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[CMDR Timber McWolf]

This weekend will mostly be scanning salad.

I just want the money. Any tips appreciated, for this is my first foray into the wonderful world of exobiology. I undertake to post no pictures of CMDRs standing in front of things.

Unless you own a fleet carrier that can bring you out into the void rather quickly, that would mean you'll be more or less confined to the realms of man and its direct perimeter. Which isn't bad at all, as it can help you to accomodate yourself to the basics of exobiology without the risks involved with long travels out there.
If you scan something that has already been scanned by someone else, you still get the base value of it. Which still is between 1 and just shy of 20 million credits per species.

If you want to look into third party tools to help you on your endeavour, I'd like to recommend EDCopilot. It helps you keeping track of which bio you had started scanning in the previous session (in case you have to have to quit the game amidst collecting those three samples). It not only tells you how far you have to move for the next sample after scanning one, but keeps track on your distance and tells you when you have left the species' bidiversitiy perimeter. And it will also tell you the base value of that species on the first scan. Said first scan can also be a scan with the CompScanner of your ship / SRV.

 

[the100thmonkey]

Unless you own a fleet carrier that can bring you out into the void rather quickly, that would mean you'll be more or less confined to the realms of man and its direct perimeter. Which isn't bad at all, as it can help you to accomodate yourself to the basics of exobiology without the risks involved with long travels out there.

I've been playing since 2014 - I'm elite in exploration with three accounts. I've visited Sag A* and Colonia on those accounts. I've just never done exobio.

If you want to look into third party tools to help you on your endeavour, I'd like to recommend EDCopilot. It helps you keeping track of which bio you had started scanning in the previous session (in case you have to have to quit the game amidst collecting those three samples). It not only tells you how far you have to move for the next sample after scanning one, but keeps track on your distance and tells you when you have left the species' bidiversitiy perimeter. And it will also tell you the base value of that species on the first scan. Said first scan can also be a scan with the CompScanner of your ship / SRV.

EDObservatory with the BioInsights plugin seems to do the same. I learned a lot today about exobio through reading various guides, and decided to automate it once I'd got the hang of it.

 

[the100thmonkey]

Found this just now - an ELW orbiting a pair of gas giants!

 

[the100thmonkey]

I bet you are.

 

[aRJay]

I've been playing since 2014 - I'm elite in exploration with three accounts. I've visited Sag A* and Colonia on those accounts. I've just never done exobio.

EDObservatory with the BioInsights plugin seems to do the same. I learned a lot today about exobio through reading various guides, and decided to automate it once I'd got the hang of it.

That is the tool combo I use to determine which bios to go for or the priority order to try and find them and it telling me when I have reached “minimum safe distance” can be a great help.

 

[the100thmonkey]

It's very useful.

I've noticed that some life seems to have a ridiculously low spawn rate on some planets while practically standing there with a welcome flag on others. I was chasing a frutexa last night. I set the filter and landed in a crater that only had Frutexa. I gave up after half an hour of flying 50m up staring at rock.

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

It's very useful.

I've noticed that some life seems to have a ridiculously low spawn rate on some planets while practically standing there with a welcome flag on others. I was chasing a frutexa last night. I set the filter and landed in a crater that only had Frutexa. I gave up after half an hour of flying 50m up staring at rock.

I have to go down to 10m (height and speed) or I won't see anything of the size of Frutexa and such. Even with the bigger stuff, it often gets tricky. But I guess that is because of the limitations of my computer.

But I know what you mean. On some planets, some plants are extremely elusive, even albeit the initial DSS scans seem to indicate that they could be everywhere.
On my last trip, I had this with even with Osseus, something that I usually can spot from afar, even on my computer. I found everything else on that planet without even trying, but Osseus? No clue if it was actually there or just a radio ghost...

 

[aRJay]

It's very useful.

I've noticed that some life seems to have a ridiculously low spawn rate on some planets while practically standing there with a welcome flag on others. I was chasing a frutexa last night. I set the filter and landed in a crater that only had Frutexa. I gave up after half an hour of flying 50m up staring at rock.

Some of the Frutexa are small but the hardest to find is Flamasis which is very thin and its leaf pattern can vanish against the ground texture.

I have found it before by getting the landing gear caught in it while low flying and getting out to sample something I had seen to find I was standing on top of the Flamasis when I left the ship.

Picture stolen from the wiki.

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

Some of the Frutexa are small but the hardest to find is Flamasis which is very thin and its leaf pattern can vanish against the ground texture.

I have found it before by getting the landing gear caught in it while low flying and getting out to sample something I had seen to find I was standing on top of the Flamasis when I left the ship.

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Picture stolen from the wiki.

Whoa. I think with this one, the "parking in between" option would be the only way for me to find it...

 

[aRJay]

Whoa. I think with this one, the "parking in between" option would be the only way for me to find it...

Yes, I should say I don’t remember seeing one in the wild that was such a marked contrast in colour to the background.

They are one of the reasons I explore with a scoped rifle as they can be spotted a little easier when magnified but even then you are often looking for a sort of blur or interference with the look of the back ground.

 

[0threeleven]

The external camera is your friend on foot, SRV or onboard your ship and it zooms in and out also. Time to develop your own unique style that compliments your equipment. After a time, you'll learn what grows in what kind of terrain (if you haven't yet). I like to switch between combat and exploration mode to eyeball the terrain during the glide phase of my decent.

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

The external camera is your friend on foot, SRV or onboard your ship and it zooms in and out also. Time to develop your own unique style that compliments your equipment. After a time, you'll learn what grows in what kind of terrain (if you haven't yet). I like to switch between combat and exploration mode to eyeball the terrain during the glide phase of my decent.

I use my drone camera a lot, but it works best for me when it's only the drone that's moving.

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

I remember someone posting about issues with the menu, recently. But I am unable to find that post.
I ran into the sameproblem just now after deleting all my internet cookies due to some issue I can't remember.
But I now know what causes this problem with the smiley menu. If you manage the cookie consent, make sure that you allow "preference" cookies, which are a separate entity besides the necessary ones.

 

[0threeleven]

I use my drone camera a lot, but it works best for me when it's only the drone that's moving.

The drone camera, eh? Yes, you'd think they would have something like that in game, maybe even have a specially trained pilot with a station in the cockpit. They are undeniably part of the military now, you'd think they would find a use for them in the Thargoid war considering it's the distant future. I've always felt that the in-game technology should be a little bit more developed like the ability to transmit your exploration data instantaneously via quantum entanglement which is a very likely future possibility.

 

[the100thmonkey]

I remember someone posting about issues with the menu, recently. But I am unable to find that post.
I ran into the sameproblem just now after deleting all my internet cookies due to some issue I can't remember.
But I now know what causes this problem with the smiley menu. If you manage the cookie consent, make sure that you allow "preference" cookies, which are a separate entity besides the necessary ones.

Sounds like the smilies are hosted off-site. The question is whether the host's cookie is a tracking cookie and, depending on the answer, whether you're cool with that.

It's the same reason YouTube videos don't display in-line for some users. The embedded video drops a cookie from YouTube.com into your browser. Refusing 3rd party cookies prevents this, meaning the video won't show unless you are already logged into YouTube.

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

Sounds like the smilies are hosted off-site. The question is whether the host's cookie is a tracking cookie and, depending on the answer, whether you're cool with that.

It's the same reason YouTube videos don't display in-line for some users. The embedded video drops a cookie from YouTube.com into your browser. Refusing 3rd party cookies prevents this, meaning the video won't show unless you are already logged into YouTube.

YT is quite special about that, as it often even doesn't show although I have given the consent to their cookies and am logged in...
Even the videos I post here myself ever so often don't show...

 

[Yingnei Gasua]

I only discovered it when looking at my Carriers commodity menu (I think).
I wonder how you can obtain it?...and what is it used for?

You can loot them from some convoy's (heavily protected) or there is a crashed T9 with a couple tons scattered at LHS 2429 1st planet

 

[Doctor Dread]

Found this just now - an ELW orbiting a pair of gas giants!

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Does this counts as Three Body Problem?

 

[Jumpin' Jack Flash]

Hi

I remember someone posting about issues with the menu, recently. But I am unable to find that post.
I ran into the sameproblem just now after deleting all my internet cookies due to some issue I can't remember.
But I now know what causes this problem with the smiley menu. If you manage the cookie consent, make sure that you allow "preference" cookies, which are a separate entity besides the necessary ones.

Yeah...it was me that had the problem (1 Page (2070) back in this topic).
The emoticon menu is still not 'working' I tend to do what you do...delete cookies now and again which I did a couple of days ago. Never had the problem before when I've done that though. It might be something to do with the recent maintenance with the Frontier Site they did the other day, as i think they also said the Forum was having an 'MOT'....but I could be mistaken....

Sounds like the smilies are hosted off-site. The question is whether the host's cookie is a tracking cookie and, depending on the answer, whether you're cool with that.

It's the same reason YouTube videos don't display in-line for some users. The embedded video drops a cookie from YouTube.com into your browser. Refusing 3rd party cookies prevents this, meaning the video won't show unless you are already logged into YouTube.

Hmmm...I wasn't aware that the emoticons might be used as tracking....hmm... food for thought.

Jack

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

Today, I bought, installed and engineered my first of the new FSDs.
Keeping a tab on the newest developments, I was aware of the gamechanging nature of the new SCO-FSDs.
But once again, theory is nice and all, but the practical experience is where it's at.
It was definitely of advantage to build on the experience of other commanders in regards of how to make the best use of this drive.
Holy supernova, what an acceleration. Reminds me of a nitrous shot in an internal combustion engine - on a wet road...
And on top of that, I gained around 2 ly jump range on the fully engineered Sirius FSD - stock! After engineering, it's more like ~5 ly.