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[Grievous69]

So I don't actually remember any items being easier to find now but this seems kinda crazy honestly. I'll go in a random system not too far out of the core, survey a planet which in the end turns out pretty bad, but it has ruins. And in those ruins BAM 2 alpha cores. Funny thing is this actually happened twice and I've maybe explored 5% of the map. I've yet to fight any Remnants which is silly seeing my colony with 5 alpha cores (I got one from the quest). Also happened to find 3 frickin synchrotron cores in one Orbital habitat, or a mining station idk, some floaty thingy around a planet. In 0.9 I had trouble finding one in half of the map...

Anyone else experiencing this? No points in Salvage skill btw

[Thaago]

Random is random!

I recently got 3 alpha cores in a new game fighting about 6 small (~3 cruisers + 4 destroyers each) Remnant fleets, plus assorted beta and gamma. In my previous game, I farmed about 10 MUCH larger fleets, including those with Remnant battleships, and received no alphas. It happens .

Personally I enjoy it, because what you randomly find helps to shape the course of the game, especially blueprint wise.

[intrinsic_parity]

I'm pretty sure the drop rate for AI cores was increased significantly this patch, or at least I thought I remembered reading that in some patch notes.

[Schwartz]

I am spoiled with Synchrotrons and Corrupted Nanoforges, yet 'only' found 2 Pristine ones. I have almost every system visited, though probably not combed through.

Drop rate for AI cores was buffed by a lot.

[goduranus]

You sure? Maybe it’s just random.
A ruined colony with 2 alpha cores is not totally unimaginable, cuz I install several in every colony, so if it’s ruined and some one else comes looking, they may find two cores in the ruins.

[Goumindong]

It is. I have a save post .91 with 2 synchros in storage... 2 in use... and 4 i sold to all the fuel producers. I found more pristine forges than corrupted.

[intrinsic_parity]

Changes as of April 25, 2019

Campaign

• Increased drop rate of AI cores from REDACTED

[goduranus]

he was talking about ruins and wrecks. Maybe he got the admiral skill for increase drops?

[Baqar79]

I've sold stacks of over 40 Gamma cores (At Tri-Tachyon that is 30,000 credits a piece for some decent cash...salvaging does pay quite well), but I kind of like the drop rate for Alpha cores, as it allowed me to nearly, but not completely maximize the output of my 3 colonies after exploring the entire map (albeit not super-thoroughly).

I think though that drop rates for Nanoforges/Synchrotrons is too high considering how valuable they are; every game I've had since 0.9a was released eventually led me to having many spares of these in storage.  Since I ended up with spares, Corrupted Nanoforges are pretty much purposeless since I have more than enough pristine Nanoforges for my Orbital works.

I would actually like to see Pristine Nanoforges/Synchrotrons spawn only a single version in each game (A guaranteed spawn, but only one of each).  Perhaps they could eventually be hidden behind a rather difficult task, but the eventual reward from obtaining one of these would feel a lot better IMO once you obtained them.  Would also give a bit more significance to raiding Sindria if you really were planning on cornering the fuel market.

[Schwartz]

They don't have to be useless. What happens when you sell Nanoforges and Synchrotrons to factions? Do they put them in their colonies? Because I'm hoping they do. Since you can really hurt a colony with a single raid that removes a Nanoforge from its Orbital Works, selling it back to them should enable them to plug it in.

[goduranus]

Yes factions do install them if you sell them on the open market to that faction.

[Oblivion]

Yes factions do install them if you sell them on the open market to that faction.

Does this apply to blueprints?

[goduranus]

Only pirates will use blueprints you sell on the black market.

[Serenitis]

Mixed Age
Normal Size
~40% explored

Spoiler

Don't worry about the access. It's only a pirate raid that's -3 stab. and -50% access that's based from the opposite side of the sector. :welp:

[close]

Somewhat annoyed by the abundance of forges and synchros.
Now it's been made even more of an issue since you are far less likley to have industry worlds for all your colonies under the new system, so there's less possible places to put the rare things but an abundance of them.

"Rare" things don't feel at all rare, as they are (imo) much too easy to acquire in numbers great enough to ensure you never have to make a difficult choice about where to use them.

[Baqar79]

"Rare" things don't feel at all rare, as they are (imo) much too easy to acquire in numbers great enough to ensure you never have to make a difficult choice about where to use them.

Well for Synchrotrons/Nanoforges I agree, but interestingly single ship/weapon blueprints meant that I did miss out on a few ships that I wanted (Tempest and Omen for example) and I very nearly missed out on acquiring Phase lances until the end of my game during salvaging (And if I had missed out on Tachyon Lances my Hi-Tech Star Fortress and I would of been rather sad).

So there is still that element of "yay I found something amazing!", just not for certain things that you would expect to be rare as well.