Engineers Medium Security Settlement List and Guide for Modified Embedded Firmware

Oogie Boogie

Oogie Boogie
Hi, want to give it a try and landed on one of the industrial maps. My issue is that I've got only 60 seconds to scan those data points, which is really tough to match. In the initial thread I read something about 300 seconds per data point. Somebody can give me a feedback, if I am doing something wrong here? Thanks!

Edit: Or if anybody of the more successful players could upload a video on Youtube, this would be awesome!

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djadjok

djadjok
Oogie Boogie said:
Hi, want to give it a try and landed on one of the industrial maps. My issue is that I've got only 60 seconds to scan those data points, which is really tough to match. In the initial thread I read something about 300 seconds per data point. Somebody can give me a feedback, if I am doing something wrong here? Thanks!

Edit: Or if anybody of the more successful players could upload a video on Youtube, this would be awesome!
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Data points in Large Industrial/Medium Security Layout in effect have only 60 sec increment for each scan, and if you know in advance their placement (looking at the maps provided of doing your own fly-by screens in advance) the scanning is doable in provided time period. I mean there is nothing wrong here - 120 sec total to make 3 points is pretty normal. Follow this path and use the "scan-through" trick. The enormous "300" secs increment so far available only in Medium (large in fact) _Extraction_/High Security Layout, and this is an exception rather than a rule.
Unlucky for me my own videos have gone yesterday with one of my hdd's broken. But I'm sure I've saw an announce of something similar in this post earlier.
 

Devari

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djadjok said:
Data points in Large Industrial/Medium Security Layout in effect have only 60 sec increment for each scan, and if you know in advance their placement (looking at the maps provided of doing your own fly-by screens in advance) the scanning is doable in provided time period. I mean there is nothing wrong here - 120 sec total to make 3 points is pretty normal. Follow this path and use the "scan-through" trick. The enormous "300" secs increment so far available only in Medium (large in fact) _Extraction_/High Security Layout, and this is an exception rather than a rule.
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I agree, the data point scans are certainly quite achievable even if you don't get to add the "extra" time from the clock prior to scanning the CDT, my point was simply that the CDT "stopped/hidden" clock bug was not necessarily an advantage depending on whether you scan the data points before the hidden timer runs out or if you wait for the hidden timer to elapse and "stop" the clock entirely. So the CDT issue can either be considered a bug that can be "useful" if you specifically use it to stop the clock, but if you don't know how it works it can actually work against you by failing to add the prior leftover time and make the data point scan harder to complete.
 

Oogie Boogie

Oogie Boogie
Devari said:
I agree, the data point scans are certainly quite achievable even if you don't get to add the "extra" time from the clock prior to scanning the CDT, my point was simply that the CDT "stopped/hidden" clock bug was not necessarily an advantage depending on whether you scan the data points before the hidden timer runs out or if you wait for the hidden timer to elapse and "stop" the clock entirely. So the CDT issue can either be considered a bug that can be "useful" if you specifically use it to stop the clock, but if you don't know how it works it can actually work against you by failing to add the prior leftover time and make the data point scan harder to complete.
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Really a nice one, have to try this out. Hopefully helps my not so successful attempts so far.
 

djadjok

djadjok
Devari said:
I agree, the data point scans are certainly quite achievable even if you don't get to add the "extra" time from the clock prior to scanning the CDT, my point was simply that the CDT "stopped/hidden" clock bug was not necessarily an advantage depending on whether you scan the data points before the hidden timer runs out or if you wait for the hidden timer to elapse and "stop" the clock entirely. So the CDT issue can either be considered a bug that can be "useful" if you specifically use it to stop the clock, but if you don't know how it works it can actually work against you by failing to add the prior leftover time and make the data point scan harder to complete.
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Jut to note: CDT scan marked on the provided path maps was not done with the purpose to "pause" scan - as I've said, I was not aware at that moment that this works - simply as it is placed "on the way" of the normal DAP scan marathon and I prefer not to return/climb and do the CDT scan separately if it's already on my way. I've used the same path before 2.1 (before CDT has been introduced). Just normally I know that I have more then enough time to finish DAP scan chain AND to scan CDT on my way.
 

Morwo

Morwo
Is there a legend to the symbols on the route pics? there are plenty of them and i cant figure out what certain ones meant to be.
 

djadjok

djadjok
Morwo said:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1KCuCIwTETSeVQ5dFFzd2dLbnM/view?pref=2&pli=1
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Yep, but take into account that I have't updated map's legend to reflect changes introduced in 2.1:
1) magenta triangle - stationary missile launchers
2) CDT terminal - same as DAP but with blue color of the circle.
also "path"-related symbols are not documented at all

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Hamakua said:
Yes, medium security.
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Thank you, I have updated this entry
 

djadjok

djadjok
finally got 1 MEF seed (=3 copies) in large/medium security, the first catch since 2.1.05, and this was 6th or 7th settlement checked.
 

Morwo

Morwo
This guide really got me. this is so much fun to do. thanks for sharing your work.
i had alittle fun with shadowplay and recorded a run [video=youtube;jUacJit9YH4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUacJit9YH4[/video]
 

Devari

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I've gone back to the bases at 89 Leonis and my MEF drops were quite good, 1 MEF from Payne's Inheritance and 2 MEF from Burgess Holdings, but each MEF counted 3X so that was actually 9 MEF total from those two bases alone. That is quite a small sample for comparison but so far those drops seem very similar (other than the 3X multiplier) to what I was getting from these bases prior to 2.1.05, with an average of 1.25 MEF drops/base prior to the 2.1.05 patch compared to an average of 1.5 MEF drops/base from these bases after 2.1.05. I'm not sure if other players have just been having less luck with the drops since 2.1.05 or if there is a notable decrease in the drop rate that I haven't seen yet. There were definitely stretches that I would go through prior to 2.1.05 where I would go to 6 or more bases in a row with no MEF, then it would suddenly start dropping from bases again so I think the RNG is quite unpredictable for the MEF drops.
 
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faluc

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I'd like to express my eternal gratitude for this wonderful thread.

The SRV makes me nauseous so I'm very glad that with minimal SRV time I have now all the firmwares I'll need for a long time.
I scanned the data points of the bases with Industrial layout (except the one that had 2g gravity)
From these I gained 21x level 3 firmware for dirty drives 5, and 15x level 5 firmware for the overcharged weapon grade 5
 

Sevenperry

Sevenperry
Think it's already on the list but the Scientific layout of Gulyaev Vision med sec +++ on Lister at Wyrd was an utter waste of time as far as MEF goes.
 
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