Proficiency Exam 5
The Curators will now shake things up. You’ve been tasked with collecting eight Rock Armadillos in Noctilum, which are found in Upper Hushflood and Shark’s Jaws, but the cave located at FN 224 should have everything you need. Next, find three Bagflea Squashes, which can commonly be found in the water of Lake Basel in the Northeast section of Oblivia, but also Devil’s Colony and Beachside Trove, just not as often.
Last, you’ll need six of the rare Multi-Speckled Ladybugs, which can typically be found in Sickle Rock Rise and Sayram Lake over in Primordia. If you’re lucky, though, you might have already picked many of these objects up by accident. Go you!
Proficiency Exam 6
The Prospectors offer the toughest exam of them all, as you must acquire a revenue of 15,000 credits in a single return using the FrontierNav. If you haven’t been changing your probes up to this point, you’re about to. Using the Research Probes you’ve obtained so far, unless you want to find more, set them all up in a cluster to obtain the group percentage bonus. Just as well, you can add a booster probe adjacent to your most profitable probe to increase its power even more.
Pay attention to which data points will be most profitable, as their stats will let you know, with rank A obviously being a great location to place a Research Probe. Also, keep in mind that Mining Probes lower your revenue slightly, and, if you’ve been placing them gratuitously throughout the game, removing them may give that small push to finally reach 15,000 credits. Once you’ve reached the threshold, just wait for the money to come in, and there you have it.
