So 3.0 materials farming now...

[Foxs]

So... whats your best spot for farming materials in 3.0? Since we can trade them its no longer needed to farm the best once, atleast in theory.

Is it dav's hope or something else?
Also i heard that few of good spots were nerfed, is it true?

Oh, if you want you can post where you are farming, whats your technique and how much time you are spending there usually.

For myself, im farming dav's hope, just doing runs around till i get every material and just reloging, usually im doing it till get some of the materials till maximum, so i thnk 1-2 hours

 

[Bob Lighthouse]

I'm going to be focusing on G5 mats, and trading down.

 

[Suvi Anwar]

Dav's Hope is a treasure trove for manufactured mats.

 

[Skip Rockbounder]

I don't know why ED even bothered putting in the work to do lower ranks, players only want to farm for the best of the best of the best!

 

[Chorda]

A collector limpet controller, your big ship of choice and one hazrez. Might as well farm combat rank alongside mats.

 

[Gun Star]

I spent all my time playing yesterday collecting mats and data. I wont down grade G5 mats, because I will need them when I get to G5. Also the exchange rates are kind of garbage.

I had enough mats and data yesterday that I could have spent a couple of hours Engineering the Chieftain and had a really good G5 ship. Not top tier, but still a decent engineered ship. Now I play garbage picker hoarder to even start trying to engineer it.

 

[Susanna]

Zirconium trades 1 > 9 Arsenic ...

A good spot for collecting a LOT of Mats all in one spot... Pleiades Sector VF-N b7-0 Planet B1

Double Barnacle 5 Meta 3.8225, 90.4606 Its ripe and in daylight atm.

Materials:
Iron (Fe) Very Common 23.8%
Nickel (Ni) Very Common 18.0%
Sulphur (S) Very Common 16.7%
Carbon (C) Very Common 14.0%
Phosphorus (P) Very Common 9.0%
Zinc (Zn) Common 6.5%
Germanium (Ge) Common 4.9%
Zirconium (Zr) Standard 2.8%
Cadmium (Cd) Rare 1.9%
Yttrium (Y) Rare 1.4%
Mercury (Hg) Rare 1.0%

Also, if you collect the MAs and sell them at Darnielle's Progress that is an excellent planet for raw mats too!

Iron (Fe) Very Common 36.2%
Nickel (Ni) Very Common 27.4%
Chromium (Cr) Common 16.3%
Zinc (Zn) Common 9.8%
Zirconium (Zr) Standard 4.2%
Niobium (Nb) Standard 2.5%
Molybdenum (Mo) Rare 2.4%
Technetium (Tc) Very Rare 1.3%

 

[ThePunisher]

Yeh davs hope was one of them but it has since been nerf alot, i would try to find a new spot

 

[Gun Star]

Yeh davs hope was one of them but it has since been nerf alot, i would try to find a new spot

I was there yesterday and this morning for a little bit. If anything they un-nerfed it. I was finding stuff I have never seen there before.

 

[Susanna]

I was there yesterday and this morning for a little bit. If anything they un-nerfed it. I was finding stuff I have never seen there before.

I'm there now, but I can't Log in for some reason

 

[Bob Lighthouse]

I spent all my time playing yesterday collecting mats and data. I wont down grade G5 mats, because I will need them when I get to G5. Also the exchange rates are kind of garbage.

I had enough mats and data yesterday that I could have spent a couple of hours Engineering the Chieftain and had a really good G5 ship. Not top tier, but still a decent engineered ship. Now I play garbage picker hoarder to even start trying to engineer it.

The exchange rates going down rock!
One good drop of PIs = 45 chemical manipulators!
You can fill up the whole level with just a few G5s.

My mat collecting is way more streamlined now, since I don't need any lower mats.
Those that I do collect, I can do indiscriminately.

 

[Suvi Anwar]

Yeh davs hope was one of them but it has since been nerf alot, i would try to find a new spot

It hasn't been nerfed. I've been collecting ranks 1-4 of manufactured mats there, including the new ones added with 3.0.

 

[Foxs]

Oh, if you want you can post where you are farming, whats your technique and how much time you are spending there usually.

For myself, im farming dav's hope, just doing runs around till i get every material and just reloging, usually im doing it till get some of the materials till maximum, so i thnk 1-2 hours

// just added this to the first post.

And btw. yes, now at dav's hope you can scan the data point each relog and get some mats (data).