laGrange clouds
- Thread starter Ziggy Stardust
- Start date
It's not just you, I've not found a single NTS yet either.
I have found quite a few varieties of anemones, although I can't scan any of them into the Codex due to the bug.
Mostly finding the normal geologic sites and bark mounds everywhere.
Good info; but a question...
When you enter a system with a Lagrange Cloud, does the upper right panel give the message "Discovered New Signal Source"? I know that message pops up whenever Transient Signals are present, but I don't know about Concentrated Signals (of which Lagrange Clouds are one).
Chek your history tab in the application, you will see it records an event for every composition scan and a feature type for every composition scan, if it lists these, and it keeps them they are recorded somewhere in your computer.
I've given up and will steer the Mamba back towards Jameson. This is pointless.
Mine weren't anywhere near any nebula. Iirc there was a neutron system, a g glass system and either an f or an a.
Other details I can't get to for 2 weeks cos I'm AFK on hols now IRL
Other details I can't get to for 2 weeks cos I'm AFK on hols now IRL
~70KLY so far since patch, not seen one lagrange cloud or anomaly, been actively looking the whole way.
I'm pretty far out went to Hawking's Gap and carried on from there.
It's like much of the galaxy is devoid of discoverables? And perhaps Frontier have just added stuff mainly around certain areas?
I'm pretty far out went to Hawking's Gap and carried on from there.
It's like much of the galaxy is devoid of discoverables? And perhaps Frontier have just added stuff mainly around certain areas?
Last edited:
It sure looks like it.
And of course, the day after I say I'm done looking for those, I find a couple. System added in the repository; it's a red stormy Lagrange Cloud.
Apart from visiting 2 clouds picked up from the Codex I've not seen any either, although I've only done about 30k Ly from and around Colonia. Found 3 or 4 Bio in that time too, it does seem that the further reaches are 'less blessed' than inner regions No worries, I've still got a long way to go before I turn back to the bubble and have a look around thereabouts.
No worries, I've still got a long way to go before I turn back to the bubble and have a look around thereabouts.
I came upon two types in the same cloud yesterday around Asura (metallic stars and rock clumps).I wonder if they are connected or the clouds are like a watering hole for spaceborne 'biologics'.There does seem to be a cluster of signals around the colonia regions.If you're not already scanning them with the composition scanner,do so ,you learn (and earn) more.
Yeah, I get the impression there are some hot-spots, but otherwise most of the biologicals and L-clouds are pretty rare. Which would mean that the quick discoveries in the codex are mainly due to the number of eyeballs that are out there looking. I think this is both a good and bad thing. Good thing in that it should be special/notable when you stumble across something. Bad in that if you want to make a "career" out of it, well, good luck with that.
The problem I'm facing now is that the prevalence of bark mounds over other surface biology, combined with the added time of SC+probing+landing to see if it's something else, means I'll probably only occasionally follow through on that. L-clouds are relatively easy to investigate, so I'll jump on those when they turn up.
Amusingly, that L-cloud I found last week was so soon in my travels, I thought they were a lot more common than they are. But now I'm starting to see part of the reason we have the Codex for this. Your chances of finding these things on your own are quite small. With the entire playerbase, we're getting the Codex filled in pretty quickly. Anyone who wants to see these things for themselves will have a handy list of known places to look, since individually they'll probably never stumble upon much of it.
The problem I'm facing now is that the prevalence of bark mounds over other surface biology, combined with the added time of SC+probing+landing to see if it's something else, means I'll probably only occasionally follow through on that. L-clouds are relatively easy to investigate, so I'll jump on those when they turn up.
Amusingly, that L-cloud I found last week was so soon in my travels, I thought they were a lot more common than they are. But now I'm starting to see part of the reason we have the Codex for this. Your chances of finding these things on your own are quite small. With the entire playerbase, we're getting the Codex filled in pretty quickly. Anyone who wants to see these things for themselves will have a handy list of known places to look, since individually they'll probably never stumble upon much of it.
Last edited:
I'm growing to hate "space bark"....
In my opinion, once we "confirm" something in the Codex manually, our sensors should be tuned to recognize those things from orbit. If my probes returned "Bark Mounds" instead of "Biological" (reserving the latter for undiscovered things), the game of "finding new life" would be much more enjoyable.
Last edited:
Found some gourds living in a gas giant's ring. Asked them for direction to the nearest laGrange cloud. They bleeped and booped in a negative fashion, so they weren't any help either.
Also they didn't want to be picked up by my cargo scoop, but I can respect that.
Also they didn't want to be picked up by my cargo scoop, but I can respect that.
Last edited:
Only found geological POIs since I left Colonia last week...not even one biological and I fully scanned every single system I jumped in...got around 20h of exploration since I left.
Would love if the scanning time of bodies with a lot of POIs would be faster...I had to wait over 30 seconds (when there are over 30 POIs on a planet) in some case before I can see the number & type of POIs that are on a planet.
It's fine that lagrange clouds are rare but would be nice to have more stuff to find with different level of rarity. Actually we have geological POIs that are common, biological that are less common and langrange clouds & anomalies that are extremely rare. No in between.
Found 2 ELW, 7 WW & 2 AW during this time but nothing new (except the Lagrange clouds that are in Colonia system). I have to admit that I was expecting more new stuff to find on planets & in space with 3.3...after 20h of exploration I would have expecte some nice discoveries ^^
Would love if the scanning time of bodies with a lot of POIs would be faster...I had to wait over 30 seconds (when there are over 30 POIs on a planet) in some case before I can see the number & type of POIs that are on a planet.
It's fine that lagrange clouds are rare but would be nice to have more stuff to find with different level of rarity. Actually we have geological POIs that are common, biological that are less common and langrange clouds & anomalies that are extremely rare. No in between.
Found 2 ELW, 7 WW & 2 AW during this time but nothing new (except the Lagrange clouds that are in Colonia system). I have to admit that I was expecting more new stuff to find on planets & in space with 3.3...after 20h of exploration I would have expecte some nice discoveries ^^
Last edited:
AFAIK biological POIs tend to resolve instantly, geological POIs take time to resolve. You can 'cheat' by zooming out and then back in to see what type of geological POI you'll be looking at in the planet list concerning volcanics - geysers, magma etc - and then see if you're interested in going further. Saves you 30 secs of waiting time for the POIs to resolve, as you'll regardless have to probe the planet to get the location of the POIs, or you can spend the time using the FSS to scan another planet instead.
Last edited:
I'd say that seems to be my experience as well... however those with both bios and lots of geos still take time, so it can be worth waiting just in case it has both. (though I generally scan the whole system, then go back into FSS to look at the ones I'm interested in.)
Don't give up
I've spent the last couple of days economy jumping and scanning everything, every type of system, I think it was over 100 systems . Finally got my first biological location for this leg of the trip - I've found space pumpkins and clouds before but as this is a chunk of space with no previous mapping I've been hoping to find something to call my own.
The biological location came up on an icy moon and took ages to resolve due to geological signals - real nice feeling when it came up
marked it and flew there - 325,000 LS so wouldn't have gone over there if not for the new scanner
probed and flew down to the closest bio location to find a site with no chance of landing but at least I could confirm that i had found shard crystals (think thats what they are called) - nothing new but at least new for me. Fly to another site and found a site of Crystal Shards (?) but with Ammonia fumarole mixed in.
Bit of a bonus but there were a ton of crystals that gave Tellurium - I collected about 120 units without a relog and didn't even make a dent in what was available. (Quite happy to supply the location in a couple of days)
I like the new FSS, I get why some don't but today really felt like I found something.
I've spent the last couple of days economy jumping and scanning everything, every type of system, I think it was over 100 systems . Finally got my first biological location for this leg of the trip - I've found space pumpkins and clouds before but as this is a chunk of space with no previous mapping I've been hoping to find something to call my own.
The biological location came up on an icy moon and took ages to resolve due to geological signals - real nice feeling when it came up
marked it and flew there - 325,000 LS so wouldn't have gone over there if not for the new scanner
probed and flew down to the closest bio location to find a site with no chance of landing but at least I could confirm that i had found shard crystals (think thats what they are called) - nothing new but at least new for me. Fly to another site and found a site of Crystal Shards (?) but with Ammonia fumarole mixed in.
Bit of a bonus but there were a ton of crystals that gave Tellurium - I collected about 120 units without a relog and didn't even make a dent in what was available. (Quite happy to supply the location in a couple of days)
I like the new FSS, I get why some don't but today really felt like I found something.
Bio is out there, but not much! In a 30KLy round trip I found 4 sites out of hundreds, it's great when you do though