High Metal Content bodies

Gandalf06

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Hi All
Been making my (slow) way to Colonia in my not very engineered, shortish jump range Python (about 25). Anyway had decided to fully scan every undiscovered system on the way and have noticed a large increase in the incidence of high metal content bodies as I've been going along. I'm sure that when I started out they weren't very prevalent but now there seems to be lots of them.

Has anyone else noticed this? Don't think it's the particular area I'm in, this seems to have been going on a while..

Regards
G
 

Aura Lorell

Aura Lorell
Can't say I noticed something like that in the past year and a half. I'm also fairly certain that the stellar forge has not changed. Could it be perhaps that they've changed looks in the system map and when you scan them you now notice them?
 

Gandalf06

G
Rhea Lorell said:
Can't say I noticed something like that in the past year and a half. I'm also fairly certain that the stellar forge has not changed. Could it be perhaps that they've changed looks in the system map and when you scan them you now notice them?
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Hi, no don't think it's that, because as I said I'm scanning everything in a system. I only look at the system map to check that it's undiscovered. Perhaps it's my memory not being what it used to be.... :D
Regards
G
 

Fanghur Rahl

Fanghur Rahl
I'm not sure about HMC worlds, but one thing I have noticed fairly recently is that the number of Metal-Rich Worlds seems to have dropped off, or at least metal-rich worlds that look molten (i.e. black and red).
 

Aura Lorell

Aura Lorell
Fanghur Rahl said:
I'm not sure about HMC worlds, but one thing I have noticed fairly recently is that the number of Metal-Rich Worlds seems to have dropped off, or at least metal-rich worlds that look molten (i.e. black and red).
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Since it's random it's plausible that you just hit less in your trips recently. Because it's random, the values can hit maximums and minimums and seem like there is a pattern emerging but that's not the case. However, over time (or systems visited) randomness tends to balance towards average values. Again, as far as I know the stellar forge has not changed, so it's probably just the systems you've seen.
 

Fanghur Rahl

Fanghur Rahl
Maybe. The number of bodies that look like that doesn't seem to have changed, only what they are called. But again, I could be mistaken.
 

LP Garnell

LP Garnell
I don't have enough data to nail it down purely by stastics, but my personal anecdotal experience is that there IS a difference in stellar forge-generated content between sectors and within sectors (subsectors, or "boxels" as some are calling them now).

Just finished scanning every D mass star system in a boxel, total of 225. All but a very few had nothing but the common ice, MR and .4g+ HMC planets or none at all. Neighboring boxels were quite different. BTW, thats why I did the entire boxel: looking for terraformable planets.
 

Reido

Reido
Gandalf06 said:
Hi All
Been making my (slow) way to Colonia in my not very engineered, shortish jump range Python (about 25). Anyway had decided to fully scan every undiscovered system on the way and have noticed a large increase in the incidence of high metal content bodies as I've been going along. I'm sure that when I started out they weren't very prevalent but now there seems to be lots of them.

Has anyone else noticed this? Don't think it's the particular area I'm in, this seems to have been going on a while..

Regards
G
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As others have mentioned, the Galaxy has a certain amount of "clumpyness" to it, but it's also layered as well. It could be that you're rising or sinking away from the Brown Dwarf layer that's near the center line.

Plus, as you move closer to to the core the overall density increases and you should be seeing systems where there is more matter available to create denser planets like HMC's and Metal-Rich bodies.

There's also the density of the spiral arms to take into account as you go across each one and pass through dense and less dense regions.


Reido, (CMDR Andrew Reid)
 

Gandalf06

G
Hi All
Thanks for the replies, I'll try and keep a closer track of where in the galaxy I am and more carefully correlate what I'm discovering.
Regards
G
 
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