Pirate Boss not spawning? [SOLVED]

[Beeplop]

I've been searching for him for hours in the area that the wiki says he spawns, and i haven't found him. Is the wiki wrong? Or am i just getting astronomically unlucky?

[ZERGLING]

"Pirate Swoks - it has a 5% chance of spawning in systems in that region that are not offgrid, regular or home to a faction(empty sectors); and spawns after 9 consecutive jumps in such systems if it didn't before."

[Beeplop]

Could you clarify exactly what that means please? Im confused.

[fractalgem]

Originally posted by |CoS| kerbal:

Could you clarify exactly what that means please? Im confused.

Offgrid: I think that means outside the galaxy/inside warp rifts. (a check to make sure you're in a valid sector). It might also be the other way around, and mean you're supposed to go to places you haven't visited areas.

Home to a faction: stay out of colored areas.

Regular: avoid green dots.

After you follow these guidelines, there's a 1/20 chance each time you jump. However, to prevent frustration, it will guaranteed spawn if you make 8 such jumps in a row. (avoid yellow dots, they're sometimes smuggler faction and therefore non-admissible)

[Beeplop]

Yes I was helped by ZERGLING via private messaging, but thank you anyway.

[GSD Yahl]

ok this is ridiculous i have had this same prob for 4 hours now, have done grid searches small jumps in sector not faction controlled. in the beginning of game i ran into all the time now that im lookin he wont show up

[Cool Beans]

I've been looking for the last two days. Over 150+ jumps. Tried just about everything so far. been to multiple parts of the galaxy in the 380-430 distance range. Tried hidden, tried empty. I even cleared out huge swaths by exploring every single yellow or green dot so i knew exactally where the true empty space was, then tried that, and still no dice.

I've been experimenting with doing 12-20 consecutive jumps and trying something new, but to no avail. Swoks will not show in my game.

The most frusterating thing is not knowing if my progression is being halted and my time wasted by a bug, or some parameter that just isn't apparent. Not a single merchant vessel has ever even mentioned this guy.

empty space.. loading screen.. empty space.. loading screen..

[Absurdist]

Originally posted by Adamumbambutopia:

I've been looking for the last two days. Over 150+ jumps. Tried just about everything so far. been to multiple parts of the galaxy in the 380-430 distance range. Tried hidden, tried empty. I even cleared out huge swaths by exploring every single yellow or green dot so i knew exactally where the true empty space was, then tried that, and still no dice.

I've been experimenting with doing 12-20 consecutive jumps and trying something new, but to no avail. Swoks will not show in my game.

The most frusterating thing is not knowing if my progression is being halted and my time wasted by a bug, or some parameter that just isn't apparent. Not a single merchant vessel has ever even mentioned this guy.

empty space.. loading screen.. empty space.. loading screen..

If I may ask are you computing the distance using Pythagorean theorem? You seem to be doing it correctly otherwise by avoiding the green and yellow blips.

[Cool Beans]

Originally posted by Absurdist:

Originally posted by Adamumbambutopia:

I've been looking for the last two days. Over 150+ jumps. Tried just about everything so far. been to multiple parts of the galaxy in the 380-430 distance range. Tried hidden, tried empty. I even cleared out huge swaths by exploring every single yellow or green dot so i knew exactally where the true empty space was, then tried that, and still no dice.

I've been experimenting with doing 12-20 consecutive jumps and trying something new, but to no avail. Swoks will not show in my game.

The most frusterating thing is not knowing if my progression is being halted and my time wasted by a bug, or some parameter that just isn't apparent. Not a single merchant vessel has ever even mentioned this guy.

empty space.. loading screen.. empty space.. loading screen..

If I may ask are you computing the distance using Pythagorean theorem? You seem to be doing it correctly otherwise by avoiding the green and yellow blips.

If by that you mean finding the correct distance from the center, i'm using the X and Y coords to put myself usually around the 400 line, my latest I was around X-400Y-400 and now moving toward X0 Y-400 and still looking.

[Absurdist]

Originally posted by Adamumbambutopia:

If by that you mean finding the correct distance from the center, i'm using the X and Y coords to put myself usually around the 400 line, my latest I was around X-400Y-400 and now moving toward X0 Y-400 and still looking.

Dude (400, 400) is way past the 430 range, it's 565.69.

[Cool Beans]

Originally posted by Absurdist:

Originally posted by Adamumbambutopia:

If by that you mean finding the correct distance from the center, i'm using the X and Y coords to put myself usually around the 400 line, my latest I was around X-400Y-400 and now moving toward X0 Y-400 and still looking.

Dude (400, 400) is way past the 430 range, it's 565.69.

Oi, then I'm afraid I have no idea how to measure how far from the core 380-430 is. I just assumed they meant sectors.

[Absurdist]

Originally posted by Adamumbambutopia:

Oi, then I'm afraid I have no idea how to measure how far from the core 380-430 is. I just assumed they meant sectors.

Pythagorean theorem. Square the X, square the Y, add the two and take the square root of the sum. sqrt(x^2 + y^2).

[ZERGLING]

local dist = length(vec2(x, y))
if dist > 380 and dist < 430 then

this is the equation :
http://i.imgur.com/FYmqBkB.png

[Absurdist]

Originally posted by ZERGLING:

local dist = length(vec2(x, y))
if dist > 380 and dist < 430 then

Lua? If that's taken from the game code then I now know why it took me 9 jumps. I thought exactly 380 will do.

[ZERGLING]

A bit more of lua code for you:
if dist > 380 and dist < 430 then
if not regular and not offgrid and not blocked and not home then
if math.random() < 0.05 or consecutiveJumps > 8

If you jump in a wrong sector, consecutiveJumps is reset, etc :)

[Cool Beans]

I really appreciate the help. So if I just go to X0 Y-380 and head southerly into the blanks I should find the dude?