[Armistead]

If you run RSRD it sets the career options.

Most people simply go hunt where they please. However with RSRD the majority of patrol zones have something coming through, but it's a matter of timing. Traffic comes through at a set time, so say you get a patrol zone and you dally around elsewhere for a day, by the time you get to the zone, it may have came through. Sometimes you may rush to the zone and get there a few days earlier, so you stay and the star greys out and leave, but that doesn't change traffic timing, so you may leave and the traffic comes days later and you miss it.

Still your better option is to pay attention to flash messages and try to intercept or just go where you know the action will be or get in one of the better shipping lanes.