HGE are in no way supplemental, since you can for the most part pick exactly the material you want by having the correct faction states, and at best not conflicting ones that can drop both materials of the conflicting states. If something is supplemental, it's the other methods, which are completely RNG.
You need between 7-11 G5 rolls to max out a module. Let's take 9 as the average. You need 6 G4 materials for one G5 if they are in the same category, or 36 G4 materials for one crosstraded G5. That same conversion rate applies between the lower grades. G4 mats barely drop enough of themselves at Davs Hope, and you want to trade up ? Not practical at all and the worst grind imaginable.
That's how I roll, got a problem with that ?
Pure self-defense against a currently way too punishing mechanic.
My thoughts exactly. Worse yet, population doesn't seem to have an effect on HGE spawn rate any more. I was looking for CDC yesterday. So checking out fed factions in state none. No HGE anywhere in sight in both a 15 and a 8 billion population. A cozy 2 billion system then had two....at a distance that required 5 minutes cruising even on full throttle and untargeting to avoid the overshoot, so the fastest way possible. They had 8 minutes on their clock left. So getting both was out of the question, and from the one I could reach I got barely three relogs before it expired.
