FD please fix RES site (its almost an exploit)
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Yet another crying thread qq things blow up too quick waah FD fix it.
RES are nerfed. Good instances are rare. There is no swarm of pirate ships.
Please, don't cry about RES, there is no exploit, there is no uber profit.
It's hard. Harder then man's life.
Please, don't cry about RES, there is no exploit, there is no uber profit.
It's hard. Harder then man's life.
so, there are two hunters and three miners in there, when I join, what should happen (im an explorer, wanting to take a pic of the beautiful planet in Background)
RESes become hostile when you become Hostile to the independent/pirate faction that you're hunting, which doesn't take very long to happen. They're a cake-walk when you're neutral and unfriendly, but once you turn hostile, you'll have pirates randomly attacking you out of nowhere, sometimes in wings, sometimes two wings at once. Then, things get really dangerous.
RES is fine as is.
I second this. Try fighting 2 Anacondas at the same time only for a 3rd one with a wing of Cobras to come in and join the party because they don't like you. 6 Shield cell banks and nearly a brown trouser moment later Im on 40% hull and claim victory with 1 of the 2 cobras doing a runner. If one or two more big ships had have joined I'd have been running to the hills or seeing an insurance screen and I was flying an A rated tricked out Clipper at the time!
Id like to know where your hunting because since PP released I rarely see Pythons, Clippers, and have never seen a Conda yet since release of PP. But yes going hostile with a faction can be quite fun in a RES
That was pre-1.3 RES so I can't really comment too much on the state now if I think about it. I did hear spawn rates have been adjusted again. Will have to try it when im back from exploring (still 9000ly out, done 2k in the last 2 hours
)Although with the AI buff even 2 Anacondas would scare the life out of me
because its to easy and unrealised. guess the kiddies love it though
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doesn't really happen does it
The post is not about the money, or the amount of ships etc. its how they behave
Grow up or shut up. dam kids
Yes I agree Derthek, but then you just move to another system.
Oooo, salty!
Few things bro. We're not talking about what is possible. We're talking about average/likely earnings. If you had read any post but the one you quoted - hell, actually if you'd even read the post you quoted - you'd know this to be the case.
Also, I suggest you take your own advice and learn some maths, too. Firstly, 1.5 M with a 100% bonus is still only 3 M, so still a factor of 3 and a 1/3 off 10M! Secondly, 6 M over 3 hours is eminently possible - plausible, even; likely, in fact! If you read some of my others posts you'll see that 2-3 M per hour is what I say is average unless you find a super red hot system, which at present, no one can guarantee to do, because no one really understands the spawn mechanics well enough! I have seen 6 M in an hour in a really good system with the Vulture. A post above you suggests 8 M with an Anaconda. I can even believe 10 M is possible. But what we're talking about is what the average income is. It is not trivial or common-place to earn that much. If you find an awesome system, and camp in it farming RES, then sure. But I've checked about 6 systems so far in ALD territory to get the 20% boost, and the best I've found are 3 M per hour, WITH the 20% bonus. I think i saw 6 M in Neto, a long time ago.
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The system I'm in at the moment I see mostly Master, Deadly, some Dangerous Pythons, Dropships, Clippers and Couriers. For the larger ones, the bounty is almost always over 100K. The problem is not the ships or the bounty, it is how quickly they spawn. I suspect there are a variety of algorithms at work here. Some to pick the spawn type, some to pick the bounties, and some to pick the frequency. It's frequency I'm most interested in at the moment. I think if you go to a hires in a medium sec system you can reset until you get a decent spawn. What I don't feel confident about at the moment is spawn rate. The last several systems I have visited have felt very quiet compared to the old days (pre 1.3). Not many miners and not many pirates. In fact, sometimes many more pirates than miners! Is this population related? Or something else? I would really love to know, not just for income purposes, but for boredom purposes. It's far more interesting when you can go from ship to ship and not being hanging in space waiting.
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This seems a reasonably good assessment of the average Vulture earnings in my experience. A good run with 20% system bounty bonus from ALD netted me 3.1 million in 90 minutes the other day farming large ships of Master to Deadly rating.
My experience is similar, but it is not Vulture-limited. Killing stuff within a minute or 2 of spotting it on radar, then waiting 2-3 times as long for more stuff to spawn is what is holding income back for me in these systems. A couple of nights ago I did 3 M in about an hour.
Yeah exactly, its not a totally broken system. It just needs a few tweaks here and there to make it less tedious.
Agreed! The most frustrating aspect of it for me at the moment is that finding a good RES is just a question of trial and error. If it were a bit more predictable, so that people after a challenge could find one more easily, then that would go a long way towards sorting RES out.
Yeah the peaks and troughs in spawns can have a big effect, which is probably what accounts for some of the particularly large claims per hour some players are putting in. I'm yet to see anything even remotely approaching the more extreme end of the scale, but an average 3 million an hour is more than acceptable to me at this stage of my gameplay. My opinion might change later down the line.
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I dont know how these people are making more than a mill/hr I am dangerous flying a fdl in hi res in low security system I can re set the spawn 10, 15 times and all I get is small ships spawing slowly with 4k to 24k bountys on them im struggling to make 500k an hour. I havent seen a wanted anaconda, drop ship, clipper or python since 1.3 droped. At least not in a res.
The pirate mechanic is fine its much better than it was and I love that they re thibk things if you arnt worth it, though it could do with an extra layer of variables.
The pirate mechanic is fine its much better than it was and I love that they re thibk things if you arnt worth it, though it could do with an extra layer of variables.
Thank you very much.
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Yeah, try buying an Anaconda on 3mil an hour
Not unrealistic. I seriously doubt my average hourly income since Gamma would be above 3mcr/hour.
I've just experienced something that makes me wonder whether there's also a minor faction relationship factor in the spawn calculations. I have reached hostile status with one minor faction in TZ Arietis. I had a 'big ship' instance, but the spawns of those ships was significantly slower than I am accustomed to. The bulk of the ships spawning were small wanted ships with low NPC rankings. Not just the usual ambient 'innocent miner' ships you'd normally see and disregard.
I'd be interested to hear whether people who are reporting low incomes are hostile to a local faction.