Ship Systems Data - How to Get Now?

[Daniel Cloudsifter]

Ok, what is the best way to get this data? You only get it when doing the basic scan of a Thargoid ship (with Xeno scanner installed). But like basic scanning human ships for data, it only works if you actually get to scan them instead of it auto-resolving when they fire on you.

Is there some place where Thargoids are still insta-hostile? I've been harvesting materials from their ships for new pre-engineered MCs, but this is the one thing I can't ever get (still at 21/24 needed). Previous amount was from back when I did AX CZs, I guess... of course, no invasion systems, so those aren't around either.

I'm getting so fed up with the grind in this game...

 

[Kira Goto]

You can find bugged AX CZs in systems that have been reclaimed by the Thargoids since U15, regardless of their state, as they have persisted there.

That bug might get fixed with U16, though.

(If you meant non-hostile Thargoids, those are still out by the Pleiades and other nebulas as usual.)

 

[HappyMoonMonkey]

If you have the enhanced xeno scanner it has a range of 2km and is a lot easier to scan Thargoids with.

 

[Daniel Cloudsifter]

If you have the enhanced xeno scanner it has a range of 2km and is a lot easier to scan Thargoids with.

Unless I've missed something, it doesn't work that way. This isn't the active scan to find the hearts, etc., just the passive scan when you resolve what type of interceptor/scout it is.

If you do get this data when you do an active scan, please let me know. I've already tried that many, many times and I never get any data. And I am using the Enhanced Xeno Scanner.

 

[Kira Goto]

Unless I've missed something, it doesn't work that way. This isn't the active scan to find the hearts, etc., just the passive scan when you resolve what type of interceptor/scout it is.

If you do get this data when you do an active scan, please let me know. I've already tried that many, many times and I never get any data. And I am using the Enhanced Xeno Scanner.

The passive scan with a xeno scanner is based off of your ship’s sensor range. The active scan is the range specified in the stats of the xeno scanner.

I’m not sure I have personally obtained ‘Ship Systems Data’ from an active xeno scan, but I remember receiving something called ‘Ship Flight Data’ from a full Orthrus scan closer to the beginning of the war, so maybe that is how you get those (data) items?

 

[Shadowsnog]

I have enhanced xeno scanner usually in the same firegroup as beam/+mc and my ship systems data is full iirc...
I think even scouts will get you those when you scan them with the scanner. Not passive long range scan, the 2km active scan.

 

[Ned Flandalorian]

Find one of the old distress call POIs from attacked ships, for example from memory there is one in Kamadhenu. Inside will be some destroyed ships, one will have a beacon that gives thargoid ship data when you scan it (passively, just lock on and point the ship at it). After a short while an interceptor will probably drop in, but it will be non-hostile unless you poke it and you can safely ignore it.
You can jump out and back in as many times as needed.

 

[Daniel Cloudsifter]

I have enhanced xeno scanner usually in the same firegroup as beam/+mc and my ship systems data is full iirc...
I think even scouts will get you those when you scan them with the scanner. Not passive long range scan, the 2km active scan.

That's what I need to know. Thanks! I'll actively scan the scouts and then blast them.

 

[Helmut Grokenberger]

I have enhanced xeno scanner usually in the same firegroup as beam/+mc and my ship systems data is full iirc...
I think even scouts will get you those when you scan them with the scanner. Not passive long range scan, the 2km active scan.

Just to confirm, I do the same. Whenever I fire a laser or AXMC, I also run the xeno scanner, but I also make sure to get a scan completed everytime I engage a goid anyway. For MCs you need the scan anyway, and with Gauss cannons targeting the hearts helps you secure the hit via microgimballing. My data bins of Thargoid scan data are pretty much filled to the brim.