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Jaylem

Jaylem
2 Days!!! one bloody planet!

-130km radius.

-0.4 day orbit.

-Specifically states 'Silicate Geysers'

Would of thought it'd be easy....couldn't have been more wrong...

second day now, bouncing back and forth across all the canyons...nothing, not even a wisp.

I Swear, Elite is mocking me. the stark amount of unlucky scenarios I encounter it is unbelievable......

Now, if you excuse me, I will be going outside with a shovel and strike it rich by looking for gold.... better chance than this....
 
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Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
Jaylem said:
2 Days!!! one bloody planet!

-130km radius.

-0.4 day orbit.

-Specifically states 'Silicate Geysers'

Would of thought it'd be easy....couldn't have been more wrong...

second day now, bouncing back and forth across all the canyons...nothing, not even a wisp.

I Swear, Elite is mocking me. the stark amount of unlucky scenarios I encounter it is unbelievable......
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I wouldnt even be surprised if planets that specifically mention geysers dont always have geysers... :p
 

Jaylem

Jaylem
sleutelbos said:
I wouldnt even be surprised if planets that specifically mention geysers dont always have geysers... :p
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that would be upsetting if true... why else state it otherwise? Unless somehow ED Knew I was visiting?? and it planned to make my life miserable...

I have noticed Clarity isn't a strong point of this game...
 

Traveller_GG

Traveller_GG
Well, it works for the water companies:

dowsing-rods.JPG
 

duckofdeath

duckofdeath
Never drive on a potato. It's too frustrating. I wonder why our super smart future cars can't have more adaptive thrusters? :)
Anyhoo, if that planet is really 130 km, I'd suggest you get that data handed in at your nearest cartographer. That would be a record small by an unusually big margin. The record has been stuck at 137 km's for over a year.
 

Jaylem

Jaylem
Traveller_GG said:
Well, it works for the water companies:

http://www.getghostgear.com/images/dowsing-rods.JPG
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On a simular method, being that it is the year 3003, you think they would have an anomaly scanner of sorts. a computer enhanced scanner that uses FTL signals to identify objects on planets.

We use the same method today, being sonar....

however this would take all the skill and fun out of exploring, why look for alien structures and natural anomaly's when you can just point and scan...

if it scanned planets 20-50Km at a time, that would be interesting...
 

Jaylem

Jaylem
duckofdeath said:
Never drive on a potato. It's too frustrating. I wonder why our super smart future cars can't have more adaptive thrusters? :)
Anyhoo, if that planet is really 130 km, I'd suggest you get that data handed in at your nearest cartographer. That would be a record small by an unusually big margin. The record has been stuck at 137 km's for over a year.
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167Km, I admit I misread that... kind of wishing I hadn't as I may of actually found something cool for once.....

Could this be perhaps a reason for no geysers? perhaps the amount of silicate simply isn't enough in volume to create such an effect?

although what I did get right was it's orbit. it is tidally locked and has a 0.4 day orbit around a large gas giant..the thing is a rocket.

that amount of gravitational pull and distance from star (400Ls red dwarf) must surely have strain?
 

duckofdeath

duckofdeath
I have found fumaroles on potato planets before. Can't remember exactly how small they were. I usually fly around at a low altitude. Covers a larger area and as long as I stick below a couple or three km's it's possible to make out the concentrations of rocks around them. Just make sure you fly away from the sunlight to avoid being "blinded". If the dust and rocks have similar size on the planet they're obviously harder to spot. :)
 

Jaylem

Jaylem
Factabulous said:
I thought the rule was 1 hour and move on. Maybe there's a reason...
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Reason for why I like this planet so? yes there is.

Ok, so this planet has already been long since discovered, I am in the System of Dahn (the neighbour to Asellus Primus, the first system anyone visits) I have been searching systems around to try an find some points of interest that will provide a fantastic training ground for my friend (who has literally just started) and any other beginners who may want to jump straight into the beauty of the game!!

I have fount a lot of activity with skimmers on Coltan though, although the cargo is rubbish it was nice to take my frustration out on something killable.
 

Jaylem

Jaylem
Factabulous said:
There's already reported volcanism on coltan, maybe look at those locations for ideas?
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what if I really want to find something on my own for a change... :(

when I do actually start to find sites I will be noting any patterns I find...right now I can't tell if they are just in canyons, possibly in craters or other regions of planets. people say canyons a lot...but some planets that can be pretty broad.
 

space voyager

space voyager
They are there. Recently I got enfuriated like you and went back to main source of Elite knowledge, YouTube. I saw a vid about finding geological features with glide method and it definitely looks far more promising than just flying around. Check it out, I haven't tested it yet.
 

varonica

varonica
Jaylem said:
167Km, I admit I misread that... kind of wishing I hadn't as I may of actually found something cool for once.....

Could this be perhaps a reason for no geysers? perhaps the amount of silicate simply isn't enough in volume to create such an effect?

although what I did get right was it's orbit. it is tidally locked and has a 0.4 day orbit around a large gas giant..the thing is a rocket.

that amount of gravitational pull and distance from star (400Ls red dwarf) must surely have strain?
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Did somebody say Coltan? Oh dear. Coltan is a special case, it's as far as I can tell a hand placed body. It fooled me at first as well and after two days I had to give up, but when I say give up, I don't give up, I just go back angry!

So I went back and scanned the entire surface area of Coltan, yes all of it, travelled 50,000kms to do it at a height of about 7kms, and I have found every single volcanic site on that little moon. There are, exactly, two! Yes two and only two, it's an unusually low number for a moon orbiting that close to it's primary but it's interesting to note that the journal doesn't report it as Major Vulcanism or Minor vulcansim, just vulcanism! So if you are having trouble finding them keep in mind that this is one of the hardest moons to find vulcanism because it has so few sites.

It fit in with what I thought at the time, that all moons which say they have vulcanism do indeed have it, but sometimes it's just hard to find, very hard.

Here, the two red V's are vulcanism, the green X's are minerals;

oiClfzD.jpg


And here are the geysers from one site.;

pHyJY0u.jpg


The locations on the surface;

NJp0Mf3.jpg


ZHVS9A0.jpg


Don't be discouraged, I was almost by Coltan, but I got even with it.
 
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varonica

varonica
Jaylem said:
what if I really want to find something on my own for a change... :(

when I do actually start to find sites I will be noting any patterns I find...right now I can't tell if they are just in canyons, possibly in craters or other regions of planets. people say canyons a lot...but some planets that can be pretty broad.
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Canyons are just easy to remember, during my research it appears that vulcanism can appear just about anywhere in equal numbers, but it's very hard to remember which part of flat plain 200kms across you have already checked, also the same goes with craters, one looks very like another, but they do have vulcanism as much as canyons but it's hard to remember one from another, hence most people search easily remembered landmarks. One of the moons I checked, the moon with major vulcanism, had 15 volcanic sites, so stick with small moons under 200kms in radius with major vulcanism and you can't go wrong.
 

BaldEagle

BaldEagle
varonica said:
Did somebody say Coltan? Oh dear. Coltan is a special case, it's as far as I can tell a hand placed body. It fooled me at first as well and after two days I had to give up, but when I say give up, I don't give up, I just go back angry!

So I went back and scanned the entire surface area of Coltan, yes all of it, travelled 50,000kms to do it at a height of about 7kms, and I have found every single volcanic site on that little moon. There are, exactly, two! Yes two and only two, it's an unusually low number for a moon orbiting that close to it's primary but it's interesting to note that the journal doesn't report it as Major Vulcanism or Minor vulcansim, just vulcanism! So if you are having trouble finding them keep in mind that this is one of the hardest moons to find vulcanism because it has so few sites.

It fit in with what I thought at the time, that all moons which say they have vulcanism do indeed have it, but sometimes it's just hard to find, very hard.

Here, the two red V's are vulcanism, the green X's are minerals;

https://i.imgur.com/oiClfzD.jpg

And here are the geysers from one site.;

https://i.imgur.com/pHyJY0u.jpg

The locations on the surface;

https://i.imgur.com/NJp0Mf3.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ZHVS9A0.jpg

Don't be discouraged, I was almost by Coltan, but I got even with it.
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This work is above and beyond Commander o7
I do remember your original comments about not finding anything here - but to map a whole planet (however small ...) mad and amazing in equal measure :D
 

Kazahnn

Kazahnn
I advise you to use the Cmdr Baton method, as the Cmdr MacrosTheBlack suggested to you :


[video=youtube;H8HtIPtuNVs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8HtIPtuNVs[/video]

[video=youtube;VNVyGoEJF5w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNVyGoEJF5w[/video]


Works every time. [up]

Good luck ! o7
 
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