I've seen a few, but mostly (or maybe only) gas giants, not counting the World of Death. Highly eccentric orbits seem to be quite rare.
Show us your interesting discoveries!
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Good, that means I've got to look for those more closely 
There's been mention by some of not being able to find any Bio POIs any more. I ran across one today, on a very high-g world - 3.66g.
I also found two WWs, both of which had islands.
Examining the ice cap of the WW in that second picture (above), I'm led to believe that it may have a landmass beneath the ice cap. However, unlike ELWs, I've yet to pick up radio chatter or morse signals during DSSs of WWs.
I also found two WWs, both of which had islands.
Examining the ice cap of the WW in that second picture (above), I'm led to believe that it may have a landmass beneath the ice cap. However, unlike ELWs, I've yet to pick up radio chatter or morse signals during DSSs of WWs.
I used to take screenshots of them when I am exploring but I started to get so many it seemed pointless because it appears they weren't that unusual. They are there, many people miss them.
I like how they all go up in size in ascending order. There's something pleasing about it
So... is this one of those "interesting systems" I've heard some people say they can't discover with the FSS? I have to admit, there are some pretty interesting orbits here. There's probably some kind of special name for this too that I don't know, but yeah, this is a neat system.
Yep. For example, just recently I found a HMCP looked like an extrasolar capture (one primary star only): highly eccentric and inclined orbit, well beyond the other, smaller planets' orbits. They certainly exist, but are easy to miss, what with their usual body types not worth many credits.
Whether it does them well or not though... well, I have no idea.
It's a neat find, but not all that rare. 4 and especially 5 bodies sharing barycenters are much more rare, and you'd have to do the FSS minigame over thousands and tens of thousands of systems to be sure to find them. If you can do that, then sure, you can find them - if.
Hang on, doesn't everyone else fully FSS every system they pass through, then check the system and orrery map to look for interesting relationships?
I'm uncertain, so I'll just ask: are you being sarcastic?
In either case, just the numbers: these days people scan an average of four bodies per system. (Excluding the auto-scanned stars, that is.) The peak was seven-eight, during February in DW2.
Umm....no?
If no, then I'm amazed. I think I stopped scanning everything after less than 1000 systems, limiting myself to systems with 10 or fewer bodies. Another 1000-2000 systems and it got too tedious, so I scanned only ELW/AM/WWs and systems with high body counts (50+), because I like those. Sometimes I would randomly FSS a few systems, but surely not all of them. Especially not if its just ice worlds...
Ah! Not exactly 100% true though. I've been scanning absolutely all gas giants since a few weeks because I'm looking for GGGs...
Ah! Not exactly 100% true though. I've been scanning absolutely all gas giants since a few weeks because I'm looking for GGGs...
I really don't do the FSS any more differently than I did the original system map upon honking. I scan the signals, if there's any signals of interest, I scan deeper. Back when we got the system map immediately, I'd look that over and visit them only if they looked interesting. High value targets typically got scanned, low value ones got ignored. And dwarf systems with nothing but icy bodies? Ignored then as now.
Oh well, each to their own I suppose, I think I have something like 200,000+ level 3 scans at the moment.
I am doing the same since 6 months, and yet still didn't find any GGGs on the way ... I really wish you luck cmdr, you're gonna need it !
Oh, okay then.
The typical usage scenario that the majority of people do is to jump in, honk, look at the FSS bar, and jump out if there's no body type of interest there. During the FSS reveal livestream, the developers even talked about how this was what they planned. Let me quote them here: "You're right, the [FSS graph] system is learnable, but what, what we're jokingly trying to kind of get across is that very quickly you can jump into a system, perform the pulse scan, look at that bar and say "there's nothing there that I want", there's no Earth-likes, there's no whatever you're looking for, and get back out again." Video is here, time is around 53:03.
And yet there's no indication of biological life on bodies unless you FSS them. The number of times I have scanned systems with anything up to 50 or more bodies all very similar and just one turns out to have biological life is quite remarkable. If the FSS is supposed to indicate bodies of interest to be scanned then there should be some indication that the body actually has something of interest prior to scanning, not only consequent to scanning.
Strangely, I'm not too interested in bio signals on planets. They're rather... underwhelming, in my opinion. And the plant lifeforms which exist in the vacuum of space can be seen on the FSS spectrograph directly after the honk. I think the system is pretty fine that way.
But I am indeed amazed that you can do that many full FSS scans without getting bored and tired. That's quite something!
They may not yield much in terms of cash, but after my first galactic circumnavigation I'm filthy rich anyway, so... don't need to care about the money anymore.
But I am indeed amazed that you can do that many full FSS scans without getting bored and tired. That's quite something!
I'm not actually counting on finding any... given how rare they are. I don't even know if I should be looking in certain areas or for certain star classes to increase my chances... But scanning gas giants doesn't take too much time, and not every system has them, so it's fine for me. I'll just keep trying my luck.
They may not yield much in terms of cash, but after my first galactic circumnavigation I'm filthy rich anyway, so... don't need to care about the money anymore.Well, yes, it should - but it doesn't. By "body types", I meant ELWs, AWs, WWs and so on. The way the developers were talking about it, bodies of interest signify this, not that a planet might have POIs on its surface.
Besides, they knew full well what kind of planetside content we're going to have in the galaxy: biologicals and geologicals, both of which are of little interest to most players. Other POI types only exist in a few plot areas, and the Codex points these areas out now.