High Grade Emissions USS - Spawn Rates and G5 Material Provided?
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You can get to deep space area in any system as far as 100Ly from the main star as long as you avoid the orbital plane of the system bodies, just saying.. This way to avoid shipping lanes and also getting close to other bodies
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I have seen a few and gotten 5x3 imperial shielding from them.
Mainly see them when traveling to stations a good distance from the nav beacon
Not looking for them so cannot advise the rate but seem higher as I haven't been looking for them just stopping at the ones I see.
Imperial Faction in various states
Mainly see them when traveling to stations a good distance from the nav beacon
Not looking for them so cannot advise the rate but seem higher as I haven't been looking for them just stopping at the ones I see.
Imperial Faction in various states
So far, my sense is that the HGE rate has actually gone down rather than up, and that the mat drops in it has gone down, too. In the past I've had 5 Core Dynamic Comps/Imperial Shielding/Pharm. Isolators drop in one instance, but so far in 3.0 I've had 2-3 max, and some other less rare mats dropping. (i.e. 3 proprietary components, with 2 Core Dynamics components)
5 HGEs in an hour? I must be doing something wrong, because I don't think I've ever seen it that high...
5 HGEs in an hour? I must be doing something wrong, because I don't think I've ever seen it that high...
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Bob Lighthouse
Banned
Thanks for this info! Makes sense and is kind of what I expected, but I never bothered to check to see if a planet I was locked onto was inhabited or not. That is probably why it kept switching to Deep Space a good portion of the time. I will make a point to ID the planet conditions now.
Thanks again!
Your lower left hand front HUD should tell you if you are in a shipping lane, in deep space or in the sphere of influence of a body
Finding HGEs quite difficult to unearth, and this is perhaps the first time I've found the material 'grind' a bothersome RNG-ish chore.
Have been trying to find some Proto Light Alloys in boom independent systems for about three hours now. HGEs themselves are seldom found, with degraded emissions in large numbers - but the HGEs I have been lucky enough to find have blessed me with 72 Proto Heat Radiators, and not a single Proto Light Alloy. Am I doing something wrong, or simply unlucky?
Have been trying to find some Proto Light Alloys in boom independent systems for about three hours now. HGEs themselves are seldom found, with degraded emissions in large numbers - but the HGEs I have been lucky enough to find have blessed me with 72 Proto Heat Radiators, and not a single Proto Light Alloy. Am I doing something wrong, or simply unlucky?
Yes let me add, before where I would find 5 CDCs in one,now it's 1 or 2 and then 3 or 4 of the grade below. Propitiatory Composites, or whatever.. You think it's to encourage trading?
So maybe yes to spawns, but each spawn has less of what you want. Sounds like a balance FD would be in favour of.
I think I can somewhat confirm what FDEV was saying about these being more likely to spawn when you are in a Shipping Lane. I have been taking the advice given earlier on traveling from say an Outpost or Starport directly to an inhabited/landable planet and vice versa and the HGE USS do appear to pop up more often than if you are in Deep Space.
Maybe give that a try and see if your luck improves. Since my last post I have nearly topped off my supply of PIs, but I stumbled on a system in Outbreak that has a planet with a good supply of Polonium, so I have been out with my SRV grabbing as much of that as I can get my hands on!
Bob Lighthouse
Banned
I think many people fly too fast.
I only fly at ~5-10c, and usually have no trouble finding USSs.
If I hit a lull, I throttle up for a couple seconds and slow back down, and usually get a USS shortly afterwards.
I only fly at ~5-10c, and usually have no trouble finding USSs.
If I hit a lull, I throttle up for a couple seconds and slow back down, and usually get a USS shortly afterwards.
I think I can somewhat confirm what FDEV was saying about these being more likely to spawn when you are in a Shipping Lane. I have been taking the advice given earlier on traveling from say an Outpost or Starport directly to an inhabited/landable planet and vice versa and the HGE USS do appear to pop up more often than if you are in Deep Space.
Maybe give that a try and see if your luck improves. Since my last post I have nearly topped off my supply of PIs, but I stumbled on a system in Outbreak that has a planet with a good supply of Polonium, so I have been out with my SRV grabbing as much of that as I can get my hands on!
2 hours of it for 1 HGE........
I think I can somewhat confirm what FDEV was saying about these being more likely to spawn when you are in a Shipping Lane. I have been taking the advice given earlier on traveling from say an Outpost or Starport directly to an inhabited/landable planet and vice versa and the HGE USS do appear to pop up more often than if you are in Deep Space.
Maybe give that a try and see if your luck improves. Since my last post I have nearly topped off my supply of PIs, but I stumbled on a system in Outbreak that has a planet with a good supply of Polonium, so I have been out with my SRV grabbing as much of that as I can get my hands on!
Ahh, thank you! I had missed that memo, and have been deliberately avoiding shipping lanes, and hunting strictly in deep space. Will give this a go - thanks again, and good luck out there!
For what it's worth Deciat was spawning HGEs in the shipping lane like there was no tomorrow just after 3.0 dropped. It was in War status at the time and if still is, it might be worth a wander over.
Thanks! And Sure! No problem.
I would like to thank all those in here supplying some the great input on this subject today!
I definitely learned a few things about the game I never knew, like how to stay in a Shipping Lane in SC! Three years of playing and I never knew how that worked until today. lol!One other thing I wanted to mention... If the system you are hunting in seems to be consistently bad/low yield, find another system with the same state. I've been through 5 systems in Outbreak today and they were all different in terms of their overall USS spawn rates.
This last system I am in called "NITIKUDI" has been the best for me so far. The HGEs that spawned here almost always were Pharm. Isolators and there were usually 5 of them per drop point. I'm less than a dozen away from the 100 cap now.
I've shifted my attention to some G5 Raw Mats that I need and this same system has been providing several of them in decent quantity.
If you are in Imperial Space near Aisling Duval's Home system of Cubeo check it out!
Just under 68Ly away.
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Bob Lighthouse
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I'm playing right now and just found one in a shipping lane.
You lucky guy. 5 High grade emissions in just ONE hour?
You really should feel happy about that, usual average is 1 HGE per hour here....
Just my small tip:
Try state specific mats in independent controled systems but be prepared for a looooong time in SC until one HGE spawns
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