You can often find a good supply of engineer mats in their own home systems. I found Proto Radiolic Alloys in decent quantities in the same system as the Engineer I needed the mats for.
You can often find a good supply of engineer mats in their own home systems. I found Proto Radiolic Alloys in decent quantities in the same system as the Engineer I needed the mats for.
I have found these in High grade emissions signal sources in Federation system that are in a Boom state.
You will find any of these Proto Radioilic Alloys, Proto Heat Radiators or Core Dynamics Composites in the signal source... To bad you will most often find the ones you do not need at the moment.
So what I usually do, look for Boom-state systems in galaxy map. then check if they are Federation.
Now the tricky part, you cannot be in shipping lane or close to planets..... withg orbital lines activated, I try to fly of the "plane" where most planets orbits in. you usually enter "deep space" at around 200 LS from the star, go in this direction for about 2500 LS and then turn around fly towards the star and pass at around 200 LS and continue past the star to around 2500 LS.
You must go with some speed, minimum throttle is to be avoided, I usually go 75% throttle. Full speed is also ok.
if it does NOT say you are in "deep space", you are most likely to close to planets in the system, or your client has bugged, happens sometimes.
I usually lock on to the star, so that I know the distance when to turn around. Then it should say say "Deep space" in the 3rd area from the top on the area next to the image of your target
Top area shows the star name (2 lines)
2nd area from the top, shows which faction controll of the system and what kind of star it is (3 lines)
3rd are, show if you are in "deep space" (1 line)
4 area shows faction in charge
Once you have got the hang of this.
Imperial shielding, Boom /Outbreak Imperial systems, High grade Emissions....
Pharmaceutical Isolators, Outbreak systems, High grade Emissions.
So when I go hunting for Imperial Shielding and Pharmaceutical Isolators, I go to an Imperial system in Outbreak ...
You will find any of these Proto Radioilic Alloys, Proto Heat Radiators or Core Dynamics Composites in the signal source... To bad you will most often find the ones you do not need at the moment.
So what I usually do, look for Boom-state systems in galaxy map. then check if they are Federation.
Now the tricky part, you cannot be in shipping lane or close to planets..... withg orbital lines activated, I try to fly of the "plane" where most planets orbits in. you usually enter "deep space" at around 200 LS from the star, go in this direction for about 2500 LS and then turn around fly towards the star and pass at around 200 LS and continue past the star to around 2500 LS.
You must go with some speed, minimum throttle is to be avoided, I usually go 75% throttle. Full speed is also ok.
if it does NOT say you are in "deep space", you are most likely to close to planets in the system, or your client has bugged, happens sometimes.
I usually lock on to the star, so that I know the distance when to turn around. Then it should say say "Deep space" in the 3rd area from the top on the area next to the image of your target
Top area shows the star name (2 lines)
2nd area from the top, shows which faction controll of the system and what kind of star it is (3 lines)
3rd are, show if you are in "deep space" (1 line)
4 area shows faction in charge
Once you have got the hang of this.
Imperial shielding, Boom /Outbreak Imperial systems, High grade Emissions....
Pharmaceutical Isolators, Outbreak systems, High grade Emissions.
So when I go hunting for Imperial Shielding and Pharmaceutical Isolators, I go to an Imperial system in Outbreak ...
It would be interesting to know to the game mechanic which triggers high grade USS. (And the probability they appear and the probability that is a proto of type X.). But I guess FD do not do this kind of communication. Can you really just 'play the game', as some suggest, and discover these. And, if so, what would you be doing.
I was trolling around in 'deep space' boom state in independent systems for a few hours before finding some. Had no luck in boom Fed space at all, in many systems, in a similar time frame.
Such exciting and entertaining game play ;-(
I was trolling around in 'deep space' boom state in independent systems for a few hours before finding some. Had no luck in boom Fed space at all, in many systems, in a similar time frame.
Such exciting and entertaining game play ;-(
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That's the thing with overuse of randomness in the game – when drops are based on random chance and the probabilities are set to accommodate an average, there will be some players who have way more than average in the same amount of time, and some players who will have none at all. For the players who have none, the game seems broken in this regard, and it's not that they've necessarily played any worse or looked in the wrong place, they can be just "unlucky".
For every player who says "that's not so rare, I have lots!", statistically there is some player who didn't find any or only found a few. When you consider all materials, which each have multiple layers of randomness that all need to "succeed" before you find them, it is expected that there is a large number of players who just can't find some material even if they look in the right place. (And the game doesn't even tell you if you're looking in the right place, so you don't actually know if you are just unlucky or looking in the wrong place.)
You could be right, but its odd that I can go into a High Grade Signal and still find them, along with other rare's out there. When I started this account up, after jumping into a Cobra III, the first stuff I got out of a USS was high grade rare's. But you may be right on the regard that its the luck of the draw. I have had trouble finding rare elements on surfaces as it happens.
I found this very useful
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ntified-Signal-Sources-(USS)-A-Complete-Guide
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ntified-Signal-Sources-(USS)-A-Complete-Guide
I try to keep an eye of what I'm low on and set galaxy map filters when routing to put me in those systems. If it's USS related I go up out of the plane, cruise till Deep Space and wait for one. Deep Space will spawn either High grade, encoded or degraded. Pretty sure its just a random loot table as to which. If the first one I find isn't high grade I jump to the next system and try again. Only time I ignore high grade uss is imperial systems. I have enough imperial shielding to plate a space station.
Traveling in system I stay in shipping lanes and always drop in on combat aftermath.
Works pretty good and I rarely have to go hunting anything specific.
Or find a system that should have what you need and just start running missions, trading, or bounty hunting to keep you occupied but still watch for USS's. I do this for outbreak as sometimes you can get the mats as mission rewards too.
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