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Ashnak

Ashnak
Still two and a bit hours to go to the new year, so I decided to get my exploration (currently Colonia) CMDR out of hibernation and try to remember what I had been doing the last time I was flying him.
New ship - check; pre-engineered FSD - check; slapping level 5 on the surface scanner - done. So, let's see what this is about exobiology a few CMDRS here are constantly posting about.
Did a short jump out of the Colonia bubble - first system I came to already had a bunch of unmapped & unfootfalled atmo planets. So, let's see what we can find here. 4 bio signals on each of these planets. Not remarkable, if I consider what others have been posting, but hey, it's my first exobio excursion - let's start small. At least I'll be the first to land on this planet.

So, that was easy. DSS'ed the planet, set down at a spot where all 4 signals showed blue and basically stumbled right over the first plants. Had to drive around in the SRV for a bit to get the required genetic diversity, but doable. Found and scanned the other three, and then decided (since it was only one jump) to return and offer my haul to Vista Genomics.

Second result: I'm now Mostly Directionless. Yay!
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But what dropped my chin before that was this:
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Those four bios all were codex entries, and netted quite a nice sum for driving around on a planet for ten minutes or so.
 

bugbait42

bugbait42
Ashnak said:
Still two and a bit hours to go to the new year, so I decided to get my exploration (currently Colonia) CMDR out of hibernation and try to remember what I had been doing the last time I was flying him.
New ship - check; pre-engineered FSD - check; slapping level 5 on the surface scanner - done. So, let's see what this is about exobiology a few CMDRS here are constantly posting about.
Did a short jump out of the Colonia bubble - first system I came to already had a bunch of unmapped & unfootfalled atmo planets. So, let's see what we can find here. 4 bio signals on each of these planets. Not remarkable, if I consider what others have been posting, but hey, it's my first exobio excursion - let's start small. At least I'll be the first to land on this planet.

So, that was easy. DSS'ed the planet, set down at a spot where all 4 signals showed blue and basically stumbled right over the first plants. Had to drive around in the SRV for a bit to get the required genetic diversity, but doable. Found and scanned the other three, and then decided (since it was only one jump) to return and offer my haul to Vista Genomics.

Second result: I'm now Mostly Directionless. Yay!
OBEYXvJ.jpg

But what dropped my chin before that was this:
JYSNt2K.jpg

Those four bios all were codex entries, and netted quite a nice sum for driving around on a planet for ten minutes or so.
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Aye, it's hard work getting to Mostly Directionless in Exobiology these days isn't it? :oops: Never mind though, just LOOK at all that loadsamoney you're making! (y)

As for me, I've just now come across my THIRD lot of Brain Trees in different bodies, after never having found them until now. They seem to be like buses - you wait ages for one to arrive then suddenly three come along at once. :geek:
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CMDR Timber McWolf

CMDR Timber McWolf
Ashnak said:
Still two and a bit hours to go to the new year, so I decided to get my exploration (currently Colonia) CMDR out of hibernation and try to remember what I had been doing the last time I was flying him.
New ship - check; pre-engineered FSD - check; slapping level 5 on the surface scanner - done. So, let's see what this is about exobiology a few CMDRS here are constantly posting about.
Did a short jump out of the Colonia bubble - first system I came to already had a bunch of unmapped & unfootfalled atmo planets. So, let's see what we can find here. 4 bio signals on each of these planets. Not remarkable, if I consider what others have been posting, but hey, it's my first exobio excursion - let's start small. At least I'll be the first to land on this planet.

So, that was easy. DSS'ed the planet, set down at a spot where all 4 signals showed blue and basically stumbled right over the first plants. Had to drive around in the SRV for a bit to get the required genetic diversity, but doable. Found and scanned the other three, and then decided (since it was only one jump) to return and offer my haul to Vista Genomics.

Second result: I'm now Mostly Directionless. Yay!
OBEYXvJ.jpg

But what dropped my chin before that was this:
JYSNt2K.jpg

Those four bios all were codex entries, and netted quite a nice sum for driving around on a planet for ten minutes or so.
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Impressive.
One more incentive to get my room refurbished to be able to finally set up the PC (which should be slightly better than my laptop) and join the ranks of Oddyssey commanders. Although I fear that this might be nerfed at the time I finally get to that point...
 

0threeleven

0threeleven
bugbait42 said:
Aye, it's hard work getting to Mostly Directionless in Exobiology these days isn't it? :oops: Never mind though, just LOOK at all that loadsamoney you're making! (y)
As for me, I've just now come across my THIRD lot of Brain Trees in different bodies, after never having found them until now. They seem to be like buses - you wait ages for one to arrive then suddenly three come along at once. :geek:
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What kind of mats are you getting from those Braintree's?

We have about 9 hours 45 minutes until midnight, couple years ago someone fired a fully auto weapon in the air and the rounds impacted around me and my neighbor when we were outside talking, thought I was back in the Gulf. Happy new year everybody!!
 

aRJay

aRJay
bugbait42 said:
I played in 2015 for several months, then stopped until a few months ago and now play Odyssey. When I was playing in 2015 though, there was no ability to land on bodies and therefore no SRVs either.

However, I have seen a video somewhere about prospecting in the old Horizons, in which the wave scanner appeared to be giving signals from ordinary rocks and targets would pop up, which would then drop various mats when fired at, but I've been searching and can't find that video now. That said, the person who made the video did say that it was only the "small rocks" that had the mats but I guess its possible that he might have been referring to meteorites or whatever that were about the same size as small rocks. He just called them "rocks" though. I wish I could find that same video now, but I guess it doesn't really matter as its only academic anyway re Ody!
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People often referred to the meteorites etc as rocks.

I started in 2016 and got Horizons a few months later when my iMac died and have been playing ever since.

I still use the same techniques for finding things using the SRV when looking casually for materials that I learned before Odyssey.


Happy New Year to all.
 

bugbait42

bugbait42
0threeleven said:
What kind of mats are you getting from those Braintree's?

We have about 9 hours 45 minutes until midnight, couple years ago someone fired a fully auto weapon in the air and the rounds impacted around me and my neighbor when we were outside talking, thought I was back in the Gulf. Happy new year everybody!!
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Thanks and Happy New Year to you too. (y)

As for the Brain Trees, I could have got loads and loads of mats if I'd hung around with them for a while, but I've already got plenty so didn't bother to stay long with them. As for what I did get - it was a bit of a mixture really, with a lot of Chromium and stuff like that but also a fair amount of higher grade stuff such as Tellurium and Niobium. On one of the earlier bodies I even got some Polonium amongst other things.

I think what you'll get depends on the makeup of the body the Brain Trees are on.
 

CMDR Timber McWolf

CMDR Timber McWolf
This combat aftermath signal source is one that keeps me questioning my sanity...
They ask you to help them find a black box. When you find it, all you can do is scoop it up (I tried all scanners except DSS). If you do, you get insulted that you wouldn't care about those lives on stake behind this black box. Am I doing something wrong?
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
CMDR TIMBERMCWOLF said:
This combat aftermath signal source is one that keeps me questioning my sanity...
They ask you to help them find a black box. When you find it, all you can do is scoop it up (I tried all scanners except DSS). If you do, you get insulted that you wouldn't care about those lives on stake behind this black box. Am I doing something wrong?
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I think you need to accept the mission (in the comms panel) before scooping the Black Box.
I don't know, though, whether this mission type isn't completely bugged. Can't remember ever doing any of those missions that arrive via the comms panel.
 

CMDR Timber McWolf

CMDR Timber McWolf
Ashnak said:
I think you need to accept the mission (in the comms panel) before scooping the Black Box.
I don't know, though, whether this mission type isn't completely bugged. Can't remember ever doing any of those missions that arrive via the comms panel.
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That idea didn't cross my mind.
Although, this isn't one of those missions you sometimes get as a "tip off" or such. It just appeared as a "combat aftermath" signal in the FSS. On entering, you get a special message saying something along the lines "You have entered surveyed space. A vessel has disappeared in this area. Help us locating (recovering?) the black box data." It looks similar to those messages you get from "distress call" missions where someone asks for some fuel to make it home. (Another one that left me scratching my head, to be honest.)
 

Jack Winter

Jack Winter
CMDR TIMBERMCWOLF said:
That idea didn't cross my mind.
Although, this isn't one of those missions you sometimes get as a "tip off" or such. It just appeared as a "combat aftermath" signal in the FSS. On entering, you get a special message saying something along the lines "You have entered surveyed space. A vessel has disappeared in this area. Help us locating (recovering?) the black box data." It looks similar to those messages you get from "distress call" missions where someone asks for some fuel to make it home. (Another one that left me scratching my head, to be honest.)
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Yes, in this scenario you do have to accept the mission before scooping up the blackbox.
 

bugbait42

bugbait42
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
I am currently stocking up on tritium pending a sojourn to the Outer Orion Spur or maybe the Sanguineous Rim. I'm sure I'll grab some codex bios there for money making greed opportunities.
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Aye, I guess I'll have to get started on the Tritium trail before long, when I'm ready for a fleet carrier.

I've now arrived at your 35 bio system btw Tyres and can see your name as first maps and first footfalls on some of the bodies. I've landed on the first moon and managed to get all six on that one so I'll be off to the next shortly.

An interesting thing about this trip is that although I'm still only 1,510 LY from Sol, I've been able to get a few first discoveries on the way, including a couple of complete systems.

I wonder if the reason for this is because now that so many people have fleet carriers these days and often do 500 LY jumps in them, they miss out on quite a few systems along the way, so me in my dinky lil' Asp X is able to go in the same direction with its 55 LY jump range and discover the systems that many others have bypassed? :geek:
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
bugbait42 said:
Aye, I guess I'll have to get started on the Tritium trail before long, when I'm ready for a fleet carrier.

I've now arrived at your 35 bio system btw Tyres and can see your name as first maps and first footfalls on some of the bodies. I've landed on the first moon and managed to get all six on that one so I'll be off to the next shortly.

An interesting thing about this trip is that although I'm still only 1,510 LY from Sol, I've been able to get a few first discoveries on the way, including a couple of complete systems.

I wonder if the reason for this is because now that so many people have fleet carriers these days and often do 500 LY jumps in them, they miss out on quite a few systems along the way, so me in my dinky lil' Asp X is able to go in the same direction with its 55 LY jump range and discover the systems that many others have bypassed? :geek:
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Great!

And yes, the PRAEA EUQ and PRO EURL areas aren't fully discovered yet - which, as you say, is pretty interesting. You may even run into some of my firsts out that way :D
 

Jack Winter

Jack Winter
CMDR TIMBERMCWOLF said:
Thing is, I hadn't seen anything to accept that mission...
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It's in the coms panel where you get the invitation to do the mission, like when you accept to fight for a side when you enter into a CZ.

CMDR TIMBERMCWOLF said:
Right. And they fly off without a word.
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When I've done these, they've normally told me that they're gonna write a song about me when they get back to the station! ❤️
 
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