Marx's guide to exobiology

[marx]

Hello. I'm exploring and just by pure chance, I'm near a zone with 3 diferent systems: COL 359 SECTOR, SWOIWNS, and SYNUEFAI. Are those zones on the edge of "cubes" better to find exobiology ? Thanks and regards.

Depends on what you mean by "better to find exobiology": more valuable species, giving more credits? Or a larger number of species, so more variety of stuff to see?
In the first case, you'll want to go down to the level of boxels, not the entire sectors. (Not that the Col 359 Sector isn't an entire sector, but a spherical name override.)
In the second case, you'll want to look at galactic regions instead. Luckily for you, out of the 90 Odyssey species, 76 can be found in the bubble's region (the Inner Orion Spur), so you're in the right place for that.

 

[Nowski]

Hi, does anyone know if the data used for Canonn's Bioforge pages is kept up to date?

Reason for asking: I found Lindigoticum Brain Trees on a thin atmosphere (SO2) world, and the Bioforge brain tree data only shows them occurring on "no atmosphere" bodies (unlike other Brain Trees), so I wondered if it's worth letting them know, and if so who/how.

Edit: Nevermind, managed to find their discord, so asking on there instead.

 

[CMDR Ahlos]

2 questions.

1. Is it still paying 100% on fleet carrier or how is that today when selling to Vista genomics?

2. To get the "first discovery" bonus of 5x payout of a plant/bacterium, is it only with first footfall and scanning that stuff, or is it disapear with planet scan?
i wounder that becouse, i use exploration buddy, and there it says if biology is first discovery or not, but sometimes there is no first footfall on the planet, and only surface scanned planet.

 

[Shadowsnog]

2 questions.

1. Is it still paying 100% on fleet carrier or how is that today when selling to Vista genomics?

as far as i know carriers still dont take the cut on vista genomics

2. To get the "first discovery" bonus of 5x payout of a plant/bacterium, is it only with first footfall and scanning that stuff, or is it disapear with planet scan?
i wounder that becouse, i use exploration buddy, and there it says if biology is first discovery or not, but sometimes there is no first footfall on the planet, and only surface scanned planet.

you have to set your foot on the planet to scan the plant. so usually first discoveries on bios and first footfall go hand in hand.
however not every cmdr scans all the bios every time they make first footfall (me including) so there are planets that have been visited but still have undiscovered bios.
scans from ship dont affect first discovery on bio scan. ship/srv scan logs the bio into codex, thats all.

 

[CMDR Ahlos]

as far as i know carriers still dont take the cut on vista genomics

you have to set your foot on the planet to scan the plant. so usually first discoveries on bios and first footfall go hand in hand.
however not every cmdr scans all the bios every time they make first footfall (me including) so there are planets that have been visited but still have undiscovered bios.
scans from ship dont affect first discovery on bio scan. ship/srv scan logs the bio into codex, thats all.

Thanks!

 

[K Olley]

2. To get the "first discovery" bonus of 5x payout of a plant/bacterium,

You have to be the first to scan 3 samples, If a planet has had first footfall and you take a single scan of a Bio then look at the Organic information for the planet in the system map it will show the Bio information and if it has been scanned and reported the Cmdr's name will be shown, if no name then get the other two scans and the bonus is yours.

There are some that only go after the easy to get or a certain stratum and leave the rest.

 

[ZeusCubed3]

Hallo.
A quick question, if this is the right place.

I have recently passed from Horizon on Xbox to Odissey on PC.

In this new version I find many alien life forms, but I never found againg the old fashioned bar mounds and brain trees.

Are they still around?

 

[marx]

Yes, they are, in the same places as they were before. There is one significant exception there though: bark mounds now require surface volcanism. This new requirement makes them much less frequent around the nebulae where they do appear.

 

[o7]

Hello. I found a landable planet with atmosphere (no terraformable), brain threes and stratum. It's the first time I see that. It is rare ? Thanks and regards.

 

[marx]

Yep, it is. The original Horizons bios can spawn on atmospheric worlds, but they only do so rarely. So hey, congrats on your find!

 

[o7]

Thank you for your quick response, and your guides. Then, this planet becomes a target to create a scientific base with the new colonization thing . Oh! I recently found a system with mass "E" (trying to understand the guide of the "cubes") near the bubble, and I was very excited but there was only one T Tauri star...

 

[Deamawa]

Brain trees are rare. Stratum not. Congrats

 

[g0oglyeyes]

Hypothetically, let's say I'm going for Elite V in exo. What do I actually do with all those billions upon billions of cr? It's burning a hole in my Bank of Zaonce account.

 

[K Olley]

Hypothetically, let's say I'm going for Elite V in exo. What do I actually do with all those billions upon billions of cr? It's burning a hole in my Bank of Zaonce account.

I passed that milestone a couple of years ago, I have not worked out that answer either but now have over 175 years carrier rent in the bank

 

[Deamawa]

I passed that milestone a couple of years ago, I have not worked out that answer either but now have over 175 years carrier rent in the bank

Or thousends of ships, but you have only one bottom.

 

[marx]

Personally, I've spent billions paying people extra to load my carrier with colonization cargo. That saved me a good deal of time.

 

[Deamawa]

Had an strage accident in the Kyloash Sector. Was busy to make some exobiology and I was near a metorid. I tought lets take a look and fired at him. Divers crops are inside: Niobium, carbon, Tellurium. Ok, I need a bit Niobium, openend the Cargo scoop and drove above. Next thing happened the SRV exploded. I had enough fuel (abt.60%) What
in hell is happened? Does someone know? I play ED since 2017 never had this before.

 

[marx]

That's rather off-topic here, but the journals might help figuring it out. Could have been some wonky collision bug, and probably worth contacting support to restore your stuff then.

 

[Taccitus Kilgore]

Hi Marx, I started following your guide to finding ELW's a while back, and ironically while doing so (filtering A/F stars with 7-9 luminosity and a "d" mass code) I kept hitting jackpot after jackpot on amazing systems for bios, including one with 60 bios... so now I'm trying to piece together if there's a correlation between mass code, luminosity and likelihood of biological signals.

Is there any correlation that you know of? I've had such good luck within these parameters that I still use them.

 

[marx]

There are 90 Odyssey bios, and their requirements are diverse enough that if you wanted to go for all of them, the ranges would still be too large. So the question is, what are you looking for? Most diversity? Better general diversity? Most bucks? The best-paying Thin Water atmos? Well, on the latter, I did write research, see this thread.

In general though, what you're looking at should already offer a very good balance, as you've seen. I could offer some advice like expanding into mass code E, mostly for class B stars and neutron stars, going for G stars too (at the very least those in mass code D), giant stars, carbon stars, galactic core and so on and so forth, but... if it works pretty well, would it really matter?
Rather, I'd just recommend that you do what you've been doing, and look around the galaxy map in realistic mode from time to time, and if you see some stars stand out visually, especially if it's with how bright they are, then go check them out too.