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TLDR: Scan ships leaving an orbiting station for Datamined Wake Exceptions after maximizing the Random Number Generator programming for the quantity of ships departing the station.
OBJECTIVE: Start a thread with my experience but adding many more positive experiences from other players so when a player does a search for finding DWEs they might be lucky enough to find this one with all the correct answers. Imagine that.
The old way...Go to Famine systems searching until finding a Distribution Centre in the Navigation panel. Using a Frame Shift Wake Scanner scan lots of Sidewinders and their wakes picking up supplies from transports then high waking out. High wakes collect DWEs. Depending upon the RNG a player could collect about 30 per 1-2 hours.
The problem...There are no Famine systems with the early 2019 updates. OH, EDDB found three but two are permanently locked and the third doesn't always have a Distribution Centre which always guaranteed lots of departing ships to scan their wakes for DWEs.. They have not changed in months. It seems the galaxy is currently well fed! Add in every system faction has their own state versus the previous system global state version of the past and if Frontier was a casino in Las Vegas they totally upgraded the percentages for the "house" versus the player to always win! Players looking for HGEs know this but other posts worked that issue. Let's see what we can do about DMEs.
A new way (for some)...Pick a system say High-Tech with a large population and in a positive state. I'm currently doing a High-Tech Investment with 1.2 million population in a Pleiades Sector Thargoid space no less allied with all local factions so finding a better system doesn't seem to matter.
Align directly with an orbiting station mail slot parking 6.00KM away. Scan all departing ships and their wakes. Use an A-rated G5 long range engineered scanner and you'll have a 8.80KM scan range if you can afford the 4.80MW power draw. The good news is 95 percent of the scans never require having to move the ship to get in range of a high wake. I never bother with the remaining 5 percent. Just rotate the ship and scan...Try not to go to sleep. Watch a good movie or maybe talk to your better half.
NOTE: Players who partake in adult beverages (or other chemistry) will find it relaxing unless they go too far and accidentally switch to a weapons fire group then go for a "scan". Just trying to cover all player styles.
So what is the catch? First up Solo mode. Hollow squares or triangles in Open mode won't be around to help a player out obtaining DMEs. Get that orbiting station to have LOTS of NPC ships docked at it. If allied with the controlling faction there will be green squares on the radar screen. Look for lots of yellow squares at the station for those NPCs. Not too many? It is RNG update time. Leave low waking to Supercruise then come back. Lots of yellow squares then you're set. Playing with this over several systems I could get back to collecting about 30 DMEs per 1-2 hours. Maybe menu logout/login would also work but I didn't test it enough to see if the RNG changes. Another in-game solution is leaving a station after using the station services can also work. The point is to reset the RNG maxing out departing ships.
Another way....Go to the Jameson crash site at HIP 12099 1B using an SRV scanning/collecting 100 Adaptive Encryptors Capture (menu logout/login required) then trading them in for 16 Datamined Wake Exceptions at a close encoded trader say Ray Gateway in Diaguandri (93LY away). Then rinse and repeat. A high jump Asp Explorer (unlocked that Guardian FSD Booster yet? It is the easiest Guardian toy to get.) makes this very fast and convenient AFTER a new player goes through the trial and errors to get proficient at this. You don't think that the Frontier Devs would just let you stroll away with all the AECs? Hint. Park the SRV in one place.
The immersion part of ED is a lot of fun but it is also just a computer/console game based on programming skills which still loves C++ programmers. Knowing how RNG works can assist a player looking for materials. Going to the Jameson crash site, collecting 4 AECs then leaving is pretty pointless when there is a game solution. Resetting a prospecting SRV zooming across a planet when nothing is showing up on the scanner then getting signals is just part of how the game was designed. A player SRV can go back the the ship, lift off and try another part of the planet. A player SRV can menu logout/login and get better results. It's a game! You decide.
Still playing so many of the Elite games over the years starting with a Commodore-64 flying in a "wing" with another player on a telephone taking out Thargoids used imagination. The best immersion was always in my head versus expecting the latest greatest ED to provide it for me. Taking that path and ED is just a tool to assist in playing with your imagination.Then ED becomes the best game ever and "grinding" often goes away. Pretty deep huh?
Regards to All
TLDR: Scan ships leaving an orbiting station for Datamined Wake Exceptions after maximizing the Random Number Generator programming for the quantity of ships departing the station.
OBJECTIVE: Start a thread with my experience but adding many more positive experiences from other players so when a player does a search for finding DWEs they might be lucky enough to find this one with all the correct answers. Imagine that.
The old way...Go to Famine systems searching until finding a Distribution Centre in the Navigation panel. Using a Frame Shift Wake Scanner scan lots of Sidewinders and their wakes picking up supplies from transports then high waking out. High wakes collect DWEs. Depending upon the RNG a player could collect about 30 per 1-2 hours.
The problem...There are no Famine systems with the early 2019 updates. OH, EDDB found three but two are permanently locked and the third doesn't always have a Distribution Centre which always guaranteed lots of departing ships to scan their wakes for DWEs.. They have not changed in months. It seems the galaxy is currently well fed! Add in every system faction has their own state versus the previous system global state version of the past and if Frontier was a casino in Las Vegas they totally upgraded the percentages for the "house" versus the player to always win! Players looking for HGEs know this but other posts worked that issue. Let's see what we can do about DMEs.
A new way (for some)...Pick a system say High-Tech with a large population and in a positive state. I'm currently doing a High-Tech Investment with 1.2 million population in a Pleiades Sector Thargoid space no less allied with all local factions so finding a better system doesn't seem to matter.
Align directly with an orbiting station mail slot parking 6.00KM away. Scan all departing ships and their wakes. Use an A-rated G5 long range engineered scanner and you'll have a 8.80KM scan range if you can afford the 4.80MW power draw. The good news is 95 percent of the scans never require having to move the ship to get in range of a high wake. I never bother with the remaining 5 percent. Just rotate the ship and scan...Try not to go to sleep. Watch a good movie or maybe talk to your better half.
NOTE: Players who partake in adult beverages (or other chemistry) will find it relaxing unless they go too far and accidentally switch to a weapons fire group then go for a "scan". Just trying to cover all player styles.
So what is the catch? First up Solo mode. Hollow squares or triangles in Open mode won't be around to help a player out obtaining DMEs. Get that orbiting station to have LOTS of NPC ships docked at it. If allied with the controlling faction there will be green squares on the radar screen. Look for lots of yellow squares at the station for those NPCs. Not too many? It is RNG update time. Leave low waking to Supercruise then come back. Lots of yellow squares then you're set. Playing with this over several systems I could get back to collecting about 30 DMEs per 1-2 hours. Maybe menu logout/login would also work but I didn't test it enough to see if the RNG changes. Another in-game solution is leaving a station after using the station services can also work. The point is to reset the RNG maxing out departing ships.
Another way....Go to the Jameson crash site at HIP 12099 1B using an SRV scanning/collecting 100 Adaptive Encryptors Capture (menu logout/login required) then trading them in for 16 Datamined Wake Exceptions at a close encoded trader say Ray Gateway in Diaguandri (93LY away). Then rinse and repeat. A high jump Asp Explorer (unlocked that Guardian FSD Booster yet? It is the easiest Guardian toy to get.) makes this very fast and convenient AFTER a new player goes through the trial and errors to get proficient at this. You don't think that the Frontier Devs would just let you stroll away with all the AECs? Hint. Park the SRV in one place.
The immersion part of ED is a lot of fun but it is also just a computer/console game based on programming skills which still loves C++ programmers. Knowing how RNG works can assist a player looking for materials. Going to the Jameson crash site, collecting 4 AECs then leaving is pretty pointless when there is a game solution. Resetting a prospecting SRV zooming across a planet when nothing is showing up on the scanner then getting signals is just part of how the game was designed. A player SRV can go back the the ship, lift off and try another part of the planet. A player SRV can menu logout/login and get better results. It's a game! You decide.
Still playing so many of the Elite games over the years starting with a Commodore-64 flying in a "wing" with another player on a telephone taking out Thargoids used imagination. The best immersion was always in my head versus expecting the latest greatest ED to provide it for me. Taking that path and ED is just a tool to assist in playing with your imagination.Then ED becomes the best game ever and "grinding" often goes away. Pretty deep huh?
Regards to All
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