No, i mean what i wrote.

Two of my three QSE were at the same time, just got lucky and they popped up one morning, and both were those. The vast majority are terra.

That big of a difference is statistically impossible if it is random chance.

I noticed a time component, no matter how many things I kill I will not get more than a certain # of blade harvesters and to carrier per day, so I think it's throttled. Actually.. that would contradict getting 2 TO at the same time, but then that was before the item changes (and possibly NPC chance change).

I've seen probably 11-12 Troop carriers so far - about 1 every 250 npc kills.

About 2 months ago (end of Feb) I had 3 in the space of 12hrs along with a good half dozen or so blade harvesters.

Certainly not getting that sort of frequency on them anymore - and I'm killing more npc's now than I was back then too, so would be expecting to see them more often...

Yeah I am pretty sure along with artifact drop being (all but removed), that the NPC frequency was also made to make them rare. That means the 2 QSE I got were most likely at the higher drop rate (like 1/3) now it's probably 1/10. Might even be worse. At least one can get an exotic easily enough, if no longer the Dyson in a reasonable time.

yeah it sucks makes for an ever increasing gap between us lowbies and the high rank guys.

you can always spend money to buy Galaxy Points and buy Terra Device or QSE.
The Galaxy Points keep this game alive.

yeah, i spent $50 about 3 or 4 months ago for 2 QSEs and 2 planet fluxs as well as fathers and a couple other things... and i plan to do it again when i have the money to spare for it to get the rest of the terraformers and more QSEs and fluxs maybe a few other things...

If you're going to pop the $50 or whatever on QSE... do it early to get more benefit. The higher you get, the less gain it gives as a % of your income, I mean it's still a lot, but at the point where I am I can wait for the QSE drops. The exotic is about 5%, and a dyson would be about 10%, to a resource. The only thing I recommend across the board is the FATHER relay, but this actually is more valuable when you are near the max relay (90/hr -> 120/hr charge); that's about when I bought it. Well... and some GP to abandon your poor planet choices when you first started and took what you could find.

Yesterday I was shocked to find my second TO troop carrier. killed it got a terraformer. and then today I got on killed a few asteroids and almost had to change my pants when I saw another TO troop carrier. 2 carriers in 2 days! sounds good to me

naw, fathers are just as valuable early on in game play, there is no penalty for them either, how can you go wrong with faster energy..
and yeah , GP to abandon crap planets, no doubt, thats another thing i used some GP on.

2nd troop carrier today, have 1 quasi and 1 terra formernow (gonna use it one mission) so 135 npc kills, 2 found. i think im lucky

Out of 979 NPC kills I have gotten 5 TF and have yet to see a QSE.. My first 3 TF were literally all found in 20 minutes. I killed a Troop Carrier, which was immediately replaced by another. About 6 or 7 kills later a Dark Scrap Carrier popped up and dropped my third TF. Similar situation with TF #4 and #5 also.. but there was about a 13 hour gap between them as opposed to 7 minutes. My advice is if you find one, keep killing! I know when I find my next TF I will NPC farm constantly for at least 2 days following.

Thanks for the info. I also had gotten 2 TO Carriers early on at the same time. Who knows what factors affect it, but later on at high ranks it seems to slow down or be less likely.