Alternatives to Dav's Hope?
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There are plenty of Imperial Shielding G5 materials from High Grade Emissions in systems around Achenar, you can convert to anything else using Material Traders.
And that would be?
But only if you have access.
And high grade emissions does not always guarantee that you get the material you can get there.
Also, this material cannot be exchanged for e.g. RAW materials.
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There are no guarantees Admiraldkong. Just play the game & take what you find, you might get lucky
There are plenty of guides you can follow if you prefer but you'll still need to get lucky and it's a boring way to play. It will be quicker to just endlessly relog at Dav's hope.
Mission rewards while allied. Especially Biotech Conductors and Exquisite Focus Crystals, which you can trade.
It's been awhile since I needed materials, but I got into the habit of doing about 3 laps of Dav's Hope on my way out to Robigo, just to get an assortment of random junk while having fun throwing the SRV around. Then Robigo sightseeing runs for the high-grade stuff, and another 3 laps of Dav's on the way back to the Bubble.
It's been awhile since I needed materials, but I got into the habit of doing about 3 laps of Dav's Hope on my way out to Robigo, just to get an assortment of random junk while having fun throwing the SRV around. Then Robigo sightseeing runs for the high-grade stuff, and another 3 laps of Dav's on the way back to the Bubble.
Mean you the ty One Passenger Missons?
Its not a Alternate!
Great Idea.
If you gift me the full game via Steam.
Oh and of course friends who want to play at the exact same time.
BTW : There are videos about collecting material, but they are certainly not up-to-date enough.
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aside from the already mentioned things
if you don't do the bounty hunting and regular mat collecting from that you do miss out on a lot of good g5 mats
but finding anarchy factions in outbreak leads to filling up quite fast.
if you cant find any, then just bounty hunting in an anarchy extraction site works ok too.
sites in outbreak are also good because they teach you what materials regularly drop from specific ships.
making it easier in future to zero in on specific materials.
for nothing but g5 or some specific G5, I tend to look for anarchy systems in civil unrest or war.
finding HGE USS's in anarchy systems can get you any or all of the 3 proto mats, and then due to state several other g5's get tossed into the rng
making for usually very quick trips to a trader.
if you don't do the bounty hunting and regular mat collecting from that you do miss out on a lot of good g5 mats
but finding anarchy factions in outbreak leads to filling up quite fast.
if you cant find any, then just bounty hunting in an anarchy extraction site works ok too.
sites in outbreak are also good because they teach you what materials regularly drop from specific ships.
making it easier in future to zero in on specific materials.
for nothing but g5 or some specific G5, I tend to look for anarchy systems in civil unrest or war.
finding HGE USS's in anarchy systems can get you any or all of the 3 proto mats, and then due to state several other g5's get tossed into the rng
making for usually very quick trips to a trader.
Filter a route to include conflict systems. Civil war war etc.
300ly route across the bubble. Head to empire space like cubeo.
Every system you jump into honk, then do a scan of it all, everything. (Not detailed surface)
Focus solely on high grade emissions. (Hges).
Note the time n distance of each. Priority to lesser timed ones.
Fly to em collect (limpets and collector limpets optional.) So on so forth. When you reach empire space switch to economy route and set small routes all around empire space till you've found hges and maxed imperial shielding.
Then goto mats vendor swap out imp shielding ....rinse repeat fill your boots
300ly route across the bubble. Head to empire space like cubeo.
Every system you jump into honk, then do a scan of it all, everything. (Not detailed surface)
Focus solely on high grade emissions. (Hges).
Note the time n distance of each. Priority to lesser timed ones.
Fly to em collect (limpets and collector limpets optional.) So on so forth. When you reach empire space switch to economy route and set small routes all around empire space till you've found hges and maxed imperial shielding.
Then goto mats vendor swap out imp shielding ....rinse repeat fill your boots
Manufactured mats: this is all you get from Dav's , and you can get them from missions as well as destroyed ships and signal sources.
Data mats: scan. Ships and planetary data points. The larger and better defended a data point is, the higher the grade. For wakes, you will need a dedicated wake scanner.
Raw mats: log into Horizons and visit some crystal shard forests.
Guardian (Obelisk) data: scan obelisks. Canonn has some old maps about where to find scannable obelisks.
Guardian Manufactured: collect at Guardian sites. They're the worst of the bunch, as there are no Guardian mat traders, and while you can get the blueprint from one round, you need a few relogs (or visits) to get all the mats for a Guardian toy
Data mats: scan. Ships and planetary data points. The larger and better defended a data point is, the higher the grade. For wakes, you will need a dedicated wake scanner.
Raw mats: log into Horizons and visit some crystal shard forests.
Guardian (Obelisk) data: scan obelisks. Canonn has some old maps about where to find scannable obelisks.
Guardian Manufactured: collect at Guardian sites. They're the worst of the bunch, as there are no Guardian mat traders, and while you can get the blueprint from one round, you need a few relogs (or visits) to get all the mats for a Guardian toy
Only I don't have the engineering materials to make a ship for bounty hunting.
Great info above. I used Dav's when I first started out, for manufactured only. Jameson's crash site for data, I still use that as needed. And I used to drive around looking for raw, but the crystal forests are you best bet in Horizons for raw.
I also agree with most of the above, mission rewards once allied are worth it. Stacking pirate massacre missions or bounty hunting missions while allied, mats during the fight after making kills (manufactured) and from the missions as rewards when you turn them in. Robigo passenger missions usually have great mission rewards.
Also while I am out stacking pirate massacre missions (for fed or imp rank, combat rank and $$$) I scan the entire system for signal sources. I always stop by the Hge's to see what they have. If the HGE is worth it (usually it is not) I relog for alot of that item.
I also agree with most of the above, mission rewards once allied are worth it. Stacking pirate massacre missions or bounty hunting missions while allied, mats during the fight after making kills (manufactured) and from the missions as rewards when you turn them in. Robigo passenger missions usually have great mission rewards.
Also while I am out stacking pirate massacre missions (for fed or imp rank, combat rank and $$$) I scan the entire system for signal sources. I always stop by the Hge's to see what they have. If the HGE is worth it (usually it is not) I relog for alot of that item.
like most people say, grinding 1 site is not "playing the game" its just a boring repetitive loop. land on volcanic planets hotspots (better in horizons for mats, better in odyssey for stunning vistas) for all your raw mats, never having to relog and go again. for G5 mats just fly through high pop systems taking all the high grade USS or bounty hunt with a collector, for data - go old school and land at different horizons settlements and do the drive around activating pylons in the time limit. doing all these types of thing will reward you with nearly as many mats as well known gathering spots whilst making the game much more fun/exciting/enjoyable than sitting logging to desktop for hours on end just to gain mats you want so you can beef up your ship to....... go do all the things that gain you materials
With this thread I want to find alternatives to Dav's Hope to get materials faster and not reading what everyone already knows.
I already know.
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