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Originally Posted by Krovikan
I started over again last night, it didn't go well, I only found one friendly ship who wasn't able to trade energy rods. And despite the increase in the chance to find a cryo-chamber, I was unable to find one. So I spent the entire begging of the game desperately trying to search for energy rods.
Ah well, I will try again this weekend, maybe tonight if my friends aren't playing Ark.
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What worked for me, is that after I built the energy refiner. I would jump into a system, do a mad dash to find as much elerium as I could and strictly mine it, water and fuel components. Then jump to the next system and do the same thing, that allowed me to build up my energy rods. Then I'd jump backwards one system and leisurely go after derelicts and the other materials.
Even in the first few systems finding people in pods is still rare, it does pick up though. But you usually will find only one or two per system after that and there's a chance that one is already dead.
But yeah don't sit around being thorough in terms of mining and stripping ships. Do a mad dash for key components, and make sure that you keep your carbon up and your food manufacturing up.