how do i find anomaly detectors now?

[Rise Risotto]

i have been days trying to find anomaly detectors and its imposible to find just one, even tried with a mod and still didnt find anything i dont know if there is another way to get it cause asteroids dront drop it anymore for me

[Caramirdan]

10-15 minutes of asteroid shooting will usually nab one for me still, at least a week ago. No new updates since the 9th I think. The worst part is some rando NPC mining ship coming between mine and a rock before I take my finger off the trigger.

[Rise Risotto]

Originally posted by Caramirdan:

10-15 minutes of asteroid shooting will usually nab one for me still, at least a week ago. No new updates since the 9th I think. The worst part is some rando NPC mining ship coming between mine and a rock before I take my finger off the trigger.

i have been hours trying a few weeks ago and today again and didnt find anything even with a x10 drop mod, maybe now we can just find it in some specific systems i dont know but i have try almost an hour in a common asteroid field and also in the ring of a planet that has another kind of asteroids and didnt find just one xD its frustrating as ♥♥♥♥

[Galadhlinn]

I think the drop rate was adjusted down. I got one this morning, but I used to get 3-5 with a single session of shooting asteroids.

[Jaggid Edje]

The odds by default are set at 0.005, which is 0.5%, and that's only from what the game considers 'rare' asteroids. Common ones do not drop them at all, and never have for as long as I've been modding the game.

Those odds are the same as they have been for as long as I can remember, but you will see variation of how often you get them between different asteroid fields due to the fields having some variation in common-rare asteroid makeup.

[Rise Risotto]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

The odds by default are set at 0.005, which is 0.5%, and that's only from what the game considers 'rare' asteroids. Common ones do not drop them at all, and never have for as long as I've been modding the game.

Those odds are the same as they have been for as long as I can remember, but you will see variation of how often you get them between different asteroid fields due to the fields having some variation in common-rare asteroid makeup.

i dont know man... i have been a few months/year without play, i dont remember to dedicate any moment to farm this item and i had almost 10 the last time begin to play, i even give a pair to a friend cause i didnt remember to be hard to get, but now i have been stuck trying to find one and has become imposible, something has changed or there is another way that i used to get the item but i cant find any info apart from "destroy asteroids" now

[Jaggid Edje]

There are other ways to get them, just none that you can rely on or farm.

It's also not at all impossible to farm them from asteroids. I gathered 30 of them last week before setting out on my living frigate hunt. It just took a while. I didn't spend solid time in an asteroid field mining until I found an asteroid field that was giving me the rare loot table at a halfway decent rate (i.e. a lot more than mostly just tritium).

[TachyonTraveller]

Asteroids, sometimes Pirate goods packets. You'll need to break a lot of space rocks as they are rare. Phase Beam or Grafted Eyes are recommended loadout. Heat buildup can be bypassed by flickering the beam, and it's an instant rock breaker. Pick up some Di-Hydrogen Jelly on a station and stock up on Tritium from the rocks, and you can put the time to use for Frigate Fuel as well.

[Caramirdan]

Originally posted by TachyonTraveller:

. . . and stock up on Tritium from the rocks, and you can put the time to use for Frigate Fuel as well.

This is the main reason I'm mining lol, my support frigates are more time reduction than fuel.

[Lil Puppy]

Originally posted by Caramirdan:

10-15 minutes of asteroid shooting will usually nab one for me still, at least a week ago. No new updates since the 9th I think. The worst part is some rando NPC mining ship coming between mine and a rock before I take my finger off the trigger.

That must be where I found mine, asteroid mining.

[Dhanen]

Hello. Sorry for this "small" reflood but I've been also a lot of time mining tritium and I got 1 in a several hours. I think drop has been downed (again). This is so tedious...
Writting this just in case somebody wonders about that and arrives here.

[Jaggid Edje]

The detectors do not drop from the same asteroids as tritium. You want the 'rare' asteroids to get them, so you need to find asteroid fields which have an abundance of non-tritium asteroids.

[Azure Fang]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

The detectors do not drop from the same asteroids as tritium. You want the 'rare' asteroids to get them, so you need to find asteroid fields which have an abundance of non-tritium asteroids.

Yeah, they do. The type classification was done away with with the last asteroid rework. Aside from the "deformable" asteroid lumps, all asteroids equally drop gold, gold nuggets, silver, tritium, tritium hyperclusters, and anomaly detectors at their respective rates and have a chance to spawn children of helios.

[Prescient Stones]

Originally posted by Dhanen:

Hello. Sorry for this "small" reflood but I've been also a lot of time mining tritium and I got 1 in a several hours. I think drop has been downed (again). This is so tedious...
Writting this just in case somebody wonders about that and arrives here.

You you see or hear the space storm in and around the asteroid field, mine there. No need to spend hours, Get as close and stay close and you'll have a few in minutes.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Azure Fang:

Yeah, they do. The type classification was done away with with the last asteroid rework. Aside from the "deformable" asteroid lumps, all asteroids equally drop gold, gold nuggets, silver, tritium, tritium hyperclusters, and anomaly detectors at their respective rates and have a chance to spawn children of helios.

The xml table still shows two distinct types of asteroid drops. With the anomaly detector being classified as "RareAsteroid" and Tritium being classified as "CommonAsteroid".
Are you saying that a single asteroid is using both sets of drop probabilities? And if so, how do you know that this is the case?

[Azure Fang]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Originally posted by Azure Fang:

Yeah, they do. The type classification was done away with with the last asteroid rework. Aside from the "deformable" asteroid lumps, all asteroids equally drop gold, gold nuggets, silver, tritium, tritium hyperclusters, and anomaly detectors at their respective rates and have a chance to spawn children of helios.

The xml table still shows two distinct types of asteroid drops. With the anomaly detector being classified as "RareAsteroid" and Tritium being classified as "CommonAsteroid".
Are you saying that a single asteroid is using both sets of drop probabilities? And if so, how do you know that this is the case?

The "rare" is just naming what is "rare" in the table, not referencing the asteroids themselves. I haven't looked at the asteroid tables directly yet, but I have spent the last three days farming them while discussing fuel costs with Psayne and can confirm from experience that everything can drop from the same asteroids, including having received at least one from a system's "common" asteroid after bashing into it in frustration.

Originally posted by Prescient Stones:

Originally posted by Dhanen:

Hello. Sorry for this "small" reflood but I've been also a lot of time mining tritium and I got 1 in a several hours. I think drop has been downed (again). This is so tedious...
Writting this just in case somebody wonders about that and arrives here.

You you see or hear the space storm in and around the asteroid field, mine there. No need to spend hours, Get as close and stay close and you'll have a few in minutes.

Storms have no bearing. They're purely cosmetic and can appear anywhere in space, asteroids or no.