Aint NEVER found a Geyser.
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Get yourself a Dolphin (or equip a passenger cabin) and take some passenger missions. My second or third was out to geysers.
Could do. Just saying that I have never come across one randomly. Not ever.
Always in the last place you look.
This is the correct answer.
Running passenger missions took me to geysers and also volcanic activity as well as some very picturesque locations. Go with the Sightseeing missions that only run a few hundred LY inside the bubble.
Couldn't you know...Frontier - actually do something about "All those hapless years of searching alone?"
You could say the same about the mega ships, barnacles, the weird plant things that some have found on planets etc etc - I've never found any of these without using the forums. (I've still not seen those plant/tree things either...)
Do a tourist job, you`ll see `em soon enough.
I think this highlights the need for improved surface scanning tools. I'm not asking for a close up honk-and-show-me-all-the-good-stuff solution, but being able locate potentially good general areas on a planet's surface would be a start.
It's extremely satisfying to go and find your own though out in the black.....
I've found geysers in craters a few times on 500km radius rocks before, I tend to search those as they are small enough to be thorough.
I think if I found something extremely rare like an alien crash I'd probably have a cardiac arrest.
I've found geysers in craters a few times on 500km radius rocks before, I tend to search those as they are small enough to be thorough.
I think if I found something extremely rare like an alien crash I'd probably have a cardiac arrest.
Yep, I agree entirely. I want to be a scientist. Using excellent ship based geological scanning technology.
Flimley
It's especially galling since the DSS can tell that there are geysers/magma/whatever, but then won't give you so much as a tiny clue as to where they may be
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After the changes to make their detection (for those specifically searching them) even harder, your chances didn't exactly improve in V2.3 - to say the least.
Just do the math :
- 1000km radius Moon
- Surface Area = 12566400 km²
- Ideal case : you can see a corresponding mineral Deposit on the Scanner within 10km Range, thus granting you an instant coverage of ~314 km² around your Ship.
That yields a rough statistical chance of approx. 2.5*10E-05 of finding something after parking the Ship above the Surface at a random location (assuming 1 spot per Planet).
To put that number in perspective :
If you were to put your Ship only over the Surface of moons with a mere 1000km Radius, Statistically you'd only have to do this some ~40000 times before accidentally discovering a spot of Volcanism once, if only one was to exist on that Moon.
Arguably though, typically more than one site of Volcanism exists (a max of upto 3 or 4 have been found AFAIK per Planet), but there's also plain Mineral Deposits (simple rocks) without Volcanism.
Assuming 10 Mineral Deposits of any form per Planet, it "only" requires 4000 landings to accidentally stumble over one on that hypothetical 1000km radius Moon.
If a simple rock isn't your thing to invest days of searching into (*lol*), I'd say 1:10000 is a somewhat realistic estimate for a 1000km Moon hopefully holding 4 sites of Volcanism - but only if all of them held a Mineral Deposit visible on the Scanner... which isn't the case.
So in the end, I'd say roughly 1:20000 is the most realistic estimate I could give for that hypothetical 1000km Moon.
Disclaimer : Math in public... I assume no responsibility for the correctness of above caluclations
PS.
Volcanism spots I found so far since they were implemented : 27
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I have found one, by accident.
They have small blue POI circles indicating their location. Mine was on a rocky ice world (or just Ice) in a canyon.
Although, they where hovering in the air (eg bugged)..which slightly ruined the spectacle.
They are worth finding though, they look and sound very cool.
They have small blue POI circles indicating their location. Mine was on a rocky ice world (or just Ice) in a canyon.
Although, they where hovering in the air (eg bugged)..which slightly ruined the spectacle.
They are worth finding though, they look and sound very cool.
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3 - 4 per planet??? This is madness
No wonder I spend days looking for those with no luck. Is this due to technical limitation?