Glowing Green Giants - The Definitive List
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I'm not sure about the magenta ones, but the green giants are likely to stick around since FDev added a visitor beacon to the one within the bubble region.
As others have noted, all of the ones that have been found are somewhere within the bubble<->Colonia corridor. It's too small of a sample size to draw any conclusions, but it makes me suspect a few different things:
1. They tend to show up along the Colonia road simply because it's more well travelled, and no one has had the luck to find them elsewhere (and report it to the community).
2. They might be hand-placed, and exist only within that region.
I'm seriously hoping it's more #1, rather than #2. However it does make me wonder if we have a better chance of finding them by simply zipping up and down the Colonia highway.
As others have noted, all of the ones that have been found are somewhere within the bubble<->Colonia corridor. It's too small of a sample size to draw any conclusions, but it makes me suspect a few different things:
1. They tend to show up along the Colonia road simply because it's more well travelled, and no one has had the luck to find them elsewhere (and report it to the community).
2. They might be hand-placed, and exist only within that region.
I'm seriously hoping it's more #1, rather than #2. However it does make me wonder if we have a better chance of finding them by simply zipping up and down the Colonia highway.
I know they're not perfect, but if any of you need screenshots for GGG1 or GGG2, feel free to snag the ones I linked in the post on the first page here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...initive-List?p=6566104&viewfull=1#post6566104
Thank you, but they seem to me correct.
They weren't displaying for me, so I thought they were simply not included. It turns out it's a stupid web filter here at my end.
For consistency, the EDSM map has been updated with the following labels:
GGG1: "Blua Hypa Glowing Green Giant"
GGG2: "Bleia Dryiae Glowing Green Giant"
GGG6: "Floasly Glowing Green Giant"
GGG1: "Blua Hypa Glowing Green Giant"
GGG2: "Bleia Dryiae Glowing Green Giant"
GGG6: "Floasly Glowing Green Giant"
[video=youtube_share;6DyfJ1keZsw]https://youtu.be/6DyfJ1keZsw[/video]
No, I think we can rule out number 2. GGG 5 was reported far away from the Colonia route, and was reported before Colonia was founded. I'm fairly sure it's a quirk of the procedural generator. The bias towards the Colonia Road is simply because that road is more well-travelled.
Adding to the bias, I would assume (!), is the likely star types they can form in: they can form in pretty much any star type, just like regular gas giants. If one forms, it's likely to form in an M or K system since those are more probable overall - and deep-space explorers tend to filter those stars out as they're less likely to contain ELWs and other valuables. The Colonia Road is more likely to have Ms and Ks scanned because that route is popular with the Bubble-Colonia commuters and tourists who are travelling, rather than exploring.
GMGs, on the other hand, are like GWGs were: if they're limited to Class V, then they'll only be found in systems where Class Vs can occur: super-hot stars, A-class and above. So it's more likely that deep-space explorers will spot a GMG, even if they do turn out to be much rarer than GGGs.
My own theory on the generation of GGGs (and by extension GMGs) is this: the stellar forge randomly generates "sets" of colours for each gas giant, two or three colours depending on the giant type. The generator also seems to pick "matching" and "contrasting" colours, also depending on the planet type. I've noticed that many GGGs have black as one of their colours. I therefore presume and suspect that the stellar forge, in trying to pick a "matching" colour for black, is trying to go "blacker than black", going negative, and therefore ending up bright green. For GMGs, perhaps it's "contrasting colour" calculator is trying to do likewise, in calculating a contrast for white, it tries to go blacker than black and crosses over into magenta.
None more pink.
Makes me wonder if there are any other vibrant colored GG's out there, like maybe a bright yellow or blue?
Can anyone help regarding the GGG 5? I dont know if Perseus Crags is a star or a nebula, or if it had been writen wrong. The reason I ask is, I might take a shot to find it
Unfortunately, "The Perseus Crags" is the GMP/EDSM nickname for a rather large region of space, a section of the Perseus Arm of the galaxy about 15,000 LYs long, in the general West-Northwestwards direction from Sol. EDSM Link. It probably contains over a billion stars? It's a lot of space to search. Especially given that we don't even have a star class to hunt for.
Seems quite likely now we've got green, pink and red. Being first to report a new colour of glowing gas giant added to bucket list...
I think I found out what the system name was supposed to be. The "3" at the end is the planet number, so it should be "Eoch Flyuae KA-K c23-4 3" (note the space)
From: https://inara.cz/galaxy-logbooks/14143
"A few jumps later, I discovered a very unusually green gas giant, Eoch Flyuae KA-K c23-4 3, which turned out to be a gas giant with ammonia-based life."
It's only 22ly away from the other system, so I hopped over. It's still a red herring:
From: https://inara.cz/galaxy-logbooks/14143
"A few jumps later, I discovered a very unusually green gas giant, Eoch Flyuae KA-K c23-4 3, which turned out to be a gas giant with ammonia-based life."
It's only 22ly away from the other system, so I hopped over. It's still a red herring: