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 extraction sites since they only appear in systems where a conflict between factions occurs.
The GalNet news feed accessible when docked at stations sheds light on which star system is currently in a major conflict. A glance at each station in that system using the system map further reveals the exact location of the conflict zone. Any station with a State such as War, Civil War, or Civil Unrest is guaranteed to have conflict zones.
It is worthwhile to follow up on other star systems nearby for they usually wind up in tumult as well.
Combat Rewards
Between normal bounty vouchers and the more special combat bond vouchers combat in conflict zones can be a profitable venture.
During times of civil war the various factions may hand out combat bond missions through the bulletin board which call for the destruction of opposing targets in conflict zones (referred to in combat missions as Warzones). For each destroyed ship combat bond vouchers are rewarded and which, in turn, can be redeemed for credits at any faction-aligned station in the star system.
The following table gives an overview of the expected rewards for redeeming combat bond vouchers which depend for the most part upon ship type. In general it goes that heavier ships yield higher rewards.
Ship Reward (CR) Empire Fighter 2,000 F63 Condor 2,000 Eagle Mk. II 4,000 Cobra Mk. III 8,000 Viper Mk III 10,000 Asp Explorer 14,000 Vulture 18,000 Imperial Clipper 22,000 Python 26,000 Anaconda 36,000
Notes
- During supercruise 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 constantly being gathered by the community on the Info Limpet website.