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Post by Cory Trese on Nov 20, 2019 23:59:17 GMT -5
salk - maybe post a screenshot or two! That doesn't sound like the experience any other player is having with the game. If you're looking for a Contact of a faction, try Spying or Patrolling over their faction world. Can we offer you a refund? So does this reply mean a Javat worlds spice bars, spying, exploring can only spawn Javat contacts? Might be a bit of confusion here -- your actions don't "spawn" Contacts. All Contacts in the game are present and active, taking actions and spending Influence points regardless of if the Captain knows about them. You can do Missions against dozens of Contacts you know nothing about, and they can rise, fall and die without your Captain ever meeting them. Your actions aren't spawning Contacts at all. Depending on the card, they might reveal local or remote Contacts. It all depends, really, on player action. |
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Post by cerseisadvocate on Nov 21, 2019 3:39:03 GMT -5
Just to be sure. Have you checked your filters? Perhaps you have contacts you are not aware off because they are filtered out?
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Post by Cory Trese on Nov 21, 2019 7:16:08 GMT -5
Just to be sure. Have you checked your filters? Perhaps you have contacts you are not aware off because they are filtered out? Oh that's such a good point. How did I forget to ask about filters! |
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Post by fallen on Nov 21, 2019 9:27:51 GMT -5
Lol that sounds amazing <3
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Post by salk on Nov 21, 2019 14:37:46 GMT -5
Ended up flying to a Rychart planet to develop "by spying" a Rychart contact....
Unless someone tells me otherwise... A random contact skill like Spying, Patrolling, Spice hall APPEARS to only Reveal someone of the same faction? and not someone cross faction.
My results were very static and very repeatable
Cedar spice hall, spying, exploring - Only revealed Cedar contacts
Thulun spice hall, spying, exploring - Only revealed Thulun contacts
Zerin spice hall, spying, exploring - Only revealed Zerin contacts
Spied once over a Rychart planet BAM!! Rychart contact
So nothing wrong with my filters... just played the game as a trader and found a oddity (it appears) that Germans only know Germans, Russians only talk about Russians etc.
Now this may because I let passive skills reveal contacts.... So maybe I should have payed for contacts and invested less points in passive skills
Thanks
Ps. If you have ever seen how a virus spreads in a simulation... that's how I though contacts worked... A Thulun in the spice hall knows 5 Thulun contacts, 2 Rychart contacts, 1 Cedar contact and Zero for everyone else.... So randomly I could learn any of the 3
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Post by daveal on Nov 21, 2019 15:18:53 GMT -5
To me, these are the least common ways of getting contacts. You may be right that the occasional mini-game card which reveals a contact only reveals from the same planet. But, 90% of the contacts I get are from e-techs and navigators. I am sure these must be from all factions, since I regularly get contacts from factions with no planets I have ever visited.
I would like to know if you are right that the exploring mini-game, in particular, only yield contacts from that faction. That would be weird, because exploring and getting a "remote seam" can give you a so-called reward which is 20 jumps away. I have said this before, but I wish remote seams didn't exist and the exploration reward was always local. After a long round of exploring at several planets in one quadrant, I wind up needing to go all over the galaxy to pick up any rewards.
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Post by Cory Trese on Nov 21, 2019 20:00:49 GMT -5
You can also buy Introductions.
Sorry this has been such a point of confusion. Hopefully everything is clear up now.
Thanks!
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