whats the best way to find manufacturing facilities?

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[knighttemplar1960]

Since beyond... walk around and look for them using your signal booster.

Edit: You can also trade navigation data to the cartographer on the space station. He'll give you star charts with various things on them. Occasionally one of them will be a manufacturing facility.

[nico2000]

Anybody else think these Signal boosters have you running around in circles, finding just the same buildings every time...?

[japp_02]

The Cartographer > 'Secure Sites' map category.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Since Beyond, it has been easier to just fly around and look for them. The stupid maps are limited use and I guess if you want the directed method, that would be your way.

Honestly, found all the manufacturing centers by just cruising the planets. As noted, you can land and use your scanner to pick them up. I found half a dozen on one planet alone...they seem to be more uniformly placed around the planet now.

[frazzled]

It seems to me signal boosters only work within, ah, a cluster of buildings? Once its found each of those buildings it stops reporting, or sends you back to one within the cluster. But if you fly off quite a distance away you get into a new cluster. So if you are searching with a signal booster, hop up and fly off some distance once in a while.

Trading charts in a station can be useful too, if you have a ton of navigation. However, there are 4(?) types of charts, so you can wind up with a ton of charts you don't need.

[japp_02]

If you chose to get 10 charts, you will get all categories of them, and afterwards it's fast to scan multiple times for such a building, I don't know what problems you guys have with the maps...they lead you straight-forward to what you want, it cannot get easier.

[tkwoods]

I always just fly in a certain direction. I usually come across one or two as well as depots that way.

Mostly I get the location of a crashed ship from a transmission tower and flu toward it low and scanning. Works every time, at some point you'll come across what ever building type you are looking for.

[Flaming Orb]

Originally posted by japp_02:

... I don't know what problems you guys have with the maps...they lead you straight-forward to what you want, it cannot get easier.

I agree, the new maps are great; very thorough and (so far) the waypoints persist until you reach that destination which is nice. That wasn't always the case before.

[japp_02]

Originally posted by Flaming Orb:

Originally posted by japp_02:

... I don't know what problems you guys have with the maps...they lead you straight-forward to what you want, it cannot get easier.

I agree, the new maps are great; very thorough and (so far) the waypoints persist until you reach that destination which is nice. That wasn't always the case before.

The drawback is: All map categories take 4 slots in your starship or exosuit, that's huge, but at some point you have more ships. I keep these maps in my Explorer while changing ships for combat purpose or product transports.

[Flaming Orb]

True, I feel your inventory pain. Oops I was wrong, the waypoints persist only if you don't get any new waypoints from an observatory. If you do, it swaps the last one you uncovered in that category. Sigh. I guess that sort of makes sense.

[Mntn Dwrf]

Originally posted by frazzled:

Trading charts in a station can be useful too, if you have a ton of navigation. However, there are 4(?) types of charts, so you can wind up with a ton of charts you don't need.

If you trade only one chart at a time, then you will get the exact same type of chart every time with a particular cartographer.
If the first "single" chart you get is inhabited/distress/ancient, then change systems.
If the first chart you get is secure site, then keep repeating it, ONE AT A TIME, and every chart will be for manufacturing/operations/depot, guaranteed.

Pro Tip:
When using secure charts, bear in mind they have limited sensing range.
So, if you can't seem to find a manu/ops puzzle building, just relocate 10,000 meters (or about 3 seconds on pulse engine) and try again.
Inhabited planets have literally dozens of secure sites on them.
There's a caveat though...only one secure site can be up at a time so you have to visit it to clear it before the next chart usage...or it will just repeat the same result.