Do This To Farm Materials Without Grinding #EliteDangerous

No it is a frustrating grind no matter what you do to get the mats you still want to die and the Bills in my account mean shit because you can't buy them what am I using all this money on ??? Because it's not new ships or anything at all do nothing with it hahaha joke

has the future come yet?

I made the mistake of building an AFK type 10. The grind for parts was miserable and the ship is not fun at all to taxi to locations. The gave is a grind but you need to hide the grind by doing the fun stuff or you'll burn out. Don't do 10 Robigo runs in row or relog 20 times for a stack of materials or you'll lose interest much faster.

The current system of mat gathering and need for engineering to be competitive is why I have been on and off and haven’t played in 6 months.

My mostest favorite method of gathering manufactured mats is through combat missions. I carry 128 limpets in my 'vette when I am out bounty hunting, I have the limpets fire when the 3 rail guns fire meaning it is time to go to work cleaning up soon. Best to blast Admirals and Generals = bigger ships = higher grade mats.

Cleaning sewers is fun if you don't think about them being sewers. But when you get home to relax, do you really want to do something you have to pretend it's fun? This is a do before you have to do it, and smart. When you finally want to fully upgrade a ship you will be forced into the mind numbing grind if you want it done. Many, many have quit half way to an upgraded ship. More when they realize they need to do it 3-5 more times. If they fixed engineering people would be back.

Great vid! I suspect this is the intended way to play

I'm out getting manufactured mats from high grade emissions sites and watching your elite videos. Can't go wrong. Space is absolutely gorgeous

This is the way.

I still don't have any ships that are capable of equipping all of this stuff so there's a lot more ship shuffling for me, but this is how I play basically every game. Put on some music and live in a different world for a while.

Thus is a way. It’s only a grind if you make it one.

i never specifically grind for mats, i play the game, take on missions, hit high grades all in random play, there is no endgame in elite so play away cmdrs!

ran into this video bcoz im back again at Davs Hope and ive been here a few times already. yeah the grind seriously sucks but thats what these devs want us to do. if you really want the mats then just get them thier way and look at it as (a right of passage) a way to let you know your in for something big but your not gonna get there fast!

I think they deliberately make G5 grinding awful to burn out minmaxers ASAP. The rest of us with G1-4 just enjoying the game even if we're not in the top 0.1% of theoretical top performance.

Thanks for sharing your method, it's quite interesting! I haven't thought about having a ship dedicated to this role but now I'll go back to the garage for this.

My personal philosophy, when I'm not focused on CGs and in game events, is to just travel around and take any opportunities that I happen along. Right now I'm doing bootleg liquor liberation, picking up any mats and exobiology samples along the way.

I feel that the continual binge philosophy to achieving a specific aim is what causes people to think of it as a grind, rather than doing a little bit of everything and letting it all accumulate quietly. The relaxed approach also gives you room to actually do short binges in response to an immediate new situation, e.g. if you need to get a new upgrade sooner than expected.

Part of the problem may be that many content creators emphasise the need for engineering and many CMDRs seem to take this to fully upgrading every ship and multiple versions of them. If you only do a couple of ships, then it is not a grind. Some advise against buying off the shelf FSDs and expanded probe radius DSS, but with G5/G3 versions to buy resprectively, a lot less gathering is required. Only down side is that not all ships take a G5 FSD, but some of the more popular mediums do. Remember, most of the game can be played unengineered, adding a bit of engineering gives a bit more quality. When I am at a loose end, I may just head off to gather SDPs, data mined wake exceptions or manufactured mats from destroyed ships. It is just relaxing, no thought or exertion required.

Once I realized that I don't need all the materials (many are needed only for one very niche experimental effect or synthesizing ammo for a specific weapon), there is no more grind. Sure, I may visit Jameson crash site and crystalline shards once a year, but that's not really a grind this unfrequently. Most of the materials I get in RES-s as the bounty hunting side product or as mission rewards (the thargoid war evacuation missions are excellent for that, especially now after update 16).

Another fact of Elite life is that you don't need a separate ship hull for every imaginable configuration and task. Ships are modular for a reason, just swap out some modules according to mission at hand. I really only need one good multi-role ship (Phantom) for most tasks from exploration to AX combat, one bulk hauler for carrier refueling (Cutter) and a handful of very specialized ships (Python for mining, FAS for Maelstrom diving, Orca for tourist missions, Viper MKIII for going fast and exploding on the hillside). Most other ships tend to sit in the carrier hangar gathering dust since the novelty wore off--I don't even remember when I took my Corvette or Mamba out for a spin.

Exactly this. I used to call my ship the Honey Badger! Do a little of everything and mix it up.

Hey. So I mainly spend my time exploring, trying to find places that others haven't. Trips back to the bubble to cash in my carto's are broken up with material traders and looking for upgrades. I find that I get almost all of the mats I need whilst cruising around new systems. I've never felt that I've had to "grind" as a result. Maybe it's right, maybe it's wrong but each to their own. Keep flying commanders, o7.

You can just not grind or farm at all! It's not at all necessary unless a player is trying to shortcut to PVP combat (and I wouldn't recommend it).

Ship based mat acquisition through ordinary gameplay works perfectly well. Just be sure to follow these basic pointers -

1 - Scoop up (with limpets) the manufactured mats from destroyed enemies - especially larger ships.

2 - Always target and scan ships as you encounter them. You'll get all the encoded mats you need this way.

3 - Keep your eye out for geological deposits or meteorite fragments as you search for exobiology in the SRV. Collect those raw mats as you happen across them.

4 - While doing salvage ops, always cut open the cargo racks. There's 7 raw mats in each one.

For on-foot mats, its not necessary to even collect the mats at all unless you want to. It possible to buy grade 3 modded stuff over the counter at Pioneer. Costs a lot, but pixel money is not very valuable!

My mats storage is almost totally full. I've never been to Dav's Hope or the Jamieson Crash Site. Visited the shard sites very briefly about two years ago. Only visited HGE signal sources 6-7 times in the years I've been playing. Even still, this has yielded enough mats for me to gain a fleet of 20 or so fully engineered ships - many of which tricked out for combat and xeno activity.

I do a mix of gathering (like your video) and farming (hitting the efficient spots and material traders). Gathering materials for on-foot engineering is more fun overall (missions + raiding Anarchy systems).

Great tip! I'll try this on my next short exploration trip.

I enjoy farming the brain trees and crystal spires, also the Dav's Hope "Mario Kart" minigame. Data is frustrating as the Jameson site is such a bore but I scan every ship I see whilst bounty hunting at RESes which gives me a little more data.

I've been doing things this way for about 6 years now. Rarely have I had to do any annoying relogging to farm mats.

I think game is designed to progress very slowly. It becomes very boring if you try and min/max everything as quickly as possible.

Gotta enjoy the process of building a fleet, the limitations of a non-A rated ship, and so on. Makes being triple elite all the more rewarding

I got almost all my t4 raw materials full while exploring. A pretty chill activity

I mix up my sessions with cargo runs, planet exploration and basic scanning of nearby ships. I am mainly on the lookout for exo-biology planets, but will farm materials while messing around on the planet surfaces. I have started to check the threat zero emission sites and planet crashes etc. for variety. I am not interested in the fighting mechanism of the game, played too many similar games over the decades, and got bored of it, so I use this game as a relax puzzle and explore game in a genre I like.

They have done all they are going to on fixing the mats grind. Things have improved a lot on the ship side but then they did all the worst things for feet engineering. After getting a Maverick suit from Grade 3 to Grade 5 I was done with that. Why are different grade suits not just a credit purchase? That breaks with the past. We never had to grind to get from C to A modules. Technically I have not done any engineering on anything with feet and I am already puffed out with that. They have done nothing to change that horrendous mess.

I use a engineered to the max courier which is such fun to fly. I go to Jameson Crash site for the win. That's Encoded done and dusted. I have an Asp Scout (that needs no more engineering than the FSD). With a mining Limpet Controller with 4 collectors, this is perfect for High Grade Emissions. If I am doing combat, then my Python with collectors on the same trigger as my Multi Cannons and I don't even think about it. Robigo Runs in my Pax Python gets me some Encoded and two out of 3 of the none High Grade Materials, and that's Mech Done. Raw, well I don't really care for the Crystal Shards/The Trees. The Crashed Anaconda in Orrere and the closer Brain Trees with a little cross trading looks after me just fine. I don't trade ever, unless I am above my holding limit which is 50 below max apart from Grade 5 which I hold at 60.

I came back for the thargoid war, and I quit because of the grind to get an anti-thargoid ship. And while I was grinding, the specifications of an anti-thargoid ship changed, and I

Grind is just a state of mind.

Great video again how you getting on with the money for your carrier ?

People tend to ignore materials...until they need them (and then they complain about the grind!)
I pick up practically everything I see, and when it comes time to engineer, I usually have 99% of what I'll need.
Sure - sometimes I need to go 'material hunting', but it usually doesn't take long - I even managed to Grade 5 all my Odyssey suits and weapons recently!
The people who moan are just bad at planning for the future imho o7

I still listen to music, but I literally found good places to find what ever I need whenever I need it. But I do agree, stop looking at elite as an ego boost. The grind is there so that it doesn't become a game where there are only high-end players and nubes.. look at games that made that mistake and where they are today... So if you role play and slip into character playing the game in a specific way will give you everything you want and more.. elite gives you a place where you can use your imagination.. I agree, user friendly processes and better game mechanics can take away so many problems, but it's a wander full experiance.

And this is how people of "the golden billion" will make money for remaining corpos on earth.
It's easier to make a huge or a bunch smaller space stations, wait for the nukes to do the job and then come back down than to fck around with potatoes on Mars.

The 'Method' is that there is no method, just do what you enjoy to do in the game.

every 3 months II trade down all my grade 4 Raw mats and go for a weekend visits to the Crystal Spires and Brain Tree Selenium planet, and then I'm done for another 3 months

Do not think about it as a grind. Just play the game. No need to farm. Do the things you enjoy; get good; practise; don’t get frustrated (it’s a game to escape life). And don’t worry about keeping up with the Jones- just get there when you get there rather than having the best ship/ suit/ weapons asap.

Nope I am one of the people who give up on the game after a while. Then maybe once in a while I will play it again. I quit the game a long time ago, over a year. Then came back for a month or two, now am out of it again. Just other games and life to deal with. Its a good game but seems the devs only care about the 5% who play the thargoid war garbage.

I use to farm mats this way until the whole process became too long. Now I go at it full throttle and get it over with. When it comes to the Odyssey process for engineering I just make due with whatever can be bought over the counter at stations.

I'm a grinder. I'll heavy grind raw and encoded mats.. manufactured mats are really difficult for me to grind. I hate the standard method.

To anybody needing manufactured materials... I AFK often. Contact me in-game, and bring something with a bunch of collectors. If you don't have cargo other than limpets, pirates will leave you alone. Minimal shields will do, once you get your ignore list all setup. You can scoop to your limits around my AFK rig.

Farming mats for a ship is not that frustrating for me. When i need to.. I have pinned systems where I farm high raw mats and others, then I exchange them for the lower ones, they can be filled very quickly. When it comes to odyssey mats.. thats big uff different story.