Pirate Dreadnought won't spawn

[Engineer404]

I have gone to a couple dozen pirate systems and I will only see the standard ship vs freighter battle but no dreadnoughts. I have gone to systems right from a save restart, so the battle encounter happens on the first warp every time.

Do I need to own a freighter to make the Pirate Dreadnought encounter spawn?

[M͕͕͗͗i͕͕͗͗y͕͕͗͗o]

Originally posted by Engineer404:

Do I need to own a freighter to make the Pirate Dreadnought encounter spawn?

yes. to trigger the event you need first to own a freighter

[Midnight-Moon]

*sigh* noticed that on reddit too when i wanted to get one with mah fresh new save, usually i find a fleet being attacked by pirates in few jumps but there .. used 75 jumps in level 3 conflict, i feel life something went wrong until i found one when i gave up and gone in a level 2 conflit system. they made hem rarer or what

[JimboTCB]

Your first freighter spawn should always be on your 5th jump I think, after that it's subject to I believe a minimum of 3 hours and 10 warps until the next encounter.

Once you get any frieghter though, pirate dreadnought events can spawn at any time with no cooldown, it's just a random chance when warping into a new system (higher chances in pirate systems) but once an event has been triggered in one system it'll always spawn there until you clear it, so you can safely warp away to create a restore point before warping back to start the fight.

[Asmosis]

i did a dozen warps today over the span of a couple hours and didnt get any freighter encounters at all. Ever since i "obtained" my pirate dreadnought encounters have dropped off a cliff.

[M͕͕͗͗i͕͕͗͗y͕͕͗͗o]

Originally posted by Asmosis:

i did a dozen warps today over the span of a couple hours and didnt get any freighter encounters at all. Ever since i "obtained" my pirate dreadnought encounters have dropped off a cliff.

have you finished the fleet introduction mission. if not then there is your problem. if you don't finish this mission it will block freighter spawn events

[Asmosis]

Originally posted by M͕͕͗͗i͕͕͗͗y͕͕͗͗o:

Originally posted by Asmosis:

i did a dozen warps today over the span of a couple hours and didnt get any freighter encounters at all. Ever since i "obtained" my pirate dreadnought encounters have dropped off a cliff.

have you finished the fleet introduction mission. if not then there is your problem. if you don't finish this mission it will block freighter spawn events

Oh they do spawn, but only after about 4-6 hours and 20-30 warps. Prior to capturing the pirate freighter i was getting them every 3-5 jumps.

[M͕͕͗͗i͕͕͗͗y͕͕͗͗o]

Originally posted by Asmosis:

Originally posted by M͕͕͗͗i͕͕͗͗y͕͕͗͗o:

have you finished the fleet introduction mission. if not then there is your problem. if you don't finish this mission it will block freighter spawn events

Oh they do spawn, but only after about 4-6 hours and 20-30 warps. Prior to capturing the pirate freighter i was getting them every 3-5 jumps.

thats strange. i get the encounters like normal