Distress Signal Chart issue and one other question

[Cerberus Shepard]

MAIN ISSUE:
No matter where i use a distress signal chart[The chart with the RED circles]Which are meant to point out crashed ship and ships in distress they just keep finding abandoned buildings...surely that not right?

Other Question:
Where the hell do i find hadral cores? i have checked on land,underwater,the market and there are NO hadral cores anywhere? have i just got terrible luck finding the things or is this another issue?

[kutyax]

its gonna find 3-4 other locations, and then the distract signals. hadrsl cores can be extracted from underwater relic stuff or something like that, use the visor. you need to dig a bit underwater, and sometimes a dangerous animal may appear when the stuff is harvested.

[knighttemplar1960]

Distress signal charts reveal distress signals and the POIs they point to are abandoned buildings, crashed freighters, crashed star ships, and AI star ship captains with downed ships that require repairs that they lack the parts for.

These POIs also seem to appear in clumps of 3. If you clear an abandoned building and then use your signal booster to look for another POI more than half of the time it points you to another abandoned building and clearing the 2nd abandoned building and using the signal booster again points you to a 3rd abandoned building more than half the time.

After you clear the 3rd one the signal booster frequently reveals no other nearby POIs and you have to fly off for a good distance before the signal booster reveals anything else.

Abandoned buildings are a quick and decent source of nanites particularly in the early game when you are resource poor.

[Cesar]

The ratio of distress signals to abandoned factories or supply depots is about 1 to 4. You get four buildings and one distress signal. It gets worse after that.

A distress signal could be a wrecked freighter. That's not bad but you're probably looking for a wrecked spaceship that you can salvage. At least I am.

If it's a spaceship, it might have a survivor and all you can do is interact with the survivor and maybe get a little reward and a faction increase. You don't get the ship to salvage.

If you finally get a spaceship that you can salvage, you don't always get a storage augmentation after you salvage it.

Throw all this together and it's closer to 1 to 10 if you're looking for ships to salvage for storage augmentations.

The probability of finding a salvageable spaceship was a lot better a month ago. Back then I usually found a wrecked spaceship and I usually got a storage augmentation for it.

Over time this has been adjusted to where I question if it's worth the effort if you're looking for storage augmentations like I am. You're better off buying a and s class fighters and explorers.

You're always going to scrap them at a loss. Budget management is a must.

[Cesar]

You find hadral cores underwater. Look for submerged artifact. I think it has two stars associated with it.

[Galadhlinn]

I've found the charts are the long way to a wrecked ship.

When I drop down on a new planet, I fly slow at medium altitude (below clouds but high enough to have a decent view). I scan for buildings. I choose a straight line, for example North and stay on that heading. Every building that appears I land and interact with the command console inside. About 1 in 6 will point me to a wrecked ship.. On a bad day/planet, it can be a lot more, but that is my typical average. After I get the distress signal/wrecked ship, I consider that planet done. Even though there can be another wrecked ship, the second one always seems to take way, way longer

The next important thing is to keep reusing the wrecked ship over and over. I usually plan for about 2-3 hours of work at this stage. Repair the thruster and launcher on the wrecked ship and then fly it straight to the system's space station. Watch incoming ships and choose any ship that is at or slightly below the value of your wrecked ship. To get the true trade value of your wrecked ship just interact with a ship captain and click the "Compare" button. Once you find a comparable value ship, trade your wrecked ship for it.

Now, immediately run back over to the new captain/owner of your wrecked ship and initiate a trade. This time when you click the "Compare" button, you will see the option "Claim for free." Click it and you get your wrecked ship back, and you still have the new ship you traded it for. Now go over and jump in/out of your new ship to assign it to you as your current ship and then go to the scrapper dude in the station and scrap it. You still own the wrecked ship so go back to it and jump in/out to assign it you you. Now keep rinsing and repeating this cycle, always reclaiming your original wrecked ship to keep it going.

With a new save character, I can usually have about 15-20 million units, 8-15 thousand nanites, 4 to 8 ship storage augmentations, and an S-class ship. Pretty much always an S-class ship will come in during your two to three hours. When you decide to do this, choose a three star system whose race has the type of ship you want (Vykken-fighter, Gek-hauler, Korvax-Explorer)

I just completed Expedition 4. As soon as my starter ship was running, I went in search for a wrecked ship. Took about an hour. Two hours later I had my S-class ship and all the units/nanites I needed for the duration of the expedition. I had the S-class ship's hyper drive to 740 LY which made all the travel really quick.

Hope this helps