Depends on how you define "ace" and "stand a chance". Do I stand a chance to defeat in a 1v1 duel vs one of the top 1% PvPers? Nope. But with my level of engineering and experience I know I can escape if griefed by one at that level. By my definition, a noob will not escape.
Pharmaceutical isolators
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Depends on how you define "ace" and "stand a chance". Do I stand a chance to defeat in a 1v1 duel vs one of the top 1% PvPers? Nope. But with my level of engineering and experience I know I can escape if griefed by one at that level. By my definition, a noob will not escape.
Fair enough. I'd call that a seal. But that's shallow and pedantic of me. By stand a chance, I meant to send them to rebuy or have them admit defeat via wakeout or gg.
I can escape from anything in just about any of my builds, unless maybe I'm drinking-while-flying or feel they've done something to deserve the thrill of sending me to rebuy. So by that definition, I'm not a noob, but instead a dirty dirty liar for calling myself one!
Trying to 5c everybody with ninja like deception skills. I'm actually a PC player with 10000 hours spent practicing rail snipes to the face from 6km.
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Pharmaceutical isolators
Been hunting these for hours/days. Followed all the youtube guides etc and found nothing. I'm sure they are in the same place as rocking horse shXt, hens teeth and the arc of the covanent.
You are the only person on the Internet who knows what they are talking about when it comes to finding G5 manufactured materials and HGEs in the current broken 3.3 state of the BGS. It was the only method that worked for me to get PIs after DAYS of trying every other useless method. Summary of the strategy here:
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I've killed corvette pirate lord vessels that dropped only G4 at most, and then a conda that dropped 2 or 3 G5s. The T9's that double up in some of the bulk USS sites for bulk pirate kill missions sometimes drop G5s, and if you hang around and finish a few, sometimes a conda and a couple pythons show up and you can farm those as well if you can survive.
But I get most of my G5s by trading up lower mats. You just start with the lowest and trade all the way up. Then go farm low mats again with 9 limpets.
But I get most of my G5s by trading up lower mats. You just start with the lowest and trade all the way up. Then go farm low mats again with 9 limpets.
I would like to make an amendment to my short guide to farming G5 manufactured materials. I have found a way which seems to serve me ever so slightly more reliably and will also be helpful to those imperial folks who think Fed space smells, I assure you the feeling is mutual 
Go to Haroingori, it is the ONLY system I have seen that often spawns 4 to 5 HGEs a go (and of course not always), and barring any strange states (would be unusual since it is Blue Haired Bimbo control system), every HGE will contain between 9 and 15 Imperial Shielding. Trade those for whatever.
The reason I prefer this method now, despite being some way from my home system, is that the Imperial Shielding instances, are VERY RARELY polluted with other materials, you are pretty much guaranteed to get 9 to 15 imp shielding every time. Once you've got the first 30 or so materials from the first half an hour, flit about some other nearby systems for 15 minutes or so, looking for other Imp Shielding HGEs (try to favour high pop Imp systems in boom) and then go back to haroingori for another run. Good luck!
The old method of a loop of Fed high tech systems also still works fine, but you'll get more Proprietary Composites (which are g4) polluting your G5 results.
Go to Haroingori, it is the ONLY system I have seen that often spawns 4 to 5 HGEs a go (and of course not always), and barring any strange states (would be unusual since it is Blue Haired Bimbo control system), every HGE will contain between 9 and 15 Imperial Shielding. Trade those for whatever.
The reason I prefer this method now, despite being some way from my home system, is that the Imperial Shielding instances, are VERY RARELY polluted with other materials, you are pretty much guaranteed to get 9 to 15 imp shielding every time. Once you've got the first 30 or so materials from the first half an hour, flit about some other nearby systems for 15 minutes or so, looking for other Imp Shielding HGEs (try to favour high pop Imp systems in boom) and then go back to haroingori for another run. Good luck!
The old method of a loop of Fed high tech systems also still works fine, but you'll get more Proprietary Composites (which are g4) polluting your G5 results.
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every pirate lord has these things in Kamadhenu. There are missions in Calennero. medium landing pad.
1. Take Assassination missions
2. Assassinate (I guess)
3. Scoop Isolators
Sure, they won't drop every kill, but anytime it's a Corvette/Cutter/Conda, you're pretty much guaranteed a very rare drop. You can also get other G5 mats from handing in those missions, and use them + trade-ins on other G5 mats you get from the kills at a mat trader and bam, isolators everywhere.
2. Assassinate (I guess)
3. Scoop Isolators
Sure, they won't drop every kill, but anytime it's a Corvette/Cutter/Conda, you're pretty much guaranteed a very rare drop. You can also get other G5 mats from handing in those missions, and use them + trade-ins on other G5 mats you get from the kills at a mat trader and bam, isolators everywhere.
My way to getting an adequate of phamaceutical isolators was to take loads of missions simultaneously, have several anacondas chase and interdict me, sometimes 2 or 3 on 1, destroy them and scoop the remains. Plenty of high grade engineering materials overall, plus I get to do my BGS work.
You'll be doing well if you can collect the mat's from more than one ship in that scenario.
Most of the factions in Shin Dez were in outbreak a few days ago.
I was tripping over pharma isolators.
Must have been a deliberate action by some group, couldn't see that happening randomly.
I was tripping over pharma isolators.
Must have been a deliberate action by some group, couldn't see that happening randomly.
I would like to make an amendment to my short guide to farming G5 manufactured materials. I have found a way which seems to serve me ever so slightly more reliably and will also be helpful to those imperial folks who think Fed space smells, I assure you the feeling is mutual
Go to Haroingori, it is the ONLY system I have seen that often spawns 4 to 5 HGEs a go (and of course not always), and barring any strange states (would be unusual since it is Blue Haired Bimbo control system), every HGE will contain between 9 and 15 Imperial Shielding. Trade those for whatever.
The reason I prefer this method now, despite being some way from my home system, is that the Imperial Shielding instances, are VERY RARELY polluted with other materials, you are pretty much guaranteed to get 9 to 15 imp shielding every time. Once you've got the first 30 or so materials from the first half an hour, flit about some other nearby systems for 15 minutes or so, looking for other Imp Shielding HGEs (try to favour high pop Imp systems in boom) and then go back to haroingori for another run. Good luck!
The old method of a loop of Fed high tech systems also still works fine, but you'll get more Proprietary Composites (which are g4) polluting your G5 results.
Just had a solid pure G5 run by going between Haroingori, Damoch, Mac Og, and Kamaki with 2 of them giving Imperial Shielding. Guess Imperial space is the place to be then
Actually, outbreak has been observed to "spread" like that on occasion... and causing outbreak deliberately is very difficult, if not virtually impossible, unless you're targeting a system with an agricultural station. So actually, yeah, probably just random.
Most of the factions in Deciat are in Outbreak now. Sadly, the pop is not very high there.
Ah well I found a good source for themOf course he did, he traded for them.