Newcomer / Intro Wake scanning –am I doing it wrong?

BarbusMaximus

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I’ve ground up to level 4 with Felicity Farseer using common materials (literally making hundreds of level 1 upgrades for hours) I now need Eccentric Hyperspace Trajectories (and later Datamined Wake Exceptions) to upgrade my FSD jump distance with Felicity. Bought a wake scanner, equipped it and spent an hour or two sitting outside a station last night, waiting for ships to leave and scanning their wakes with my wakescanner. After scanning, the wake showed the system destination of the ship but nothing else and then disappears. No drops at all, not even those listed as common. It was very slow with lengthy periods waiting for ships to exit the station.

I’ve googled before coming here but can’t find much coherent info – some posts suggest it is very easy and you can get these in minutes, others that you need to play in online mode (I play solo), some say the rarer drops are only obtained from high level players in FDLs/Anacondas.

What am I doing wrong? Do I have to collect the wake in my cargo hatch or should scanning automatically give me the EHTs and other scan data?
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
Must just have been unlucky. If the scan reveals something you get a blue writing notification in the top right of the hud.

Some are common, some are not, they appear in waves (excuse the pun) I have found.


P.S. - You need do nothing other than scan the wakes, you are obviously doing that OK if the destinations are being shown. Just keep plodding away. I have done it in solo and P G and have no issues in either.
 
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racer1

racer1
You should get random data drops, with some being the ones you are looking for. You should get something from most scans IIRC. So what you are seeing doesn't sound right. I would try again, you should get data drops from most wakes...

The best way to farm them is head to a system in famine state, hope it has a distribution centre. In the distribution centre sidewinders continually jump in and out faster than you can scan the wakes. Take a fast ship and an A class wake scanner if possible.
 

Rob_the_Sparky

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I would suggest you don't grind for these but just take the opportunity to scan a few wakes every time you leave a station/port while you go about your business. Grinding like this is dull...
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
I think your only problem is that you are unlucky. That means you need to up the frequency to beat the BGS.
Find a system in Famine state. You should find a special USS there, similarly to combat zones in War state.
I forgot how It's called, (someone help?) but there are several T9 ships giving out emergency rations. There are ships jumping in and out all the time. Faster than You can scan the wakes, in fact.
It's a great place for wake farming if you can find it.
 

xondk

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BarbusMaximus said:
I’ve ground up to level 4 with Felicity Farseer using common materials (literally making hundreds of level 1 upgrades for hours) I now need Eccentric Hyperspace Trajectories (and later Datamined Wake Exceptions) to upgrade my FSD jump distance with Felicity. Bought a wake scanner, equipped it and spent an hour or two sitting outside a station last night, waiting for ships to leave and scanning their wakes with my wakescanner. After scanning, the wake showed the system destination of the ship but nothing else and then disappears. No drops at all, not even those listed as common. It was very slow with lengthy periods waiting for ships to exit the station.

I’ve googled before coming here but can’t find much coherent info – some posts suggest it is very easy and you can get these in minutes, others that you need to play in online mode (I play solo), some say the rarer drops are only obtained from high level players in FDLs/Anacondas.

What am I doing wrong? Do I have to collect the wake in my cargo hatch or should scanning automatically give me the EHTs and other scan data?
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scan wake, if you want to follow said ship, target wake and jump, that's how it works.
If you just are looking for data for engineer, you'll get that over time, quite often in my book.
 

BarbusMaximus

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Sadly I'm desperate to get out and explore and want to get these asap, hence the farming which I normally avoid. In hindsight I wish I'd known about them when spending weeks res farming to buy my asp. But who carries a wake scanner in combat with limited hard points?

I probably only scanned 15-20 but didn't see any drops. Which made me think it will take weeks to get the rarer ones.

Thanks for the famine system advice. Will these sidewinders be as likely to drop rare wake signals as bigger ships?
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
BarbusMaximus said:
Sadly I'm desperate to get out and explore and want to get these asap, hence the farming which I normally avoid. In hindsight I wish I'd known about them when spending weeks res farming to buy my asp. But who carries a wake scanner in combat with limited hard points?

I probably only scanned 15-20 but didn't see any drops. Which made me think it will take weeks to get the rarer ones.

Thanks for the famine system advice. Will these sidewinders be as likely to drop rare wake signals as bigger ships?
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The likelihood is the same. But with 60-80 wakes scanned per hour you are simply bound to find them.
 

racer1

racer1
BarbusMaximus said:
Sadly I'm desperate to get out and explore and want to get these asap, hence the farming which I normally avoid. In hindsight I wish I'd known about them when spending weeks res farming to buy my asp. But who carries a wake scanner in combat with limited hard points?

I probably only scanned 15-20 but didn't see any drops. Which made me think it will take weeks to get the rarer ones.

Thanks for the famine system advice. Will these sidewinders be as likely to drop rare wake signals as bigger ships?
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That doesn't sound right to me.

Check your data is not full.

Wake scanning just to check procedure:
You target high wake
Move within range - scanner goes orange instead of red
You Keep finger on trigger scanning until the two lines have converged

You should definitely see some data after 15-20 scans.
Distribution centres are just as likely to drop rare stuff in my experience.
 

BarbusMaximus

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Aha, maybe my data store is full! if I click on the data tab it will show this I presume?

I'll head to a famine system tonight, since the drop rate is the same why not.

As ever I waste time googling and get confusing, contradictory answers and come in here and get what I need, thanks all.
 

Mitch Brewer

Mitch Brewer
Something definitely isn't right. I needed the same scans as you do so I put a scanner on my Cobra. Sat outside a station and after about 20 scans I had all the data I needed. More than enough, actually.
 

aRJay

aRJay
BarbusMaximus said:
Aha, maybe my data store is full! if I click on the data tab it will show this I presume?

I'll head to a famine system tonight, since the drop rate is the same why not.

As ever I waste time googling and get confusing, contradictory answers and come in here and get what I need, thanks all.
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Data store, in inventory tab, has a maximum capacity of 500 if you are full delete some of the common ones to make space, a lack of space here also prohibits you from doing Data delivery missions and completing missions when data is part of the reward. It tends to fill up very fast when freelance bounty hunting.
 

goemon

goemon
BarbusMaximus said:
After scanning, the wake showed the system destination of the ship but nothing else and then disappears. No drops at all, not even those listed as common.
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to me that reads, as if your data sorage (500 items) is full. check that. you should get data from fsw scanning regularly.
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
The only thing that doesn't fit is - when You scan a ship or the wake and you have 500/500 data, the top right alert feed clearly says: Data storage full.
I think you would have noticed...
 

BarbusMaximus

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I may of missed it if it only flashed up once as I was concentrating on my first scan. If my data is full what should I throw away and what should I keep?

Whether it's this or I'm just unlucky what matters is I know I'm doing it right now. So I'll head off to a famine station and pester poor, starving sidewinders.
 

aRJay

aRJay
BarbusMaximus said:
I may of missed it if it only flashed up once as I was concentrating on my first scan. If my data is full what should I throw away and what should I keep?

Whether it's this or I'm just unlucky what matters is I know I'm doing it right now. So I'll head off to a famine station and pester poor, starving sidewinders.
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I tend to filter so I only see levels 1-3 then throw away half of each of the largest data types, then see how that looks.
 
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