This is how you farm Settlement Defense Plans.
1. They spawn most commonly at High Security settlements, and preferentially from Military and Industrial settlements.
2. They spawn exclusively at SEC Data Pads(also potentially CMD pads, but I haven't found any there yet).
3. They spawn relatively rarely. I was getting about one every 20 relogs.
You have two options.
A: You can run an anarchy settlement, but finding a high-security anarchy settlement is difficult. I haven't been able to find a good one yet.
B: You can run a non-anarchy settlement. These are more common, but will get you bounties and potentially you'll eventually become hostile with it, stopping you from farming further. However, the best settlement I've found was one of these.
That settlement was Friedrich Industrial Silo in HIP 7869. It has a data pad about 20 feet from the door. Here's how I farm it; it takes about 2 minutes per run.
Just do the above about 20 times in a row, and you'll get a Settlement Defense Plan. Then do that 14 more times and you'll never need more Defense Plans ever again!
As a candid aside to the devs, this isn't exactly compelling gameplay. The biggest problem, I think, is that missions very rarely take you to high security installations to begin with, even where they DO exist, and they're quire rare, as many installation types lack a security pad entirely. This results in players never actually going to places that have a pad. And when they do, they are encouraged to avoid bounties, so they will generally do their mission and get out ASAP!
On top of this, the enemies at these are relatively tough, even with G5 equipment, so many players will likely avoid them right up until they want to unlock the engineer, at which point they need to farm them for about (2m/run x 20 runs per defense plan x 15 defense plans = 600) 10 hours. It would be nice to have a more consistent way to get them, even if that method require extreme challenge. Something like needing to fight off the entire high security base, for example, would be a great challenge that would suitably reward the player with a defense plan.
Anyways, hopefully this is helpful to people.
1. They spawn most commonly at High Security settlements, and preferentially from Military and Industrial settlements.
2. They spawn exclusively at SEC Data Pads(also potentially CMD pads, but I haven't found any there yet).
3. They spawn relatively rarely. I was getting about one every 20 relogs.
You have two options.
A: You can run an anarchy settlement, but finding a high-security anarchy settlement is difficult. I haven't been able to find a good one yet.
B: You can run a non-anarchy settlement. These are more common, but will get you bounties and potentially you'll eventually become hostile with it, stopping you from farming further. However, the best settlement I've found was one of these.
That settlement was Friedrich Industrial Silo in HIP 7869. It has a data pad about 20 feet from the door. Here's how I farm it; it takes about 2 minutes per run.
Just do the above about 20 times in a row, and you'll get a Settlement Defense Plan. Then do that 14 more times and you'll never need more Defense Plans ever again!
As a candid aside to the devs, this isn't exactly compelling gameplay. The biggest problem, I think, is that missions very rarely take you to high security installations to begin with, even where they DO exist, and they're quire rare, as many installation types lack a security pad entirely. This results in players never actually going to places that have a pad. And when they do, they are encouraged to avoid bounties, so they will generally do their mission and get out ASAP!
On top of this, the enemies at these are relatively tough, even with G5 equipment, so many players will likely avoid them right up until they want to unlock the engineer, at which point they need to farm them for about (2m/run x 20 runs per defense plan x 15 defense plans = 600) 10 hours. It would be nice to have a more consistent way to get them, even if that method require extreme challenge. Something like needing to fight off the entire high security base, for example, would be a great challenge that would suitably reward the player with a defense plan.
Anyways, hopefully this is helpful to people.
