I just popped into a system like this and sat there and scanned everything that was going in the direction I was facing. It didn't take very long. It was boring though! It's a small price to pay to get them.
Dataminded Wake Exceptions!!!!?????
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I just popped into a system like this and sat there and scanned everything that was going in the direction I was facing. It didn't take very long. It was boring though! It's a small price to pay to get them.
This still does not seem to be commonly known. The safest and fastet way to get these, along with aome other data is Rahu:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/336330-Unexpected-Emission-Data-Is-More-Than-Unexpected
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/336330-Unexpected-Emission-Data-Is-More-Than-Unexpected
Yep. Very boring ... but very quick. If I have to endure boring I'd like to to be over as soon as possible and Distribution Centers meet that requirement.
No, he's not doing anything wrong, and it's you being lucky
I once farmed that for an hour and a half outside of busy orbis station and the first DWE dropped around the 1h20m mark... I told myself that statistics should be on my side now and I will try a bit more, and lo and behold, 2 more dropped before the 1h30m mark. so 3 drops in total, resulting in 9 DWEs.That said, the above outbreak method is better.
PS: Like the OP mentioned when farming them you need keep an eye on your material storage and don't ignore "data storage full" message. If you miss it, all scans go to waste. But I had storage that fateful day ;-)
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This.
Don't always post a comment just to say "This", but while I am here, I am going to forewarn that they clearly took initiative to stop cheap farming of the T9s...they don't drop mats, so you can't grab yer chemical manipulators from 'em.
I mean, I didn't spend any time at all bringing chaos to distribution centers the other day...
Does anyone actually read this thread before posting to it? Here is the solution posted earlier. It always works.
Search for Famine systems in the Galaxy Map then go to them looking for a Distribution Centre in the Navigation panel. Not all systems will have one. Go to it and there will be lots of Sidewinders picking up supplies from transports then high waking out. They all depart in the same area of space so just park there, let them come to you and scan their wakes. There will be 3-4 ships about every 10-15 seconds. Scan a lot just like a normal station but with so many ships departing the process is sped up immensely. Thus one can get 30-40 Datamined Wake Exceptions in an hour. Regards.
Search for Famine systems in the Galaxy Map then go to them looking for a Distribution Centre in the Navigation panel. Not all systems will have one. Go to it and there will be lots of Sidewinders picking up supplies from transports then high waking out. They all depart in the same area of space so just park there, let them come to you and scan their wakes. There will be 3-4 ships about every 10-15 seconds. Scan a lot just like a normal station but with so many ships departing the process is sped up immensely. Thus one can get 30-40 Datamined Wake Exceptions in an hour. Regards.
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Tonight I'm dropping into encoded USS in a high security Fed system, mostly looking for chemical manipulators and compound shielding. Often the USS has a private data beacon. I have got several Datamined Wake Exceptions from these.
My top tip is not to grind for these but make it a habit of normal play.
How original.
If anyone carries a wake scanner on them during normal play, they're doing it wrong. They are literally the most redundant piece of equipment in the game.
And no they aren't something that just falls in your lap through missions. Fairly solid playing since 2.1 dropped, and not a single mission-given datamined wake exception.
Ah so if you want to collect them in normal play without farming, all you have to do is spend your time dropping into some USSs...
Oh, wait...
-_-
Could really do with them revisiting the whole bounty hunting mechanic and making wake scanners usable in the process.
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Shooting T9s with refugees in outbreak systems still seemed to work a while ago, the famine ones didn't drop anything. Actually, hold on... [runs back to make a supply of chemical manipulators, finds out that has enough from last time, sighs with relief]. OK you may continue blowing them up ;-)
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I'm pretty sure I saw them as a reward from the massacre missions in 17D so maybe that's changed. Can't check now.
I just did this, successfully meeting my Datamined Wake Exception target in about 40 minutes. (I needed about 20.)
I specifically went to Tolonese: there are Distribution Centres right now around the second star. It's a 18,000 ls journey, though. I used https://eddb.io/system to find a fairly high population (in case it mattered, though I don't know that it does) system close to me that was in Famine, so don't count on Tolonese as a good choice for anyone else. And of course, it won't be in Famine forever anyway!
We need a CG that involves us in something like this .... fetching cargo released by T-9s and taking it to a station close-by ... make it an outpost and only small ships can participate
Try pirating. Then you have a reason to wake scan ships.
I used a wake scanner at a trade CG, following CMDRs to whatever system they jumped to. It saved having to plot a route.
