I have posted this info regarding HGE's a couple times
Also just good USS farming in general as well
Point being the population is not relevant as it once appeared to be. for both.
I say appear because systems all have equations that indicate what and how they do things.
Too easy too notice this when horizons dropped mostly regarding meteorites materials.
numbers didn't matter, only what you actually see mattered
and in a few posts I point out a system I have controlled for over 5 years and is my goto for imperial shielding.
94k population
Has always shown between 5 and 25 uss's upon system entry, before scanning nav beacon
scan the nav and its often 3 or 4 times as many USS
I have 2 anarchy system that are also like this and because they are anarchy the hge is usually proto mats
Indicator I see is upon system entry if there is 1 or 0 USS's, move on
if there are 3-10, average is usually 5 ish for me, and it does this every time you visit, then its probably always going to have good rng.
Main point here again though was the states and not seeing it all in the galaxy map. anarchy HGE in war or outbreak or famine are gold and hard to find without knowing about NON system controlling factions states being just as important
The thing about numbers is regarding population for uss's and numbers on planets telling percent of mats, which did not exist at first, no list at all
So we had to visit planets and make notes.
so even once the list of materials and a percentage came into the game, anyone with a favorite planet could see the numbers meant nothing
neither does depleted or pristine, not for srv material collecting
I know 3 planets having selenium at 3-4%, tin at 1%
Depleted but I went there before this list appeared
and I get triple metallic very often and so much selenium and tin... its just awful reading others pointing out how hard it is to find.
so here, to me the number missing is obvious, meteor content.
the map says 4% on that body, fine I'm not mining.
meteorites of any type on this body for a dice roll seems 50:50 selenium is in it
at times it feels like 80:20
So, I would add a meteorite rating of
30% - Yttrium
70% - Selenium
50% - Tin
to this particular body because this is how this one appears to what I get from it.
almost every rock has selenium
but rather than another system, just know the numbers mean nothing, never ever have.
the list tells you what is there
experience tells you how much is there.
if you haven't yet I recommend
An Omnibus Guide to Material Finding : EliteLavigny
its old but the insight here was the best I read on faction/power/state
After that, a cmdr simply needs to test things a lot, specially when fdev makes changes as often as they do.
