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- Thread starter Tyres O'Flaherty
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I always do just one planet/moon in each system and move on to the next one, I've been out here sense early July and have gone 10's of thousands of lightyears hitting almost every system on the way and wouldn't have made it 5000Ly if I tried to track down every biosign. There's just too many, even in Brown Dwarf systems as I don't filter anything.
Something in that picture looks familiar.....
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You should change your name to Albert and get a horses head handle, for tradition you know.That's true - most of them WERE duplicates and I only got a few Codex, but the really big rewards seem to be when you present it to Vista and you get a huge bonus for "First to log," which seems to be first to log on each body. So even if you find the same Bacterium on each one, it looks like you still get a first to log bonus for each one. Of course, if another commander goes to that same system after me, he/she will not get Codex or first logs as I've already grabbed all that.
But anyway - Ooops - I just counted them again and that system wasn't 40 bios but "only" 36. And the number I managed to find was 32. But then I never was much good at bean counting and never wanted to be an accountant!
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I wind the FOV in when I fly the AspX so that the bright blue-while lights are out of frame. Using TRackIR stops the faux-head-movement when manoeuvring and so the lights don't keep swimming back into view.
Some pictures from my end of the galaxy, frutexa.
Ringed Water World.
Ringed Water World.
I use the settings of EDHM to turn down the cockpit light, as it bothers me in any ship.
But for something different, kinda odd... Something is off with my SCA... Usually, if you reach the target destination (in space, not planets), the SCA throttles your ship down to a stop when entering normal space. But today, it wouldn't do that. I looked everywhere I could think of to find if I accidentially changed a setting but can't find anything. I had to stop playing as I am too tired to keep up with that and dethrottle while boosting closer to the station for landing - regularly crashing into stations or flying past them can get annoying.
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I've never used it, but there is a Dethrottle setting in the right panel. I don't know what it does, I've always had it off. Maybe that's it?
As far as I remember that zeroes your throttle after you jump out of hyper space and arrive at a star to allow more time during the 1 minute jump to make the tea before crashing into the star. Super Cruise Assist isn’t something I use and I don’t even pull the throttle back to zero after the jump has started which was the old fashioned way of doing it.
I know there is an auto manual throttle tab but have no experience of what that does for you, but I believe it is involved in high speed approaches to stations.
The issue seems to have cleared itself. Maybe just a glitch in the software caused by being in a new, way busier area.
Or someone tried to sabotage me...
Ah, here we are then. If it's the big rewards you're after it definitely IS worth scanning duplicate plants on different bodies in the same system, because of the big "First to Log" bonus you get for each one. Here's two Tussocks samples of the same variety on two different moons in the same system I just got:
Even if you don't get a Codex for either, all that does is show your name in the Codex as a "First Reported by" for other commanders to view with their own logins. (You just see a blue "Confirmed" with your own login. )
You'll get some money for Codex but it's peanuts compared with the "First to Log" bonus you get for Vista submissions. I can't submit my own Codex until I arrive at a station somewhere (probably in the bubble) but my transactions screen still only shows a total of about 1.5 million so far and that's after I left the bubble, went across Inner Orion Spur and Hawking''s Gap and into Norma Expanse, whereas my Vista rewards so far since I left the bubble total about 4 billion.
Even if you don't get a Codex for either, all that does is show your name in the Codex as a "First Reported by" for other commanders to view with their own logins. (You just see a blue "Confirmed" with your own login. )
You'll get some money for Codex but it's peanuts compared with the "First to Log" bonus you get for Vista submissions. I can't submit my own Codex until I arrive at a station somewhere (probably in the bubble) but my transactions screen still only shows a total of about 1.5 million so far and that's after I left the bubble, went across Inner Orion Spur and Hawking''s Gap and into Norma Expanse, whereas my Vista rewards so far since I left the bubble total about 4 billion.
That are some serious numbers... 
The only time I don't do that is when there's a really high value one. A few systems ago, there was a Stratum worth 19 million. I sampled that three times in the same system just for the huge amount of credits that will go towards rank.
I don't usually bother to land on bodies with only Bacterium (although there is at least one rare variety of that that's worth about 11 million basic believe,) but I think even scanning the ones with only a basic value of 1 million are worth doing if you're getting a first log as well, especially if there's other plants around as well and they all are relatively easy to find.
Anything that's proving hard to find though I don't waste too much time on and usually just forget it and move on!
This must be the planet they filmed 'The Matrix' on.
There is no cactae.