Now get no Caustic at Thor and as soon as I had 1T of something cargo NPC pirates started on me.
My EAXMC's were absolutely useless against this and I soon had rebuy.
I'll have to look into normal guns on pew pew K2 or P2 - - - or maybe do nothing - was a bit boring.
Yeah ... it is either thargoids or NPC you will have to fight off. One thing you can do is put all cargo items on the ignore list, or abandon the cargo as soon as you encounter a pirate. That way only materials show on the radar. I did that with the cargo items and the materials that are full. The materials are of course good for engineering and synthesis.
I don't see much use in those cargo items anyway. You can sell them, but you won't make much. The one thing that comes to mind is the thargoid heart and meta-allos to get a thargoid bobble head at a tech-broker. Other than that they are mostly useless . I filled up my carrier cargo with some of it, but stopped collecting them.
Other than that use a fast ship. I use a python mk2, which I linked in an earlier reply. It has a 1A collector limpet, but picking up materials is mostly one-by-one anyway. I like the firepower, because I encounter hunters, cyclops, basilisk and at time a medusa. A clipper would also suffice, but best stay away from the stronger thargoids.
You don't have to fight the thargoids and concentrate on collecting material, but it is a bit excitement in between the boring flying left to right for materials.
There are always rescue ships that will give repair limpets for the hull. The modules do take damage, but it is a short hop to my (any) carrier.
If I need some of those cargo items, I will go in with pew-power and avoid the thargoids.
It is a grind, like much of the gameplay in ED. It is up to you to shake it up. You can always visit a system close by for missions or a RES.
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