A few Exploration Questions re: terraformables

[jpjeffrey]

Just a few questions regarding exploration and finding terraformables...

Q1 In searching for terraformables, do you find (often? or Ever?)

- terraformables that are MOONS (ie orbiting another body - usually a Gas Giant - that is itself orbiting the Primary star)

- terraformables in the 'ice belt'

ie when looking at the system map, the 'metals' are usually closest to the primary star, then the 'ice worlds' start; are there ever terraformables among the ice worlds..?


Q2 Are there regions of the Galaxy where terraformables are more likely..? (or is it all just RND...?)


Q3 'UNKNOWN PERMIT' regions - has anyone mapped these? What's the best way to work out how to get around them?

 

[marx]

Let's see...

Q1 In searching for terraformables, do you find (often? or Ever?)

- terraformables that are MOONS (ie orbiting another body - usually a Gas Giant - that is itself orbiting the Primary star)

I'm not searching specifically for terraformables, but yes, moons which are terraforming candidates do exist. Depending on what kind of parent body you're looking at, they might be extremely rare though.

- terraformables in the 'ice belt'

ie when looking at the system map, the 'metals' are usually closest to the primary star, then the 'ice worlds' start; are there ever terraformables among the ice worlds..?

I've never heard of an "icy world" body that's a terraforming candidate, and a quick look at EDDB only produced two results which might be the results of bugs. (One is a proc. gen. icy body that's marked as "terraforming completed", the other is a body in a non-proc. gen. system, so might be handcrafted.) "Rocky icy" worlds can't be TCs either. Rocky bodies can be terraforming candidates, although such candidates are very rare.

Q2 Are there regions of the Galaxy where terraformables are more likely..? (or is it all just RND...?)

Been looking at this for Earth-likes for a fairly long while, and so far I've yet to find any proof that there are regional differences in the galaxy, beyond star density and system masses. You can go to regions where you are more likely to find class A and F star systems, for example, but as far as I can tell, if you find a class A star, it'll have the same chances for Earth-likes regardless of where in the galaxy it is. However, more data would be needed to be sure of this. Oh, and I imagine that the same holds for terraformables as well, but haven't really looked at those.

Q3 'UNKNOWN PERMIT' regions - has anyone mapped these? What's the best way to work out how to get around them?

Some of those have been locked since the game started, nobody has entered those. Others have been meant to be locked, but were at some point unlocked: people have been to those before they were locked, nothing out of the ordinary was found. They are widely believed to be locked so that Frontier can place Thargoid death planets future content there later. (Although if I were FD, I'd open up some of the permit sectors but put the content somewhere else.)
Also, the locked regions themselves are all spherical, so if you can figure out where their center is, you should be able to plot around them easier. Jackie Silver's Map should help a lot with this.

 

[jpjeffrey]

Thanks Marx

 

[Redfox]

Q2 Are there regions of the Galaxy where terraformables are more likely..? (or is it all just RND...?)

Doubtful, as the TC-status is based on in-system parameters. That said, some in-system parameters are influenced by sub-sector- and sector-parameters, so there still might be a chance.

I might make separate charts for TC and non-TC WW, as the WW in the following chart (from that other thread) aren't distinguished per TC-Status:

Spoiler

 

[marx]

Doubtful, as the TC-status is based on in-system parameters. That said, some in-system parameters are influenced by sub-sector- and sector-parameters, so there still might be a chance.

We do know that the seed for generating a system includes the system's name, or might even be entirely generated from that. So similar system names might produce similar seeds, although whether or not those will produce even slightly similar results is anyone's guess.

 

[Valije]

The best way to increase the chances to find TC are filtering out all the systems with a primary star other than A,F,G and K types.
You will not find terraformables in in the ice worlds area since they are too far and outside the goldilocks zone.

A tool that will help you big time is EDDiscovery. After scanning a star it shows the approximate habitable zone (only accurate if there is only one star or the others are very far from the main).

 

[Leif_Erikson]

Terraformable moons are rare but tend to be found around A and F stars and, more rarely, B class stars. I have listed them when found and have never found them around M,K and G class stars.