"Form follows function" had been around for well over a millennium before ZP were a thing (which is fine, given 21st Century Earth was still building Ionic and Corinthian architecture...)
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- Thread starter Tyres O'Flaherty
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I think my carrier has made me lazy. No longer have that pressure of taking things very easy in case I lose all my explo data to an accident - I get a bit and just taxi back to my portable space station.
Not sure how I managed before
Mind you, I think I finally shifted my exploration experience bar at least two pixels to the right over the past couple of weeks. I thought it had got stuck.
Not sure how I managed before
Mind you, I think I finally shifted my exploration experience bar at least two pixels to the right over the past couple of weeks. I thought it had got stuck.
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Nothing a little WD-40 can't fix...
Or perhaps about 5bnCR in exploration data.
It's beautiful here.
Mat gathering about 400ly from the Bubble.
Mat gathering about 400ly from the Bubble.
I know it can never happen (or can it?) because, Science™ but I'd love to find a terraformable gas giant.
If they invent tractor beams capable of moving a planet to a new orbit, who knows - some GG cores are probably not much different to high metal content worlds. Just need to blast the gas off!
Y'know, I've never found a GG all of my own.
Okey doke, I've reached the part of the learning curve where it gets easier now.
I was bamboozled to start with because four of these were all around in the same area but of course that's no good for sample gathering because you can't multitask. (There wasn't much I could do about that happening either because the blue was pretty much the same for those four on the DSS.) I took screen clips of lat and long for a while and drove back to Species 2 once Species 1 was done by doing rough bearings in my head, but then I went looking for a tool and discovered SRV Survey, hurrah.
The Osseus - I found one by accident whilst doing all that faff above, and then realised they liked sitting on the pavements/hillocks so I took off again and went looking for a long chain of those. Between driving along the side of the raised rough pavement using the turret to look at them, and some careful low flying, that got that done. (The third one was a swine, I must have flown a dozen different lanes of rocky bits, and I also found one that was 10m inside the limit)
And in all that time I didn't see a single Frutexa so I realised it must grow in some other biome. And then I remembered I hadn't really looked at that DSS filter yet. Flicked the Frutexa filter on and yep, much less blue, and a totally different pattern - it was super obvious it only grew in foothills, so I went looking for the smallest patch of blue I could, landed on the nearest flat part (but was very careful to point the ship at where I knew the DSS had highlighted) and walked into the hills. Bingo. And those were only 200m range so I could easily find three samples on foot.
Except I forgot I wouldn't usually do three samples and a bunch of jumping to see over hillocks... so when I got back to the ship energy was on 9%. (I did have a cell tho)
Yeah,, those bio's have pretty specific requirements as to where they'll grow.
The Osseus discus-thingy one (the one that look like a Swiss cheese lollipop) tends to like deep valleys, whereas the spiralis doodah like rocky areas.
Also, there is a concha that doesn't seem too fussy where it'll live, but another one likes shallow hillsides.
Aloeida will grow on the flats, like tussocks. Some fungoida also like the flats whereas some love to get right up the mountains and laugh at your trying to find somewhere close to land.
Also I am now quite happy flying the Asp at 3m altitude in precision KBM mode... keyboard for minute adjustments, mouse for headlook.
Well, that was annoying.
I'm in an area where everything is completely virgin and I'm getting first discos everywhere. Then I spot a B-star system which can be really interesting and I find someone had already claimed it.
I'm in an area where everything is completely virgin and I'm getting first discos everywhere. Then I spot a B-star system which can be really interesting and I find someone had already claimed it.
A word of caution while learning where things like to grow is good don’t get too focussed on that there are exceptions.
For example around the bubble and most places in that galactic region Fungoida Setisis likes to grow in almost inaccessible high steep areas, but outside that region it can be found in large clumps if not in fields still in higher ground but now on broad rounded ridges or high valleys between peaks. Instead of wondering if there is enough space to land a Sidewinder nearby you could probably land a T-9.
For example around the bubble and most places in that galactic region Fungoida Setisis likes to grow in almost inaccessible high steep areas, but outside that region it can be found in large clumps if not in fields still in higher ground but now on broad rounded ridges or high valleys between peaks. Instead of wondering if there is enough space to land a Sidewinder nearby you could probably land a T-9.
Hmm. Does stratum tectonicus only come in lime?
A scoopable star on someone’s route elsewhere probably.Well, that was annoying.
I'm in an area where everything is completely virgin and I'm getting first discos everywhere. Then I spot a B-star system which can be really interesting and I find someone had already claimed it.
I haven’t been finding many first discoveries so I did a little careful looking around at where my route was heading and finally noticed the b leading obvious I am pretty much on track towards a couple of nebulae that are close to each other and a famous bunch of extremely bright and close together stars.
As I have just crossed into a new region I am altering course to get further off the route.
A strange thing the other day while I was walking to the Vista office on my carrier I noticed that if I wasn’t facing it directly the door to one of the Suspended Service areas was missing if I faced it the door reappeared. Beyond the door I could see people standing and sitting.
I suspect I have found the bar that I never bought or added to my carrier.
I think the colour depends on the star type.
I've never seen any other colour but now you've got me thinking as to which star types it. Food for thought!
Sometimes its easy, sometimes it not, it can all depend on the terrain, lighting and the species. On occasions I will scan a planet fly in low and if it does not look right I will not even bother to land
It depends on how far they are apart but at times I have managed to do 2 species (6 scans) before having to return to ship.
Another thing to watch out for are the very hot planets or moons, the no atmospheres with anemone, some of them can be so hot that you only just about have enough time when you park very close to scan one and then get back into ship, then repeat for two and three.
No, lime is probably the most common but there are others.
10 variants, although some you need to look really hard for, for instance red can only be found around wolf-rayet stars, mauve around white dwarf, so unless you specifically go looking for them by searching for those stars you probably aren't going to spot them just casually traveling through an area.
Lime, emerald and green have a large distribution area in the south part of the galaxy, that's why you see those most often..
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Schrödinger's door, it's a door or it's not a door.
