Engineers Ships Raw Materials, Manufactured Goods (not cargo), Data scans perfect undebateable farms?

[Cookie Smuggler]

so a G5 is worth one pick up of a G4.....

1 G5 = 3 G4s of the same line, if its a different line then it will be 2 G5s in, 1 G4 out.
take a look at that wiki page i linked

edit: heres a page about trading mats, https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Material_Trader

note that you can't trade different types, only same type.
also note that its best to stay in the line whenever possible

 

[Seljdon]

1 G5 = 3 G4s of the same line, if its a different line then it will be 2 G5s in, 1 G4 out.
take a look at that wiki page i linked


note that you can't trade different types, only same type.
also note that its best to stay in the line whenever possible

FDev must have made it difficult then, the only thing I can see worth getting SUPER FAST are those crystal things, better get mining I guess..... Oh and also data....

say the 7 data points at Dav's Hope wouldnt that be data and tradeable verse the 4 at jamenson's crash?

 

[Cookie Smuggler]

no data there, just lore stories, plus at jameson you can position your ship/SRV to scan all 4 without moving (just rotating) then do a menu relog and go again

 

[Seljdon]

no data there, just lore stories, plus at jameson you can position your ship/SRV to scan all 4 without moving (just rotating) then do a menu relog and go again

Sad you can't do that in the guardian sites with the mini games.... always moves my SRV 100M away from the location when i reset.

 

[GloatingSwine]

method two:
scan nav beacon, go to signal, farm, go back to nav beacon, exit to menu, return to same mode, scan nav beacon, repeat

It's way faster to just FSS all the signal sources.

dav's hope is a good source for manufactured mats, but it has a wide spread and only goes up to G4 so it is possible to end up maxing out one mat and then "wasting" time because the only way to re roll the mats is to relog.

Dav's is kinda rubbish compared to HGEs in Empire systems. The three i posted are reliable for always having at least one HGE and that's 9-15 Imperial Shielding (because that's always G5 only not mixed with 4s), whereas Dav's might have three G4s in total among a pile of trash and it's far more spread out.

 

[Para Handy]

no data there, just lore stories, plus at jameson you can position your ship/SRV to scan all 4 without moving (just rotating) then do a menu relog and go again

Not true - the data point (the red periscope thing) gives encoded mats plus some low value intel packages for imps and alliance - you can also target the circling ships (use turret mode) to glean the occasional encoded mat. Always worth scanning the data beacon each circuit of Dav's - after all you are there anyway, why not?

For MEF farming, I still like the base-runs - scanning the 3 data points at a M2M site. I really detest the thought of having to trade 6 AECs for 1 MEF so the srv circuits are my preference.


BTW - The use of task-kill exploit to farm HGEs feels like a real deal-breaker for me, seems so much more unpalatable than the relogging for other mat farming. So I tend to just hop from Imp system to Imp system and filling with ImpShielding that way. Seems more enjoyable to me.

 

[Seljdon]

It's way faster to just FSS all the signal sources.



Dav's is kinda rubbish compared to HGEs in Empire systems. The three i posted are reliable for always having at least one HGE and that's 9-15 Imperial Shielding (because that's always G5 only not mixed with 4s), whereas Dav's might have three G4s in total among a pile of trash and it's far more spread out.

Sorry I have to disagree. For me it takes 5 to 7 seconds for my computer to log out of an instance, then to click back into an instance of my choice another 10 seconds. Then when I am in all I have to do is deploy my cargo scoop on my SRV and drive around at 20% SRV speed and collect the 10 items (guaranteed every time to be 10) that are on the ground. That takes me about 2 minutes estimated (no longer). However your method and the same method that other report takes at least 6 minutes to do. And those HGE only drop 8 to 16 items its not set like dav's hope. Also you and the others arent factoring in the amount of time you have to fly around each solar system to find those HGE. You may have numbers of items dropping them. But in sure speed it's far slower then dav's hope.

 

[cmdr chequers]

What is the point of relogging, It's just cheating yourself. Just play the game normally, what's the rush ?

 

[GloatingSwine]

What is the point of relogging, It's just cheating yourself. Just play the game normally, what's the rush ?

Eh, by the fourth or fifth fully G5 ship you just want to get to the bit where you play with it.

 

[Felix DiCestria]

Manufactured;
Federal Zero Population Zero Economy, eg LP 123-75
spawns HGEs with Core Dynamics/Propriety Composites which can then be traded.
Would recommend a supercruise assist as the initial spawn will likely be some distance out.