Has anyone ever found Stratum Tectonicas on anything other than a thin ammonia polanet?
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I have found one that was over 10 million, but although it was listed on the Elite observatory it had a red X meaning that it was not there. I have found some of the 7 million credit stuff, and the 3.5-million-dollar stuff, but anything below that I ignore unless I have the first foot fall. It gets too boring if I hang out on one planet for very long.
I searched for ST to obtain Elite V, following my personal statistics I give some indications :
- on KFM type stars
- ONLY on HMC worlds
- NEVER on moons
- on average I had to visit 1000 systems to find 44 ST and gain 1 Elite rank every 10 days
Its the first foot fall that counts, then even a basic tussock is worth 5m.
I don't bother with anything now that another Cmdr has had first foot fall on, and I find the most fun from hunting out the hard to get to Bio's, I keep on my carrier an A rated Sidewinder (SCO drive) for places that my Asp cannot reach.
Yes, but not everybody finds everything so some bonuses could be up for grabs particularly on lower value better hidden bios.
First mapped can be a red herring, the world might have been mapped before Odyssey or you can still find stuff the harder way without mapping the planet.
Plenty of places have been mapped but have not got first footfall, I was mapping planets and even driving around in SRV for raw mats long before Odyssey.
Yes, I know that you can also find Bio's on planets have had first footfall that have not been discovered before but the OP seems to either trying to earn credits or boost their Exobiology ranking.
A lot of planets have only had stratum sampled leaving everything else.
Often I find multiple star systems where Cmdrs have decided against going to the second star, even when it's less than 1000 ls away.
Often I find multiple star systems where Cmdrs have decided against going to the second star, even when it's less than 1000 ls away.
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Personally, I find K stars produce more Stratum Tectonicas then any other type. I've run several experiments filtering only one type of star at a time and K's come out way ahead of F stars which came in second. Just a small sample size from the Errant Marches Region so who knows how accurate this may be.
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OP, all you want to do is look for High Metal Content Worlds with bio signals. Stratum is likely on them. I see many HMC Worlds when looking through AFGK stars (a good lineup for ELWs, WWs, and Terraformables, too).
I too only look for Stratum because nothing else is really worth my time to land and search for. Stratum is so easy to find, that all of the other options that pay worse, and just lost opportunity cost.
I too only look for Stratum because nothing else is really worth my time to land and search for. Stratum is so easy to find, that all of the other options that pay worse, and just lost opportunity cost.
Since you're required to earn 30.5 Billion to get from Mostly Directionless to Elite V you are pretty much forced to look for the most profitable and easiest to find bios.
| Directionless | 0 |
| Mostly Directionless | 22,500,000 |
| Compiler | 83,475,000 |
| Collector | 210,560,000 |
| Cataloguer | 532,800,000 |
| Taxonomist | 1,144,000,000 |
| Ecologist | 2,262,600,000 |
| Geneticist | 3,996,000,000 |
| Elite | 8,426,250,000 |
| Elite I | 12,969,000,000 |
| Elite II | 17,292,000,000 |
| Elite III | 21,560,000,000 |
| Elite IV | 26,070,000,000 |
| Elite V | 30,553,600,000 |
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There is no requirement or forcing for any achievement in this game.
My Exobiologist rank was achieved just by collecting while exploring and both trade and exploration ranks were upgraded from Elite when they introduced the expanded grade.
Thank you.
I found out that the planet needs to have at least 30% to have the stratum on them so now I glance at that in the system map before flying out to it. I tyested it a few times and it is true, if it has less than 30% (Whatever it is, I am an insomniac going on 36 hours with 4 hours of sleep lol) and you do a suface scan there will be a red X beside Stratum Tectonicas and there will be none on the planet.
It depends on how much of a hurry you are in to be in the situation that the only reason left to do exobiology is because you enjoy it.
I pushed quite hard to reach Elite starting before the rebalance and finishing some time later, at that point I thought to relax and enjoy it more only to find I had reached Elite I almost by accident. Now as the stretch ranks have no great hold on me I intend to still do exobiology but the ‘drive’ will be more Codex based and I doubt I will bother trying to get everything in a system again.