For the SC farmers, a few questions.

[Eightball]

So I wanted to see how difficult it was to focus farm SC. I dropped into a Trivial mission, found 30 SC (and a bunker which was of course depressing) actually did the obj and then evac'd out. It did not take long at all.

However, I don't know if I was just lucky finding 30 SC my first dip. I also have no doubt there are players who have far more efficient farming methods. I don't even know if Trivial missions are potentially the best return for time invested versus another difficulty.

So if you are a practiced SC farmer can you please share some tips of the trade so to speak.

Thanks.

[LunarGatta]

Originally posted by Eightball:

So I wanted to see how difficult it was to focus farm SC. I dropped into a Trivial mission, found 30 SC (and a bunker which was of course depressing) actually did the obj and then evac'd out. It did not take long at all.

However, I don't know if I was just lucky finding 30 SC my first dip. I also have no doubt there are players who have far more efficient farming methods. I don't even know if Trivial missions are potentially the best return for time invested versus another difficulty.

So if you are a practiced SC farmer can you please share some tips of the trade so to speak.

Thanks.

I'm not really a farmer myself, though from what I've seen on reddit and whatnot, most people tend to farm on difficulty 3 since that somehow has the highest drop rate.

That's all I know unfortunately.

[Eightball]

Thanks for the note. Trivial was really quick, but I suspect since the map is so small you lose the chance to have more POIs.

[Akantorz]

Diff 1
Bring explosive or container breaker (AMR/Laser Cannon can break container doors)
Jump pack
Light armor with scout ability
Any primary
Any secondary

Once you get the SC, you can quit after you loot everything, you don't need to stay in the mission, but if you're on a planet where you don't want to mess with the progress for capture/defend, then it will take you 2 extra minutes most.

Use scout to look at map and move courser over the map until you see "Point of Interest" Once you do, head there and loot any SC.

POI's to look for:
-Beacon supplies, looks like tiny shuttle
-Metal Containers (like what you see on container ships)

POI's to avoid
-Hellbombs ready to BOOM
-Bunkers (unless you have 2 players)
-Hidden cache (mostly just ammo)

You should be running basically a circle around the map depending on the geography and where the objective and the extract is located. Avoid spending time killing, focus on jumping from POI to POI. Once the map is cleared, return to extract, or abandon to ship if you don't need anything other than SC.

SC is shared among players so 2 person play is nice, however avoid returning to ship if you do 2 players since they will not return with you.

Best missions:
-Upload escape pod data
-Terminate Illegal broadcast
-Fuel station (it's only one place with minimal enemies)

Each mission with extract should take about 7 minutes if slow + loading screens or 5 minutes plus loading screens.

Good luck!

[sadchaos]

don't evac, always use the abandon function.
jetpack with crossbow/erupter for breaking crates.
scout armor for sprint/radar and infusion booster if you got it. (always be stimming)

Look for maps/seeds which are small. avoid mountainous seeds and seeds which are just big circles, quickest farms are on maps which have an ocean cut the map in half which reduces overall trival required to get to pois, it doesn't affect how many pois there are just the distance to them.

if you are picking good seeds trivial will always out pace every other difficulty in terms of farming.
The goal is to cut down on travel as much as possible, even if larger maps may have more pois (they don't) the distance makes the time spent on each poi far greater.

[MagikarpMagi]

My preferred way lately is just to drop into diff 3s that have other high level players. They're farming too, and they'll absolutely open doors with you.
Otherwise uh... pick planets with good weather/geography, wear light armor (maybe medic armor for stim running) and bring the jumppack, equip the stamina buff or stim buff... I think that's all I've got.

Oh, and you can just leave a match before extract and keep all the SC you found. It isn't like samples in that way. Real time saver sometimes.

[Verga.Tron]

Originally posted by Eightball:

Thanks for the note. Trivial was really quick, but I suspect since the map is so small you lose the chance to have more POIs.

iirc, number of POIs is fixed, and extra secondary objectives take one of them to spawn. So in fact, the smaller the map, the better, because you have to walk less to move between POIs.

Another thing, doing in pairs is better because you can open bunkers

[Chaos]

Yes, it's pure luck.
Sometime you can't even find 20 SC in the whole map.
My best record was 6 stacks in one map, tho my best finds was like 120 SC in a single map due to the rare 100 SC spawn.

[Dragon]

Medium means bigger maps, meaning more PoIs, meaning more overall 2 drops. Drop pods are a diceroll, and bunkers are obviously not solo farmable, but you get enough containers in medium.

Medium also still has no PoI defenders and gives a reasonable amount of xp for completing the obj.

[Dragon]

Originally posted by Verga.Tron:

Originally posted by Eightball:

Thanks for the note. Trivial was really quick, but I suspect since the map is so small you lose the chance to have more POIs.

iirc, number of POIs is fixed, and extra secondary objectives take one of them to spawn. So in fact, the smaller the map, the better, because you have to walk less to move between POIs.

Another thing, doing in pairs is better because you can open bunkers

There are still map size differences, meaning medium is better for solo since you won't lose out on bunker openings.

[pazow269]

Dif 2 is good because it has a chance for the RADAR towers, also, i believe, if there is no radar tower, when you hover over an undiscovered POI with your map cursor. it shows (im unsure of this because sometimes you can or cant see them but it sure as hell is effective)

[sweng]

Here is a thing i find out in recent sc farming:
In diff 3 bot mission, the sabotage air base will ALWAYS spawn radar station. Also drop on the mission objective and look around, the radar station will always within 150m of the main objective. This apply to escape pod mission too but latest patch remove it from diff 3 to diff 1-2.

Then, if you dont have these mission on screen, find the mission with escape pod as a side mission. Although the radar station location will be random but there is high chance the mission will include it except soil survey mission. Soil survey will never include radar station as far as i know.

[sweng]

Originally posted by sweng:

Here is a thing i find out in recent sc farming:
In diff 3 bot mission, the sabotage air base will ALWAYS spawn radar station. Also drop on the mission objective and look around, the radar station will always within 150m of the main objective. This apply to escape pod mission too but latest patch remove it from diff 3 to diff 1-2.

Then, if you dont have these mission on screen, find the mission with escape pod as a side mission. Although the radar station location will be random but there is high chance the mission will include it except soil survey mission. Soil survey will never include radar station as far as i know.

Also though i only play a few times, the blitz mission also spawn radar station but i am not sure whether it always be the case.

[FidelCastrol]

40 mins run with randoms yesterday, 600 SC.
Diff 1, run, grab, abandon, repeat.
You spend more time in the ship than on the ground.

[sweng]

Originally posted by FidelCastrol:

40 mins run with randoms yesterday, 600 SC.
Diff 1, run, grab, abandon, repeat.
You spend more time in the ship than on the ground.

Did you get multiple 100sc spawn?
I only get 10 sc each (not even a single 20sc spawn) for my last 700 sc which take hours. I find it hard to believe you can get that much in such a short time unless you are extremely lucky or there is something i miss for farming solo

[ShockedHearts]

I just play diff 10 and loot pois casually. havent spent a penny on this game (currently have 2000 sc and every warbond purchased and every armor in the super store purchased)

granted... I play a decent bit, but I dont go out of my way or anything