Yeah. But you have to do jobs for them too which is a grind if I understand correctly.
Yes it is! Does it make a difference? Oh Hell YES!!
As an example lets look at FSD jump ranges.
stock jump / engineered
Vulture 8 ly / 20.5 ly
Asp Explorer 14 ly / 49.8 ly
FAS 8.3 ly / 23.7 ly
Chieftain 8 ?? ly / 26.7 ly
Python 8.6 ly / 24.9 ly
On one of the engineers I had to mine 10 tones of Panite to give to her and have a total of over 500 tones materials mined. Well, I sucked it up and did it made some money on all the other minerals I sold off. Oh, BTW on the way to deliver I got interdicted and killed! Rinse and repeat!
Asp Explorer is the ship I used most often to unlock the engineers due to its range.
Come join our group sometime as we bounty hunt. We make good money and can scoop materials as well.
Wingy
