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- Thread starter Tyres O'Flaherty
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I've tortured myself with surface mining for a couple of days and seem to have enough materials to hit grade 3ish with the frame shift drive. Though I notice Martuk allows me to sell cart data even though I don't recall this being an option at other engineers. It'd be handy if I could earn reputation by giving them cash instead. Liz Ryder doesn't unlock 5-grade power plant guys until you unlock to level 3 or 4 but I wonder if I have to enginner a useless missile launcher or just rep my way up to that level.
I'm not gonna waste mats until I've experimented. Even if I'm stuck with a lesser FSD.
I'm not gonna waste mats until I've experimented. Even if I'm stuck with a lesser FSD.
This was my third try looking for these buggers, I almost landed on top of it not knowing it was there, I spotted another about half a click in front of my ship.
Sounds familiar. Been hunting them up and down the sands of this planet...
I've found one more in the last session, but I'm still one scan away from being done.
Not sure if I'm gonna stay around for the Frutexa or Bacterium...
Wrong environment, look in rocky areas, craters, rocky ridges etc, they are very rare on just sand. You can see they are near some rocky areas in your last pic, so look for rocks first, they are easier to spot and then look for them.
Yep, exactly, right on the edge or in the hardpan. Sometimes I think they see my ship coming and sprout legs and run away.
Well, if you'd be able to see the bigger picture, you would see that that is a lone specimen. There were only few rocks around it, either.
And areas with more of this kind of boulders haven't been very productive in hosting any Osseus Spiralis...
Exactly. Sometimes I catch one by chance because it ran out of stamina...Sometimes I think they see my ship coming and sprout legs and run away.
Though, on another planet, I've found some trying to hide by screwing down into the ground... (Same species, different colour.)
They will be few and far between in sandy areas even with rocky outcrops around, but just having a few rocks around is significant because it can indicate a change in underlying geology, the sand may be much thinner in this area according to the hidden game geology stats, we can't see them but the games bio does use these stats for positioning bio. In this case what I would recommend and would do myself if determined to find them is to fly up to orbital height and look around the blue areas of the Osseus location map for locations that have significantly more exposed rocky areas rather than sand, switch between analysis and combat mode to look at the underlying terrain. It does appear you are in the wrong environmental area for Osseus even if it is marked blue on the location map, this does happen quite often with bio.
Love these!
They should be the easy ones to find.
Now, if I were able to determine from orbit where the more rocky areas were, that would be nice. But I fear that there the limitations of my system are coming in to severely kick me across the field goal. I think I'll jump into the game and take another set of pictures, maybe you can help me see what I can't.
I sometimes wonder how this would look on a more powerful computer...
Okay, I've seen some bacterium sprinkled across during my hunt forThey should be the easy ones to find.
Frutexa Flammasis loves mountains & hills. They can be scattered around canyon entrances & upper slopes too. Frutexa Metallicum usually on lower hill slopes & hilltops. Pretty hard to spot in ship, relatively easy in SRV. If you find Tussock (Catena) and / or Fungoida (Setisis), there's usually some Frutexa (Flammasis) nearby too. Having Osseus Spiralis at hand, I'd think you're on an Ammonia atmosphere body, so Frutexa Flammasis is there, and worth searching for, being 10 million Cr species.
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It is funny. Now that we've spoken about it and I took off to take a bunch of pics to explain how the game looks for me, guess what I found on the left hand of my ship after touchdown...
Frutexa Flabellum?
I just did that. Here are the results (Warning. Many pictures.):
My view from orbit:
These are the different DSS maps:
This is what I see during approach after the glide phase from 3km, 650m and 35m height:
DISCLAIMER: I am not complaining about this. I show these pictures simply to give you an idea of what I have to deal with on my adventures.
The graphic quality is not because FDev have screwed up, unless you would consider creating a graphics engine that allows systems that are below official minimum requirements to run the game in a stable manner as screwing things up. I am glad that this is even possible.
Didn't scan it, yet, as I'm still looking for the last