Exobiology signals - anyone know what the max is?

Sinister Hedgehog

Sinister Hedgehog
Just wandering around and came across one with 10 - took a while to scan everything! Found a few planets with 9 bios, but this is a record for me anyway. Anyone know what the actual max number is?

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Mohawk_ger

Mohawk_ger
Sinister Hedgehog said:
Nice job! It takes a while to scan doesn't it! Also I've just heard from some other folks that 12 is the current max.
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As far as i remember, that was a planet where i had luck with the first 5 species. Found them all in a nice, broad valley... it was just super annoying to circle around 5 times with the SRV, because you can scan every species only once... so 3 samples, multiplicated x5 times... i painted that circle 15 times in the sand nope... just realized that calculation is a lil bit wrong... mor like 5 circles and a little bit more... but annoying anyway 🤪
The next ones where only a few minutes flight at all... only the last 1 or 2, mostly found in mountainous areas (fungoida?) where hard to find.
 

varonica

varonica
I have found a fair number of 10 signals, plenty of 9 and 8. I have visited 2 with 11 but not my finds but never seen one with 12, it's possible considering this there are places with more, but the max for Odyssey style bio is 15. Since Horizon bio can also appear on atmospheric bodies I suppose you could have 16 or more, but the chances of that? Well pretty close to none I expect.
 

Greasetrap42

Greasetrap42
On a similar but unrelated note a few times I have landed on planets where DSS indicates 1 bio signal but scanned two variations of the plant. In EDO, those pumpkin shaped plants. Also brain trees. Vista Genomics rewarded me for both.
 

Sinister Hedgehog

Sinister Hedgehog
For what it's worth (in case anyone is interested), after handing in my latest round of exobio data I finally saw my rank tick up (I was at Geneticist under the old system and didn't see any progress for ages and it finally ticked up!)

I think the new threshold for Geneticist is 4,000,000,000 - I've got 4,091,761,700 in my codex and have just seen it actually tick up slightly just above the zero threshold.

So am guessing that puts the Elite rank at 8 billion CR?
 
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varonica

varonica
Greasetrap42 said:
On a similar but unrelated note a few times I have landed on planets where DSS indicates 1 bio signal but scanned two variations of the plant. In EDO, those pumpkin shaped plants. Also brain trees. Vista Genomics rewarded me for both.
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That's common for Horizon style bio, never seen it for Odyssey style bio, in fact you can get multiple types right next to each other because the rules for Horizons bio allow that, the rules for Odyssey bio are far stricter;

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marx

marx
varonica said:
I have found a fair number of 10 signals, plenty of 9 and 8. I have visited 2 with 11 but not my finds but never seen one with 12, it's possible considering this there are places with more, but the max for Odyssey style bio is 15. Since Horizon bio can also appear on atmospheric bodies I suppose you could have 16 or more, but the chances of that? Well pretty close to none I expect.
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Pretty much, since Horizons bio tend to be extremely rare on thin atmospheric worlds. To the point that I wonder if FD meant to restrict them from those, and a bug just allows some to slip through.

But say, how do you figure that the Odyssey max would be 15? Considering temperature requirements, body types, atmospheres, and regional distribution, to me it looks like the maximum possible would be 12. Not counting any Horizons bios that might pop up, that is, but I highly doubt that there would be any on a body that can house that many species.
 

varonica

varonica
marx said:
But say, how do you figure that the Odyssey max would be 15?
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The max would be 15 because that's how many types of Odyssey bio there are, whether a body exists where all 15 could possibly be found is probably unlikely due to, as you say, different bio requirements.
 

marx

marx
varonica said:
The max would be 15 because that's how many types of Odyssey bio there are, whether a body exists where all 15 could possibly be found is probably unlikely due to, as you say, different bio requirements.
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Aha, so you meant it as a maximum that could happen if there were any undiscovered species. There most likely aren't, and I meant that the practical limits of what we know would be 12. After all, Electricae only appear on Icy worlds and Fonticulua on Icy / Rocky Ice, while most of the others are HMC and Rocky instead - so, 13-15 bio signals are already ruled out. Then there's the question of atmospheres: for example, Recepta need sulphur dioxide, but that rules out Aleoida, Osseus and Tubus - and so on.
 

DjVortex

DjVortex
Now I'm wondering what's the maximum number of species visible from one place and captured in a screenshot. I think I have managed 4, but there are probably places with more.
 

Sinister Hedgehog

Sinister Hedgehog
When I did the 10 scan recently I only did two actual landings. I thinking it was a scan 6 and scan 4. In neither case did the ship depart. So if you found the right spot (that can also see the bacteria) you might be able to spot 5 or even 6 in one screenshot if you're very lucky
 

DjVortex

DjVortex
Given that the samples are stored in that can-sized... canister (as shown in the animation when you have fully sampled a species), there's no logical reason why one couldn't carry more than one such can at a time. I suppose the limit is only a meta-gameplay reason.

If I had to come up with an in-universe reason for it, perhaps the partial samples require more than just that canister, and it would be unfeasible to carry the capacity of more than one partial sample at a time. Maybe partial samples need special equipment in the backpack.
 

Felix DiCestria

Felix DiCestria
DjVortex said:
Now I'm wondering what's the maximum number of species visible from one place and captured in a screenshot. I think I have managed 4, but there are probably places with more.
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On the moon with 11 I did with Varonica 8 of the bio were within walking distance of my ship when I landed. Of course finding a spot to do a screenie showing them could be challenging.
I think I somehow landed at the point where tussock gives way to frutexa.

I count 5 in this one;
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There is a greyish line near my suit's light/camera thing that could be the bacterium, but it is just a line so I'm not counting it.
 
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