Finding and Mining Gas Giant Metallic Rings.

[Jumpin' Jack Flash]

Hi Folks

Just as a footnote I've done a reasonably large amount of mining covering most aspects of the games features in this area Surface Laser, Deep Core, Abrasion Blasting and Displacement.
That said, there's one or two questions I'd like to ask about that I'm not clear on.

Q 1. Is it possible to deduce what (In Undiscovered Systems) might contain favourable (Metallic) gas giants in a System just by looking at the initial Star Class View Top menu- System Information LHS menu, then Astronomical information
Astronomical. information is then subdivided into:
Star Type.
Distance.
Star Class.

I understand that the first letters under Star Types might be shown as one or several Star Types, for example:- G8 VAB or MO VA, or K9VA, LO V, MB etc.
I understand the concept of the letters, but can these tell me what types of Gas Giants (And in particular Gas Giants with Metallic rings) might be found in these Systems?

Q.2. Or is it pot luck depending on the random Procedural Generation.

I've been finding metallic rings with no platinum hot spots, very few or several. What I'm asking is there a way of narrowing down the odds to finding Metallic rings with reasonable (perhaps several) Platinim hot spots in Systems.

Jack

 

[alexzk]

I understand the concept of the letters, but can these tell me what types of Gas Giants (And in particular Gas Giants with Metallic rings) might be found in these Systems?

I would put a bet on A/F/G but other stars may have it too. It's not random generation. It evolved. Like stars had collisions / explosions billion years ago, so their planets were thrown away, then caught by the other stars. It's interesting topic btw. I did such research couple times. Like picked "planetary nebula" without planets, then found it's planets around in 45-50 ly. All that planets were "not belonging here", like perpendicular orbits or wrong composition.

You can track ice rings near M stars. Mass index on the long system name like B38 or C21. For the M stars normal is B. So if you see C-index for the single star, this means at the time 0 it had enough mass to create couple gas giants. And probably it has it yet.