As I sit and think about it...I wonder if this was also a stealth attempt to limit the effectiveness of the HGE exploit rather than fix it (make HGEs, but make them so far away and on such a short timer that nobody will have time to farm it more than once)? Talk about terrible approach if so...
Did Engineering Just Become More Painful? My HGE hunting safari results, post patch...
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It should be telling that I'm currently installing Elder Scrolls Online.
How long was the timer? Our guys have now seen a few HGEs but a timer over 5 mins seems to be very rare, are you sure you logged while the timer was still up after travelling so far?
Let me know what you think, I've been umming and ahhhing about that since it was released.
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I buzz around the bubble right now for Engineering 3 new Ships.
Just in random Systems (Investment) I get occasional and multiple HGEs per System, even in low-pop (100k) ones.
(upon grabbing me one, the 2nd one disappeared though, didn't check its timer however)
Seems more random than before though, System Population possibly not being such a fundamental Factor anymore maybe?
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Next System after LHS 302 is Kuk and yet another HGE for me right there.
Just in random Systems (Investment) I get occasional and multiple HGEs per System, even in low-pop (100k) ones.
(upon grabbing me one, the 2nd one disappeared though, didn't check its timer however)
Seems more random than before though, System Population possibly not being such a fundamental Factor anymore maybe?
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Next System after LHS 302 is Kuk and yet another HGE for me right there.
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Welcome there. I can tell that actively playing both ESO and ED is possible. It's just not advisable to do it at the very same time.
(This and the fact that my wife plays ESO, but refuses to play ED is the reason why i mostly play ED at strange times.
)Thanks for the extra detail!
Thanks for the info, been able to exploit any of them?
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Will do.
I actually liked the game a lot, but Xbox performance was horrible. Haven't played since Summerset so I'm going in relatively blind.
Installing on PC now.
Second one didn't respawn as well even though it had 3 minutes left on the timer. I'm following the exact same methodology as I was before the patch. Suddenly the old snoozefest method of flying in a straight line for an hour to grab 4-5 HGEs seems more effective, especially since the faction-specific multi-state RNG makes it even harder to get the exact material you need.
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Yes, but the 2nd HGE in LHS 302 disappeared the moment I scooped up the 1st one. Didn't check the timer on the 2nd, so it might have simply timed out, unsure.
Currently in Kuk grabbing me a single HGE (Investment) there as well, since I'm on the way to that Engineer anyway.
Just based on my initial gut feeling, for HGEs I'd just set a Galaxy Map Filter for "Investment" and check System after System, regardless of Population size.
Not chasing very specific stuff though, so I haven't had any need for other Faction State related HGEs.
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Well, I'm not too miffed about them fixing the respawn bug, but it shouldn't be this frustrating to get the necessary high grade materials. I don't mind it being hard, but not completely random.
Thanks man, but what I mean is were you able to visit any single HGE multiple times? In case you weren't aware the technique is as follows...
Drop into HGE
Scoop stuff
Log out
Log in (same mode or different, doesn't matter)
Go to super cruise setting throttle to zero as its counting down
Select right hand panel, select closest Unknown Signal Source
Turn to face it, it will be the same HGE
GOTO 1
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Exactly. The layers upon layers of RNG that already existed surrounding HGEs (since 3.3) were bad enough, now this is the bullet in the head to high level manufactured material gathering.
The incoming salt is going to be awesome.
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It's a great game for exploration. The world is huge, and it scales to your level, roughly, so...in true TES fashion, go anywhere, any time.
Combat is dated and very MMO like. But the game isnt baf.
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I cant believe we even need to discuss random crafting material drops here. This was supposed to be a space sim. This was dev time that could have gone for Atmo, Gas Giants, cities, a more dynamic universe...
...and we got...this...
Sigh. Alas, for what night have been.
True enough, but my biggest problem with the game the past few years is that they didn't fix or expanded upon the things that were actually in the game already.