Of the 3 planets I tried yesterday (which are all confirmed to have probes) I got nothing in 2 and a half hours at the first, 1 probe after an hour and a quarter at the second and a probe within 10 minutes at the third.
Still uninspired by the process. FD haven't learned from the barnacle fiasco.
If you are in the right place, whatever is there has to spawn.
Waiting for a good dice roll isn't gameplay.
Ok, I'll repeat this thing, and won't probably do it again.
Having NO signals at all is just pure RNG luck. Degraded emissions seem to spawn everywhere. You can't rule out if a signal exists or not in a location based on time, you have to do it based on signals appearance.
If you don't even see a degraded emissions than it means you still haven't been granted by the gods of randomization, but that doesn't mean anything. Once you have 2 signals at least, you can start saying 'this other signal' doesn't spawn here, but still be wrong. Only after you have a few signals you can say 'this signal doesn't seem to spawn here' and feel confident about it.
Signal appearance can't be determined by time, specially when in all that time you don't have ANY signal at all. You should have at least degraded emission signals.
When I've been looking for a signal I always waited to have at least 2 different signal types, not just 2 different signals. In pleiades we are still close to the bubble, so you can at least have the following signals:
- distress calls
- emissions: encoded or degraded
- weapons fire
If you are not getting any signal that means bad rng luck. I have spent 2h on a giant ammonia with life based and didn't have any signal, but still persisted. After 2 more hours I had 4 signals, 3 different types. After 1 more hour I had 4 different signal types, which made me discard it from the -hot list-, and that is what I did with different body types in similar systems.
Michael, I'm feeling like challenging the Alpha here, but I really didn't get any results on anomalies in previous bodies before the ammonia world so, when you said: 'not just only ammonia worlds, but..' I'm thinking more about: they don't only appear in space -but also on the ground- and this is why NOT only ammonia worlds. I'm confident that I searched thoroughly orbits of different -ammonia related- body types and I only found them in ammonia worlds, so the other theory I'm considering is: in different systems -e.g. another nebulae- they could be in other system types.