Conflict Zone (Signal Source)
Conflict Zone (Signal Source)s are temporary warzones that occur wherever factions are waging civil war against each other. Upon entering from supercruise conflict zones are randomly populated with NPC fighter ships of the warring factions. Conflict zones come in two types — low intensity and high intensity — depending on the size of the ship spawn.
At any time players can join the battle in conflict zones, and temporarily fight for a side of their choice, by setting the preferred faction in-game in the Systems panel under Functions.
Location
Conflict zones are rarer and more difficult to locate than resource extration sites since they disappear once a system's conflict settles downs just to occur somewhere else.
A reliable way to locate conflict zones is to check the GalNet news feed for star systems where conflicts are reported to take place. Has such a system been made out, a glance at the system map will reveal the exact location of the conflict zone within that system: if a station's State has the labels War, Civil War, or Civil Unrest, that station is guaranteed to have conflict zones nearby.
It is worth following up on other nearby star systems for they are bound to be in tumult as well.
Combat and Rewards
Between bounties and combat vouchers combat in conflict zones can be a profitable venture.
During times of civil war the various factions hand out combat missions through the bulletin board which call for the destruction of certain opposing targets in conflict zones (referred to in combat missions as Warzones).
For each destroyed ship combat vouchers are rewarded and which, in turn, can be redeemed for credits at any station in the star system.
The following table gives an overview of the expected rewards for redeeming combat vouchers which depend for the most part upon ship type. In general it goes that heavier ships yield higher rewards.
Ship Reward (CR) Eagle Mk. II 4,000 Empire Fighter 2,000 F63 Condor 2,000 Imperial Clipper 22,000 Cobra Mk. III 8,000 Viper Mk III 10,000 Asp Explorer 14,000 Vulture 18,000 Python 26,000 Anaconda 36,000
Notes
- Conflict zones show up automatically as locations in the Navigation panel if the player is close enough with the ship.
- For some reason conflict zones are referred to as Warzones in the in-game descriptions of combat missions.
- Almost all NPCs spawning in conflict zones are fighters aligned with either of the warring factions.
- A list of current conflict zones is gathered by the community on the Info Limpet website.