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Fine Hide has been added to all mobs that drop leather - Dec 12 2017
tbh I didn't loot a piece of it myself but heard over the grapevine that some of the bigger mobs were indeed dropping it.
We killed a couple hundred Imperium Scouts back in December and were attacked by an Officer only once... well, in fact we accidentally shot him first. :)
Some mobs are not made for melee.
Not really so.
All those amps and faps that are refined into parts for upgrade missions (A10x series, EMT kits); they need to be fully repaired before refining but that would be the least problem.
Also, there are repairable non-stackable animal parts that go into DNA refining recipes - Longu...
They didn't really "change" them, just added more dilution.
In January, I found ycy only twice; but it was one of the same four old spots. (I still believe "fifth spot" is just a rumour.)
What has changed:
Common minerals (zorn, kaisenite, yellow, blue, green) have seen their areas expanded. As far as I can tell, everything else is still where it used to be, just more diluted.
I bought five molds of three different types today (in two turns - three in the morning and two in the afternoon), so it's not completely empty and also is restocked more than once a day.
Youngs are there, just that bigger mobs are visible from further afar.
There are two possibilities:
wait until server restart (VU or maintenance) - 'boss' mobs will be gone for a while after it;
convince someone to kill them.
This might be an 'engine thing'. I believe getting stuck in the seabed has happened to me on all planets except Monria - because there's very little water there. :)