Equip the surface probe launcher and an SRV. The raw materials are also easy to obtain, although it will take longer since you'll have to visit multiple locations. You'll have the necessary scans in ten minutes. Equip a wake scanner on a fast ship and hang out at a busy port or installation scanning high wake signals as NPCs jump out. The data are easy to collect, because they're all in the group that comes from wake scans. 5 Eccentric Hyperspace Trajectories (G4 data).

10 Atypical Disrupted Wake Echoes (G1 data).(You can bring less if you've already ranked up the blueprint with that engineer, because the lower tiers complete in fewer rolls.) So by my count, that's: If you're starting from zero rep with the engineer, bringing enough materials for five rolls per level is probably safe. Also pretty accessible, as all the materials are easy to get. Now to get to the OPs question, the Long Range FSD is indeed probably the most broadly useful engineering mod in the game, so it's a great one to start with.

I think most of the complaints come from newbies who relog-grind Dav's Hope and similar because Youtube told them to and they didn't know any better, and from obsessive completionists who insist on fully G5 engineering every ship. Ditto what was said above, for sensible play there's very little reason to grind for mats.

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