Are nav beacons intended for rookie bounty hunters? I normally hunt 15-20k+ bounties in SC, and when those become scarce I like to check the nav. When I get there, though, there's RARELY anything bigger than a cobra with a bounty! Is it just me? I'd love to find a place to hunt bounties around 30k or more regularly, also, if anyone knows of a good place.
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Nav Beacon Useless After Certain Point?
- Thread starter CMDR Hagglebeard
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Are nav beacons intended for rookie bounty hunters? I normally hunt 15-20k+ bounties in SC, and when those become scarce I like to check the nav. When I get there, though, there's RARELY anything bigger than a cobra with a bounty! Is it just me? I'd love to find a place to hunt bounties around 30k or more regularly, also, if anyone knows of a good place.
Im in a Sidey, made ~350k via bounties in USS/Nav.
Im now only finding Sideys/Cobras in them, and the occasional Hauler, but few of them have bounties.
It's anecdotal, so not sure how true it is, but I have made a fair profit by finding a system that is high pop, anarchy, with a local pirate faction with high influence (or even majority in some cases), seems to increase the rate of pirate vessels, including higher rates of the larger ships. Sweet spot for me is the dangerous/elite viper/cobra/asp range, which net up to 40k per kill, but a fair few larger ships will wander through, (although the time taken to down a mostly-harmless anaconda for about 10k isn't really worth it - the 90k elites make up for it, along with cargo drops)
i also have my pet 1t block of palladium, which i have named 'bait' to suck in any potential pirates from factions i want to remain friendly with, just gotta remember to let them shoot first.
occasionally the rate does drop off, but fsd'ing out of the nav beacon and then re-entering seems to reset the instance.
i also have my pet 1t block of palladium, which i have named 'bait' to suck in any potential pirates from factions i want to remain friendly with, just gotta remember to let them shoot first.
occasionally the rate does drop off, but fsd'ing out of the nav beacon and then re-entering seems to reset the instance.