HGE Timers and You!!

[Medi0cr3]

If you dont feel the pain in elite yet, then you should try looking for HGE in a system near you! It might exist while you are in the galaxy map looking for that sweet system to jump into. However when you get there, you do your thing and hit the nav beacon (because lets face it the FSS scanner is annoying to deal with) or your using that sweet new FSS tool which takes 30 minutes to complete due to extremely slow sensitivity when maxed out in game (and then my mouse DPI gets set to 10000, hurray... why FDEV why....)

lets talk about this tho.... How many of you are sick of finding that HGE and seeing this... A destination very far away and you have zero time to get there.

http://puu.sh/Cm6T4/ff6243f3b5.jpg

 

[Camisade]

When the new update rolled out, I kept running into this, too. In fact, I had the same response -- "Are you kidding? You give me an HGE, but then set the time so I have to be a Buckyball racer to have a hope of getting there before it expires?!"

After a little more hunting, I realized it's just RNG, and I found many that had much longer timers, so this really isn't an issue (for me).

 

[Lestat]

Well, sometimes you win some and lose some. Like Camisade said. There are Others that have a longer timer. Maybe even closer.

 

[Camisade]

The real downside is that HGEs, which were not too difficult to find for the two weeks or so after the update, have seemed to completely dried up in the last couple days. Systems that SHOULD produce them reliably or at least now and then (high population, high-tech and systems at war, etc) are all too often not spawning them at all now. This HGE drought seemed to happen about the same time Weapons Fire USS's were reintroduced (they were remarkably absent (or rare) for a couple weeks after the update).

My guess is, as we've seen so often before, that Frontier only realized their paradigm or drop tables were deeply flawed after (supposedly) tested changes were pushed into production, at which point the foreseeable (and chronic) issues associated with allowing people who find HGEs to farm them repeatedly flagged someone's attention. Then the nerf bat came out and didn't stop swinging.

Is anyone having a substantially different experience? I'm not even asking where you're finding them; I just want to know if anyone is still reliably finding HGEs out there within the last day or so? ...Either RNGesus hates me or even the kind that spawn for systems/factions in "None" state or "War" state have dried up -- and don't even bother dreaming of finding those G5 mats that only spawn during BGS states are still rarer than hens' teeth, thanks to the sputtering BGS engine.

 

[Camisade]

...because lets face it the FSS scanner is annoying to deal with) or your using that sweet new FSS tool which takes 30 minutes to complete due to extremely slow sensitivity when maxed out in game

30 minutes to complete? Are you using your zoom -- especially zoom out? I can scan all the USS's in a system that's spawned 30-40 of them within a few minutes! It should not take you that long to search the skies in any given system. Zoom all the way out, find the orbits, look for the arrows. Tune, zoom in, zoom out, move to the next one. Easy peasy.