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Guide to farming Settlement Defense Plans
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You can get from Oden Geiger. A much easier unlock.
Also, there is an energy recharge point near almost every capture point.
... and even have a visible icon in the mini-map display.
Good idea, I'll give it another try. 22 replies in this thread, 9 of which are yours and 7 of those contain some sort of complaint or jibe about grinding/farming/relogging. Is this really necessary?
And for the record, as you might've seen by my replies in other SDP/OP/SCP threads, I'm not an advocate of the grind either.
I believe you can also get SDPs at crashed satellite POIs.
Naturally, why not? It is the alleged 'grind' that generates so many posts indicating discontent, it is almost a "Hotel California" topic of its own!
Indeed so... Perhaps I have a better developed sense of the ridiculous than your good self?
Or you can try to get a larceny mission.
And if you get the layout with 2 containers and the sentry skimmer you can relog the hell out of it - as log as you dont pick the mission reward
By playing normally i got like 5 or 6 SDP in 2 months of heavy EDO play - as in hundreds and hundreds or missions.
And out of those 5-6 about half were from random data ports in Settlements while the other half from abandoned Download missions
While relogging in a mission POI can net somene 3-6 SDP per hour
I dont really like the relog mechanism, but i dont really want to be barred from game content by poorly thought RNG mechanisms.
So ye, no complains from me.
Nope
Only in Security Data ports in CMD buildings
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Crashed Sentry skimmer at the Irregular Marker (threat X) POI - it's a specific layout with 2 containers and a crashed skimmer (obviously it's the rarer layout, the most common has 3 containers and a burned SRV)
Edit: or as a mission item for Download missions (pick the mission, download it - but careful cause the download is illegal, then abandon the mission and keep the SDP)
For me, in around the same period of time, I had sufficient to give some away to another player. RNG at its best, I guess.
Unfortunately, yes. RNG can be a she-dog
In the same period i also transferred a lot of rarer data to my other alt - the stuff needed for Colonia, but SDP? too few to help someone that literally did hundreds of missions per month for 2 months straight.
I had no doubt that you did literally hundreds of missions. Isn't that exactly indicative of both very rare and RNG? Part of the game design that exists in EDH too with some of the G5 mats in HGEs too, where the very rare materials are exactly that.
That was the one I meant.
I've found procurement missions targeting SDPs to be the best source so far. Organically I came across a mere nine since release, despite doing EDO missions pretty much constantly. Recently (as in last week) I made it a habit to check every mission board I come across, including the boards at settlements, and have since increased that count to over thirty.
For me, going to Colonia would be more annoying than getting 20 SDPs.
At least one FC owner has a regular weekly 'shuttle' each way. FCOC lists others.For me, going to Colonia would be more annoying than getting 20 SDPs.
It is just a matter of travelling each way (16 hours'ish) and spending a little time doing 'stuff' around Colonia nebula.
Sahme the 'pinned blueprints' are yet to happen, though.
In 16 hours I could probably dig up 20 SDPs.
Many players don't find enjoyment in doing things for no purpose. Anytime I am "playing the game", I am doing so with a goal in mind. This applies to all games, not just Elite; even 'relaxed' games like Stardew Valley.
This is simply my personality type. This is not a flaw, it is just an aspect of who I am.
I find your inability to accept different perspectives from your own to be tacky and callous. It should not be difficult to maintain a perspective of generosity, with the intent of creating a game enjoyable for as many people as possible. There is no reason the game cannot be designed to suit both of our desired play styles. Your rejection of my viewpoint, even as I attempt to take your viewpoint into account, only proves that your viewpoint is the one that should be rejected.
Well, you're no stranger to rejecting other people's viewpoints.
In fact, I've yet to see a thread where you accept others views.
Your personality type is your own, certainly.
An inability to accept alternative viewpoints is certainly a flaw, one which, being perfectly blunt, in not applicable to me, particularly, but certainly a part of the 'discussion'...
But, it is just a game, and one might enjoy 'just playing' or do something so many times in succession that any pleasure might be leached from the dreary activity for that player.
I present an alternative to mindless repitition of a boring scenario - although you, certainly, are free to pursue your own lofty goal and enjoy every second of it... I'd choose play every time in comparison.
So, once again, being blunt, my viewpoint is considerably more valid than your own, as mine presents playing pleasure, against mindless grind.
Blaming game mechanics is a bit of a cop-out, but to each their own.
No, your viewpoint utterly rejects the portion of the playerbase who enjoys that sort of activity.
Do you think players who grind Diablo 2 aren't legitimately playing the game? They pour thousands of hours into that game, having an amazing time, and yet they're playing the game wrong, and should just play it the way you do and they'll have a better time?
No. You are the one telling players they're playing the game wrong, not enjoying things correctly. And that's absolute nonsense. Everyone has a right to play and enjoy the game in the way they prefer.
And given there is zero reason the game cannot more than satisfy both our desires, I see no reason for you to reject that subset of players other than cruelty and spite.
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