What are the Systems/States/Minor Faction types that spawn planetary scan missions?

[EdgeCrusher420]

I'm looking for an easy way to find what system type or system states or minor faction types spawn the most planetary scan missions. Of course, RNG always plays into what missions show up on your mission board but there also has to be a other factors and variables effecting this.

It seems like systems that are in war and civil war tend to have more but i'm trying to confirm if that really is the case.

My home system use to have scan missions on every factions board at all times now it seems like I cannot find them at all in system, making me think that the system or minor faction states play a part.

As a side question, I'd like to figure it if there is away to get more planetary scan jobs that do not have trespassing. It seems to me the "wartime scan" and "Civil war scan" are always hostile but sometimes the regular "planetary scan" jobs have a chance to be public. If this is the case, is there a system state etc. that will spawn more of those types of scan missions?

 

[EdgeCrusher420]

I realize that nobody except Fdev may know for sure all of the variables that might go into mission spawning, but does nobody have any input on this? I'll take wild speculation at this point.

I have looked all over the net and I cannot seem to find any definitive info on how missions spawn or more specifically the Planet Scan ones I'm looking for.

With all the EDDB.IO and Inara sites etc. I figure this info has got to be out there somewhere.

TL: DR again, just looking for any help on what conditions and variables (other then RNG) contribute to Planetary Scan missions spawning more or less at stations.

 

[Vasious]

Id say conflict states as elections also generate them

I know missions are generated based on Economy Type, Faction Type, and Faction state but I do wonder if the State of Possible Targets factors in as well, as they is definitely the case with passenger missions, where the state of the destination is needed before some Passenger types appear.

So it might be that if a faction is in a conflict they will then be a valid target for such missions so they will be generated.

For example I noticed that in the System Mudrama Kaze, the Mudrama Kaze Empire Assembly and Mudrama Kaze Jet Universal Ltd are in a civil war, and they are the two targets of skimmer kill missions, by all the factions present in the system

 

[Jmanis]

Truthfully, pretty much any state and types.

 

[CMDR Karrde Sun]

Pretty much anything these days.

True for nearly all mission types, the game you're looking for was stolen from us 2 (3) major patches ago.

 

[EdgeCrusher420]

Well, Its interesting you mention Election states. This is the state my home system was in and all of a sudden I can't find any scan missions at all.

As far as saying "truthfully, pretty much any state and types". I might have said this as well until recently where I have had an issue finding them either at all or at least in the numbers that I used to. I used to be able to fill up my entire 20 missions in no time with scan jobs but now I'm looking hard to find even a few. Even going to places that are known to have many of them in the past seem to be light on them now.

Are we sure there wasn't some kind of spawn nerf or maybe they are getting pushed off the board with all the new wing missions? I don't feel like it is just a matter of my RNG being particularly bad right now but I guess It IS possible with ED.

As a side note. I know they aren't the most exciting missions but seems like nobody ever does them or really likes them at all. I find them to pay out pretty well for an easy and somewhat varied job.

 

[CMDR Karrde Sun]

Well, Its interesting you mention Election states. This is the state my home system was in and all of a sudden I can't find any scan missions at all.

As far as saying "truthfully, pretty much any state and types". I might have said this as well until recently where I have had an issue finding them either at all or at least in the numbers that I used to. I used to be able to fill up my entire 20 missions in no time with scan jobs but now I'm looking hard to find even a few. Even going to places that are known to have many of them in the past seem to be light on them now.

Are we sure there wasn't some kind of spawn nerf or maybe they are getting pushed off the board with all the new wing missions? I don't feel like it is just a matter of my RNG being particularly bad right now but I guess It IS possible with ED.

As a side note. I know they aren't the most exciting missions but seems like nobody ever does them or really likes them at all. I find them to pay out pretty well for an easy and somewhat varied job.

That's some good points. Maybe then what you're asking is what bgs conditions make scan missions the majority so you can fill up easier on them.

Good luck but I don't envy the task. In the past you could start to build up a picture of cause and effect. The differences are so minimal these days would be a much harder task.

edit: giving dumb and dumber a second thought, if anything try military ground bases, even better with minor factions in war or civil war.. may have noticed that recently. If you need to go from there, maybe the government type of the effected minor factions will determine if you get scan or massacre.

 

[+Mikie]

Dunno, but they are always on at Quince. But before you fly off, nearest IF is about 100ly away.

 

[FrogsFriend]

Well, it's certainly an opportunity for you to add some original research. You could be the person we all quote when anybody asks about this in future

 

[Ian Doncaster]

I've not noticed any particular pattern in where they show up or don't - with the exception that as far as I can tell they won't target a system that doesn't have some sort of permanent surface habitation, so if you happened to be in a region of space where almost all the habitation was orbitals you might not find many of them.

They used to be much more common for factions in Lockdown, but that doesn't seem to be the case any more.

Tourism/Colony/Service economies might have slightly more of them if only because they won't have cargo delivery missions getting in the way. But probably not noticeably so.