How is it hard to find one? I have found 2 in the last couple of months. And I don't use scanning mods.

Scan has nothing to do with it as TO Carriers have no cloak. Basically you just have to keep churning through tons of NPCs. Normal rate of appearance is, I believe, 1:300ish. Doesn't mean you'll get one that often, but over time the appearance rate trends toward that number.

Got one today from loading the four NPC slots I have, awesome

got one today too. Got my seventh terraformer

Non-Player Kills 6106

5 troop carriers...

i've had Non-Player Kills: 1476. and have seen a total of 36 t.o troop carriers. 20 of those within the last few days

OMG, I hope the RNG gives you crap on top of crap for the next month.... BECAUSE YOU'RE STEALING MY TROOP CARRIERS!
Non-Player Kills 6720
ONLY 13 TROOP CARRIERS!!!!
also, if you got more than 1 QSE in those 20...... ..........................................................................................................

Lower ranks find less as a % because there are more fixed rank commons that can spawn, and possibly more mission npcs. Zolazins for example are about 40% of your spawns when they are on. The less things that can spawn (esp. commons) the higher your TO Carrier spawn rate. At best, you will see about 1:300-350 of them. Most people see about half that rate.

I have found one and im a rank 69, the trick is to keep piling through ncps I find a good enemy once every 750 energy i would say.

WTF!!! just over 16,000 anf only had around 50 carriers

i seem to find them and blade harvesters every week i spend 20 dollars or more on gp

depends on time spent npc'ing, rank and how much energy u have to npc run you'll see them more often at higher levels.

a quater of a year aint long enough to be seeing the frequently also how many npc slots do you have open ?

4694.... ive found 4

10-12k energy spent NPCing in about an hour today. 2 TO troop carriers and 3 blade harvesters. It's a pretty good day for me.

do you actually want to know the answer to how many QSE i have gotten from those 20 Troop Carriers?

Battles 676694 (Epic Legend)
Player Kills 1703
Deaths from Players 294
Non-Player Kills 87662

There is noway in hell I can remember how many I got but if I did get 1 in 300 since NPC's came out do the math.

I do know that they come at different hours of the day. I've killed a ton of npc's in hours and didn't see any hardly but then again I've found 2 or 3 in the same hour.
You just have to get lucky is what it boils down to.

ive been playing little over 3/4months and have only found 2 of these
Non player kills 474, now that could say im lucky if people find em 1/300
i found my first one round rank 79 area, didnt know what it was but just used the -50% def for the kill (fairly tough when at that rank) and when i saw it dropped terraforming device... well i never stopped npc'ing sinse, (need em for the quest, but its hard to fight temptation of using em)
really i like the odd's as they are, there real tough to find which is a pain but consider if they was moved to 'uncommon' considering there drop i think it would cost the makers (as i assume one income source if via terraforming devices, only item i would buy on occastion) but if there to common it takes fun in it away and just helps you to much
suppose they could hold a event for a week where theres a increase 5% chance finding em, so its not massive but it helps, and it aint permanant

Erm when i did the zolazin chain and had to hunt them they was no where near 40% of my spawns i maybe got one zolazin in every 10-15 npc's even with scan mods on for good mesure.
Personly i think the npc spawn rates are totally messed up theres some common enemys that are so rare that you leap for joy to see one and some "extreamly rare" npc bosses that show there ugly worthless faces in my npc slots every other day.
Fix the spawn rates period i say not just the T.O. npcs would be nice if there was some way to encorage a single factions npcs to spawn more often while lowering all the other ones spawn rates.

I've gotten 1 QSE before, I would assume the RNG gave you enough for your mission dyson.
why are some people getting troop carriers 1 in 41 when others like me who spent almost all their energy NPCing have been getting them 1 in 650-700?!!!!!

Because likely at that kill count he was low rank and didnt see TO Carrier but the TO Cruiser instead or whatever the low rank thing is. I saw tons of them when I was under 100.