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Artifact Coordinates

Arti-coords are simple to get your hands on, goto this site and look for JGrotpro.
An extremely helpful utility especially if you are going arti hunting. Controls for JGRot pro is:
Hit the insert keys, then you use arrow keys to control the menu and then boom
you know how to use it. You can mess around with the config if you like.

Quorx's artifact pattern site may probably be down for goods.

So, how to use the patterns?
A pattern is a series of coordinates in the sector, and if you travel from the first
coordinate to the second and so on, until you reach the first cords again, you will
have covered a large part of the volume of space that the artifact might have
spawned within, with your radar. (A huge hollow sphere) How much of this volume
you covered, is listed for each pattern in the generator, usually 80% or more is
enough, as long as you keep a more thorough pattern at hand, if the artifact
happens to spawn outside those 80%

You follow the pattern by equipping a rotacol, and heading out to the sector you
want to hunt in. then type "/rotacol x.xx y.yy z.zz".
Now search through the available radar targets, and you will find one named
"rotacol", that's the spot. Head out to within 1km of it, and type the coordinates for
the next point in the pattern, and go for it. Repeat this until you find an artifact or
reach node 1 again.
As soon as you travel one whole lap on the pattern without seeing a single artifact,
you should change to a pattern with more points in it, thus having greater volume
coverage.
Once you find that arty, you can revert to your first pattern again.
Remember that its the "legs" of the arty pattern that is important, not the end
points, so unless you have traveled all the legs, even if you have visited all the
points, you wont have searched through all of the pattern.
(For example, you are done with a 4 point pattern when you have traveled in a
straight line between points 1 and 2, AND 2 and 3, AND 3 and 4, AND 4 and 1. (<-
important!!!) )


once you find the artifact (represented as a yellow dot on the radar, named
"Wreckage, contents unknown") target it and head for it, while guessing what
goodies might be within
when you reach the artifact, use the equipped insight gun and displacer MODX to
transfer the wreckage contents to your hold.
Once that is done, the wreckage will implode and disappear.
A new wreckage with an artifact inside will spawn somewhere in the sector, so you
can get back to searching immediately.


How to improve effectiveness on finding arties?

#1: PATTERN
Ineffective patterns can give you as much as twice the amount of travel distance
while offering no extra coverage. I have found Quorx arty patterns to work very well,
and they are a LOT shorter than most patterns out there.

#2: RADAR
With a larger radar, you can cover a larger volume of space with each pattern leg. In
short, you will have to travel less to cover the same amount of space.

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