Newcomer / Intro Finding and Identifying Surface Outpost

AEBRAM

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I hope this is the correct forum group to post my question.

I need some help on how to identify and find surface outposts. I want to learn and understand how to get encoded data from the following:

Planetary outposts (not Starports) typically have 1 or more data points that can be scanned with your SRV's Data Link Scanner. They come in 3 security levels (Low, Medium, High) and 3 sizes (Small '+', Medium '++', and Large '+++').

This was found on the Elite Dangerous Wikipedia page under encoded data. I would like to learn whether there are different data types associated with the different surface outposts, and whether these locations can be used to farm rarer types of encoded data based on the security level and size of the outpost. I am not exactly sure how to filter for surface outposts on INARA website.

Any help or insight on how to properly identify them on the navigation panel or by the search engine would be awesome. Thank you.

Edited: I have some friends who enjoy the exploration discoveries and this source for finding encoded data seems more organic for them while they survey and explore planets. I wanted to help them, as well, as learn more about these encoded data sources.
 
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bangermsuk

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you can also scan geo points with the ships data scanner.
but srv ones only have the post that can be scanned.

they are usaually mark on the poi selection has unrecognized marker.
 
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AEBRAM

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bangermsuk said:
you can also scan geo points with the ships data scanner.
but srv ones only have the post that can be scanned.

they are usaually mark on the poi selection has unrecognized marker.
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Do you have an image targeting what you need to scan via ship that is shareable to see what you mean?
 

bangermsuk

bangermsuk
i see if i can get you one later on, currently in a war!!! :)
but it quite simple you just point your ship at the geosite and scan the geo with the data link. and try to keep the ship steady.it can be a bit fiddlily. it goes to the codex in your ship
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
AEBRAM said:
that can be scanned with your SRV's Data Link Scanner.
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They can also be scanned with your ship's Data Link Scanner.
Works best in a small ship (in a large ship, you often can't even get close enouggh for the scanner to engage).

Receipe:
  • put your data link scanner in a fire group (you can put all the ship's scanners into the same group on the same fire button)
  • DEPLOY HARDPOINTS (that's usually the point I miss, and then hang around with my ship's nose touching the data point and wondering why I can't scan it while the base sirens go off in the background and the ground defense starts shooting...)
  • target the data point
  • get close. Real close. You know you're close enough when your scanner HUD flashes
  • trigger the scanner and keep it close and targeted while the scan completes
  • get the heck out of there. Those ground defense guns don't mess about.

I have a dedicated engineered Viper Mk.III for these jobs. Also carrying a couple of lightweight packhounds for those discrete generator shutdown missions.
 

AEBRAM

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Factabulous said:
Some info in here https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...-guide-for-modified-embedded-firmware.272951/ - quite old now, but the maps are probably still good - @djadok might have a better reference

The maps were integrated into eddb quite nicely, sadly that is now offline 🤷‍♀️
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Thank you for sharing the article. I went out to one of the listed security settlements and, really rough, and had to retreat. I have billions+ to payout the Cr bounties, however, this challenge has definitely intrigued me. Odyessy ground combat is pretty rough anyways. So, I am curious what does it take to successfully scan those data ports?
 

GroG79

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AEBRAM said:
Thank you for sharing the article. I went out to one of the listed security settlements and, really rough, and had to retreat. I have billions+ to payout the Cr bounties, however, this challenge has definitely intrigued me. Odyessy ground combat is pretty rough anyways. So, I am curious what does it take to successfully scan those data ports?
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An SRV...

use the data link scanner


But what are you actually talking about? There are many varieties. A mission where you need to scan multiple beacons in a surface site with a counter? (Same as the guardian blueprints)
 

nemolomen

nemolomen
bangermsuk said:
i see if i can get you one later on, currently in a war!!! :)
but it quite simple you just point your ship at the geosite and scan the geo with the data link. and try to keep the ship steady.it can be a bit fiddlily. it goes to the codex in your ship
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I think you're mixing your scanners.

Datalink scanner for data ports, hub access terminals, etc...

Composition scanner for geo/bio codex entries.
 

metatheurgist

metatheurgist
I don't know how old that thread is but at some stage the trespass zones of settlements changed. Ideally if you're scanning for data at a settlement you want one without a trespass zone.
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
AEBRAM said:
I am more interested about the high-level encoded data mentioned in the wikipedia from surface outposts than settlement scan missions. He did make it look pretty easy to do the planetary scan mission.
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Some of the layouts are possible to do all (or most of the) scans from outside the restricted area, so those are the recommended ones, but it's been a while and I don't remember which they are, srry. I don't remember the payouts being that good - taking MEF rewards from rescue missions / other high value missions would be more usual nowadays.
 

GroG79

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AEBRAM said:
I am more interested about the high-level encoded data mentioned in the wikipedia from surface outposts than settlement scan missions. He did make it look pretty easy to do the planetary scan mission.
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When you scan one of these you get some data mats for ship engineering. Not Suit or on-foot weapons engineering
 

AEBRAM

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Factabulous said:
Some of the layouts are possible to do all (or most of the) scans from outside the restricted area, so those are the recommended ones, but it's been a while and I don't remember which they are, srry. I don't remember the payouts being that good - taking MEF rewards from rescue missions / other high value missions would be more usual nowadays.
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I have notice this also. I was writing about the different engineering material sources to expand the horizon from the typical Dav's Hope, Jameson Crash site, etc. I wanted to explore more options and learn how Horizon players before Odyessy collected high grade encoded data: besides the Wake Scanner repetition or before Jameson's Crash site discovery.
 

metatheurgist

metatheurgist
There's no alternative to the wake scanner. That line of data pretty much only comes from wake scans without trading. There's also a rare drop from Encoded emissions but that's not reliable.
 

Greasetrap42

Greasetrap42
AEBRAM said:
I wanted to explore more options and learn how Horizon players before Odyessy collected high grade encoded data: besides the Wake Scanner repetition or before Jameson's Crash site discovery.
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G5 Modified Embedded Firmware from mission rewards. Very easy to fill up on these while doing any kind of ship-based missions.
 

AEBRAM

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Greasetrap42 said:
G5 Modified Embedded Firmware from mission rewards. Very easy to fill up on these while doing any kind of ship-based missions.
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The was the conclusion as mine. It's a shame though. I was hoping this could have been another viable option albeit some risk to the reward.
 
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