Yes, it's not necessarily an exciting skill. It's like how most of hunting is just sitting at the right spot and waiting for the prey to arrive. Then there's fishing, talk about waiting for spawn.
Engineers Datamined Wake Exceptions 2.2 As of 11/14/2016
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Yes, it's not necessarily an exciting skill. It's like how most of hunting is just sitting at the right spot and waiting for the prey to arrive. Then there's fishing, talk about waiting for spawn.
Yes, it's not necessarily an exciting skill. It's like how most of hunting is just sitting at the right spot and waiting for the prey to arrive. Then there's fishing, talk about waiting for spawn.
ty for this, never thought about it from that perspective ... made me smile, and you are probably not wrong. i don't go hunting or fishing in RL, but if people complain about barren surfaces in ED, i have to remind myself that i personally enjoy mountaineering (my hobby next to ED and squash), and really enjoy looking at barren surfaces in RL as well as in ED. also, i don't mind waiting for spawns that much in a RES for exampel, i fly around and watch asteroiuds tumbling ... but waiting for a HGE to spwn some 2000 ls into the system ... bah!
Alright guys. I finally was able to find 2 (for a total of 6).
After 3 hours over two days of flying around in front of Jameson in an 825 M/S iEagle with a Wake Scanner, and scanning about 100+ wakes, the Datamined Wake Exceptions finally came in the last 5 scans.
Then I left to go mod my Vulture's FSD (it's over 20 LY now) and on the way dropped into an Encoded Emissions USS that had a Private Data Beacon and guess what; Datamined Wake Exceptions.
The RNG Troll strikes again...
After 3 hours over two days of flying around in front of Jameson in an 825 M/S iEagle with a Wake Scanner, and scanning about 100+ wakes, the Datamined Wake Exceptions finally came in the last 5 scans.
Then I left to go mod my Vulture's FSD (it's over 20 LY now) and on the way dropped into an Encoded Emissions USS that had a Private Data Beacon and guess what; Datamined Wake Exceptions.
The RNG Troll strikes again...
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if it would be gameplay, that would make an amazing story :-/
Ask yourself again as to how skill is a factor in "constantly finding what they want"? You'll find that in almost every example a player stumbled across the find initially then reported it to others on sites like this.
The only real skill required in RNGineers is knowing which website to go to to read where your material/data/commodity is located! Yeah, great in-game skills right there...
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Something is definitely going on with materials spawning behavior. I am finding a similar reduction to common materials like Arsenic on planet surfaces. Even when it is listed as 2.5% or higher on planet stats, over the course of a prospecting session I end up with far more rarer mats than Arsenic. My last attempt concluded with 18 units of Arsenic and 35 units of Niobium even though the Niobium on that planet was listed as 1.2% as opposed to its Arsenic content of 2.7%.
For me one thing that I do not understand is the items that are scoop-able after you kill a NPC. They are ALWAYS the same worthless materials. It would really add to the game play if they included rare or very rare items as a possibility even if it were RNG. Same with the USS'es.....they are so predictable that I don't bother with them any more......those are 2 areas that come to mind that would really mix it up for game play...
I completely agree with this. If NPCs dropped an arsenic or yttrium on occasion it would only add to the game.
I hear ya! I do occasionally find some rare materials in the debris from ships I destroy, but most of the time it does tend to be the same worthless stuff over and over again.
Adding more variety to this mechanic and even including some planet surface oriented mats as suggested above would be an improvement to what we have now. It seems that no matter which way you turn in this game you are greeted with some type of time sucky/monotonous GRIND standing between you and accomplishing whatever goal you have set out for yourself.
Yup. That method is the fastest bar none.
Datamined are the easiest rare items to get (well, excluding the fact that I got imperial shielding, core dynamics and pharmaceutical isolators all within less than 5 minutes searching each)
Knowing the tricks is 99% of the difficulty for most mats.
Ask yourself again as to how skill is a factor in "constantly finding what they want"? You'll find that in almost every example a player stumbled across the find initially then reported it to others on sites like this.
The only real skill required in RNGineers is knowing which website to go to to read where your material/data/commodity is located! Yeah, great in-game skills right there...
Reading is a skill.
Like reading the blueprints which tell you where to find stuff. Or reading the material descriptions. The organisation of that information (like most of the info in E:D) leaves a lot to be desired, but it's there.
Rep for the avatar. 'You think your hair is ridiculous Mollari..?'
Edit: Damn you changed it. Now everybody is going to think I've gone mad.
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Rep for the avatar. 'You think your hair is ridiculous Mollari..?'
Edit: Damn you changed it. Now everybody is going to think I've gone mad.
Hair you go:
