Improvements to materials gathering from last updates?

Bloodsign · Oct 13, 2019

I'm out at my favorite Ruthenium spot for a couple hours to top off.

I'm noticing significant positive changes! I've had no "false positives" - every crystalline cluster I shoot generates something.

Also seeing new Ruthenium models I've never seen before. There are still the usual spiky buckeyballs, but also a sleeker crystal too.

I'm digging it! (Get it, little prospecting pun there? Ok, NVM...)

Bloodsign · Oct 14, 2019

Confirmed at my Technetium and Polonium spots, material gathering greatly improved. Seems like improvements to hit detection with SRV repeaters too, but maybe that's just me.

Maxed out Ruthenium, Technetium, and Polonium in just a few hours.

Trotsky2112 · Oct 14, 2019

Interesting! It would be nice to have an easier time collecting mats. I loathe trying to mine and trade everything I need for engineers

avow555 · Oct 14, 2019

Bloodsign said:
I'm out at my favorite Ruthenium spot for a couple hours to top off.

I'm noticing significant positive changes! I've had no "false positives" - every crystalline cluster I shoot generates something.

Also seeing new Ruthenium models I've never seen before. There are still the usual spiky buckeyballs, but also a sleeker crystal too.

I'm digging it! (Get it, little prospecting pun there? Ok, NVM...)

Long may it stay this way, bug free..

Bloodsign · Oct 14, 2019

Trotsky2112 said:
Interesting! It would be nice to have an easier time collecting mats. I loathe trying to mine and trade everything I need for engineers

I just researched best spots for G4 raws, then I stockpile those and trade them down in their categories. Raws last a while this way.

CMDR Ekaitz · Oct 14, 2019

I went raw material gathering 2 weeks ago and encountered the same thing: no false positives in none of the g4 spots! So a process that used to take me 1-2 days took me few hours instead.

Aashenfox · Oct 14, 2019

@OP, you're not still using volcanic (geological) sites to gather raws are you??!?

Bloodsign · Oct 14, 2019

Aashenfox said:
@OP, you're not still using volcanic (geological) sites to gather raws are you??!?

No, I utilize biologicals.

Aashenfox · Oct 14, 2019

Bloodsign said:
No, I utilize biologicals.

Phew!! When you said about the spiky footballs I got worried (cos the nodes at geo look like the spiky footballs, I recognise that fallen bio materials also do, but only after they fall)!