Hello,
Would greatly appreciate if anyone could shed some light on how to consistently spot so-called, non-persistent points of interest on a planet surface. I recently came back to do some planetary exploration and have spent hours trying to track down points of interests with no luck, what I usually do is fly around 2km above the surface of a planet until I see the blue circle on my radar and when I do, I aimlessly fly around said circle in my ship at varying altitudes(50m-2km) trying to spot the POI, however I can never spot them on the planet surface even when flying in a straight line through the center of the circle, around the edge of the circle or by hovering inside the circle using free camera to look around. Trying to use my SLF is equally unsuccesful and when I land my ship and try locating the POI with the SRV all that shows up on its' radar and all I can find is rocks/materials, never any bases/wrecks/containers/geological sites etc. and when I'm done scouring the circle in the SRV and return to my ship/take off the circle is still visible on my ships map/radar, indicating that I haven't found the POI. I spend a fair amount of time trying to Google/Youtube my way to an answer but a lot of the guides and commentary on the subject is contradictory, assuming they have changed how POI's work in-game since I last farmed them, regarding their physical location inside the map circle and whether or a material rock/meteor counts as a POI. Like I said, would greatly appreciate any advice from any of you that knows how this game mechanic currently works, I did some POI farming in the past(most of it from randomly stumbling across while looking for materials)and don't remember it being this much of a challenge. Also I might add, that I'm currently 10k ly away from the Bubble unsure if that has anything to say about how the 'randomly' generated POI's work. When I ran across them before was always inside the Bubble/close to Guardian sites and never had issues spotting them in my SRV or ship.
Cheers.
Would greatly appreciate if anyone could shed some light on how to consistently spot so-called, non-persistent points of interest on a planet surface. I recently came back to do some planetary exploration and have spent hours trying to track down points of interests with no luck, what I usually do is fly around 2km above the surface of a planet until I see the blue circle on my radar and when I do, I aimlessly fly around said circle in my ship at varying altitudes(50m-2km) trying to spot the POI, however I can never spot them on the planet surface even when flying in a straight line through the center of the circle, around the edge of the circle or by hovering inside the circle using free camera to look around. Trying to use my SLF is equally unsuccesful and when I land my ship and try locating the POI with the SRV all that shows up on its' radar and all I can find is rocks/materials, never any bases/wrecks/containers/geological sites etc. and when I'm done scouring the circle in the SRV and return to my ship/take off the circle is still visible on my ships map/radar, indicating that I haven't found the POI. I spend a fair amount of time trying to Google/Youtube my way to an answer but a lot of the guides and commentary on the subject is contradictory, assuming they have changed how POI's work in-game since I last farmed them, regarding their physical location inside the map circle and whether or a material rock/meteor counts as a POI. Like I said, would greatly appreciate any advice from any of you that knows how this game mechanic currently works, I did some POI farming in the past(most of it from randomly stumbling across while looking for materials)and don't remember it being this much of a challenge. Also I might add, that I'm currently 10k ly away from the Bubble unsure if that has anything to say about how the 'randomly' generated POI's work. When I ran across them before was always inside the Bubble/close to Guardian sites and never had issues spotting them in my SRV or ship.
Cheers.
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