Echo Locator problem

[John Crackdiver]

Everytime i get a Echo Locator it just doesn't work, i've tried to leave and rejoin, tried in deep space and another planet and even switching solar system and it still comes up with the same message which is (locational interference)

[Jaggid Edje]

If it doesn't work, find another Dissonant system. There probably is no harmonic encampment in that system, which is why it is failing.

Uncharted systems won't have the camps, nor will certain planet types (Dead, Exotic, etc), and in some cases even a planet type that one would expect to be okay won't have them (I had it fail when the corrupted planet was Lush in an inhabited system).

You've had a very unlucky streak, and I feel yah, because I had the same thing happen. The first 6 dissonant systems I found all were ones where the Echo locator did not work. Since then I've had much better luck and have claimed interceptors in over 30 different systems.

[SkiRich]

location interference means no POI in that system.
Go to another dissonent system, land on the corrupted planet. check to make sure the planet is not a dead planet or exotic planet. Try the echo again.

[John Crackdiver]

Thanks for the help

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by SkiRich:

location interference means no POI in that system.
Go to another dissonent system, land on the corrupted planet. check to make sure the planet is not a dead planet or exotic planet. Try the echo again.

It's faster to just use the echo locator in space when you arrive, and if it doesn't work, move on without even landing.
I originally doing the whole landing and then trying thing, but it never worked on the planet surface when it already had failed in space, so I stopped wasting that additional time. Even if there's a 1 in 10 chance it could make a difference, it doesn't payoff for the 9 out of 10 where you take the time to fly-to and land-on the planet for nothing.

[Galadhlinn]

Just to add one point. If you used an echo locator in another system and say didn't like the ship and moved on to another system (without completing, claiming the ship), another cause for failure is you still have an active quest from the previous system. Go into log and abandon the sentinel ship quest. This will clear it and allow you to use the locator again.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Galadhlinn:

Just to add one point. If you used an echo locator in another system and say didn't like the ship and moved on to another system (without completing, claiming the ship), another cause for failure is you still have an active quest from the previous system. Go into log and abandon the sentinel ship quest. This will clear it and allow you to use the locator again.

Good information. I never did that because I always finish what I start, but it makes sense it could (and obviously does) cause an issue.