okay, i asked this question a while back and i never got an answer, and then the thread got deleted (i think)... so I'm asking it here. i dont know where else to ask this, so if you moderators know of a better place to stick this thread, please feel free to do so.
I'm new to Season 10, so please be gentle

i like the restructuring of the maps, however no matter which sector i travel to, i cannot find, for the life of me, any enemy signal contacts... i see deep space encounters (which i cant play), but no enemy signal contacts. I used these zones to grind for both gear and energy credits, and im wondering if this is a glitch, or if it's on purpose.
if it's a glitch, then i hope you can repair it... but if it's not, that's a huge bummer, because that helped a lot in this game in acquiring equipment.
but like i said, i dont know if this is supposed to be like this or not. im just looking for feedback, I'm not trying to start any problem of any kind, i just want to know why these zones are gone, because they never appear anymore for me.
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i guess my hope is that they havent updated everything yet, because, for me, this really takes away a lot of the replay value for me. if that really be the case, i do have my own opinions on that decision, but i'm not a game developer.
I'll be honest, i never really have done any Foundry missions (i've been a player since 2012), and yeah those exploration nodes are kinda cool... again, im just worried about the replay value, because i REALLY dont want to get so frustrated to the point to where i just give up playing... i really like this game
the only DSEs that i see in sector space are that particular red alerts that randomly pop up on the map... maybe im missing something?
They will appear on your map as csmic says.
Look for the Red Combage Icon.
and names like
Deep Space Enounter: Assimilate the Barbarians.
for example, i would travel to the Zeta Andromadae Sector Block, and fly to the lower left sector- the Vanden sector- and battle the Terran Empire (i think that's what they were). it was a good place to grind for a bit to get some gear for energy credits.
these are the enemy signal contacts i am referring to
now, as i said earlier, they have all disappeared from the maps... thecosmic1 says that they're still there, however i have yet to even run into one of these. I'm hoping the game developers will make these much more prevalent and abundant when they get this whole map thing situated, because this really doesnt encourage me to play much right now at all.
i used those battle zones to help equip my characters better, and with those gone, it takes a lot of replay value away from the game.... but like i said earlier, i hope this will be fixed a bit later.
Yes I know what you're talking about. Those I'm not sure if they're going to put them back in. The DSEs cover a lot of them. Plus they just randomly pop up on the map. But those were kind of buggy... always found them cloistered up against the sector walls.
Signal Contacts on the other hand are the ships that randomly fly around, and you have to hunt for these. UNFORTUNATELY, many of the missions that required Signal Contacts changed when they changed the map - as in the Signal Contacts seem to have completely vanished from the game completely.
Abandoned ships and Unknown Nebula are for crafting materials only, and have no real play-effect to the game. They even show up as white 'dot' ships on the map if you zoom in when moving.
Signal contacts were usually represented by a red icon on the map that moved around.
DSEs are represented by a red icon with gold markers around the edges. They don't move.
Alerts: The do not always have anything to to with DSEs. Sometimes the alert takes place, but no DSE will be seen anywhere on the map. At other times, set DSEs will be affected or activated when a Sector Alert goes off.
Signal Contacts, such as those needed to complete the Story-REQUIRED mission: Defend the Beta Quadrant are missing completely.
I came back after the change to series 10, but it has been months and I have yet to see a single Signal Contact in the game.
Solution: You have to skip that mission. It is unplayable.