[Armistead]

Keep this in mind, timing has a lot to do with it. I use to never do patrol areas cause I never found anything, star grays out, I would move on. Then I started hanging around for days.

RSRD often sends you on a patrol to north of the San Bern at the start. Many times I went, never found nothing, so I hung around and it showed up 3 days after my patrol ended. I went right to the patrol zone at the start. Timing is everything, you don't know exactly when something has been timed to show up. It's more of a problem if you waste a day here or there before you get to the zone or using more speed you get to the zone early and it clears before the group has arrived.


In General, something is coming through that patrol zone, the problem is timing. Let's say you do one patrol and it gives you another, if you don't get there at the proper time, you'll miss it, factors of speed, did you do something else, ect. RSRD can't control all the factors in game. Many times all the patrols get thrown off, people get a zone and spend a day or two somewhere else and it throws the timing off for that one and possible the ones after that. If you use more speed, you may arrive too early.

Just try to get there as soon as you can and spend a few more days waiting, every good TF I've found came through days after the star was grayed out.


I checked most of his zones when I was working on triggers and almost always something comes through, it's more an issue of you get the patrol star and the time limit runs out before it gets there. At the beginning of the war, something major comes through every zone. It's also best to park in about the middle...Often you may miss it the first time and it sends you to the next location.
I noticed this with the Java force, my patrol star was in 3 places it crossed.