Are Acquisition Sites really that good?
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Resource Extraction Suites can be good. The problem is you get a LOT of players use them. Combine that with how few players turn off ''report crimes against me'', you just end up seeing them flooded by other players AND a ton of law enforcement very quickly, and those guys tend to just absorb all the bounties.
Kinda depends where you are tbh, I've seen one other cmdr in the last week in my extraction sites
they are great, just get away from populated systems.
also saves a lot of effort if you find one with certain alignement like federation, imperial etc, so you dont have to scan every single target to find out about the bounty. i've heard people saying that there are a lot of more wanted people in anarchy systems, but i have tried both and i didnt see any noticeable difference really, so i believe its just a myth. probably has more to do with system's you are at security level than alignment
also saves a lot of effort if you find one with certain alignement like federation, imperial etc, so you dont have to scan every single target to find out about the bounty. i've heard people saying that there are a lot of more wanted people in anarchy systems, but i have tried both and i didnt see any noticeable difference really, so i believe its just a myth. probably has more to do with system's you are at security level than alignment
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Resource Extraction Sites CAN be great, or they CAN be awful. If you find yourself in one with mostly Sidewinders, try leaving and coming back a few times. If you still get crappy results, try a different Site altogether. Leaving and re-entering is the trick, don't skimp on it. With luck, you can end up with an instance that'll have 2-3 Anacondas in it at the same time, or at least one that throws Wanted Cobras your way one after another.
Protip :
1/ find a belt with an extraction point (to be sure there is miners and pirates in that belt)
2/ hit the belt at 30km/s at least 2000km from the extraction point. Do not exit supercruise in the extraction point.
3/ stay at the surface of the belt, scan for pirates, kill them.
4/ if there is no pirates anymore (or at all), jump, go to /2. Don't bother to go into the belt and get masslocked.
Player populated area tend to have lower pirate count that remote systems, look for intependant extraction systems i get good results usually. If you find the right belt and the right instance, it feel like a minecraft generator, the second you kill a pirate another one show up.
I spent a happy evening flying round the planetary rings of a huge gas giant at the weekend, lurking around Resource points. There seemed an unending supply of 4000c+ Wanteds being thrown at me and it was a nice little earner.
The fact that I was nipping round asteroids like a crazy TIE Fighter pilot in my Cobra with a massive ball of swirling purple gas for eye candy just added to the funtimes! Rock belts are fun to fly - nipping round the rocks, using the bigger ones for cover, luring Pirate Sideys (and a few Adders) into crashes to knock out shields or armour... I had a ball! Pew pew lasers!
They didn't seem to stop stop coming so I only stopped because I had to go and eat/sleep like a human. Can anyone confirm if they do keep appearing, or is there a large but finite amount of them around? Do they call in their mates or something?
The fact that I was nipping round asteroids like a crazy TIE Fighter pilot in my Cobra with a massive ball of swirling purple gas for eye candy just added to the funtimes! Rock belts are fun to fly - nipping round the rocks, using the bigger ones for cover, luring Pirate Sideys (and a few Adders) into crashes to knock out shields or armour... I had a ball! Pew pew lasers!
They didn't seem to stop stop coming so I only stopped because I had to go and eat/sleep like a human. Can anyone confirm if they do keep appearing, or is there a large but finite amount of them around? Do they call in their mates or something?