Latest patch notes said increased spawns. Am I the only one finding LESS of them??
And yes, I know where to find them...
And yes, I know where to find them...
High Grade Emissions - increased spawn?
- Thread starter Alone Wulff
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Hi, I found a system with a couple of anomalies: HIP 107457 - it is a Fed, system - Anarchy with population of 0. In itself noteworthy but I get a higher than usual frequency of HGE. Have a look if you're in the neighbourhood - It might just be me wearing my lucky socks but often 1-3 of 10 signal sources is HGE. It's only good for Core Dynamic Composites.
Cheers
DZ
Cheers
DZ
Likewise - they are certainly appearing more often now, but never often enough
So it's just me then.
I know where to look for them, my issue is that I'm not seeing 'more' of them as per the patch notes. It takes long enough to find the few I do find, I was excited at the possibility of maybe one extra HGE every couple of systems.
I know where to look for them, my issue is that I'm not seeing 'more' of them as per the patch notes. It takes long enough to find the few I do find, I was excited at the possibility of maybe one extra HGE every couple of systems.
They are the next stop on my mat filling grindathon (self inflicted). 
they spawn more that the last time i looked.
Currently doing the Jameson Cobra crash site, full on g1-3, working on 4&5. yawn, gotta be done tho once in a while!
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they spawn more that the last time i looked.Currently doing the Jameson Cobra crash site, full on g1-3, working on 4&5. yawn, gotta be done tho once in a while!
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When I did a session of black box missions (which tend to go to need you to scan beacons) I also noticed the HGE and scooped them - one out of the way system had 7 - only one of which had the usual 0:40 second time left
When I did a session of black box missions (which tend to go to need you to scan beacons) I also noticed the HGE and scooped them - one out of the way system had 7 - only one of which had the usual 0:40 second time left
7??? It takes me an hour to find 7!
I wonder if commander traffic makes a difference to spawn chance? Most systems I search in don't see much traffic at all.
I found 3 in a system and after going through all 3 i scanned the system again using the FSS... and found another 5
Unfortunately all were from the same 2 fed factions so all i got was Core Dynamics and Propietary Composites
As i said in another post, apparently Fed affiliation overwrites the faction states :/
I had noticed that this was not happening with Imperial factions hence my advices to avoid HGE hunting in fed space.
Unfortunately all were from the same 2 fed factions so all i got was Core Dynamics and Propietary Composites
As i said in another post, apparently Fed affiliation overwrites the faction states :/
I had noticed that this was not happening with Imperial factions hence my advices to avoid HGE hunting in fed space.
(Since the update).
I'm sure you've heard it all before, but...
Get in your collector ship, set your Galmap to 'high Tech', keep jumping to next system.
I've found high pop to be better.
Expect to be visiting mat trader a fair bit.
Since the update dropped, it's all I was doing.
Definitely improved spawn rates, definitely still a band aid, getting specific mats... Nah.
I found 3 in a system and after going through all 3 i scanned the system again using the FSS... and found another 5
Unfortunately all were from the same 2 fed factions so all i got was Core Dynamics and Propietary Composites
As i said in another post, apparently Fed affiliation overwrites the faction states :/
I had noticed that this was not happening with Imperial factions hence my advices to avoid HGE hunting in fed space.
I'm not near Fed space, I'm usually looking in Alliance or Independent Boom/Outbreak.
I'm up the top of the Bubble. I'm lucky if I find one HGE in a high pop Boom state system (non-Fed/Imp).
Yeah I've "been there, done that" many times. I guess I'm just in the wrong part of the Bubble.
I preferred it when you could just cruise 100k from a star and sit waiting for HGEs to pass you by.
I feel there are more of them now, most especially in Boom systems where it usually ranges between 2 to 6 (usually 3-4). On outbreak, war, civil war and civil unrest there are much less than in boom, usually between 0 to 1 or 2.
I feel that is pays off more just focusing on boom systems and trading mats, than going specifically for things like pharmaceutical isolators or improvised components etc in non-boom systems. Not only boom systems tend to have a much larger number of HGE's, but boom systems are everywhere (we seem to be in a period of great galactic prosperity) so it's easy to jump around a few of them to spawn HGEs.
I feel that is pays off more just focusing on boom systems and trading mats, than going specifically for things like pharmaceutical isolators or improvised components etc in non-boom systems. Not only boom systems tend to have a much larger number of HGE's, but boom systems are everywhere (we seem to be in a period of great galactic prosperity) so it's easy to jump around a few of them to spawn HGEs.
I can't say I've noticed an obvious improvement but then, the problem with HGEs isn't so much their frequency as whether or not the states to generate them exist.
The last time I was out collecting Imperial Shielding I picked up almost three hundred in a session (there was trading involved). But when was it ever difficult to get those?
On the other hand there were exactly six high-population Alliance and Independent systems in Outbreak the last time I went looking for Pharmaceutical Isolators, and in those six systems I found one HGE with nine PIs (i.e. three drops) in it. Improvised Components? Good luck with that.
It's not unimaginable that they've raised the spawn rates a little but that's not the problem that needs solving.
The last time I was out collecting Imperial Shielding I picked up almost three hundred in a session (there was trading involved). But when was it ever difficult to get those?
On the other hand there were exactly six high-population Alliance and Independent systems in Outbreak the last time I went looking for Pharmaceutical Isolators, and in those six systems I found one HGE with nine PIs (i.e. three drops) in it. Improvised Components? Good luck with that.
It's not unimaginable that they've raised the spawn rates a little but that's not the problem that needs solving.
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I used to find high grade emissions like you. Then I took an arrow to the scanner.
There's heaps now. Truth is, the spawn rate never needed to be increased, rather the types of mats available in them needed changing, not that I have a problem with that either.
I did get a HGS in a Federal System (war state) with Military Supercapacitors in it, but HGS in general seemed rarer in Federal systems rather than Imperial, where it was Imperial Shielding for miles.
I did get a HGS in a Federal System (war state) with Military Supercapacitors in it, but HGS in general seemed rarer in Federal systems rather than Imperial, where it was Imperial Shielding for miles.
Spawn rate did need to be increased.
Pre-patch I could usually find at least one, more normally 2-3 in each system. Seemed enough to me...
I mean, do people even go to Degraded/Encoded Signal Sources? Or has the rate-buff just set a new minimum-bar?
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