lasers depending on your priority and engineering). This activity will give you minerals to sell, materials for engineering (both from ship destroyed and from laser mining), combat experience for you and your SLF pilot, advancement in ranking as trader and fighter, and a lot of fun.
Cool, I'm just getting back into the game and want something productive to do with my vulture to get back into the space combat. I have an imperial courier too which is kind of a speedster bubblebus signal scanner for encoded materials and getting around. Can also have an srv bay if needed. It's a lot of fun to fly around.
Just another suggestion - if you're going to be bounty hunting in a HazRES anyway, pick up some missions beforehand that have material rewards for bounty hunting. You can choose credits over materials if you've maxed out the materials.
Regardless of how you do, do not grind beyond fun. Another space for bounty hunting would be compromised navigation beacons, but I have found them slow and the bounties often turn up in wings of 2-3 ships. The police is (mostly) your friend in this endeavour, they will help kill your targets. One thing you left out is that with limpets you do _not_ want to pick up any cargo, not only will cargo work as bait for the pirates (making them take interest in you before you are ready to send them packing in a life pod) but if the cargo is stolen the police will have issues as well.
07 Cmdr, I agree. Big ship and L7 Universal Limpet controller, one can collect plenty also. However, you can get plenty with Bug combat missions and quite fun also 🙂.
Completely agree, This is how I get a load of mine. I didn’t mention it because it’s not very beginner-friendly, as it pretty much requires at least decent engineering, as well as guardian modules. Still, it’s a blast! 🫡
Late to this one, but this is literally how I've done mat gathering my whole career. I would also add, that if you always have SOME cargo and a collector limpet on your ship while mission running, it makes it easy to pick up mats from incidental combat as well. that way you're always ready to get mats. :D
That's the method I've been using for years, and I'm always swimming in manufactured materials! When I need to take some time off between engagements anyway to let my biweave shield recharge and scan for the next target I might just as well do some "garbage collecting" in the wreckage with limpets. And if your ship has room for it, Operations Multi-limpet Controller is the best collector limpet controller in the game--4 limpets in class 3 package beats even the class 5 collector and slurps up the combat aftermath very fast :) One tip for using limpets is to position your ship so that the materials are 200...300 meters below you, makes for a fast direct route for the limpets.
I really like this method, also on the side being a wake scanner to get free encoded on the side. ^_^ I still lack a good method of getting raw materials though. :/ Thanks again!
i need to unlock bill turner and i was thinking about doing some combat mission as i enjoy that part of the game i do have a engineered chieftain not like yours but it serves me well and i didnt think of this method and i am also missing some material so thanx for the tip 07
I quite like both this way and going to high emissions. Well, I prefer if I can go to a combat zone to support my local minors too, but it's a bit tricky to scoop then! Collectors work surprisingly well though
I think you should clear mention that adding experimental effects is game changer, while update itself can be low G1-G3 in the most cases, which is fast to do. Also using NPC SLF pilots helps a lot, you will lose exp/money, but that is not important, final elite 5 levels will take longer just.
I agree about experimental effects, but I didn’t want to overload people with the shipbuilding section. It’ll definitely make it into a full engineering guide, if I ever make one 🫡
even better.....collect several pirate killing missions then do this. You then get mission rewards which can be 5-20 million, bounty (don't forget kill warrant scanner) and materials
I’m a console commander. I’m still exploring and doing my bit as a space trucker. I just randomly came across one of your videos while doing process control at the wastewater treatment plant. Very well done.
As a seasoned ED player who enjoys engineering as much as possible, it is far more efficient to hit HGE (High-Grade Emissions) for G5 manufactured materials and down-trade using a Material Trader. Doing this with combat gives me materials I fill up on and then cannot use without up-trading and up-trading is wasteful for me. Great video.
Absolutely. I’ve done HGE in the past and it’s amazing for volume materials. Still, this is way more fun and on the whole not masses worse. The engineering ‘grind’ doesn’t have to be! 😅🫡
Yo i have idea for vid. Maybe longer vid about basics. That displays in ships that you use in vids to lets say target ship, maybe tips on landing (like its easy to learn but how much problems it can make), galaxy map, system map etc. Like a guide for a totally fresh players
Great video! Another way to get higher grade mats through combat is to go to the 'Hot Jupiter' tourist beacon in Col 285 Sector RF-C B 14-7 near planet B 1. Belugas drop in and drop loads of g2-g4 mats when destroyed. It's anarchy so you won't get any bounties from murdering poor tourists. You do need to destroy them fairly quick before they jump away and try to avoid the mines they drop.
Question: You say to continue until your destroyed, but won't you loose your cargo, ship and everything else and have to pay to get a replacement ship? Sorry if this is a stupid question, I'm fairly new to the game.
Tah 😂 I hastily threw it together, like all the music in my vids. Sometimes it works ok, like this one, and sometimes it… doesn’t (*cough* weaponry video *cough*) Anyway, thanks! 🫡
This is not the most "efficient" way for sure, but it's actually better since you also get combat rank exp and bounty from it. I've been a trader/miner for a while and wanted to jump into engineering, but this way I also get combat rank exp.
@@Wakabatan good to know. im new to the game did been farming imperial shielding from scanning nav beacons. im capped on all the materials and working on unlocking engineers now.
@@travissaddler8933 good luck cmdr o7 I played the game twice on different accounts from release, it's certainly faster and easier to do things now since you can trade materials and see the engineers you've unlocked on the map. I get the grind is not for everyone but it was even harder back then :')
That’s super annoying, and quite surprising! Normally you’ll always find at least one every few systems. Maybe POIs are filtered out in the navigation menu? Otherwise, maybe look in refinery economy systems, as they likely have planetary rings. 🫡
Or you can build an AFK Type 10 or Cutter and leave it overnight in the haz res with auto turret mode on and a macro for a collector limpet click every few minutes. Go to sleep and wake up to huge profits - it's a great time do this as well because bugs such as mauve adders have been reduce by a lot
I’ve done this in the past, but after a while there’s not much point tbh. You get enough credits after a few nights, and there’s no fun in it. Turned my T-10 into a high-res annihilator, never looked back! 🫡
I agree on the fun aspect, to be sure. I do this once every couple of months during the week so when I actually go play the game in the weekend I can do so without having to think about grinding. Might even go back to the same haz res to *actively* clean it.
Are there any methods of combat mat farming with grade 5 materials? Thanks for the video and the many helpful videos you've posted o7 Edit: I have a fully engineered corvette, I'm a returning player and would love some combat mat farming with a good fight.
This is it! The method in this video provides tonnes of G5 mats like Core Dynamics Composites, Imperial Shielding, Proto Radiolic Alloys, and Military Grade Alloys. Usually the bigger targets are more likely to give G5, so I’d say anything smaller than a clipper probably won’t get you any. In your ship, I’d suggest either a has res or maybe a high threat conflict zone if you fancy mixing things up 🫡
I'm a returning vet switching from PC to PS4 returning after years. I need a guide on the basics of starting out. Nobody has one. All I find is core mining basics.
To be honest, I’m weary of doing a vid on that since too much guidance at the start of the game can remove the creativity that new players have. Of course there’s a ‘best way’ to start, but it isn’t the most fun way for many people. I’d say do whatever missions look interesting, experiment with modules, and see where you get. If you find an interesting career but need some help, that’s where tutorials come in handy 🫡
@@DiturisElite okay well it's not the game I thought. But idk what the game I thought of is called. So I'm more than anything stuck unable to find my favorite game.
@@KelsyerCluster star citizen maby or eve? not sure of any other games like this. for this game tho just decide what activity you want to do to earn money like trading, mining, taxi, ect and focus on getting set up for that. once you have income you can expand into everything else. everyone will start diff ways but i find it helps to have money first to do what you need to do. i made 300mil in my first 2 days playing the game mining platinum and selling to the station offering highest price. using a type 7 that is super cheap
Level up at all factions near a pirate infested system, then accept the 4 million+ kill missions. It's all Corvettes. Kill themselves and collect, the class 4 & 5 mats only, the rest is a waste of time, rather trade down. Manual works fine.
Ye, but tbh not much if you go to a lower res. At a high or medium the police are so efficient that how well you do doesn’t have much impact on how fast the target pops 😅🫡
Engineering isnt compulsory.. but if you want to do anything its compulsory! SO.. Yes.. this is fun.. so is self flagellation. So is playing something else :)
It always amazes me how people buy complex games for the fun of beating. Then many people complain that the game is too complex and takes too long. Since most games cost $60+, taking a long time to beat a game should be a good thing.
Fun lies on the sweet spot. It should be complex enough to fun, at the same time, not complex enough to be not fun. It's a very simple idea to understand.
This is the default method? Why do people need to be reminded of this? This is how the game "expects" you to get mats. Dav's Hope is the "optimal" way in terms of pure numbers. If you NEED mats, Dav's Hope is by far better in terms of mat/hr. In terms of Credits/hr, bounty work is about as bad as it gets. This method of "dual farming" is inefficient for both criteria. If you are looking for a relaxed way to play the game, then sure this method works. BUT if you are looking for results, this is NOT the way to play. Cargo hauling/exobiology = better credits && Dav's Hope = far more mats.
Fair enough if that’s how you want to play, but that’s not what I’m about. My whole deal is to find fun ways to get around the ‘grind’ everyone complains about. This will take longer than davs hope, but you won’t want to throw your ship into a black hole by the end of it. Again, if you don’t have as much time to play or you just like being efficient, that’s fair enough. Whatever floats 🫡
Only if you choose to fully engineer things. There’s no part of the game itself telling you that you must grade 5 everything you ever own. Most of my ships are partially engineered, or not at all - It’s not a necessity. And what I do I enjoy, because of methods like this 🫡
@@DiturisElite no arguments here, but most of the game is grinding things, there is little actual meaningful gameplay beyond the various grind mechanics.
@@DiturisElite great reply, I totally agree. I started new game and am playing without inara help, road to riches and all other bs. I have srv survey, elite g19s and elite market connector( just to have data on edsm and inara). And I have to say. Game is easy, fun,not grindy. I feel sorry, first time I player I got anaconda after 30 hrs. But even now, game is fresh if you just play it. I AGREE - Game becomes grindy if you want to maximise profits, get new ships,If you want grade 5 everything. GREAT TUTORIALS, btw, great. True game advertisers. To summarize - Using the ingame map is far more immersive than using inara.
(wipes anger sweat from brow after rage quitting elite) 😠 .... Stupid grindy game, Mile wide and an inch deep... (Goes on TH-cam to watch this video)......😐......(hears Dituri say you should have fun)......😧 "Fun"?...... This game was supposed to be....fun?? 😳
ikr?? I bet he doesn’t even have a conda, the noob… Seriously though, thanks mate. your comments always brighten my day🫡 Also I genuinely don’t own a conda.
Once you’re at the station and gone to contacts -> material trader, select the item you’re willing to trade, then select the one you want. Then you can choose how much you want to trade 🫡
I just watched a video the other day that was exactly about that. Basically, trade straight down. One "tier A" material is worth 3 "tier B" materials, for example. So if you get just a few top-tier materials you can fill your lower tiers pretty quickly.
When using collector limpets DON'T target a material unless you just want that specific type. If you do target a material, the limpet will expire when there's no more mats of the targeted type!
Dang I was wondering what was going on with that. Thanks
Dude, I just figured this out while I was farming for my g5 Ax chieftain the other day. I kept moving my ship around, trying to figure out what they were hitting, and finally realized it didn't happen if I didn't target something. Such a relief knowing wtf was causing it. Thank you.
I've been playing the game since Beta and I only learned this like 2 years ago :D
This is a bug that remains for yars.
I did this so many times when mining by accident. Wasting a limpet on one piece of ore.
Loving this channel. This is the refresh in tutorials Elite needed.
Great guide, thank you for making this! Several years back I made a Dav's Hope guide. I meant well and it was OK for me at the time (I was engineering PvP ships so needed to G5 things), but looking back I can see how it can make things grindy. Your method is a lot better for new and returning players. I also want to emphasize that G5 is endgame-level equipment. For the vast majority of scenarios, you really don't need to G5 engineer everything, so trying to beeline to that level is unwise and will make the game a grind.
Thanks mate, and So true! G5 is overkill for most things and can take a stupid amount of time and effort you could spend doing what you built the ship for 🫡
Nice clear instruction. Im a returning player so your guide is helpful. Thanks.
It's probably been asked a lot, but odyssey materials helper is a great little side app. Also has nearest traders, distance to engineers, what you need to unlock engineers and the list goes on. You'll know that already but some newer guys might not.
I have recommended this so many times to so many people and it always gets dismissed because they've seen some other guide about driving around Dav's Hope in a circle and relogging until they hate the game. Thanks for showing people that, at least for manufactured materials, all you really need to do is bounty hunt and actually stop to pick up what falls out of the ships you blow up.
The focus on fun and not min/maxing is excellent, love your work!
Nicely put together, well presented, good captioning, good script, good use of screenshots. Look forward to catching up on your other content.
Elite Dangerous community needed this channel. Keep it coming mate!
I also love the 'no collector limpet' lifestyle 😎
What can I say, I'm a sucker for a mini game lol
for "fairly slowly" at 2:25, the requirement is less than 40 for your speed, and yes it's quite fun to keep the cargo scoop powered on with the hardpoints out, makes for a cheeky grab at a few things between the booms
Limpet collectors are so much easier, and you can sometimes get away with 40 or even 41 depending on what you're scooping but yeah 39 is the optimal for 99% of cases.
Really love this channel! Finally a channel that doesn't focus on min/maxing :D. Love it!
This is great. I have returned to Elite after years of not playing and these guides are fresh.
Me too!! Surprisingly I found I had 390 mil in the bank after being gone for 5 years. Love these vids to get into the swing.
Thanks for the idea. I've never considered this method. I recently went a couple thousand light-years outside of the bubble to get these materials. Needless to say it was insanely time consuming and tedious. I will try your method soon.
Just getting into engineering, and this is so much more fun than the mining grind! Mining is fun too of course if you're in the mood.
Thanks for these videos by the way, been going through them all as I start playing again.
Very good video! shows you exactly where to look, where to go, and how to do it. Very nice and all in less than 5 minutes. Thank you
5975 hours space trucking in elite dangerous , and I support this video.
I use this method all the time haha
I didnt know if you knew but there is an Elite ranked T-9 ('Big Boo' in Vesper-M4 at "unauthorized installation") that you can kill over and over by relogging to main menu. Drops G5 mats at times, its good way to test loadouts and get combat rank while gathering manufactured mats.
For Has Res all you do is drop in, dont scan anything, go to contacts and when you see a name that isnt a cop sounding name attack, then launch collectors, when collection is done go to contacts and repeat, the list will have always have the largest ships on top, so target the largest one with a name and repeat. This saves time scanning trying to find targets.
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Thanks, sound intresting I'll give it a try.
Sounds cool, although the word ‘relogging’ sends me to sleep like nothing else… still, I might check it out 🫡
Your tutorials are great. Thank you so much. It helps a ton.
The best show in town! Keep’em coming!
Love your videos! This game never gets old.
that was a nice video. all knowledge packed in 4 minutes. thank you
As a new commander, i thank you for this. i love combat and knowing this makes me happy:)
Honestly i forgot about this way of collecting them thank you for reminding me as a vet player i cant believe i fell this deep into the log out retset method ive been needing to freahen up the gameplay loop
A very well made tutorial and nicely narrated and edited..There has been a lull in decent and relevant tutorials of late, I’m sure it will be very welcomed by the community and new players.
The Burr Pit sent me, good stuff. o7 🚀
I need to put a collector on my Vette and do this. The only reason I do HGE farming is once I find a suitable signal source it's easy to guarantee I can get mats. But it does get boring very quickly. Bounty hunting is one of my favorite activities, so I need to leverage it more often.
Nice! Even better, if you have an engineered Anaconda (or larger ship) and you also like to mine, go mine your valuable minerals in a high res site somewhere between 15-20km away from the RES(High) itself, it will give you more minerals per asteroid mined because you are within 20 km of the RES (staying below 15km will get you constant attacks and you will be engaged by multiple pirates/wings at the same time), and from time to time you will get a pirate/wing of pirates that will check you and demand some of your cargo. Get a SLF hangar if you don't have a friend with you to keep the pirates busy until you deplete the asteroid and able to engage them with 4-5 guns remaining (you can use 3-4 mining lasers depending on your priority and engineering). This activity will give you minerals to sell, materials for engineering (both from ship destroyed and from laser mining), combat experience for you and your SLF pilot, advancement in ranking as trader and fighter, and a lot of fun.
Thanks for remembering me the essentials !
Cool, I'm just getting back into the game and want something productive to do with my vulture to get back into the space combat.
I have an imperial courier too which is kind of a speedster bubblebus signal scanner for encoded materials and getting around. Can also have an srv bay if needed. It's a lot of fun to fly around.
Just another suggestion - if you're going to be bounty hunting in a HazRES anyway, pick up some missions beforehand that have material rewards for bounty hunting. You can choose credits over materials if you've maxed out the materials.
Regardless of how you do, do not grind beyond fun.
Another space for bounty hunting would be compromised navigation beacons, but I have found them slow and the bounties often turn up in wings of 2-3 ships.
The police is (mostly) your friend in this endeavour, they will help kill your targets.
One thing you left out is that with limpets you do _not_ want to pick up any cargo, not only will cargo work as bait for the pirates (making them take interest in you before you are ready to send them packing in a life pod) but if the cargo is stolen the police will have issues as well.
This can be even faster if you use a ship with a fighter bay. If you are just starting out, use a Keelback.
I'm a newish player. These guides give me the inspiration to try new things! o7
07 Cmdr, I agree. Big ship and L7 Universal Limpet controller, one can collect plenty also. However, you can get plenty with Bug combat missions and quite fun also 🙂.
Completely agree, This is how I get a load of mine. I didn’t mention it because it’s not very beginner-friendly, as it pretty much requires at least decent engineering, as well as guardian modules. Still, it’s a blast! 🫡
Late to this one, but this is literally how I've done mat gathering my whole career. I would also add, that if you always have SOME cargo and a collector limpet on your ship while mission running, it makes it easy to pick up mats from incidental combat as well. that way you're always ready to get mats. :D
That's the method I've been using for years, and I'm always swimming in manufactured materials! When I need to take some time off between engagements anyway to let my biweave shield recharge and scan for the next target I might just as well do some "garbage collecting" in the wreckage with limpets.
And if your ship has room for it, Operations Multi-limpet Controller is the best collector limpet controller in the game--4 limpets in class 3 package beats even the class 5 collector and slurps up the combat aftermath very fast :)
One tip for using limpets is to position your ship so that the materials are 200...300 meters below you, makes for a fast direct route for the limpets.
Wanna share the tips you have for not waiting 5-10 mins for each Anaconda?
I realized this at some point as well. Not only is it fun if you enjoy PvE, you build up a sizeable stockpile of materials too.
I really like this method, also on the side being a wake scanner to get free encoded on the side. ^_^
I still lack a good method of getting raw materials though. :/
Thanks again!
awesome stuff! would be good to see a dedicated PVE video helping new players with essential manuvres / fa off etc
i need to unlock bill turner
and i was thinking about doing some combat mission as i enjoy that part of the game
i do have a engineered chieftain not like yours but it serves me well and i didnt think of this method and i am also missing some material
so thanx for the tip
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Nice guide, even though I've never did this method myself! Just please don't ever trade the way up guys 💀
Pro tip:
if you take on bounty hunter missions, you can optimise your profit and get additional materials
I quite like both this way and going to high emissions. Well, I prefer if I can go to a combat zone to support my local minors too, but it's a bit tricky to scoop then! Collectors work surprisingly well though
I think you should clear mention that adding experimental effects is game changer, while update itself can be low G1-G3 in the most cases, which is fast to do. Also using NPC SLF pilots helps a lot, you will lose exp/money, but that is not important, final elite 5 levels will take longer just.
I agree about experimental effects, but I didn’t want to overload people with the shipbuilding section. It’ll definitely make it into a full engineering guide, if I ever make one 🫡
I can't believe you don't have more subs. Your videos are incredibly high effort and well edited
even better.....collect several pirate killing missions then do this. You then get mission rewards which can be 5-20 million, bounty (don't forget kill warrant scanner) and materials
I’m a console commander. I’m still exploring and doing my bit as a space trucker. I just randomly came across one of your videos while doing process control at the wastewater treatment plant. Very well done.
Great Vid! Can you do a tutorial on linking your account with Inara and EDMC and its capabilities? A lot of ppl don't know about its benefits
As a seasoned ED player who enjoys engineering as much as possible, it is far more efficient to hit HGE (High-Grade Emissions) for G5 manufactured materials and down-trade using a Material Trader. Doing this with combat gives me materials I fill up on and then cannot use without up-trading and up-trading is wasteful for me. Great video.
Absolutely. I’ve done HGE in the past and it’s amazing for volume materials. Still, this is way more fun and on the whole not masses worse.
The engineering ‘grind’ doesn’t have to be! 😅🫡
Yo i have idea for vid. Maybe longer vid about basics. That displays in ships that you use in vids to lets say target ship, maybe tips on landing (like its easy to learn but how much problems it can make), galaxy map, system map etc. Like a guide for a totally fresh players
thanks for giving me justification for making five combat ships as a harmless pilot
My prefered way.
Type 10 , High Res , lot of limpets. Fun and Fast
Sounds epic. I kinda wanna build this. I will be building this. Thanks.
Can you make a video on quick and easy raw material farming?
Great video! Another way to get higher grade mats through combat is to go to the 'Hot Jupiter' tourist beacon in Col 285 Sector RF-C B 14-7 near planet B 1. Belugas drop in and drop loads of g2-g4 mats when destroyed. It's anarchy so you won't get any bounties from murdering poor tourists. You do need to destroy them fairly quick before they jump away and try to avoid the mines they drop.
Returning player ans forgot a lot of this thanks 👍
You would need a kill warrant scanner for bounty hunting right?
It only increases the bounty. So no.
Question: You say to continue until your destroyed, but won't you loose your cargo, ship and everything else and have to pay to get a replacement ship? Sorry if this is a stupid question, I'm fairly new to the game.
Not stupid at all! Yes you will. But if you’re purely doing this for engineering materials it doesn’t matter, as they aren’t lost 🫡
What music is that? It's a bop haha
Tah 😂
I hastily threw it together, like all the music in my vids. Sometimes it works ok, like this one, and sometimes it… doesn’t (*cough* weaponry video *cough*)
Anyway, thanks! 🫡
This is not the most "efficient" way for sure, but it's actually better since you also get combat rank exp and bounty from it. I've been a trader/miner for a while and wanted to jump into engineering, but this way I also get combat rank exp.
what is the most efficient way? davs?
@@travissaddler8933 i guess it'd be hot jupiter looking at other guides, but it's the least fun imo unless you're role playing as a pirate i guess
@@Wakabatan good to know. im new to the game did been farming imperial shielding from scanning nav beacons. im capped on all the materials and working on unlocking engineers now.
@@travissaddler8933 good luck cmdr o7
I played the game twice on different accounts from release, it's certainly faster and easier to do things now since you can trade materials and see the engineers you've unlocked on the map.
I get the grind is not for everyone but it was even harder back then :')
is there a way to configure the limpet to ignore cargo?
My problem as new player is, where in the life do I find the sites.
Already spend hours searching systems, cant find any.
That’s super annoying, and quite surprising! Normally you’ll always find at least one every few systems. Maybe POIs are filtered out in the navigation menu?
Otherwise, maybe look in refinery economy systems, as they likely have planetary rings. 🫡
@@DiturisElite thanks, found them. I'm just a noob haha.
Lot to take in with this game.
Or you can build an AFK Type 10 or Cutter and leave it overnight in the haz res with auto turret mode on and a macro for a collector limpet click every few minutes. Go to sleep and wake up to huge profits - it's a great time do this as well because bugs such as mauve adders have been reduce by a lot
I’ve done this in the past, but after a while there’s not much point tbh. You get enough credits after a few nights, and there’s no fun in it. Turned my T-10 into a high-res annihilator, never looked back! 🫡
I agree on the fun aspect, to be sure. I do this once every couple of months during the week so when I actually go play the game in the weekend I can do so without having to think about grinding. Might even go back to the same haz res to *actively* clean it.
why small cargo racks ? less limpets = more station visits
Are there any methods of combat mat farming with grade 5 materials? Thanks for the video and the many helpful videos you've posted o7
Edit: I have a fully engineered corvette, I'm a returning player and would love some combat mat farming with a good fight.
This is it! The method in this video provides tonnes of G5 mats like Core Dynamics Composites, Imperial Shielding, Proto Radiolic Alloys, and Military Grade Alloys.
Usually the bigger targets are more likely to give G5, so I’d say anything smaller than a clipper probably won’t get you any. In your ship, I’d suggest either a has res or maybe a high threat conflict zone if you fancy mixing things up 🫡
@DiturisElite Thanks, I haven't had much luck so far but I did just get a few core dynamic composites. Thanks
Oh sheeit I forgot material traders were even a thing. I should probably go sell some stuff I have full load of lol. Thanks!
Got a more fun method for raw materials?
My biggest issue with bounty hunting is, if you die, you lose all bounties (on top if your ship)...
Simple, don’t die.
Hey cmdr 07. What UI theme are you using?
Looks like my Vette will get busy again.
I'm a returning vet switching from PC to PS4 returning after years. I need a guide on the basics of starting out. Nobody has one. All I find is core mining basics.
To be honest, I’m weary of doing a vid on that since too much guidance at the start of the game can remove the creativity that new players have. Of course there’s a ‘best way’ to start, but it isn’t the most fun way for many people.
I’d say do whatever missions look interesting, experiment with modules, and see where you get. If you find an interesting career but need some help, that’s where tutorials come in handy 🫡
@@DiturisElite okay well it's not the game I thought. But idk what the game I thought of is called. So I'm more than anything stuck unable to find my favorite game.
@@KelsyerCluster star citizen maby or eve? not sure of any other games like this. for this game tho just decide what activity you want to do to earn money like trading, mining, taxi, ect and focus on getting set up for that. once you have income you can expand into everything else. everyone will start diff ways but i find it helps to have money first to do what you need to do. i made 300mil in my first 2 days playing the game mining platinum and selling to the station offering highest price. using a type 7 that is super cheap
pvp guide when ;D
As soon as I’m competent at it myself….
Level up at all factions near a pirate infested system, then accept the 4 million+ kill missions. It's all Corvettes. Kill themselves and collect, the class 4 & 5 mats only, the rest is a waste of time, rather trade down. Manual works fine.
Burr sent me.
I’m sure! He’s too kind 😉🫡
ehem.. I bet its much easier to blow up those "big ships" using that over-engineered termite... :-P
Ye, but tbh not much if you go to a lower res.
At a high or medium the police are so efficient that how well you do doesn’t have much impact on how fast the target pops 😅🫡
why 1 on 1?
Engineering isnt compulsory.. but if you want to do anything its compulsory! SO.. Yes.. this is fun.. so is self flagellation. So is playing something else :)
It always amazes me how people buy complex games for the fun of beating. Then many people complain that the game is too complex and takes too long. Since most games cost $60+, taking a long time to beat a game should be a good thing.
Fun lies on the sweet spot. It should be complex enough to fun, at the same time, not complex enough to be not fun. It's a very simple idea to understand.
This is the default method? Why do people need to be reminded of this? This is how the game "expects" you to get mats. Dav's Hope is the "optimal" way in terms of pure numbers. If you NEED mats, Dav's Hope is by far better in terms of mat/hr. In terms of Credits/hr, bounty work is about as bad as it gets. This method of "dual farming" is inefficient for both criteria. If you are looking for a relaxed way to play the game, then sure this method works. BUT if you are looking for results, this is NOT the way to play. Cargo hauling/exobiology = better credits && Dav's Hope = far more mats.
Fair enough if that’s how you want to play, but that’s not what I’m about.
My whole deal is to find fun ways to get around the ‘grind’ everyone complains about. This will take longer than davs hope, but you won’t want to throw your ship into a black hole by the end of it.
Again, if you don’t have as much time to play or you just like being efficient, that’s fair enough. Whatever floats 🫡
You better figure out how to have fun grinding mats in elite...its 90% of the gameplay
Only if you choose to fully engineer things. There’s no part of the game itself telling you that you must grade 5 everything you ever own. Most of my ships are partially engineered, or not at all - It’s not a necessity. And what I do I enjoy, because of methods like this 🫡
@@DiturisElite no arguments here, but most of the game is grinding things, there is little actual meaningful gameplay beyond the various grind mechanics.
@@DiturisElite great reply, I totally agree. I started new game and am playing without inara help, road to riches and all other bs. I have srv survey, elite g19s and elite market connector( just to have data on edsm and inara). And I have to say. Game is easy, fun,not grindy. I feel sorry, first time I player I got anaconda after 30 hrs. But even now, game is fresh if you just play it. I AGREE - Game becomes grindy if you want to maximise profits, get new ships,If you want grade 5 everything. GREAT TUTORIALS, btw, great. True game advertisers. To summarize - Using the ingame map is far more immersive than using inara.
(wipes anger sweat from brow after rage quitting elite) 😠 .... Stupid grindy game, Mile wide and an inch deep...
(Goes on TH-cam to watch this video)......😐......(hears Dituri say you should have fun)......😧
"Fun"?...... This game was supposed to be....fun?? 😳
ikr?? I bet he doesn’t even have a conda, the noob…
Seriously though, thanks mate. your comments always brighten my day🫡
Also I genuinely don’t own a conda.
@@DiturisElite shame, you're missing out on the best ship in this stupid, dead game
@@DiturisElite Anaconda’s are for sweaty tryhards.. The Cobra Mk4 is where it’s at.
How do you actually trade the material, how do you pick what to trade and what to receive?
Once you’re at the station and gone to contacts -> material trader, select the item you’re willing to trade, then select the one you want. Then you can choose how much you want to trade 🫡
I just watched a video the other day that was exactly about that. Basically, trade straight down. One "tier A" material is worth 3 "tier B" materials, for example. So if you get just a few top-tier materials you can fill your lower tiers pretty quickly.