Just how common are biological signals supposed to be?

[RedSwirl]

It feels like I'm finding planets with biological signals every other system I jump to. I didn't really expect them to be that common. I grab most all of them unless they're orbiting the other star of a wide binary or something (unless there's also an earthlike or water world over there).

The latest system I jumped into has eight bodies with biological systems on them. A brown dwarf in this system has 11 moons, seven of which have biological signals. Each one of those has at least four signals, and one of the moons has nine. Then there's one other planet (I think) with biological signals. What even is the highest number of different species anyone has found on one body?

 

[Anticon]

AFAIK, highest is ten. And I've never come across a system as bountiful as yours, so get on with it! I find plenty of systems devoid of any bio at all.

 

[varonica]

AFAIK, highest is ten. And I've never come across a system as bountiful as yours, so get on with it! I find plenty of systems devoid of any bio at all.

Same here, 10 is the maximum I have found, I think I've found about 4 planets with 10 bio signals.

 

[Leif_Erikson]

Also ten and scanned them all. Nine were easy finds but to find three Osseus species took over an hour and a half.

 

[varonica]

Also ten and scanned them all. Nine were easy finds but to find three Osseus species took over an hour and a half.
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Same as my last one with 10, 9 really easy to find, just the one really difficult even though it supposedly covered half the planet. They were there, but just very widely spread out individual plants, had to fly along for ages to spot them, and they were also Osseus funnily enough.

 

[RedSwirl]

Upon further investigation this seems to be the ideal system for exobiology. All of the moons are tidally locked to the brown dwarf so if I land somewhere in the daylight I won't run out of daylight, not for a while anyway until its orbit around the brown dwarf turns it away from the real sun, which seems to take multiple days at least. I don't really understand day/night cycles on moons.

The other thing though is that as soon as I land on each moon, all the biological samples are pretty much all over the place. On the one with nine samples the last one took a bit longer to find but that's all really.

 

[varonica]

I don't really understand day/night cycles on moons

It's simple really, treat the brown dwarf as a planet because essentially it provides no light to the planet surface so disregard that, lighting for the planet only comes from the main star, so line up with the main star between you and the moon and that will be the daylight side. If your moon is tidally locked and takes 30 days to orbit the parent, that's how long one rotation of the moon takes, so the day will be 30 days long, unless you pass behind the parent body so it's between you and the sun, then you will be in the dark as that's an eclipse.

If the moon has a rotation period not tidally locked then that's how long the day is, you can essentially ignore the parent body of the moon except for eclipses.