Anyone had any luck with those lately?
Thank you!
Thank you!
Engineers Datamined Wake Exceptions
- Thread starter DCLXVI your God
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Pick a fast ship with a A-rated wake scanner, head to the nearest system in 'Famine' state and look for Distribution Centre POI (be careful as sometimes there is none in a famine system, just pick another).
Scan the sidewinder wakes, you'll probably get more wakes than you have the time to scan before they disappear. DWE are rare but you will get them this way.
Scan the sidewinder wakes, you'll probably get more wakes than you have the time to scan before they disappear. DWE are rare but you will get them this way.
Got some from a beacon in an encoded emission source the other day.
Thanks!
I farmed some last week, went to a CG and just sat around in open for about 25 mins. in that time i ended up with with 13, had 1 when i started tho. Also farmed 15 Arsenic from a planet in around 30-45 minutes a bit earlier that day. It made me wonder if the drop rates have been increased in 2.2 as this was the first time i had ever gotten so many drops while farming. Also i had not logged in since 2.2 was in early beta and drop rates seemed a lot more sucky then.
USS - Convoy dispersal, Threat lvl 4. These have big naval ships Anacondas, T9's when you arrive all flying off in formation. Hang around for a bit and they leave one by one. Scan their wakes. I only wanted a few Data Mined Wake Exceptions, and I got them quickly doing this.
First time I found it, I was irritated as I was looking for a gun fight. I waited around to see if it kicked off. Didn't. Anaconda branched off, thought he was going to attack but instead he jumped. I had a wake scanner so thought I'd have a little look. BANG. DWE. Thank you very much. Stuck around, didn't get any more, but the next time I found this USS I got the same.
Might be fluke. But might not.
07 CMDR.
First time I found it, I was irritated as I was looking for a gun fight. I waited around to see if it kicked off. Didn't. Anaconda branched off, thought he was going to attack but instead he jumped. I had a wake scanner so thought I'd have a little look. BANG. DWE. Thank you very much. Stuck around, didn't get any more, but the next time I found this USS I got the same.
Might be fluke. But might not.
07 CMDR.
You can get data in SuperCruise too. Be sure to target/scan ships while you are flying around in systems because often times they will yield similar data to scans in normal space. The same rules apply as to which ship types are more likely to provide specific wake data. I don't believe you need to have the wake scanner installed to get this wake data while in Super Cruise. You will be using the same scanner you use on Unexplored planets and stars.
I found the Beluga Liner to be the best source for these Data Mined Wake Exceptions, and a good half of what I delivered to the Engineer Base came from scans in SC.
I found the Beluga Liner to be the best source for these Data Mined Wake Exceptions, and a good half of what I delivered to the Engineer Base came from scans in SC.
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Got a bunch in about 10m here earlier today:
Utar System Planet A6 Distribution Centre
Utar System Planet A6 Distribution Centre
The single most efficient method.
I don't think you get data mined wake exceptions from scanning ships. Only wakes. Unless you're saying scan wakes in SC?
I never really bothered trying that. I found the above approach so good I only needed to do it once and I've still got plenty left.
Distribution centres are BY FAR the most efficient way to get bulk scans... there's generally about 6 sidewinders jumping out ever minute or two so you get never ending supply of consistent wakes to scan.... took me no more than 10m to get a bunch this afternoon
Yeah this, they are easy to get.
Anyone had any luck with those lately?
Thank you!
Find a system in Famine state - use:
https://eddb.io/system
to find the closest one.
Jump into the system and in the left hand menu look for Distribution Point in the Location list. If its not there go to the Nav Beacon and scan it - target the white cube on your scanner. Once scanned re-examine the Location list and target the distribution point and jump into SC to get there.
When you get to the distribution point you will find 2 rows of Nav Beacons with a couple of T9s at one end - and Sidewinders more or less constantly jumping in and then jumping out. You will be able to find a position for your ship that enables you to stay still and scan wakes more-or-less constantly. You will find more EHTs and DWEs in an hour than you know what to do with.
And there you have it - dead easy.
It's all RNG. I've had 9 in 15 minutes too; however last time I needed some (this weekend) I sat outside a station scanning wakes for about half an hour before I got any. That's what iritates me abnout these, not specifically how rare they are (although they are by far the engineering ingredient that takes the longest to get on average for me, with only the exception of exquisite focus crystals and they seem to be pretty much non-existent since 2.2) but the fact that the only way to collect them is literally to sit around doing nothing outside a station because you hardly ever see a wake at close enough range to scan it unless you're just waiting for them. It's anti-gameplay.
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Tried that along with every other source of concentrated wakes in the game. As I said it is all RNG. It's the same reason that I've picked up 15+ chemical manipulators inside 15 minutes yet the forums have loads of posts from people who are doing exactly the same thing and don't get any. Knowing where to go to maximise your chances is helpful for sure, but it's still chance not a certainty.
It would be nice if there were a little more detail to these. Pharmaceutical Isolators at least make some sense appearing in outbreak systems. Datamined Wake Exceptions seem like something that should be more frequent on illegally modified ships, so it would be more common from wakes generated by ships operating in low security or anarchy systems. But it's not, or doesn't seem to be. It feels like pure luck, doing an activity that isn't at all fun. At least I enjoy surface prospecting, it's possible to boost-hop an SRV up to hundreds of meters per second laterally if the conditions are right, which is both an interesting fun thing to do and covers ground quite a bit more quickly.
Meanwhile, there doesn't seem to be anything I can do to make Datamined Wake Exceptions more likely to appear, besides going to a distribution center for the sake of pure volume. Before that, I used to scan wakes around Jameson in open just for the sake of variety. Some of the comments I got were hilarious (like someone in a Cutter thought a weaponless Courier obviously scanning wakes was picking a fight with them... what even).
Inventory with regards to data is a bit of a hassle. We can choose not to pick up physical materials in the world space, which is fine, but we can't refuse to collect data. What I'd like to see is all data gives messages in the upper left panel similar to the way it does getting data from bases and scanning satellites, except we get the [X] [V] prompt like with mission offers and passenger demands. Then we can just accept the data we want and refuse the data we don't before it commits to our material storage.
I've found the best method is to always stock some collector limpets so you are always in a position to quickly grab stuff you find out there, even when doing totally unrelated activities in the game.
As for data... It never hurts to target all the ships you encounter in SuperCruise because they will often yield useable data that Engineers use.
As for data... It never hurts to target all the ships you encounter in SuperCruise because they will often yield useable data that Engineers use.
I've found the best method is to always stock some collector limpets so you are always in a position to quickly grab stuff you find out there, even when doing totally unrelated activities in the game.
As for data... It never hurts to target all the ships you encounter in SuperCruise because they will often yield useable data that Engineers use.
Aye I do that but it won't help with datamined wake exceptions.