Newcomer / Intro Mission Skimmer Destruction

[CMDR Darth Vater]

Hi there,

is there a way to trigger skimmers?

Even when one random guy was angry about me and made station go red - I can't see any skimmer on the contact list:

 

[SharkBiscuit]

Hi there,

is there a way to trigger skimmers?
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Even when one random guy was angry about me and made station go red - I can't see any skimmer on the contact list:
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Hey there. So i haven’t retried this mission type in recent patches, but have long been broken since POI design changes Odyssey brought. I used to LOVE these missions, and wish they’d come back.

See this old thread https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...y-ever-have-been-feedback.580228/post-9253069

 

[cmdr milesred]

you can look for more threads on this topic where I explain skimmers can be found within a 400km radius of a station or outpost that they are from.

or just use this.
I usually land at the edge of the 400km radius, then drive toward the station....usually find all I need in under 30 minutes.

 

[cmdr milesred]

can't argue the odyssey poi bit...it makes rng look friendly.

keep your ship close, you may need to lift off and reland just to kickstart the rng for poi....

 

[SharkBiscuit]

Btw, there we’re always better ways (IMHO) of hunting skimmers than at the target settlement. POIs within a radius of the settlement (and any others the faction was present) would spawn 2-5 at a time. But now much less likely to find from orbit, let alone being of the target faction.

 

[SharkBiscuit]

you can look for more threads on this topic where I explain skimmers can be found within a 400km radius of a station or outpost that they are from.

or just use this.
I usually land at the edge of the 400km radius, then drive toward the station....usually find all I need in under 30 minutes.

On Odyssey? I’d like to see that - because it always was correct on Horizons v3.8

 

[CMDR Darth Vater]

can't argue the odyssey poi bit...it makes rng look friendly.

keep your ship close, you may need to lift off and reland just to kickstart the rng for poi....

Do you play on Odyssey and have you done that mission recently to confirm your statements?

 

[cmdr milesred]

you will likely find nothing from orbit

you can find them in an srv

yes, sadly 4.0 as such there is no difference in edo or edh any more

the breaker is rng vs geysers/fumaroles

since horizons was removed, the rng is better at failing than anything else.
but yes, even last night managed to come across skimmers on a planet for no reason...hunting meteorites.

they will not have a poi that is listed in the nav panel or anywhere

if you know how the sonar on the srv works, then you are good to go, I guess.

the only thing I know of that breaks anything on planets is geysers and fumaroles
if they exist on a body, not much else does.
if they exist, I won't land, there is no point.

in horizons, skimmer missions were very easy to do and fun
imo to do them in Odyssey means your head is already in pain and you want it to hurt more.

 

[CMDR Darth Vater]

I have no issues to drive on a planet. I have fun and I know to use my scanner, currently lots of stones, dust, stars, screenshots, outcrops and meteorites on my way. But I am really not convinced if you have succeeded in finding mission related skimmers simply by driving away from the station. I know you can do a 400 kms trip, but why should be the skimmers being triggered? The random treasure guards wouldn't be mission targets.

 

[cmdr milesred]

yes they are, the objective is to kill x amount of skimmers from a specific faction, the faction in control of the base you are told to go to
the 400km radius will have the poi skimmers and all of them will belong to the faction controlling that station/outpost/settlement.
this is old and has not changed for EDO.

as long as you are seeing meteorites, you will eventually see signs of fallen cargo and skimmers guarding it.

 

[SharkBiscuit]

yes they are, the objective is to kill x amount of skimmers from a specific faction, the faction in control of the base you are told to go to
the 400km radius will have the poi skimmers and all of them will belong to the faction controlling that station/outpost/settlement.
this is old and has not changed for EDO.

as long as you are seeing meteorites, you will eventually see signs of fallen cargo and skimmers guarding it.

You said that in the old thread too, and I have still not found it to be the case on v4.
NEVER found a single manmade type POI except if it was already found from orbit surface scan.

Very happy to be wrong, so i will try once again. Care to share a system/faction/body where this worked for you? Maybe there’s something special about your location.

Ps. true about geo/biologicals. Not even rocks spawned near those in v3.8 too