If there are geo sites then go to them, traditional prospecting I normally associate with surface rock hunting, that is driving across the surface tracking down signals on the SRV radar to find meteorites and mesidorites. Compared to that volcanic geo sites are new and quite easy to fill up from.
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If there are geo sites then go to them, traditional prospecting I normally associate with surface rock hunting, that is driving across the surface tracking down signals on the SRV radar to find meteorites and mesidorites. Compared to that volcanic geo sites are new and quite easy to fill up from.
Geo Sites are your best bet. Same idea as the Crystalline shards, drive around blowing things off and scooping them up. I filled my bins with Selenium by doing this on a planet with high Selenium content. You can do traditional surface prospecting, but it takes ages driving around following the scanner contacts looking for mesosiderites or outcrops.
How high was a high selenium content? I would love to fill my bins with selenium and possibly not have to do one run to chrystalline shards again just to cross trade for that material. What will the geo sites have that normal prospecting doesnt?
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If you are going to look for selenium at geo sites, you can do that back in the Bubble. There is no reason to do it at the crystal shard sites. 3.1% is a rather low selenium content. How much selenium you can get out of a geo site also depends on the percentages of other materials in the same drop category (ie that drop from crystalline fragments), you want high in selenium and low in the others as I have explained before.
My preferred selenium location (LHS 417 9 E A) has 4.9% selenium and in total 2.5% of the other two crystalline fragment drops. 2/3 crystalline fragments are therefore selenium. You really need to look at the other two as well to get the frequency.
I am going to try the geo sites here as a break from the chrystalline shards. It will be fun. But I take your points and wont expect too much from the geo sites. I am still learning about planetary prospecting so it all contributes.
noted.
The targets that are inaccessibly high up a cliff can sometimes be reached by landing the ship at the top and descending to them or if your screen resolution and eyes are up to it you can using the turret aim the guns at the target and shoot the material off with a good chance that it might roll down the hill to a reachable location at some point during the roll the material will get to within the range where you can target it and see what it is.
This long range sniping can be quite good fun and is certainly a welcome break from falling down yet another cliff.
This long range sniping can be quite good fun and is certainly a welcome break from falling down yet another cliff.
I have heard 6 weeks for the Crystalline Shards, not sure about Geo sites. Not sure if that is true, not tested it myself.
I once sat on a planet for two weeks as a test to see how long they took to regenerate, so the only solid info I can supply is, more than two weeks!
Is this definitely your prefered selenium site? I think I will do 1 more Crystalline Shards run and then head to your site for the selenium fill up.
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I went to EDDB and put in a search for high content selenium worlds close to Sol. Then I went through each of the top results to find the one that had the highest proportion of selenium within the drop category (note: proportion within the drop category, not overall percentage).
Edit: Oh yes, it should have volcanism as well ...
Orodruin I am here at your selenium site. I got only 1 selenium from my first geo site. I must be doing something wrong?
What is a geo site and how do you know if you landed at one?
How many drops of selenium should I get per geo site?
There were not many protrusions.
What are the best geo sites here?
How long before they replenish?
Any other advice?
What is a geo site and how do you know if you landed at one?
How many drops of selenium should I get per geo site?
There were not many protrusions.
What are the best geo sites here?
How long before they replenish?
Any other advice?
Did you actually go to a geological signal or are you just surface prospecting randomly?
Note that geological signal sites generally are much more spread out than the crystalline shard sites. You should be driving around the site looking for crystalline fragments as these will drop selenium 2/3 of the time. The sites are also pretty big in comparison to the shard sites. You may of course also look for any other materials that you are low on from other drops, but if you were already at the shard sites you will probably already be full on those.