My new goal is gathering lots of engineering mats, where is the place to go these days for good mats for trading down or up with?
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Dav's Hope is still what it is, although you can get a wake scanner and hang out at stations that are busy. Finding HGE's for Imperial Shielding, Proto-heat radiators, etc
I found Selenium to be the oddest one to farm. You can trade for that one though.
Depending on how much you value immersion (or immersion breaking) there are guides to doing this floating around the webs...
I found Selenium to be the oddest one to farm. You can trade for that one though.
Depending on how much you value immersion (or immersion breaking) there are guides to doing this floating around the webs...
Most efficient farming for Raw Mats are the crystal shard sites.
For encoded (data) gathering Jameson's crash site was meant to be good, but I found it a lot quicker in an engineered fast eagle with a fast-scan wake scanner, at a compromised nav beacon.
Thank you, and as for immersion, my HOTAS set up is all I need for immersion.
Thank you.
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Lots of good infos there :
https://old.reddit.com/r/EliteDange...020_farming_engineering_materials_a_compiled/
Note that one of the raw site was in a really rough spot for me and I couldn't do it. Still, I did 3 of them I think, and I still have tons of raw mats.
For manufactured, I'll add that t5 biotech/crystal and t5 encoded : Modified Embedded Firmware can all be awarded for quest (need to be allied first I imagine). The way I did it was good old robigo mines, which you probably already know.
https://old.reddit.com/r/EliteDange...020_farming_engineering_materials_a_compiled/
Note that one of the raw site was in a really rough spot for me and I couldn't do it. Still, I did 3 of them I think, and I still have tons of raw mats.
For manufactured, I'll add that t5 biotech/crystal and t5 encoded : Modified Embedded Firmware can all be awarded for quest (need to be allied first I imagine). The way I did it was good old robigo mines, which you probably already know.
Heck, even good ol' fashioned bounty hunting at a Haz Res can drop plenty of Mfg Mats. The Anacondas often drop up to 4 G5 mats and usually drop 3-4 G4s on top of that. Just carry a 32 ton cargo rack with limpets and a C1 collector. I find it less boring than "relog."
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I try to take elite ranked source and return missions. Preferably the ones that pay in G5 materials. Often they spawn 4 deadly anacondas. Stack 3 or 4 if these and you can have 12 deadly materials pinatas sent straight to you. Line them up, knock them down and collect the G4 and G5 materials which burst into existence upon their destruction. I don't know if its faster than relogging at davs hope. Never done that. But i can tell you my method does require that you actually play the game.
I'm new here, but that sounds like decent advice. I do struggle to see how someone relogging in repeatedly to run a circuit with their SRV is any less playing the game than mowing down "deadly anacondas". In fact, I might be wet-behind-the-ears but it sure seems to me like your approach requires way more time invested in the game than someone simply looking to G5 their very first FSD.
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As Trolly said to get tons of mats kill lots of Anacondas and pick up the bits using limpets. Some other suggestions were given too. If a cmdr isn't ready for battling elite level anacondas, Resource Extraction Sites are a great place to practice combat, pick up lots of mats, and scan ship wakes for data. And scan all the ships at ports when you return for repairs & ammo. If you want to sit all day relogging at Davs Hope go ahead.
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Dav's Hope is fine if you want/need the stuff that's actually there.
You'd have to be nuts to visit DH to farm stuff to trade up, though.
Even if you slavishly hoovered up every G3/G4 mat' that appears, relog after relog, you're going to take them to a mat' trader and only get a handful of G5 mat's for your trouble.
And, of course, if you want a G5 mat' that's in a different group to the G3/G4 mat's you've collected, you're only going to get 1/6th of that handful.
Far, far better (more efficient and more fun) to just have a session of exploding ships and hoovering up the remains.
Not as efficient as HGE farming, I suppose, but definitely more enjoyable.
Do you think relogging is good or even intended gameplay? I'v done it. Lots of it, especially back before the modes had a common mission generator. I will never do it again because it sucks the life from the experience in an irredeemable way for me. As far as davs hope goes, my understanding is that place gives G4 materials at best. Anacondas however drop mostly G4 materials and frequently drop G5 materials. Not only did the OP say they wanted the BEST materials, they said they wanted to trade DOWN. Now you could conceivably collect enough G3 and G4 materials at davs hope to eventually, someday trade up to some G5 materials. You will never convince its faster or more fun than taking advantage of G5 materials pinatas sent to die on your spear in what is totally organic, somewhat challenging and fully intended gameplay.
Interesting, I have always used lightweight sensors and long range wake scanners (so I can sit in one location and scan wakes all around me).
Does having wide range sensors slurp up data too?
I use the shard sites for raw, and then trade as needed.
I go to the Jameson crash site and any missions that pay in MEF for encoded.
For manufactured mat's, I sometimes go to Dav's Hope, I also like to stack pirate massacre missions. Collecting mats in the middle of a fight is stressful, but fun, I target only the higher quality mats, while being shot at. While doing pirate massacre missions, I also look for HGE's. I side trade for alot of MFG higher level mats, which is not ideal.
I go to the Jameson crash site and any missions that pay in MEF for encoded.
For manufactured mat's, I sometimes go to Dav's Hope, I also like to stack pirate massacre missions. Collecting mats in the middle of a fight is stressful, but fun, I target only the higher quality mats, while being shot at. While doing pirate massacre missions, I also look for HGE's. I side trade for alot of MFG higher level mats, which is not ideal.
Unlocking Professor Palin and Chole Sedesi requires 50 Sensor Fragments total. I'm not sure how you would gather those without logging in and out, they need to respawn at some point. Missions with Material rewards need to respawn too. Does it matter that its after 2 minutes refreshing / logging out or 2 days? I don't know. It does make the crafting system feel broken though. I can't fathom the amount of time it would take to accomplish anything significant in the game without using outside sources for reference. Is that intended gameplay or poor design? I think ignoring player relog farming is easy answer to fix the scale of resource gathering requirements. Otherwise, the respawn timer would be several minutes at least.