Travellers gone???

[Aoi Arashi]

As of now, I've visited exactly TWENTY space stations and have met ZERO travellers. (I did find one in an Observatory of all places.) Am I maybe doing something wrong?

[UncreativelyNamed]

Nope, it's just RNG. You're having a dry streak. It'll break eventually.

[Nevyn]

To be fair, I haven't seen one since the update. But i also travel to alot of previously visited systems for trade lately, so who knows.

[Pagafyr]

They're there. I flew through Black holes and did jumps to new systems stopping at every space station instead of taking the FTL to the furthest I could get to.

Every once in awhile there is one traveler. I wouldn't be surprised if on occasion I was just moving around so they seemed like a ninja hiding and I didn't see them behind a wall or up above the teleport station when I used it to get back to the Freighter.

[Felis_Exploria]

Rng can feel unbelievable.

[dreamrider]

I tend to find them more at Archives.

[Jorboc]

you offered them the wrong element and made them all sad? (and probably translucent, because they always pull stuff like that when I poke them with my carbon dongle)

[Aoi Arashi]

OK. I'm up to 23 stations visited and ZERO travellers. The question is, is their frequency truly random, or is their frequency of appearance set at character creation each game? In my last game, I found them frequently, (about one station in 3), and twice with two on the same station. It would be easy to set a flag for that.
(Again, I'm excluding the one I found in an observatory.) Hmmm? Bug in my data that only lets them spawn in observatories? Very strange, but possible?

[J_Bruce_Cook]

I'd also formed the impression that Travellers were less common in Space Stations since Orbital. _Maybe_ they're just harder to spot with the new layout if you're not specifically looking for them.

[Cora]

Originally posted by Aoi Arashi:

As of now, I've visited exactly TWENTY space stations and have met ZERO travellers. (I did find one in an Observatory of all places.) Am I maybe doing something wrong?

travelers dont 'Only' appear at the space station. they also occur regularly at planetside spaceports. if you use the ship upgrade for scanning for them while in atmosphere of a planet that is not in a red star sector, you would find them near the galactic trade terminal. Each star system only has a single space station, but anywhere from 10 - 20 spaceports on neighboring planets, you should search for them there.

if you dont have the scanner and wish to seek them out 'Old School', the trails you see while in space are the trade paths for the system. you can follow them and they almost always lead to a spaceport though sometimes a smaller trade outpost can occur as well. visually, this can be difficult when the trails blend into the atmosphere so you need to practice a bit. back in the day, that was how we did it.