Chemical manipulators a masterminded plan

Kenneth McGrew · Mar 3, 2017

Chem manipulators are a pain in the rear to find,

so when I had a lightbulb moment in my head I was extremely excited and started rubbing my hands together at all the manipulators I would have floating around and I could place them all in a giant swimming pool and jump into it like scrooge McDuck

well it turns out it was more like Peter griffin jumping into a hard solid non liquid material

so the Idea!

Where might T9 space cows hang about grazing grass casually awaiting to be murdered... Famine systems... yes, and if that famine system just happened to be in an anarchy state...

well as I flew 100ly or so in a corrosive cannon python to melt their hulls I was counting the manipulators in their hundreds.

I entered the system, there was big bertha and other aptly named T9's Boom went the first unsuspecting T9, and another and another, but... no materials

NO MATERIALS

back to the drawing board I guess...

but...

In other news I spent some FSD rolls on a 4A drive and maybe it was the ice-cream I bought felicity or the sweet talking, or perhaps she was sick of seeing me, in any case I could either rejoice here or cry... 55.2% and a fuel increase... and and and a tiny mass...

put it on my scout and...

sadly I couldn't change other parts as Jameson memorial is in lockdown currently and I couldn't be bothered transferring ships about.

put it on a dolphin and...

http://beta.coriolis.edcd.io/outfit...8DABSL+/2fAAgCJB4tCPAAAAA==&bn=crazy dolphin

but... had it been on my DBx and a class 5 it would have been amazing... why o why did I roll on 4A's

I'd better start flying a dolphin I think!

mp4x · Mar 3, 2017

I thought they were hard to get, then I went to an Anarchy system... and got 18 in three game sessions, maybe a couple hours each session mixed up with some miscellaneous anarchy system NAV point, HRES and interdiction shenanigans. I don't know at what point something in a game is considered a 'grind,' but I don't feel it was one

Where were you looking for them, how long did you spend?

Kenneth McGrew · Mar 3, 2017

mp4x said:
I thought they were hard to get, then I went to an Anarchy system... and got 18 in three game sessions, maybe a couple hours each session mixed up with some miscellaneous anarchy system NAV point, HRES and interdiction shenanigans. I don't know at what point something in a game is considered a 'grind,' but I don't feel it was one

Where were you looking for them, how long did you spend?

I've tried various methods, combat aftermath USS's Anarchy Haz res, and you can sometimes pop 5-6 T9s before seeing even one Chem manipulator its all random, and I've harvested a fair few hundred of them so far to know they're a pain in rear!

in fact im 2% from dangerous Combat rank solely down to manipulators alone, I don't touch combat otherwise!!!

Time wise, on average 12 per hour at most. I have had extremes ever side though of 30ish in an hour to 0 in an hour.

arsenic, datamined wakes any day... chem manipulators make me shudder.

Para Handy · Mar 3, 2017

Just go to Dev's Hope and pick them up, no need to murder anything. New "spawns" of 10 materials every mode-switch, or is that too easy?

N.B. This "abandoned settlement" won't appear on the nav screen etc, you have to actually go to the planetary co-ordinates to find it.

Kenneth McGrew · Mar 3, 2017

MalcYorks said:
Just go to Dev's Hope and pick them up, no need to murder anything. New "spawns" of 10 materials every mode-switch, or is that too easy?

http://i.imgur.com/fClkdVx.jpg

well you learn something new everyday, thanks ill give it a whirl although I think im done modding FSD drives now

55.2% is gonna be hard to beat!

mp4x · Mar 3, 2017

You can get 12 to 30 in an hour and it makes you shudder? Sounds like you're just sick of playing the game, because I'd be happy with those numbers

Kenneth Mcgrew said:
I've tried various methods, combat aftermath USS's Anarchy Haz res, and you can sometimes pop 5-6 T9s before seeing even one Chem manipulator its all random, and I've harvested a fair few hundred of them so far to know they're a pain in rear!

in fact im 2% from dangerous Combat rank solely down to manipulators alone, I don't touch combat otherwise!!!

Time wise, on average 12 per hour at most. I have had extremes ever side though of 30ish in an hour to 0 in an hour.

arsenic, datamined wakes any day... chem manipulators make me shudder.

Kenneth McGrew · Mar 3, 2017

mp4x said:
You can get 12 to 30 in an hour and it makes you shudder? Sounds like you're just sick of playing the game, because I'd be happy with those numbers

this is number of manipulators divide it by 3 for actual found materials,

12 is also an average which runs from 0-30, more often than not siding towards 0 hence the 12.

MattG · Mar 3, 2017

Kenneth Mcgrew said:
arsenic, datamined wakes any day... chem manipulators make me shudder.

Huh. I'm the opposite of that. Datamined Wake Exceptions hate me, my average is not even 1 (well, 3) per hour. Chemical Manipulators on the other hand, I had some 50+ without even looking for them - IIRC I was dropping into Encoded Emissions and Degraded Emissions looking for something else and kept finding them (I think they were in Degraded more than Encoded...)

Kenneth McGrew · Mar 3, 2017

MattG said:
Huh. I'm the opposite of that. Datamined Wake Exceptions hate me, my average is not even 1 (well, 3) per hour. Chemical Manipulators on the other hand, I had some 50+ without even looking for them - IIRC I was dropping into Encoded Emissions and Degraded Emissions looking for something else and kept finding them (I think they were in Degraded more than Encoded...)

go to a famine system and distribution centre, there are wakes galore to scan! they're still rare but the amount of wakes you can scan per hour is impressive!

CMDR CHIGGY VONRICTOFEN · Mar 3, 2017

Outbreak anarchy systems were where I got my chemical manipulators from, they dropped just fine for me...actually finding a system with a convoy beacon that spawned was my problem..but once I did, I murdered T9 's by the bushel.

Kenneth McGrew · Mar 3, 2017

CMDR CHIGGY VONRICTOFEN said:
Outbreak anarchy systems were where I got my chemical manipulators from, they dropped just fine for me...actually finding a system with a convoy beacon that spawned was my problem..but once I did, I murdered T9 's by the bushel.

interesting I assumed because the T9's I killed in a distribution centre didn't drop anything, and I mean anything just empty space in the contacts tab, that this would be the same anywhere else in set spawn locations, unless this is some how bugged?

thoughts?

no matter where you kill the T9's they should drop something right?

CMDR CHIGGY VONRICTOFEN · Mar 3, 2017

Never tried a distribution center...But I was getting them like a dozen at the time at the convoy beacon. It took a few minutes for them to spawn after resetting the instancing, but it was like clockwork. And they weren't winged up or anything, just sat there like large targets, only moved at all once you started shooting at one.

GregMalcolm · Mar 3, 2017

I have a trick for getting chemical manipulators. I go to a good sized anarchy system with a haz res and mine the miners. T9s, pythons and dropships are particularly good tsrgets. Asp Explorers are pretty good. Even an Asp Scout or keelback will occasionally drop it.

I just check the modules: Refinery? Score! Interdictor? Igonore.