I'm not sure I've ever seen SDP just drop, but since I started paying attention I find a digital espionage mission to download a SDP every 3-4 hours of playing. I take the mission and just steal the data. Those sell at max markup in a couple of minutes..
I think only the random npcs that interdict you and mission NPCs (due to rank restrictions on missions) are scaled to your combat rank so you can still get higher rank enemies at res sites or nav beacons.
Have have found SDPs a few times at settlement data ports. The drop rate is atrociously low (based on the number of ports checked).I'm not sure I've ever seen SDP just drop, but since I started paying attention I find a digital espionage mission to download a SDP every 3-4 hours of playing. I take the mission and just steal the data. Those sell at max markup in a couple of minutes..
As I said- people completely ignore it, even if I show it, so I feel no point in doing similar tests for more scenarios.
I think if you are the only commander at the RES that will influence the maximum NPC ranks that show up. Mission NPCs scale to the mission rank and at least for ship based missions they aren’t rank locked anymore.
Also you have the situation in a RES where ships aren't initially hostile. Like when I was testing out some stuff on my Viper mk3 and an elite FdL and 2 elite Challengers rocked up back in the days where attacking one would immediately make all the others in the wing hostile. That one I decided to pass on since there's always better targets to go for if something looks a bit much.
I think it is because CZs are supposed to be important for BGS or politics or something like that.
Outside of the BGS, I think CZs just offer a different narrative - fighting a war instead of killing random scavs.
Really? People are getting into that stuff while still trying to work out which way the guns are meant to point?
Because CZs offer the promise of epic space battles, especially with cap ships. There's less downtime since you always have targets and don't need to spend time scanning targets that might be clean or flying to places. There's also CGs with missable rewards that seem to be designed (imprefectly) to only have space CZs recently and while it's been getting better bounty hunting CGs didn't show up next to trade CGs for a while.
Yes, it's a few extra credits at the bar when I'm compressing my assets to Weapon Components, Graphene and Microelectrodes.
It used to be needed for BGS to resolve CZ.
I had long figured out which way to point the guns when over night the enemies were buffed by magnitudes.
I haven't installed OMH (would like to) but I've memorized the mats that are useful with an occasional accidental grab of a ship or vehicle schematic. The money from them is fine but I don't need them filling up my cache and invariably I forget they exist and accidentally transfer them to my carrier where it becomes a more manual process.
I don't see it that way. Plus your supposed sample size is biased, because many of those dissatisfied with engineering no longer participate on these forums, tired of the echo chamber and people such as yourself that suggest that the problems with it don't exist.
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Some of us have been hoping things get better for at least the past 7 years. Is it really hard to see why many gamers get fed up with that? Naturally those still playing have learned to live with what we have, that doesn't make it satisfactory.
I mean, that part is at least easy enough: pick up anything G4/G5, ignore the rest as it's more favorable to just trade down for them with the higher grade stuff.
An interesting thought; on the one hand, keeping recharge rate as high as possible via charge enhanced would seem better to me for heat management to keep WEP full at all times, but with the whacky way heat mechanics work (see here https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/research-detailed-heat-mechanics.286628/page-8#post-6408594) ... maybe the higher heat capacity will help alleviate per-salvo spikes better.
