New Super Walmart (Like Arai's Mine) to Farm On Foot Engineering Materials

When CMDRs have been directed to settlements like Arai's Mine they frequently state that the new settlement is "not as good". To me, the apparent difference means little, the new settlements identified are just as good even if the mats gain is reduced. The better settlements to loot are in the off line ones, even if the mats gathered is reduced.

There are lots of settlements like Arai's Mine, but CMDRs do not want the notoriety.

Steve
 
When CMDRs have been directed to settlements like Arai's Mine they frequently state that the new settlement is "not as good". To me, the apparent difference means little, the new settlements identified are just as good even if the mats gain is reduced. The better settlements to loot are in the off line ones, even if the mats gathered is reduced.

There are lots of settlements like Arai's Mine, but CMDRs do not want the notoriety.

Steve
The material gain should be just as good in this one. Arai's Mine is no longer usable as it's no longer an Anarchy settlement, this one is Anarchy so no bounties here.
 
Thanks for posting this. Unfortunately, it will probably be ruined within a few weeks to a month now that it's publicly known.
I doubt it. Arai's Mine was around for a LONG time and it only became unusable because another faction took over the settlement and the new faction isn't an Anarchy faction. FDEV have no issues with these or they would have done something about Arai's Mine.

The only way I see it becoming ruined is if this settlement gets taken over the same way Arai's Mine did.

CMDRs can stop that from happening by fighting for the 'Ti Wanjang Drug Empire' if the settlement ever has a war. As long as the faction keeps winning any wars they are in there is no way they can lose the settlement.
 
I know FDev won't ruin it. I expect more players to fight against the 'Ti Wanjang Drug Empire', than to fight for them. That seems to be what happens every time a "Super Walmart" is announced. Some people work very hard to ruin things for others.

I hope this isn't the case for this system, but history shows it probably will be.
 
I doubt it. Arai's Mine was around for a LONG time and it only became unusable because another faction took over the settlement and the new faction isn't an Anarchy faction. FDEV have no issues with these or they would have done something about Arai's Mine.

The only way I see it becoming ruined is if this settlement gets taken over the same way Arai's Mine did.

CMDRs can stop that from happening by fighting for the 'Ti Wanjang Drug Empire' if the settlement ever has a war. As long as the faction keeps winning any wars they are in there is no way they can lose the settlement.
That's not completely true. If there is a war the settlement will be won or lost depending on how many combat zones were won by each side (at the specific settlement), no matter who wins the war.
 
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The last time a system was set up controlled by an anarchy and dozens of settlements, it was trashed pretty quickly with control and some of the good settlements lost.

It appears to be currently bust, so reactivation missions are a possibility now.

Steve
 
And .......
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Reactivations are everywhere and the loot there is free and legal. 🤷‍♂️ And not all settlements are equal, some are better for certain stuff than others so it's better to get some variety than to stick to one brand of supermarket.
 
I set up 60 anarchy settlements around Dainayiman, Raidenwitha, Heryshaf and Xiancheim about 2 years ago. Try those if you just want to loot and shoot.
 
And I just realised this is Ti Wanjang.

You might find the system map in the second post in this thread from back at the start of 2022 familiar.

So, uh. Yeah. You're welcome for the presence of an anarchy farm there :D
 
That's not completely true. If there is a war the settlement will be won or lost depending on how many combat zones were won by each side (at the specific settlement), no matter who wins the war.
Ah really… I just saw something to that effect (settlement transfer with a war loss) somewhere else and was wondering how it worked. Thanks!!
 
The good old Aria's Mine days. You just need to use Inara and search for anarchy systems and economies like - Industrial / Refinery then poke around. There is almost always a Super Walmart waiting for you to discover.
This is the thing about all these youtube guides that always bothers me.

They'll point people at a specific station / system that the poster has found, which will then get overfished to death or states or ownership will change, then the threads come of people complaining I FOLLOWED GUIDE AND I GET BOUNTIES, DID FDEV NERF?????

Meanwhile guides on how to do your own work and find farming sites for yourself get buried. There are dozens of arai's-like settlements in anarchy scattered around the bubble and if you have, like, any patience at all (which most people who blindly follow youtube guides don't, to be fair) it's pretty trivial to flip them in low-traffic systems even if they aren't anarchy.

Arai's mine isn't even the best extraction layout for farming data ports!
 
This is the thing about all these youtube guides that always bothers me.

They'll point people at a specific station / system that the poster has found, which will then get overfished to death or states or ownership will change, then the threads come of people complaining I FOLLOWED GUIDE AND I GET BOUNTIES, DID FDEV NERF?????

Just wait until the whole bubble is in flames and every get rich quick guide is invalidated. Looking forward to that one. Of course, new guides will immediately spring up within 24 hours

"give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
 
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