I'm not getting ANY data from these points, just a 60 second reset timer. I'm currently at Roberts base ++ at Valys 4.
What am I doing wrong?
What am I doing wrong?
Engineers Medium Security Settlement List and Guide for Modified Embedded Firmware
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OK you know what I did... I read the first two pages and figured it out.
Scan all data points in order, get the package.
I got 3 MEF amongst other things despite having goofed a few of them up (3/6 ) were compromised.
Scan all data points in order, get the package.
I got 3 MEF amongst other things despite having goofed a few of them up (3/6 ) were compromised.
Glad to here that the problem is solved. However, beware that this thread has been started before 2.1.05 - and now we have 2.2. While some basic mechanics has not been changed, some important statements - yes. So two pages may be not sufficient=)
About "compromised data points" - some info. So far there were no any difference with "normal" ones observed. But I think that I've at least figured out the reason for their appearance. In a given instance some "normal" DAPs can occasionally "flip" into "compromised" after each unfinished/unsuccessful DAP chain scan run. Reinstancing (relogging/re-entering) bring them all back to normal.
OK that makes sense. After I failed at that location I then jumped out to go to another in the same system. Whilst in SC I figured out the method and because it needed to run them all in sequence with a bit of time pressure I thought I'd give it a "dry" run at the location I'd just gotten used to.
Happy endings!
So as I understand I personally cant use this location again for a couple of weeks?
After a successful run (i.e after obtaining materials/credits) - yes, a couple of weeks (or a bit less). However you can retry as many times as needed to achieve this success on the same base if by any means you've failed your previous attempts. The order of scan is unimportant, only time counts. "Compromised" and "normal" so far have only differences in their names (at least nothing special observed/recorded).
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hi
sorry if already answered but is there a reccomended route to do for going from 1 settlement to another in a semi efficient order?
thanks
sorry if already answered but is there a reccomended route to do for going from 1 settlement to another in a semi efficient order?
thanks
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Good question.
During last 3 months I've heard about 2 or 3 commanders that have announced their intentions to implement such kind of the functionality - using data provided in the locations list. However I have no information if they succeeded or not. I fact I have some doubts in a positive answer at the current stage. As far as understand some evident difficulties shows up - number and distribution of fully described settlements is too sparse. That was the fact in the very beginning of the list. Now the overall number of records has been increased greatly (~1000), however after some specific filtering being applied the resulting quantity can also become not very impressive.
NeoTron made a little program that will order the system into a loop with minimal consecutive distance. I don't think he's publicly released it yet though.
Yep, we have talked about it on discord at the end of October, no news since then.
Thanks, but now it's not only me who provides data for the locations. Commanders Banzz, Drownerfood and Sandro75 are actively contributing now to both spreadsheets.
Yep, but we have no this feature at the moment (at least announced for all public).
So, at the moment we have a bit less than 1000 bigger-than-tiny settlements locations. Jut to remind - all this was originally supposed to be part of EDDB (or something like).
More, I think that if one is searching for specific low-grade data, like SLF/MCF/CSD, then it's simpler not to rely on any kind of lists - low security bases are always free to scan and one can find plenty of them in any corner of the inhabited bubble.
However, if one filter out free-to-scan settlements with security level greater than low - med or high-sec for CIF/MEF, also CSD - the result will contain only 351 bases, situated in 291 systems. Enough to collect materials, but a bit sparse for automated routing. I'll try to produce some comprehensible graphical map with google spreadsheets, not sure that i'll succeed.
DjaCoP news:
1) I have cloned the main locations list. Now the original version is best suited for editors, and clone is better for queries/filtering (only results of calculations there, not the calculations themselves).
2) New submission form created - for adding newly discovered settlements if there is no data scanning performed (by any reasons). For commanders that have encountered a settlement and can recognize it's layout - but have no time/intention/possibility - to perform a DAP scan run. Usual case for "fenced" high-security settlements. Use this form to enter layout/system/settlement name and commander name (required parameters), along with body/special remarks and other optional parameters.
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What a FANTASTIC idea to implement this (censored). The 60-second limit, combined with "SRV-controls" that are, to me, somebody with less-than-superb reflexes, just shoddy, work to prevent me from reaching the final access point in time. I've tried numerous times. NO DICE.
I want modified embedded firmware. NO DEAL. Missions don't offer 'em, Biotech Conductors galore, no matter where I go, and the base run is, for me, quite impossible. I'll keep trying, but this is NOT FUN. It's incredibly stressful. If I want stress, I go to work.
Thanks heaps, FD. Sorry for ranting, but this downright SUCKS!!
Edit: Tried it again. Ten times in a row. DOES NOT WORK FOR ME. I am getting serious POed here. No matter how well I drive, I end up lacking 3-5 seconds at the last data point. Given that this little sucker swerves around as if I was completely drunk . . .
Devs, PLEASE make Modified Embedded Firmware available elsewhere. In a thousand hours of gameplay, I found it exactly ONCE via missions, and that was before 2.2. I don't need Biotech Conductors, which I'm offered at every opportunity, and I simply have no desire to go through a hundred attempts to "win" such a craptastic "game" as racing from point to point, suffering from "controls" which are downright bad (my turret controls are so imprecise that I cannot aim for the life of me!) (which is still no guarantee that I'll actually be awarded that firmware, mind you!).
Bah. Sorry for ranting, but this rubs me a great deal. Work is funnier and more relaxing than this .
I want modified embedded firmware. NO DEAL. Missions don't offer 'em, Biotech Conductors galore, no matter where I go, and the base run is, for me, quite impossible. I'll keep trying, but this is NOT FUN. It's incredibly stressful. If I want stress, I go to work.
Thanks heaps, FD. Sorry for ranting, but this downright SUCKS!!
Edit: Tried it again. Ten times in a row. DOES NOT WORK FOR ME. I am getting serious POed here. No matter how well I drive, I end up lacking 3-5 seconds at the last data point. Given that this little sucker swerves around as if I was completely drunk . . .
Devs, PLEASE make Modified Embedded Firmware available elsewhere. In a thousand hours of gameplay, I found it exactly ONCE via missions, and that was before 2.2. I don't need Biotech Conductors, which I'm offered at every opportunity, and I simply have no desire to go through a hundred attempts to "win" such a craptastic "game" as racing from point to point, suffering from "controls" which are downright bad (my turret controls are so imprecise that I cannot aim for the life of me!) (which is still no guarantee that I'll actually be awarded that firmware, mind you!).
Bah. Sorry for ranting, but this rubs me a great deal. Work is funnier and more relaxing than this .
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Ok, first of all:
1) Different bases have different bonus timer steps (yep, there is one with 300 sec)
2) I also can not boast about any kind of super-reflexes (age takes it's lawful part), however I can manage normally to be in significant advance ahead of the timer (and yes, sometimes two times faster). So I can not say that the time limits are really hard. Try to find optimal path, use maps with routs suggestions (if you don't use them already), do some srv-drive training.
3) SRV controls are ok if properly assigned, also it handles well in most circumstances. If you have real problems with that - check that you have turned OFF drive assist before any scanning (or any other srv-related activity beside making selfies).
Also, you can always search this thread for CDT little "cheat" - in case that this is a large size base that you're trying to scan.
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To save me the time of looking through all the possible posts...can anyone tell me if it's possible that MEFs have been removed, or have bugs, or something? Unlike the guy just above, I'm having no problem at all finishing the scan paths, often in less than half the allotted time, but I've now been to 8 medium security stations on this list, the full gamut of station types, and I have yet to drop a single MEF. I decided I'd better write here to find out if there was something wrong before I spent any more time at it. Thanks.
Fast answer: nope, they are not removed. Have got some yesterday. But the RNGesus can be really cruel. Other situations also possible, like three seeds (9 units) from the same base.
This thread has helped in so many ways so thanks for that.
But as of now, 2.2, ive been to 5 MED security bases, and not a single MEF drop, this is outright to be fair, 4 hours so far wasted.
But as of now, 2.2, ive been to 5 MED security bases, and not a single MEF drop, this is outright to be fair, 4 hours so far wasted.
Heh, two pages ago I have already placed this link - live material drop statistic from med.sec , past 2.2
However interesting. According to "more stats" page (same spreadsheet) the popular L1M layout will be dropped out after threshold (>=0.3 seed/settlement) filtering for MEF droprate. May be I was a bit too optimistic.
Do you have to re-log for that? I haven't been able to scan the same stations (I don't think, at least).