Datamined wake exceptions in Colonia?
- Thread starter avow555
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I knew about the famine state systems and going over to distribution centers, scanning the wakes of all those ships coming over there to pick up relief packages. I am not sure if you're going to find that over there, but you could also try and park yourself out of the mail slot of a station, a few clicks away and keep scanning.
This.
My trick was to go to Colonial Dream in Ratraii and hack the the ports with limpets. It's actually more efficient than the Jameson crash site for mats. Exegious made a good tutorial. Farm the mats and trade them at the local dealer (forgot where he's at. but there are dealers for all mats in the Colonia region). I used Hackable 0 for the best orientation towards the main signal of the station using the reload trick.
With 99% certainty these mats will drop from Colonial Dreams:
Grade 1
Anomalous bulk scan data
Distorded shield cycle recordings
Unusual encrypted files
Grade 2
Inconsistent Shield soak analysis
Tagged Encryption codes
Unidentified Scan Archives
Grade 3
Classified Scan Databanks
Cracked Industrial Firmware
Open Symmetric Keys
Untipical Shield Scans
Grade 4
Aberrant Shield Pattern Analysis
Divergent Scan Data
Security Firmware Patch
Grade 5
Classified Scan Fragment
Modified Embedded Firmware
Peculiar Shield Frequency
With 99% certainty these mats will drop from Colonial Dreams:
Grade 1
Anomalous bulk scan data
Distorded shield cycle recordings
Unusual encrypted files
Grade 2
Inconsistent Shield soak analysis
Tagged Encryption codes
Unidentified Scan Archives
Grade 3
Classified Scan Databanks
Cracked Industrial Firmware
Open Symmetric Keys
Untipical Shield Scans
Grade 4
Aberrant Shield Pattern Analysis
Divergent Scan Data
Security Firmware Patch
Grade 5
Classified Scan Fragment
Modified Embedded Firmware
Peculiar Shield Frequency
That's nice if you can farm Jamesons.
Is there a similar spot out by Colonia?
Remember all bounties count, not just Nameless.
This is one of those things that I used to give people grief on but stopped. That is about the worst mat gathering task there is. With just a touch of creativity it could be kinda interesting:
Follow this outlaw's trail and report who he meets with and where they leave to. You'll need a stealthy ship and good sensors to stay back and observe the meet.
The wake scans you do naturally then provide mats and the mission gives some extra G5's. Other variations, some leading to combat or frenzied escape could be done.
But nope. Just sit outside a station and scan wakes without purpose beyond RNG drops. Enjoy the randomness of it all as sometimes this incredibly boring process yields nothing 4 or 5 scans in a row. This and guardian mats have got to be my least favorite aspects of gameplay. I just see no real 'just play the game' way to get them outside onsie twosie trades from scanning in CZs and HazRez. Gahhhh.
Follow this outlaw's trail and report who he meets with and where they leave to. You'll need a stealthy ship and good sensors to stay back and observe the meet.
The wake scans you do naturally then provide mats and the mission gives some extra G5's. Other variations, some leading to combat or frenzied escape could be done.
But nope. Just sit outside a station and scan wakes without purpose beyond RNG drops. Enjoy the randomness of it all as sometimes this incredibly boring process yields nothing 4 or 5 scans in a row. This and guardian mats have got to be my least favorite aspects of gameplay. I just see no real 'just play the game' way to get them outside onsie twosie trades from scanning in CZs and HazRez. Gahhhh.
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Yeh cool got that sorted.
Put together an AspX for a bit of combat, good fun.
I asume you mean at the Industrial Installation near the Colonia Dream Coriolis?
I think so yes. It was a huge installation. I'm not 100% sure because I'm back at the bubble now. Sorry I mixed it up. But when you see it you'll know what I mean.
Agreed. It's easy enough to fill them up in a few weeks by fitting a wake scanner and remembering to scan whatever's around when you undock (surface bases are particularly reliable for this) ... it's not particularly difficult to incorporate into a normal routine ... but there's basically no actual gameplay that'd let you collect them, because the wake scanner is virtually useless in itself outside of really specialist tasks (and utility slots are in short supply on most ships, so no-one would fit one if it wasn't for this).
All the other data types will either show up naturally by scanning ships in supercruise/normal space while doing whatever it is you do, or are easily obtained as a by-product of various surface missions.
I have been there now and it fits your description so it must be it. Thank you for the tip.