Need Meta-Alloys near Deciat

[majiklesquii]

Sooooo.. I went to Farseer Inc. forgetting to check what her requirement was and when i finally got there after 400ly from Maia I realised I hadn't gotten any Meta-Alloys. Please can someone drop me some if youre around I'm desperate not to travel another 800ly

[JP_Russell]

I don't think anybody is going to have any meta-alloys just sitting around. You'll just have to go back and buy one from Darnielle's Progress.

[Turd Ferguson]

...or get some from the barnacles.

[majiklesquii]

Originally posted by JP_Russell:

I don't think anybody is going to have any meta-alloys just sitting around. You'll just have to go back and buy one from Darnielle's Progress.

But 800ly... Just to grab a couple of materials...

[majiklesquii]

Originally posted by Turd Ferguson:

...or get some from the barnacles.

How do I tell where barnacles are though?

[Turd Ferguson]

Originally posted by magiclessquibbles:

Originally posted by Turd Ferguson:

...or get some from the barnacles.

How do I tell where barnacles are though?

well Google for one. There's also tons of Galnet articles about them.

They're in goid space.....there's a bunch near the Pleiades - Merope is very popular. Some out in the California Nebula and Orion Nebula.

The whole point of getting meta alloys is Farseer is an explorer. You have to prove that you've been exploring (or at least out of the bubble) to get her favor. She also accepts exploration data to rank up. She won't even send you an invite until you've traveled 500 LY.

They're also very expensive to buy - about 100k each. However you can harvest them for free (and sell the leftovers for about 80k each).

[JP_Russell]

Personally, I would just buy them, 100K is chump change and worth the added simplicity in an already annoying task, IMO.

Originally posted by Turd Ferguson:

She won't even send you an invite until you've traveled 500 LY.

That's Martuuk, and it's 300LY. Farseer just requires you to reach Scout rank in exploration.

[Turd Ferguson]

Originally posted by JP_Russell:

Personally, I would just buy them, 100K is chump change and worth the added simplicity in an already annoying task, IMO.

Originally posted by Turd Ferguson:

She won't even send you an invite until you've traveled 500 LY.

That's Martuuk, and it's 300LY. Farseer just requires you to reach Scout rank in exploration.

ah! yes I stand corrected. you need to gain some explorer rank...cause she's an explrer.

When Darnielle's Progress was set up, it was because the barnacles were bugged and people couldn't get meta alloys lilke intended - and there was a player group that would deliberately go around and "kill" all the barnacles (put them into a bugged state) so that nobody could get meta alloys. FD responded by creating a market where you could buy them (cause the alternative was you know....fix a bug). The barnacle bug is long-since fixed but Darnielle's Prrogress is still producing generations of lazy players who have never seen an actual barnacle...and have no idea how useful they are, which was the whole point of requiring meta alloys in the first place.

In general, unlocking engineers requires a player to go do something that was a thing in the game in 2.1 when they came out to get players to go try something they might not have tried. I actually discovered a whole ton of gameplay I wasn't aware of unlocking them.

[Holy Locket Enjoyer]

Nice