How to find the Alien crash site
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Don't you know. Frontier is actually opposed to putting information in-game. I seriously think they have something against it.
But seriously, How am i supposed to find it in game?
The Canonn website catalogues thousands of POIs which there are no directions provided in-game to get to.
You either find these things by chance or you use the resources provided by the community.
Don't really see a problem with that.
Not everything in the universe should have road-signs pointing you toward it.
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As for an in-game method of locating it... have you tried, y'know, asking somebody to show you where it is?
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Oh. You want to find it in game? MK I Eyeball.
EDIT: Yeah. Its crazy. Planets are big and crash sites are small.
Since there is a tourist crash site beacon at that planet., would it not logically provide the coordinates.?
Anyway, no big deal. Got the 25 i meed.
But seriously, sometimes this game just s on newcomers. Like FD does want a threshhold to keep new players away
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Logically, to locate something that you don't know the position of requires you to search. If you only know the position of something to the nearest planet, then you will need to search the entire planet. This is how many of these things were found in the first place.
In this case, I agree - it would make sense for the co-ordinates to be given at the tourist beacon. However, I don't buy the argument a lot of people use that there should be shortcuts to finding such things in game.
Many of us were asking this some time ago. Some people were quite voiciferous that FD should never make things "easy" on people by giving useful information like that in game.
The current Galmap filters for Guardian and Thargoid sites are a step in the right direction but as is the case with the rest of the game there are holes in the implementation of Alien surface sites a mile wide.
Not putting a planetary navigation system into an update that introduced planetary landings for one.
As for searching the entire planet for a crash site, you could do that but the people who did it originally were only successful because they exploited the graphics settings and we're happy to consider themselves entertained.
The dissemination of in-game knowledge is an area this game really needs to focus on.
By luck, the first time I visited that site the beacon satellite was in orbit directly over the crash site, leading me to think it was a marker.
This confused me greatly when I went back a couple of days later.
Seems like a reasonable compromise might be to put beacon satellites in geostationary orbits.
They'd provide a reliable marker without leading the player around by the nose.
If by that you mean "Jimmy Hendrix lived somewhere on the planet Earth", then I agree. Otherwise you are being far to precise.
Don't wanna be a party-pooper by introducing physics 'n stuff, but if the site is on a moon tidally locked to its primary, or even if the site is not on the equator; that's not going to work.
You're not. Seriously you are not supposed to find it. I don't mean that you are supposed to NOT find it; just that the devs have given zero thought as to how you might find it. They don't care if you find it, so long as *someone* finds it, puts it on YouTube, and everyone on the forums says "great job, Frontier!" It exists, it's in the game, and as far as they're concerned that's all they need to do.
Am mining out in HIP 17862, had the exact same issue. Seems strange that the Beacons don't have coordinates, or even better have the Beacons near the crash sites. I guess the only way to find the info in game is to trawl through older Galnet posts.
edit- Just checked galnet for my location, still no details
A shipwreck bearing strong similarities to that recently found in the Pleiades Sector AB-W B2-4 has been discovered in the HIP 17862 system.
The wreck was found by one Commander Denneb on the airless planetoid 6 C A.
Images of the site, shared by the many independent explorers and scientists who flocked to investigate it, show an unconventional-looking vessel with a distinctly organic quality. Like the shipwreck found in the Pleiades Sector AB-W B2-4, the wreckage encompasses a number of vaguely wing-like elements roughly arranged around an octagonal core.
The discovery has stimulated considerable debate among scientists and xenobiologists. So far, as with the previous shipwreck, no concrete information about the vessel's origin has emerged.
Commentators have observed that the ship bears no apparent signs of weapons damage, and that the concentrated debris field suggests the vessel was still intact when it hit the planet's surface.
The wreck was found by one Commander Denneb on the airless planetoid 6 C A.
Images of the site, shared by the many independent explorers and scientists who flocked to investigate it, show an unconventional-looking vessel with a distinctly organic quality. Like the shipwreck found in the Pleiades Sector AB-W B2-4, the wreckage encompasses a number of vaguely wing-like elements roughly arranged around an octagonal core.
The discovery has stimulated considerable debate among scientists and xenobiologists. So far, as with the previous shipwreck, no concrete information about the vessel's origin has emerged.
Commentators have observed that the ship bears no apparent signs of weapons damage, and that the concentrated debris field suggests the vessel was still intact when it hit the planet's surface.
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You don't really need anything quite as fancy as a geostationary satellite, just stick the beacon at or at the very least quite near to the location like the tourist beacons for geysers, lava spouts, fumaroles and such.
You need to use your eyes in every single planet surface of the galaxy.
"game mechanics"