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Easiest to find is on a barren moon (without atmosphere) since they have no plants. Flying slow in low height will find one sooner or later.
And after you'Ve found one, you'll see them everywhere.
But if you are using the "distress maps" (Emergency Cartographic Data maps); they will announce as a "crashed freighter", not as a "distress signal" (thus, if you run a map, and it finds a "distress signal" - that WILL NOT be a crashed freighter).
It doesn't help that the maps can be "wonky" anyways.
For example - the planet I'm currently spending a lot of time on (salvaging crashed spaceships - aka "distress signals" - I've salvaged maybe 30 so far, and still going), the maps haven't once found a crashed freighter - except "off world".
Yet - this planet is chock-full of crashed freighters. I just landed my ship on an island next to a submerged one that I spotted by eye on the way to a distress signal. I've found maybe 5 or 6 submerged ones, and as many on land - just flying between distress signals. But the maps always point me "off world". /sigh
Heck I even found two crashed-into-each-other freighters earlier today (and posted a screenshot of them in the screenshots thread).
Anyways, if you are using the maps - there's a trick to using them that can narrow down the search:
If a map finds ANYTHING other than a "crashed freighter", then DO NOT go to it (and thus you don't "clear" the HUD marker).
Instead, just run another map. They're basically a "dice-roll". Running another map gets a new dice roll. If it "rolls" a number it already did previously, you get the red error message banner.
Just keep running the maps (keep rolling the dice); ignore the error message.
Eventually it will find other types of signals (like shelters, etc). Don't go to any of them.
Just keep "rolling" until it finds a crashed freighter.
Leave all the other ones alone - they serve to "block" those "not a crashed freighter" rolls.
That way - anytime it successfully finds anything - it WILL BE a crashed freighter.
Hopefully that makes sense.. :)
BTW - don't give up on "rolling". I've "rolled" as many as 21 "errors" before it finally found what I wanted (which, for me, is a distress signal - crashed spaceship; and not the "pilot waiting to be rescued").
Good luck!
The way to use charts is to use multiples so you max all the signal markers and only go to the one you want. Then next time you'll get it again.
Nope, that is not what I was saying (I said I'm salvaging spaceships).
THAT is what I DID say. :)
Sorry if my phrasing was so poor that I didn't get that across to you.
I was talking to the OP.
Ugh. Well, thanks for clarifying that. :)
(Re-reading your post, it should have been clear to me - but what can I say - I'm getting old....) :)
(Even though I'm "doing" spaceships - I don't have my own capitol ship yet - so I also stop and do every opportunistic freighter I see - to be better prepared for when I do get my capital ship).
I love this planet!
The planetary chart you exchange from the cartographer is called (emergency cartographer data) "distressed signal, yes, - and when activated, one of the markers that pops up on the planet should say "crashed freighter"
Oh if it pops up as "distress signal" that's a crashed starship.
That's odd. If marker pops up in the sky as "Abandoned buildings" sure but otherwise weird that an actual distress signal is a building but that makes sense though cuz those buildings got the zombie infestation treatment and somebody yelled for "HALP!"
Yes anyone who've looked at enough "distress beacons" will find it isn't so ez to get freebies and a lot of times you get pilot missions or empty locations or even get sent back to the same place.
Ah okay we getting distress signal (planetary chart) mix up with "distress beacon"
from WIKI this is what pops in the sky as markers
Abandoned Building (40% chance)
Distress Beacon (15% chance)
Crashed Ship (with NPC) (8% chance)
Crashed Freighter (8% chance)
Observatory (6% chance)