Newb Question: Upgrading my ship

[Obelus]

When I go to the station outfitting store is there a way to compare a new weapon or other piece of equipment in the store to one I already have on my ship? I dont see a compare button

[Hootman]

I don't remember the exact places on each piece of equipment, but yes, if you look as you are adding it it will show differences, things like increased power useage, fire rates, damage, etc. You just need to look closer.

Another way is to use either EDSY or CORIOLIS and either import your own ships or just create / pick a couple of the pre-set ships, and compare the differences as you change a weapon. You can have 2 browser sessions open to compare. So open a browser window with a ship in either utility, set the ship with the weapon you have, and right click and "duplicate tab" so that you have the same aircraft in both tabs, and change the weapon in the second one and look at it.

Easy way is to go to this site, pick one of the "default" loads (your ship), and it will show what it comes with as if you had bought it new. Then adjust it to show the weapon you have, duplicate the tab as I mentioned, and pick the new weapon and compare the two.

EDSY link [edsy.org]

(note: in EDSY, at the bottom, you will see all the overall stats. So as you change the weapon, look at the bottom, in the WPN section, it will show stats, and you can hover over each stat and it will explain what it means)

[Obelus]

Thanks! So if I understand you the game doesn't actually provide a comparison in-game between what you have on your ship and what you are considering buying to replace it?

[Seth_Haveron]

unless you are a goldfish with CRS you can compare your currently installed weapons with those offered.

[DJ]

No, it does. You simply press replace and as you shop 'n' hover over any of the modules available to you, all the key in-game ship specs change along the bottom edge of your screen ie jump ranges, speeds, yaw tightness, DPS, armour. Four tabs of stats to view... blue is better, and red is a worse stat than your current module, as you tab through. Same in-game principle when you come to engineer a module before you commit.

(But as said above, EDSY is a good tool, and faster, to plan final-build purchases with.)

[Hootman]

Originally posted by Obelus:

Thanks! So if I understand you the game doesn't actually provide a comparison in-game between what you have on your ship and what you are considering buying to replace it?

You did not understand correctly. What I said was I don't remember what each screen looks like, there are different ways. For instance, when you are engineering your aircraft, at the bottom it shows different things like the difference in jump range when upgrading the Frame Shift Drive and other components, and it sort of does the same with buying new weapons and modules. I will show you the difference between what you have and what you are buying, usually highlited in RED if something is degrading or "lessening" what you already have. But you have to look and think about it, because often you will get red negative effects (like increased power usage, greater mass, etc.) but gain increased range, firepower, etc.. So there is usually a tradeoff when upgrading.

But yes, just look around the screens in game when you are doing those things, in different ways it explains the differences if you equip / replace a module / weapon.

[Obelus]

So I figured it out. There are two ways when outfitting to view the weapons available to buy. The most obvious one is to click on the "buy and store modules" button on the outfitting screen. This does not offer you a comparison view (but it should). The other is to instead click on the module installed on your ship which then gives you the option to replace and then from there you can see a comparison. Anyway thanks for the help.

[Hootman]

Originally posted by Obelus:

So I figured it out. There are two ways when outfitting to view the weapons available to buy. The most obvious one is to click on the "buy and store modules" button on the outfitting screen. This does not offer you a comparison view (but it should). The other is to instead click on the module installed on your ship which then gives you the option to replace and then from there you can see a comparison. Anyway thanks for the help.

Glad you found it.

You will find other ways, like mentioned before.

Also remember once you start engineering your ship (you'll want to engineer the FSD pretty soon and first at Felicity Farseer), to look at the bottom of the screen when upgrading things like the FSD. There you will see the benefits and takeaways fo the various engieering choices. It's also wise to google that so you can see what the recommended engineering choices are.

In addition to that, if you create a profile on INARA, and link your character / API key, it will track your engineering materials. You can create "wish lists" of blueprints to upgrade your weapons and modules, and INARA will track your materials needed and tell you if you have enough materials, and show exactly what and how many materials you are short for each engineering upgrade. That way you don't waste time going to an engineer only to find out you don't have everything you need to upgrade.

[Gimpyknee]

So I'm headed to Felicity's place, still 120ly away, mapping systems along the way, but I need to find some meta-allloys. I think I had one or two before, after finding a non-human signal source and pillaging a 'goid probe, but being new, I sold them.

Keep looking for another nhss, or detour into the Thargoid systems under (galatically) Felicity?

[Reggit]

Originally posted by Gimpyknee:

...but I need to find some meta-allloys. I think I had one or two before, after finding a non-human signal source and pillaging a 'goid probe, but being new, I sold them...

These days - you can just buy them if you like!

https://inara.cz/elite/commodities/?pi1=1&pa1%5B%5D=101&ps1=Sol&pi10=3&pi11=0&pi3=3&pi9=2000&pi4=0&pi5=24&pi12=0&pi7=0&pi8=0

[Hootman]

Originally posted by Reggit:

Originally posted by Gimpyknee:

...but I need to find some meta-allloys. I think I had one or two before, after finding a non-human signal source and pillaging a 'goid probe, but being new, I sold them...

These days - you can just buy them if you like!

https://inara.cz/elite/commodities/?pi1=1&pa1%5B%5D=101&ps1=Sol&pi10=3&pi11=0&pi3=3&pi9=2000&pi4=0&pi5=24&pi12=0&pi7=0&pi8=0

^ This. There is often a CMDR Fleet Carrioer parked near there selling Meta Alloys for just this purpose. Right now I see 5 Fleet carriers there even advertising Meta-Alloys

Fleet Carriers at Deciat [inara.cz]

Search Meta Alloys in Deciat system

NOTE: MAKE SURE YOU GO THERE IN SOLO MODE. OFTEN THERE ARE GRIEFERS AROUND LOOKING FOR NEWBS GOING TO FELICITY