GUIDE: Planet sounds and how to know everything from System Map.

[Eisen]

I will go on and listen, as soon as they tell us that it is again safe to go.
But you are right, keep it as simple as possible. The whole thing about HMC is to distinguish them from Water Worlds and ELW, and for that purpose you only have to know the differences. It was just my assumption, that FD had some kind of rationale behind the different HMC-sounds, which we finally could find. Maybe we will in the future.

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

I will go on and listen, as soon as they tell us that it is again safe to go.
But you are right, keep it as simple as possible. The whole thing about HMC is to distinguish them from Water Worlds and ELW, and for that purpose you only have to know the differences. It was just my assumption, that FD had some kind of rationale behind the different HMC-sounds, which we finally could find. Maybe we will in the future.

You could be very well right. Since I'm stuck as any other explorer anyway, now I'm firing up the game, and copy paste every HMC location I've ever found into the search box to investigate further. By fortune HMC are very common. If all the atmosphereless types have the same sound, that would be a very good thing indeed to exclude the non-terraformable (HMC must have an atmospehre to be terraformable, right?).

 

[Eisen]

If all the atmosphereless types have the same sound, that would be a very good thing indeed to exclude the non-terraformable (HMC must have an atmospehre to be terraformable, right?).

Yes, that was my thinking. Yesterday I entered a huge field of class-M-Stars with rocks and HMC, most of the latter without atmosphere by the looks. It'd be great to know this for sure by listening to their sounds.

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

Ok, i think I've found a pattern, where atmosphereindeed play a role. HMC sound vary with surface pressure.

Type 1: No/very low surface pressure. No Atmosphere - 0.05 ATM. Not usefull to tell if they are terraformable since i scanned an HMC with this sound type and 0.01 ATM that is terraformable.
[video=youtube;EtjAtURGpQk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtjAtURGpQk[/video]

Type 2: surface pressure similar to Earth: 0.05 - 15 ATM. Can be terraformable or not. Most similar sound to ELW.

Type 3: high surface pressure: > 15 ATM. Can be terraformable or not.

So Eisen you were right, updating OP to reflect this. Can't rep you enough.

 

[Eisen]

Great find! I didn't notice the pressures - but I am just a doctor, not a scientist
I will reenter the game tomorrow and have a look at that. Maybe terraformability is somewhat randomly spread within the Goldilocks-Zone. Without respect to an atmosphere.

 

[Eisen]

You were right, Akira, one can't count on atmosphere-pressure to know, if a body is terraformable or not. Today I found my first atmosphere-less world (0.00 atmosphere pressure), that is described as terraformable. However the atmosphere type is labeled "Sulphur-dioxide", but with 0.00 pressure... It still puzzles me, how such a lifeless rock could be terraformed, but maybe I put too much trust in a detailed rationale behind terraformability. It could really just follow a certain randomness, if the world lies within the habitable zone.

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But that also means, that it could prove rewarding to scan all the brown, yellow and green bodies, that surround the countless M-Stars out there.

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

You were right, Akira, one can't count on atmosphere-pressure to know, if a body is terraformable or not. Today I found my first atmosphere-less world (0.00 atmosphere pressure), that is described as terraformable. However the atmosphere type is labeled "Sulphur-dioxide", but with 0.00 pressure... It still puzzles me, how such a lifeless rock could be terraformed, but maybe I put too much trust in a detailed rationale behind terraformability. It could really just follow a certain randomness, if the world lies within the habitable zone.

View attachment 67458

But that also means, that it could prove rewarding to scan all the brown, yellow and green bodies, that surround the countless M-Stars out there.

Yes terraformable objects can be weird in Elite. Some of them have Venus like atmospheres or 350K temperature. Btw, 0.00 ATM means that there's still an atmosphere, with such a low pressure it's not measurable. No Atmosphere means there's not an atmosphere at all. I've never found a terraformable with no atmosphere, but sounds aren't usefull for that.

Hey, does sombody have an Helium Rich Gas Giant in their database? I didn't note the only one I've ever found, and I'd like to have a sound recording of them. I know they are silent like Ammonia Life Gas Giants, still I'd like to put a record of every planet type.

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

Corrected values for HMC surface pressure related to sound type.
Found another type of Icy World sound, recorded and added.
I also suspect there are several rocky world and metal rich different sounds.

 

[Eisen]

I can confirm two different Icy-World-Sounds, but they seem to be random (at least I found no pattern , you will most definitely do). I'm going on tonight, but the internet-connection in my hotel (I went on vacation yesterday) is pretty slow, so we'll see, how it works for me.

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

Since I'm finding many sounds I've decided to split the guide in sections. This way I can keep the first session of high value objects a quick reference for the explorer on the go, and use the other sections to list the many sounds all the less valuables planets have.
Otherwise it would have become a long, dull list of planet sounds.

I'm looking recordings for:
Metal Rich
HELIUM RICH GAS GIANTS (I foulishly didn't take not of the position of the only one i ever found, it was my first expedition)
Gas Giants I to V

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

I've made a lot of recordings, slowing my trip to the far rim a lot.
Since i can't possibly stand to upload all of them at once, for a while I will do a daily (almost) upload.

Today I start withthe very excitying Rocky World type 1 added in its section on the OP too.

Spoiler

[video=youtube;IpIqqgm6jNo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpIqqgm6jNo&feature=youtu.be[/video]

 

[Matthias46]

Masakari you did an awesome job! Thank you very much! This needs a sticky!

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

Masakari you did an awesome job! Thank you very much! This needs a sticky!

Thanks a lot, I'm glad you find itusesfull!!!!

Few weeks ago I've requested a sticky, but the mod said this subforum has already reached the maximum allowed. I hope in a sticky too, we'll see if someting changes.

Since then, the dayly recording! The grim Rocky World type 2 (also added in the proper section of OP)

Spoiler

[video=youtube;ALXE9rwnNy4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALXE9rwnNy4&feature=youtu.be[/video]

I also changed the guide text colors a little bit, to make it more clear for those of you that has a black background and white text.

 

[AndyBoom]

Hey, with help from this guide I managed to find a Helium-rich gas giant and decided to make a recording of it since they're pretty rare...

Spoiler

[video=youtube_share;KLdoWdURSdQ]https://youtu.be/KLdoWdURSdQ[/video]

Hopefully the recording is good enough to hear everything.

Also I want to say thank you very much for the work put into this guide. It's extremely helpful for explorers and in my opinion makes exploring a lot more fun.
Keep up the good work!

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

Hey, with help from this guide I managed to find a Helium-rich gas giant and decided to make a recording of it since they're pretty rare...

Spoiler

https://youtu.be/KLdoWdURSdQ

Hopefully the recording is good enough to hear everything.

Also I want to say thank you very much for the work put into this guide. It's extremely helpful for explorers and in my opinion makes exploring a lot more fun.
Keep up the good work!

That's wonderfull!!!!! I failed to take note of the only one I ever found. It was my fist expedition and I didn't know they were rare. I'm immidiatly putting it in OP, as today recording, and you go in the contributors section.

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

Added Rocky Icy type 2, just found. Unfortunately this planet sound identical to metal rich and one of the HMC, messing this badly.
Btw there's no way to simplify it more, the guide will still be usefull to spot a false friend, but if going in the details is starting to require some dedication.

BTW the recording and the changes to text have been made to OP

Spoiler

[video=youtube;_-urwXWmv1w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-urwXWmv1w&feature=youtu.be[/video]

 

[jrb]

CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI - Thank you!
This was a great help!
36 day trip and used your listening method on every jump...great information....listening to distinct sounds made it feel mysterious and a lot of fun!

	Scanned
Class O, B, A, F, G, K, M, L, T, Y	388
Black Hole	264
Neutron Star	2340
White Dwarf	57
Gas Giant - Helium Rich	1
Water Giant	2
Gas Giant Class III (Ammonia/Water Based Life)	3
Gas Giant Class I	30
Gas Giant Class II	13
Gas Giant Class III	47
Gas Giant Class IV	7
Gas Giant Class V	6
Rocky and/or Icy Planets	4
High Metal Content Planets	225
Rocky Planet - Terraformable	0
Terraformable High Metal Content Planets	37
Terraformable High Metal Content Planets with NA[nb 2]	0
Metal-Rich Planets	12
Water World	52
Terraformable Water World	64
Ammonia World	13
Earth-like World	36
Advance Discovery Scanner	45812

 

[ted]

amazing info that just made exploring more interesting. thanks heaps!

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI - Thank you!
This was a great help!
36 day trip and used your listening method on every jump...great information....listening to distinct sounds made it feel mysterious and a lot of fun!

amazing info that just made exploring more interesting. thanks heaps!

Thank you guys, I really appreciate your feedback.

Today recording is the infamous HMC type 4, that sounds identical to Metal Rich and a kind of Rocky Icy. This HMC sound is very frequent, and unfortunately menas there's no way to distinguish metal rich from HMC, neither from visuals and neither from sounds. To get the metal rich, that are worth much credits, you have to surface scan any body that sounds like this. (video added to the OP proper section)

Spoiler

[video=youtube;eTCIWE11OA0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTCIWE11OA0[/video]

 

[ThirdNostril]

Have you looked into the sounds of systems in the galaxy map? I can't get the handle on these. All have that static noise, followed by a high pitch sound which seems to indicate the end of the loop. Some systems have a varied amount of clicks. At first it seemed like there was a correlation between the clicks and the star having planets around it. A system with just stars or one didn't have clicks, until I quickly encountered systems with clicks but no planets or no clicks and planets galore.