Stumbled on a LaGrange cloud with massive crystal formations last night, and I was pretty far out of the bubble. Can't say if I was near a nebular or not (definitely wasn't in one) and didn't make a note of the system either, but I can say that it was the first spacial anomaly that I've encountered in 500 jumps clear across town... Must be quite rare.
laGrange clouds
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I finally stumbled on something other than bark mounds. I found some tubules, and two systems with brain trees. One of those planets had brain trees, geology, and guardian ruins all on the same planet. The brain trees aren't in the codex for that region, but they wouldn't scan into it. Must be that bug. I tried the ship, fighter, and SRV to do the scans.
I like this idea. Though personally I'd be just as happy with a type count.... As in there are 2 different biology signals here... So you can choose to go visit sites until you find both.
At the risk of creating "grind", perhaps the space scan can get more accurate over samples, so after 10 or 50 composition scand of bark mounds, they're recognised by by the probes scan.
There's probably room for more gameplay too. Perhaps let us zoom into the surface scan and interpret more weird and wonderful representative audio and visual clues that will inform us of the types. So from the FSS you may be able to determine that there's brain trees out there, or magma spouts or whatever. Or just fly there and probe.
Fwiw..... I've found 2 different types of things quite a bit. Two different spikey things in a notable stellar phenomenon, two (I think 3 once) different geological things on a body and two different biology on planet (when i found brain trees (only once) there was also bark mounds in another location.
There's also plenty with only one type.
I was picking the sites at random. More recently I started visiting 1, 2 and 3 in order and seem to find two different types more frequently......pure chance, or something to do with the weird numbering scatter, I don't know.
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Aha, been waiting for that report thanks. I found the first site of these out in NGC sector but so far that's the only location I know, where are you with this site?
Well, I finally found one 
I complete me
I complete me
NOT F41R!!! I'm just waiting for DW2, I'll get up to speed on the expedition.
I'm just waiting for DW2, I'll get up to speed on the expedition.
Funny... I've found three places with crystals during first three or four hours of the trip. So I thought they are pretty common. But not a single one since then (many hours, about 30 kylies so far).
None found in around 250 jumps since the update, and I have been in nebulae and away from them.
Good to see them in the FSS scanner: I'm pretty sure I haven't missed any, then, as I usually double check all signals before I jump.
Ho hum... rarer than ELWs!!
Good to see them in the FSS scanner: I'm pretty sure I haven't missed any, then, as I usually double check all signals before I jump.
Ho hum... rarer than ELWs!!
Yeah, I was looking for new objectives that go along the FSS. Just hunting for lagrange clouds, the hit ratio is too small to keep me occupied in between finds. The POIs on planet surfaces all seem to be a variety of fields of X. Thos haven't captured my imagination either.
Well, I tried. A satisfying way to explore that suits me using the new system still eludes me. Looks like I'll be unbolting the HOTAS from the comfy chair and go for a bit of a swim Subnautica style.
Well, I tried. A satisfying way to explore that suits me using the new system still eludes me. Looks like I'll be unbolting the HOTAS from the comfy chair and go for a bit of a swim Subnautica style.
Yeah, I was looking for new objectives that go along the FSS. Just hunting for lagrange clouds, the hit ratio is too small to keep me occupied in between finds. The POIs on planet surfaces all seem to be a variety of fields of X. Thos haven't captured my imagination either.
Well, I tried. A satisfying way to explore that suits me using the new system still eludes me. Looks like I'll be unbolting the HOTAS from the comfy chair and go for a bit of a swim Subnautica style.
But, keeping things in the perspective - now you at least CAN find all the game has to offer and now there is more to be found than before. Finding geysers was a really time consuming task even after we learned about searching through gliding. I found like 10 spots altogether, all on very small moons to keep the search area small. Searching a large planet... NO WAY, I have a life.
I kinda like the fact that some things are really rare. Not "spend a week in one system searching" kinda rare but not to find them all over.
Not all, unfortunately. The Codex doesn't include generation ships, INRA outposts and the like - which are some of, if not The, best hand-crafted content in the game. For those, you still need to look them up on third-party sites, or spend a lot of time looking near the bubble - not all of which have any hints leading to them.
So sure, you can technically find them, but an average player who didn't make a career out of finding them and also didn't use external sources, most likely wouldn't find even one, let alone most of them. In my opinion, it's odd that Frontier didn't include these in the Codex.
Funny... I've found three places with crystals during first three or four hours of the trip. So I thought they are pretty common. But not a single one since then (many hours, about 30 kylies so far).
Same thing happened to me. I found proto-L-clouds the day after 3.3 went live. Not one since, other than the ones I've been targeting from the Codex. And now I've gone about 164 kly (though a huge bulk of that is neutron boosting).
Agree on all accounts
It sure is a hell of a lot better to look for POIs, and lagrange clouds being as rare as they are is also as it should be.But after a couple of dozens of POIs, which are all fields of somethings, the novelty did wear off. So there's no filling in between the langrange discoveries. Which I regret, since finding a proto-cloud was a lot of fun. But seeing how many systems I had to go through to find one, finding another would just be too much of a chore.
At least I got one for my bucketlist
Yeah that's something I've been struggling with. On one hand it's frustrating not to find cool new things after a couple of weeks, while having the Codex telling you of all the cool new things other people are finding. But on the other hand, these things should be rare, so that they really stand out when you do find them eventually. I have to keep reminding myself that rare can be good.
Well, I finally found one
I complete me
Or two. Been finding mixes of green and purple metallic crystals too. Might even find some of those electrical anomalies along the edges. They're a little hard to spot though. First time I've kind of considered seeing if A grade sensors might be the way to go because their detection range seems to be pretty small.
Well, I finally found one
I complete me
But that's not a Lagrange Cloud ... or has the conversation moved on from that? I've found these in the Bubble, but no clouds and lightning !
I've seen all three together in HIP 15310.
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When I started the thread I thought all of these were in some kind of cloud. Spacey floaty freaky stuff in deep space which are noteable would be a better description.
I gave up about a week ago after a 20000Ly trip to heart and soul then out to the bubble nebula then back home. In a 40ly ship, scanned and honked everything I jumped to and other then a bunch of bark mounds and geologicals, I haven't found anything of note. So I mined 1 billion credits in 3 days then logged out and played other games. Been playing this game with Frontier who seem to get some perverse joy out of seeing people fly around fruitlessly. My time is far more valuable than wasting it on a fools errand. Us "explorers" are really just tourists that visit already discovered sites. That is what exploration means to the majority of players. I've had enough of that. Not even sure if I want to go on DW2 anymore, that is how depressing this is
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I must be really lucky, I found a LaGrange cloud and some spiky crystals without even looking for them - BUT I haven't seen a single stellar phenomena signal after getting out of the bubble. Now I'm not sure if they are even supposed to spawn this far out.