Engineers High Grade Emissions in 3.3.03 - still chaos, but farming is good!

Knispels

Knispels
bootsam said:
Exit to desktop directly after scooping. Do not enter sc. or exit to menu. Use task manager toend task. Its quicker. Then restart. You will in normal space. Then enter supercruise. Hit 70% throttle and use panel to selectuss with blue arrow. Rinse repeat.
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Yes it was to early in the morning for my brain, because I see now it did say exit to desktop. Need more coffee. Thanks bootsam and Mugur for keeping me less confused. :)
 

TexasVet

TexasVet
Just found a HGE with 15 Phamaceutical Isolators at Arbuda that's in an Outbreak State.
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Ceekay

Ceekay
Mugur said:
^^^ I was yesterday evening there, stayed about an hour, but no HGE appeared. Still outbreak though...
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Did you regularly honk the system? as the timers run out on USS more will spawn so you need to honk and check the FSS, generally I'll do a check and move to the next outbreak system and perhaps return later.
 

Mugur

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Ceekay said:
Did you regularly honk the system? as the timers run out on USS more will spawn so you need to honk and check the FSS, generally I'll do a check and move to the next outbreak system and perhaps return later.
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Yes, of course. Nothing.

Today I went to another system in Outbreak not far from there (Wolf 573) and there were 4 HGEs right from the start. I managed to enter 3 of them, including one that belonged to a faction in actual outbreak, but there were no PI either. Just CDCs or PHRs.
 

D.D.Hariman

D.D.Hariman
bootsam said:
^^^ generally means 'as above'. Or 'what he said' or similar.

To farm HGE's once you scoop up the mats, use task manager to 'end process' or quit to desktop. Then restart and log on., enter SC, drop to 70% immediately and check board. You will see new USS with blue arrow. Select it and turn back, it will be the same HGE you were in previously. Only the timer will have changed. Each 'farm' takes about 3-4mins. So if your lucky and started with 30mins, thats a good 15 'farms'.
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Humnnn,, I consider this to be an "exploit" but I had to try it. Doesn't seems to work for me.
BUT,, I am wondering if it is because I enter supercruise from 0 normal space speed and Boost so I never have any speed above 0 when I get into SC..
 

Mugur

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I've come to the conclusion that everything is so broken or RNGed so I'd better stick to what's working. Even systems that usually have HGEs, don't always have them for hours, maybe there is a cool-down period or something.

So I made myself a circuit around Achenar, made of highly populated Imperial systems and a material trader nearby (Lombi) and I started collecting Imperial Shielding: collect until 100, then trade 90 for 15 others, then go back. I can even do a 40 minutes HGE twice if I move fast. It's boring, but it works. No more searching for states and factions. Yesterday evening, I found ONLY Imperial Shielding, no matter the faction state.

I think in 5-6 days (I can't play more than 1-2h per evening), I'll maximize all of my Grade 5 (currently from 25 to 70 each) and then I'll go back to engineering my ships (after maybe a new excursion to The Bug Killer and Jameson's Cobra). I just want to be able to do any mod without thinking about materials for a while... if possible, because you cannot do more than 7-8 lightweight mods that requires PRAs for example, without empty your reserves for both PRAs and PLAs. Same with others.
 

Hullreaver

Hullreaver
Stop trying to find certain items and just go to an Imperial system and you will load up on Imperial Shielding in no time. I maxed out my inventory. I then went to a material trader and got all kinds of other components I needed very easily, as the Imperial Shielding is one of the top materials in the group. Some trades gave me 20+ items for 1 Imperial Shield.
 

Chong-su

Chong-su
08:13 Game time
System : Kpannon DI
Federation None
Found 2.x HGE x a total of 10 Core Dynamic Composites

09:42
System : Taliesin
Federation Boom
2 x HGE : 3xCore Dynamic Composites + 3xProprietary composites | 4x Proto Radiolic Alloy + 2x Proto Light Alloy

13:22
System : Wolf 324
Federation Boom
1x HGE : Proto Light Alloy ( 3x )

14:11
System : Bipeduwa
Federacion none
1x HGE : 3xCore Dinamics Composites + 2x Proprietary composites

14:43
System : Anna Perenna
Federation Boom
1x HGE : 4x Proprietary composites + 2xCore dynamics composited

15:12
System : Anna Perenna
Federation Boom
Multiple HGE : 5x Proto Head radiators | 3xCore dynamics composites + 1xProprietary Composites | 4xProto Radiolic Alloy + 2xProto Light Alloy | 4xProto HEat Radiators
 
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Krash

Krash
Knispels said:
Please forgive an old man for being confused. But you said that you exit after collecting to the desktop, and I thought the logo screen and shader prep only happens when you first sign on to the game. And that entering from the desktop produces just your current ship spinning around until the game loads. So I could be missing something here, but are you logging completely out of the game after collecting or just exiting to desktop?
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The key to this step is to use the Task Manager to kill the game. Don't use the "Exit to Desktop" option on the menu. I haven't tried this myself as it seems to be a drastic process for HGE farming.
 

Wasp0

Wasp0
Krash said:
The key to this step is to use the Task Manager to kill the game. Don't use the "Exit to Desktop" option on the menu. I haven't tried this myself as it seems to be a drastic process for HGE farming.
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You Mean....................................................... Combat Logging? :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
 

Mugur

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I used exit to desktop from the menu and it was working last time I checked. Exit to menu does not work after one of the smaller patches.
 
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