Best way to increase encounter rate is to leave Outdoor untagged and unleveled. For everything else there's a Highwayman.
All outdoorsman does is increase the chance the menu comes up to skip the encounter or enter it in rl/tb, doesn't increase the chance to find the encounter.
It doesn't make a differnce if you have more or less outdoorsman unity takes forever to find.
This isn't an issue of outdoorsman its on the development end. Begining of this session unity encounters would come up like the enclave in their squares. But they changed this becuase apparently iyou're not suppose to farm and stock your base up with laser rifles and rocket launchers. And everything has to be more time consuming and more frustrating because having base loaded with gear is not acceptable