Can't find exotic ships[SOLVED]

[RiskyDefeat]

I have been trying to find exotic ships for a few days now going from wealthy system to rich to opulent, landing in there trade posts and reloading saves dozens of times but i cant seem to find any exotics. Would really appreciate some help.
thank you

[japp_02]

Go in a trading post and wait for one to spawn. They are rare so after awhile change system and retry.

[RiskyDefeat]

Originally posted by japp_02:

Go in a trading post and wait for one to spawn. They are rare so after awhile change system and retry.

thats what ive been doing but no luck

[japp_02]

Originally posted by SSundee:

Originally posted by japp_02:

Go in a trading post and wait for one to spawn. They are rare so after awhile change system and retry.

thats what ive been doing but no luck

Keep trying, there is no other reliable method...Reloading game won't help, once you visit system all ships that can spawn are written. So if no exotic spawns it's futile to stay there, change in a NEW system.

Although some experienced players say the exotics have a separate spawning probability which is very low, in that case stay in the system and wait, but I would not do that...
It's like other rare things in this game: Don't run after them, but let them come to you...Good luck,

[dashiichi]

The spawn rate for exotics is around 1-2%. If the system's rate is 1% then for a 50% chance of seeing one you'd need to wait through 69 ships (0.99 ^ 69); for a 90% chance, 229 ships. Then you need to consider the slot count. Small exotics are small; even the big ones only have 20 slots, so you may want to wait through several candidates. A long, long time.

Best advice is just to let it ride. Keep your eyes and ears open as you do normal stuff and eventually you'll get lucky.

There is one trick, though. Exotics make a different and quite distinctive sound when they land and take off. You can camp at a trading post out of the weather and watch TV or something as long as you are primed for that sound. Of course, Murphy will ensure that you're out of the room when your ship comes in.

[Old-gamer]

Agree with you Dash. Reloading a bunch bugs me more than just sitting there through a bunch of ships waiting for the golden-ship-fairy to touch-down. For me, it is more fun to snag the ship of my interest naturally than trying to force it through reloads. I actually like to watch them all come and go while doing a bit of multitasking.

Just stick it out OP and certainly do move to different planets/systems. It takes time and patience, but eventually you will see them all. If Hello Games gave me unlimited collection ability, I'd have one of each in multiple colors just for grins...

[RiskyDefeat]

thank you everyone for your advice!

[Guh~hey~hey~♫]

All systems have one guaranted exotic spawn. But the chance to get it to spawn are pretty low.

That said....there's an oddity in Euclid to find an exotic easily

Eidolon prime's space station, also known as the "Eidolon magic space station".
Eidolon prime is a star system in Euclid hub, and here at the space station the first starship to land is ALWAYS a white squid.
It happen whenever you land on the station, teleport there or reload your save from here.
Meaning that you can basically farm this white squid to get a max slot and perfect slot grid super easily in no time by just reloading your save repeatedly, because you will always see a new white squid land in the first wave of incoming ships.

Google Eidolon prime for the excact coordinates to get there trough a portal, especially if you're not in Euclid anymore.

[RiskyDefeat]

Will do Sakamoto!

[rucky]

Originally posted by japp_02:

Reloading game won't help, once you visit system all ships that can spawn are written. So if no exotic spawns it's futile to stay there, change in a NEW system.

Not exactly true.
First, what Ships can spawn, is determined by the galaxy seed, therefore you can't change it if you save/reload before jumping into a new system or not.

The only thing that *sometimes* change is the sequence of the ships (out of the determined pool) is showing up.

To understand this, one has to understand, there are the following ships determined in EVERY system:

7 Shuttles.
3 Haulers. (Gek systems : 7 Haulers)
3 Fighters. (Vy'keen : 7)
3 Explorers. (Korvax : 7)
1 Exotic.

(additionally

? System Freighter and Fregattes.
1 Special Freighter (occurs only in that "scripted" Space Battle).

https://nomanssky.gamepedia.com/Starship_Catalogue
)

Nevertheless, you will only see 3 of each type (and that 1 Exotic) when you wait on the Space station or Trading post.
*UNTIL*
That Sequence does change. (I am not sure when this happens, but it can also happens when you reload a few times - this seems to be pseudo random generated depending on some time function?)
This behavior is *seldom* but it does exist! (so, when someone says "always first spawn on station" that's wrong!)

Nevertheless, the percentage of the types of ships showing up on the station is fixed, and NOT depending on any value of that actual system (wealthy or not, conflict state or not, race, economy, all irrelevant), therefore if you know, this one kind of Exotic did spawn here in that system (as you've seen yourself or by a picture in the web), it WILL spawn again.
This is because Exotics do ALWAYS ONLY spawn in S class.
(That's the reason Exotics (S-Class ;-) do also spawn in poor systems!)

For all other space ships, spawning a S class DOES HOWEVER depends on the wealthyness of that system, that is from poor = 0% to medium wealthy = 1% to high wealthy = 2% spawn chance.

https://nomanssky.gamepedia.com/Economy

Nevertheless,

Originally posted by japp_02:

Although some experienced players say the exotics have a separate spawning probability which is very low, in that case stay in the system and wait, but I would not do that...
It's like other rare things in this game: Don't run after them, but let them come to you...Good luck,

^^ that's the right way to deal with Exotics.

I've now seen some 20+ Exotics and I haven't even been very long on Space stations or Trading posts.

But you can still look at locations of Exotics others have found (it's no cheating as you still have to go there via Portal and find that ship nevertheless!)
Reddit is a good place for that:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NMSCoordinateExchange/new/

[japp_02]

Thanks Rucky, that's surely a complete description of this complex 'shuffling situation' for ships, much more accurate and complex than my arguments above. It's good to know that every system has the chance to spawn an exotic ship, and it's not written in advance. I have seen a couple too since my new restart in Visions, but I never have waited for them (knowing the low probability!).