Engineers Datamined Wake Exceptions : Is there a more 'refined' way to find them ?

dognosh · Jul 29, 2017

I know this item is very RNG and annoying to get. I am going to FAMINE states, Distribution Centres , wake scanning departing ships(as we all do).
Even so I get to a stage when I would rather poke my eyes out with a wet rusty umbrella infected with salmonella

Have you refined how you do this? mode switching ? time? system switching? voodoo?
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Haha, after I posted this my first scan gets me one

Gunnet · Jul 29, 2017

Distribution centres are the best bet at the moment, as far as I know.

goemon · Jul 29, 2017

droprate at distribution centers is around 9%, and the best there is.

beside outfitting an imperial eagle with an a grade wake scanner, and putting up some music you like, there is no better way to get them.

i personally have a wake scanner on almost all ships of mine, scanning a wake everytime i leave a station - less disruptive to my gameplay, quite efficient when doing boom trading.

dognosh · Jul 29, 2017

Well I have bettered my QOL during this terrible RNG phase of the game : Sound off, Nat King Cole on

Codger · Jul 29, 2017

dognosh said:
Well I have bettered my QOL during this terrible RNG phase of the game : Sound off, Nat King Cole on

Sounds like you found the solution

I can offer nothing better, I do my scanning just as you are.

dognosh · Jul 29, 2017

artigan99 said:
Sounds like you found the solution

I can offer nothing better, I do my scanning just as you are.

Got 27 in the end, Bowie helped too

jijik2 · Aug 2, 2017

Have found 42 in a short time.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/367609-4-hours-later?p=5774930#post5774930
Distribution centre. Biggest wake scanner so i could stay in one place and only have to target the wakes.
First hour, i just found some, waiting, waiting found some more.
I got a phonecall and logged out. When i logged back in i found one in like 5 minutes. then i just logged out again, and found some more in a few minutes.
Then i just started to log out when i found some. It worked for me that evening, maybe just RNG luck but still.

Roken · Aug 2, 2017

Long Range Wake scanner (7.9km) made distribution centres farming slightly quicker. I don't have to move to scan most of them.

dognosh · Aug 2, 2017

Roken said:
Long Range Wake scanner (7.9km) made distribution centres farming slightly quicker. I don't have to move to scan most of them.

Yes, there are 2 methods, yours and the one I use, both are valid.

My method is Fast Scan mod to my Wake Scanner. Because I get bored so quickly just pointing and scanning, I chase after the ships to get close

Also I use a small flashlight on my space bar(space bar is my FIRE 2 button,as is the one on joystick) so as soon as I pick a wake and am close enough it auto scans in 2 secs.
Much more fun