Rumors of a new material?

It's not a rumor, it's the fuel source of the weapon they trade us.


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Fornax image btw:

Has anyone figured out how to get a Trade Hub yet?

Trade Hub is Trading Hub, it's when your planet gets +10% production to all resources for a week. So it's a random planetary event.

Are you sure it isn't the GP bought artifact that increases all production by 5%?

Chuhn Trading Forum
[ Limited Artifact - Late Summer ]
Establishes a Trading Forum with the planet,
Boosting all production permanently by 5%.
Cost: 22 GP

50 Energy to install on your planet.
Adds bonus effects image to your planet.

Pretty sure Kirk is talking about Trade hub not Chuhn Trading Forum...


Chuhn Trading Post
Planet Structure: Size:1, Mining:1, Research:1 Artifact:1, Population:2000
If the planet has a Trade Hub, or Chuhn Trading Forum when this is build, this structure's bonuses are doubled.
Limit 1 per planet
Scrap Value: 3-6 CTP

Thought I'd put this info here since i have got all drops from the Chuhn merchants now

Starting / Finishing Rank: 1119 / 1147
Starting / Finishing NPC Count: 140,857 / 149,794

Number of Drops as per item are as follows

Chuhn Stem Bolts x7
Eye of Andromeda x4
Fornax Jewel x4
Triangulum Sparkmatter x7
Furlinium-D Spanner x2
Prejor Grav-Hutch x2

So, assuming one places a Chuhn Trading Post on a planet with a Trade Hub event going on, is the bonus the trading post gets permanent, or does it only last as long as the event does?

permanent.

Cool. Thanks for the reply.

WTH WHY WHY is a merchant hiding from traders kind of seems bad for business???? I NPC a lot and have found ZERO of these new NPC's and tlaking to others in our legion who live on the game they have seen 4 or 5 max? I know they are rare but Queens are extremely rare and I see way more of them! This spawn rate utterly sucks!!!!

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=41746

That thread has some discussion on the spawn rates of the elusive Chuhn Merchants. Several people there report spawn rates of 1 in 300 to 400 or so. Myself and one other have reported spawn rates much higher. (1 in 485 and also 1 in over 600).

Currently my spawn rate of them is about equal to Troop Carriers. It does take a LOT of NPCing to find these. Killing well into the thousands and even 10's of thousands of npcs to find a fair number of merchants.

I've actually found more troop carriers than I have the seasonal npc's... spawn rate could be increased some

I agree. That's the same for me as well. I've found more Troop Carriers than Chuhn too.

You and me both man.

The seasonals are definitely lower spawn than other things. I have taken a VR to 12x , completed damos drones and found tons of labs , etc. while finding 1 hutch, 1 eye, 1 spanner, 4 bolts, 2 jewels and 1 of the other. That said - I had same exp with the scruuge last year. Finding tons of some of them, but not all 6.

Can you demolish whatever the Triangulum Sparkmatter produces? I'm hesitant to use the things...

This seasonal just doesn't do it for me.

Maybe next year this seasonal will be better.

I like it. I think people expect far too much greatness from a seasonal event, as well as not wanting to put in the effort to NPC for hours and hours. The items aren't just going to land in your lap, nor should they.

If anything next year is when this seasonal will be much worse, because i'll already have the modules, i won't need stem bolts(i don't need them now to be honest), and so i'm left with 2/6 drops that are useful.