Military - War/Civil War HGEs - I was doing PP and found a LOT in Fed Control systems, dunno if it was connected to PP at all but certainly not seen them in the same ratio before at all. thought the RNG had been adjusted a while ago and this was the result but reading above, maybe not.
PIs - Do they drop from Deadly Condas, I heard only Elite ones? Have killed tons of Deadly but few Elite and no PIs at all, ever, in a HGE or from a ship, not once. Every sing le one I have has been traded at 1/6
ICs - the same all traded at 1-6
I have come to the conclusion that these are supposed to be almost impossible to find, presumably to stop everyone just having G5 engines easily and OP noobs or something, I have no idea.
Can route the map through system states but usually have to include Boom to get a route. Imp Shielding is common in Imp space HGEs, and usually get 4-6 of them at once, this one I can easily rely on to trade but hate trading at 1-6, if thats the point of the Mat Traders then thats a huge FAIL. Mat Traders are supposed to be there for trading down, so you can get HGE and trade down for the lower stuff, reducing the grind, not to increase the grind by finding 600 other HGE and trading for the 100 you need to outfit 11 ships. (whether all at once or over several months it still takes the same 'grind time' to find 600 overall). Because this isnt 'playing the game' and finding stuff as you go, it becomes a goal in itself just to get that one mat you need.
I'm still pinning my hopes on Elite Condas but if its 1 PI for 15 Condas then I need to kill roughly 45 Condas to get a chance at one G5 engine. Thats not immersive gameplay for me and its not 'playing the game'. Its stacking the same mission over and over to get one specific mat. Maybe I want to do some trading or mining instead, do I get denied G5 engines because I dont want to kill Elite Condas all day? Is that really the intention?
No its not cheating to wing up and let someone else do the kill. No I dont want to do that, I want to do it myself. I often jump into multi crew and someone elses fighter, they get all the mats and I'm glad I can help, but thats not charity thats teamwork and its not to get a specific mat, its to do something else and the mats are a bonus..
The point is, I as an individual player, in any mode, in any style of gaming not just combat, should be able to find PIs & ICs as I play the game surely? If not tell me in game that they are only available to combat pilots.
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