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Why is rubidium common when it's ultra rare?
rickpaaa
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I have ran out of rubidium and I can't find any more. I get so-called ultra rares in advanced STFs in space, and on the ground, but rubidium absolutely does NOT drop, or one will drop. What's up with that?
Oh well. No more crafting for me for a while.
Oh well. No more crafting for me for a while.
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Yeah. Rare but ultra rare. I can't examine what I don't have.
So where the hell can you find it reliably?
Member since December 2009
On the exchange.
Do the doff missions 'Scan trace so and so, particle this and that' in orbit space and sector space. They are widely available, have a short duration and no cooldown and whenever they crit you'll get one rubidium. And they crit a lot, given you have the right doffs.
Hmmm, lets see. 2-4 hour doff mission for 3 Rubidium. At that rate you should have enough to craft 1 item in about 4-8 hours oh and lets not forget you need 2 of that item in the grand sceme of things. Unless your lucky enough to crit of course. So to make a few items or craft a console it shouldn't take you no longer than..........Eternity!!!!!! Go ahead, bad mouth me. I quit the game a month ago. I just figured I would pop in to see if there was any good news at all on the forums. Guess what, there isn't. Unless you consider a nerf to the dyson battle zones good.
Why would I badmouth you? I mean, I don't really understand why you chose this thread and my post for your comeback and I find your reply to be a tad hysterical (given the topic of the thread), but whatever floats your boat...
I'm just trying to be helpful, telling the OP what has proven (for me) to be a pretty reliable and easy way to get Rubidium in pretty large amounts. If you really wanna farm it, you can do 4 of those missions in Sol System e.g., 4 more in Sirius Sector, fly over to Regulus for 4 more and then to Tau Dewa and Dyson Sphere. 20 doff missions, 5 minutes of 'work'. Wait for 3 hours, rinse repeat.
If you wanna have the Rubidium like RIGHT NOW...well, then there's always the exchange. If you like to plan ahead and gather ressources while you can for later use, then there's plenty of other options in the game. And 2-4 hours is not eternity. It's 2-4 hours. Just sayin'...
And just for clarity's sake: No, I don't particularly like nerfs. And no, I'm not 100% happy with the requirements for crafting and the likes, but jeez, does every thread have to go the DOOOOM-road these days? It's a game, don't take it all too seriously.
It's a prized material, primarily used in weapon which uses the most upgrades numerically.
Rubidium was between 60k and 120k ever since Delta Rising's release... I gather it may have been even higher before that. 40k is quite reasonable in comparison.
Supply and demand and all that.
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If it is down to 40k don't bother, it was at least double that last I checked.
I think the drop rate for rubidium was dramatically lowered with the last patch (the lowering R&D material cost one).
The day before the patch I was farming Pheben system for Rubidium. This is what I experienced:
EVERY (yes every!) run, I got rubidium from the 3rd anomaly I scanned. It didn't matter which anomaly I started or ended with. The last one gave me 3 rubidium.
This way I farmed ~50-60 rubidium in 30-40 minutes.
Additionally I got Rubidium from STF Boxes regularly. Maybe every 3rd or 4th box contained rubidium.
Now... after the patch... Pheben anomalies didn't give a single Rubidium in 1.5-2 hours of farming (now there's a lot of Tetrazine Gas). I did dozens of STFs a day since last Sunday with 3 different toons and got maybe two boxes which contained Rubidium. Z-Particles are very rare also.
Well.. I don't bother a lot about the low drops because I still have a good stack of Rubidium on my toons but it is really obvious that the drop rate was lowered!
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Its the most useful of the blue quality materials and sells for a lot on the exchange.
Every once in a while, you can sell your excess of other types and buy what you need. It varies but I found 10 mil in crafting mats this week, stuff I do not use much if at all. That would buy like 150 rubidium at today's prices.
I pretty much always get some running fleet alert.