Convoy Beacons What Am I Doing Wrong?
- Thread starter Mav359
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Nav beacons are at your entry point into system.
Convoy beacons I have never seen or heard of.
Cheers Cmdr's
This is what is keeping them from you OP!!
Just fly out to every planetary body that is outside of 1000Ls from your entry point to the system. Usually in an outbreak/famine/etc state system there'll be couple at least, often three.
You can often find them around planets with rings, so check those first.
Also, pray to the RNG gods as your woes won't end when you find a Convoy Beacon POI, as most systems with two or more CB POIs will only have one of those POIs that is active and actually spawns ships.
Of course, when you find an active Convoy Beacon POI in system you can kill Type-9s and keep relogging (or leavnig and returning to the instance) to respawn them. But yeah, finding the active ones in systems is usually a PITA.
Good luck commander. [up]
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Convoy Beacons replace the "Seeking [x]" POIs, as the most reliable stellar system POIs which spawn Type-9s consistently. Thus a great way to farm Chemical Manipulators. They usually appear in systems in Outbreak, Famine or Bust states, and usually around ringed planets more than 1000Ls from the system drop-in point (hence, why most never encounter them unless you go looking).
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Yep.
Just been to 3 outbreak Anarchys and no convoys. That was my entire gametime. Flying to 2 different systems. Just logged off mid flight. Couldn't even be bothered to dock at a station. The hours i've spent in game suggest I love and ejoy it.................................most of the time! So much for not having to farm.
Just been to 3 outbreak Anarchys and no convoys. That was my entire gametime. Flying to 2 different systems. Just logged off mid flight. Couldn't even be bothered to dock at a station. The hours i've spent in game suggest I love and ejoy it.................................most of the time! So much for not having to farm.
I'm finding heaps of convoy uss's and every one of them has military ships in them. All green.
I spent 6hrs yesterday and about 15 systems and nothing, did all the suggested stuff
* Multiple Anarchy/outbreak, tried Anarchy/Famine and a few others
* Tried circling the system 600-900 from the nav point
* Tried systems with stations 100ly from the jumping in point
* Systems with gas giants
* Praying to RNG
Nothing!!!!
Ditched the corvette next to an orbital and walked home....... try again later after work
* Multiple Anarchy/outbreak, tried Anarchy/Famine and a few others
* Tried circling the system 600-900 from the nav point
* Tried systems with stations 100ly from the jumping in point
* Systems with gas giants
* Praying to RNG
Nothing!!!!
Ditched the corvette next to an orbital and walked home....... try again later after work
Shipping lanes?
Smuggler at Nav beacons
Combat Aftermaths in Shipping lances
Some ships you wouldn't expect might drop what you are looking for
Conductive Ceramics for example state can be found "Ship salvage (transport ships), Signal source (anarchy)" but Anacondas in CZ can leave them as Salvage as the Anaconda is in the list of transport ships
Did you actually approach within 1000Ls of each planet in the systems you visited? If you're not within 1000Ls of a planet that has a Convoy Beacon POI then you won't see it.
I honestly didn't have anywhere near as much trouble finding one as you seem to.
I would probably msg FDev to check there's now known bug causing them not to spawn.
Has anyone else looked for them recently?
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OP is talking about Convoy Beacon POIs. They're different from USSs. CBs are persistent POIs in systems in outbreak/famine/bust states.
