Hi Commanders, I am new to exploration and am taking my first trip into the black. I have found several planets and moons with active volcanism already however I haven't found any Geysers or Fumaroles. I understand that once in OC you look for POI and smoke, however I don't understand where to start looking and none of the guides have been very specific on this point.
My understanding is as follows:
1) find planets with volcanism on your system map.
2) ????
3) once in glide look for POI on your map (zoomed all the way out), and visually scan for signs of the feature you are looking for
4) land at the sight
If anyone could help me fill in this blank that would be wonderful! Thanks, and Fly safe o7
1) Small bodies around 300-400km radius, with "major" vulcanism, this is detailed in the player journal but not the system map, you may need an application like EDDiscovery to easily access that information.
2) Be lucky!
3) Can't see POI in OC so don't bother, use OC to pick out nice looking features like canyons and etc. Not just glide, you need to be the right height in glide, most smallish bodies you won't start seeing POI's until your glide height drops below around 20km, larger bodies start higher, sometimes up to glide entry height. Watch the height indicator as you glide down towards your target at an angle of around 15-20%, you will see it make a funny twitch, what we call the "tick" after that is when you can see POI's, not before. Angle up to around 7-8% to glide as long as possible, takes a bit of practice to get it right. Set your sensors to linear in the control panel and, this gives you slightly more range than logarithmic. Visual sighting are hard because the visual clues don't appear until you get within instance range, and you can often see them on sensors before that.
4) Land, take screenshot of coordinates, collect mats from the site, report it to the website so that other people in the are can take advantage of your find.
5) Tiny POI's indicate vulcanism, on rock/metallic worlds huge POI's that fill the entire screen sometimes mark sites of biological life, if you fly around enough they will start shrinking to small dots, land at the dot, look for life, failing that there will always be an outcrop where you can collect some mats.
Thanks, this helps a lot!