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Ah, I see, so going left instead of right and letting it wrap around. I never did it that way, so I'm good
Weee... haven't seen these in a while:
Is that a left hand electricae? They look pretty cool on the dark side, the veins on the trunk have pumping glow to them.Weee... haven't seen these in a while:
I tell ya what, I am learning a lot looking for this Acies - White on a world that's a whole 20 Kelvin in the "sunshine" (not sure that's the right word for a brown dwarf) but once I've found it I don't think I'll be looking for this particular species again.
Varying your height, varying your speed and varying the angle your flying to the light can help, but sometimes it's easier to just give it a miss and find an easier planet
I decided to concentrate on finding an actual plain as opposed to "a flat bit in some undulating frozen dunes" and found a sample in the first large plain I landed in. Hopefully bazzing down to the other end of this plain in the SRV will do it... but at least now I know what I am looking for and I can fly some sort of spy satellite path to find another one.
It was right next to some steam sat over what I assume is a fissure though I couldn't see a fissure, so maybe that's supposed to be a clue. I'll take a photo of the next one I think. If that IS the clue then I'll have to turn up volumetric quality...
It was right next to some steam sat over what I assume is a fissure though I couldn't see a fissure, so maybe that's supposed to be a clue. I'll take a photo of the next one I think. If that IS the clue then I'll have to turn up volumetric quality...
nailed it.
EDIT: Nothing there. Huh?
EDIT: Nothing there. Huh?
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I've stopped traveling for a bit to concentrate on some actual exploration. I found an interesting system with a lot of biologicals, a planet with a Metallic ring, and a moon with some magma spouts I want to see. Maybe I'll even do some mining, just for fun.
I really like how brown this world is.
I always take a screenshot of my first footfalls, but this one came out particularly nice I think.
Found a few Tussocks near a lone mountain. It made for a nice view.
I stopped to sell off my data before logging off, and made 101 million so far in this system, and I still have several planets to go. After a series of fairly boring systems, this one is pretty cool.
I really like how brown this world is.
I always take a screenshot of my first footfalls, but this one came out particularly nice I think.
Found a few Tussocks near a lone mountain. It made for a nice view.
I stopped to sell off my data before logging off, and made 101 million so far in this system, and I still have several planets to go. After a series of fairly boring systems, this one is pretty cool.
I'm finding myself filtering out M and K star class systems from my exploration on the outside chance I'll chance upon some valuable findings.
It seems, and with M class systems especially, they yield the most boring results. Not exactly a job for a completist but I'm feeling non-OCD at the moment
It seems, and with M class systems especially, they yield the most boring results. Not exactly a job for a completist but I'm feeling non-OCD at the moment
You get occasional small dust clouds sometimes unrelated to anything obvious. But if it was steam from some geological feature they do shutdown at times and often are less clear in night vision.
Yeah... the thing that puts me off EDCopilot is that it explicitly says it employs telemetry on your usage - which it is transparent about. I don't like that idea although I realise that's just a personal thang.
Quote:
BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD - A NOTE ON USER TELEMETRY
Please note that EDCoPilot will collect some user telemetry. This is used for both proactive troubleshooting, supporting users who report problems, and for gauging the size and growth of the active user base.
This telemetry consists of:
For user base growth reporting:
- startup message containing Commander name and version of client (to check for updates)
- shutdown message for usage reporting purposes, containing duration of time the client was running, and how many user interactions were made with it (interaction = button click or voice command)
If you use almost any other 3rd party app for the game, then it is collecting exactly the same data - it can't not collect it. This might be a case where your (otherwise entirely justified) suspicion is getting the better of the transparency a developer has shown.
I mean, if they said "we'll use this data to give you a unique ID and then sell that ID to advertisers", there would be an issue.
Yeah, there's an actual difference there, I once had a bio I was looking for in the marked area that just didn't seem to be there, the actual solution was the plant liked the cold surface, but it had to be ice with no snow, not ice under snow. So I assume the filter was blue because the temp was right, but didn't take into account snow cover. So frozen dunes as opposed to proper flat areas can make a big difference in bio presence. As is always my go to in this sort of situation, fly up and look around for differences in surface colour/texture and try there.
I've hit quite a few M systems on my current excursion and they can be boring (often single, binary or trinary star systems with no planets) but I've also found some rich bio systems under M class stars. Galactic roulette
I'm having a good time on this trip - after a slow start I've now hit a long run of completely undiscovered systems.
I also installed EDCoPilot today and I'm enjoying it (although she's not as funny as she thinks). But I need a good tutorial (or complete documentation) - I've seen a few YT videos that look useful but they never explain how to set the thing up. Any suggestions gratefully received.
They have a Discord server: https://discord.gg/VHJU5wHYI've hit quite a few M systems on my current excursion and they can be boring (often single, binary or trinary star systems with no planets) but I've also found some rich bio systems under M class stars. Galactic roulette
I'm having a good time on this trip - after a slow start I've now hit a long run of completely undiscovered systems.
I also installed EDCoPilot today and I'm enjoying it (although she's not as funny as she thinks). But I need a good tutorial (or complete documentation) - I've seen a few YT videos that look useful but they never explain how to set the thing up. Any suggestions gratefully received.
There you might find answers to all your CoPilot questions...
Haven't seen them at all, so far. Except in this forum.
Sounds about right. Happens quite often, no matter which biome.
Temperature is right, there is rock, so this plant should thrive here. But it doesn't because the rock is buried under sand dunes.
Valid point.
You wouldn't believe the amount of "blockers" I use in attempt to remain untracked and not targeted with ads
The second colony was more than 500m away from a vapour cloud but it was the vapour cloud that prompted me to spiral out from it in the SRV. And this time I got one tiny blip of the reticule and could not reproduce but I knew it was roughly east, so I got out at that point and pinged, which let me find it. (I'd never have found that one by eye.)
I'm sure one of the common elements from a neon atmosphere does have a boiling point near 21K so these little clouds will be that...
Yeah. There's probably a tip like that for every one of these bad boys. It's hard to describe what kind of ice surface these like but it is somehow distinctive from the other kind of ice surface that fooled me a few times. It's not fooling me any more so now I just need some luck with one of my hops on the right kind.
Yeah, that was how I found the first sample, I picked an area where several different-looking areas came together and explored those one at a time. (Amazing how hard it is sometimes to see on the ground where those three big patches you saw from the air actually were... I think sometimes it might be good to take a "satellite" photo before you land.)
Now I look at this again I am wondering if that sample was WAY behind those rocks, not just a little bit behind those rocks, and that's why I missed it. What's the range of the SRV's Comp Scanner?
I really wish developers wouldn't prompt their AI integrations to be "funny" or "sarcastic". The results are often just irritating.
Assuming you're using an integration, you should be able to edit the prompt. And probably ought to.