Okay, it's been a while so I'm probably out of the loop...
Been trying to finish some engineering on some of my ships but I'm seriously low on raw mat's.
Back in the day, it was all about taking a road-trip to the shard sites and hoovering up G4 mat's with an SRV.
These days it seems like all the cool kids are blasting brain trees in their ships and using limpets to collect mat's.
I watched a few video's so I understand what I'm supposed to do but the results are... disappointing.
Seems like the key to it is to blast away at the brain trees from a distance where the brain trees are just about to despawn and then reverse so they do despawn and your collectors can do their thing.
Trouble is, they don't.
They head out and then just hover near the surface.
If I move forward again, it looks like the mat's are all stuck IN the trees (which they also do when I try to harvest brain trees with my SRV).
Am I doing something wrong?
I've read that it's a good idea to reduce the draw-distance to help with this (which seems a bit "cheaty" to me) so I tried that but it doesn't help.
Is there something I can do differently to help or should I just pack up and clear off to the shard sites for a few days (and try to re-learn how to drive the SRV)?
Been trying to finish some engineering on some of my ships but I'm seriously low on raw mat's.
Back in the day, it was all about taking a road-trip to the shard sites and hoovering up G4 mat's with an SRV.
These days it seems like all the cool kids are blasting brain trees in their ships and using limpets to collect mat's.
I watched a few video's so I understand what I'm supposed to do but the results are... disappointing.
Seems like the key to it is to blast away at the brain trees from a distance where the brain trees are just about to despawn and then reverse so they do despawn and your collectors can do their thing.
Trouble is, they don't.
They head out and then just hover near the surface.
If I move forward again, it looks like the mat's are all stuck IN the trees (which they also do when I try to harvest brain trees with my SRV).
Am I doing something wrong?
I've read that it's a good idea to reduce the draw-distance to help with this (which seems a bit "cheaty" to me) so I tried that but it doesn't help.
Is there something I can do differently to help or should I just pack up and clear off to the shard sites for a few days (and try to re-learn how to drive the SRV)?