MattG's Observatory plugins
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I finished a new PC and installed EDO yesterday. I used Codex Companion a couple of years ago and moved it over to my new system. I have v0.23.93.708 and was wondering if this has been updated in the past two years since I got it.
This is not listed on the below website, so I thought I would ask in this forum thread.
https://edjp.colacube.net/observatory
This is not listed on the below website, so I thought I would ask in this forum thread.
https://edjp.colacube.net/observatory
It's changed a lot, and is now built in to BioInsights - it's the 4th button (I think!) in the BioInsights UI
Okay and thanks for the response!
Here's a question about BioInsight 1.2.1.3043, and the Valuable Bodies settings.
What is "Minimum Base Value"? It suggests there's something called a Base Value, but I can't make out what that is. (An attempt to avoid having value and bonus as separate entities?)
What is "Individual Biological Value"? The payout from Vista Genomics for just one set of samples? (Can't involve bonus as that value is adjusted later by the user ...)
How do they work? Individually, i.e. if at least one of the two critiera matches, the body is considered valuable? Or together, i.e. both critiera must match for the body to be classed as valuable?
Can I disable one of the criteria, and so remove it from consideration? (Or do I need to set some impossibly high criterium that can't be matched for that?)
What is "Minimum Base Value"? It suggests there's something called a Base Value, but I can't make out what that is. (An attempt to avoid having value and bonus as separate entities?)
What is "Individual Biological Value"? The payout from Vista Genomics for just one set of samples? (Can't involve bonus as that value is adjusted later by the user ...)
How do they work? Individually, i.e. if at least one of the two critiera matches, the body is considered valuable? Or together, i.e. both critiera must match for the body to be classed as valuable?
Can I disable one of the criteria, and so remove it from consideration? (Or do I need to set some impossibly high criterium that can't be matched for that?)
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Base Value is the value of the biological excluding any First Logged bonus. BioInsights standardizes on this as it is not possible to accurately know if a biological will receive the First Logged bonus. It shows both the Base Value and the First Logged value of bios in the Codex Companion section.
Minimum Base Value is the pessimistic sum of the base value of predicted genuses based on the number of bio signals on the body. If a body has 2 bios and BioInsights predicts a Bacteria at 1m, a Bacteria at 1.8m, a Concha at 7.7m, a Concha at 19m and a Stratum at 19m the minimum base value will be (1 + 7.7) = 8.7m
Individual Biological Value is the most valuable species of those used to calculate the minimum base value. In the above example, this would be the Concha at 7.7m. Assuming the predictions are correct, there has to be a bio worth at least 7.7m on the body.
If either criteria is met, the body will be flagged "High Value". Either criteria can be disabled by setting them to zero.
Minimum Base Value is the pessimistic sum of the base value of predicted genuses based on the number of bio signals on the body. If a body has 2 bios and BioInsights predicts a Bacteria at 1m, a Bacteria at 1.8m, a Concha at 7.7m, a Concha at 19m and a Stratum at 19m the minimum base value will be (1 + 7.7) = 8.7m
Individual Biological Value is the most valuable species of those used to calculate the minimum base value. In the above example, this would be the Concha at 7.7m. Assuming the predictions are correct, there has to be a bio worth at least 7.7m on the body.
If either criteria is met, the body will be flagged "High Value". Either criteria can be disabled by setting them to zero.
Thanks! The explanation of 'Individual Biological Value' cleared the thing up: I could not think of a reasonable explanation for it, and that probably spread to the other terms as my brain went for a topspin. It also explains why I couldn't make any of my attempts at setting a criterion work as I expected.
Ideally, of course, your explanation should not be needed. But ... that may be easier said than done. (It seems desirable to keep the word 'value' for the separate samples, and not reuse it for the sum of them and so confuse it.
'Minimum Base value' need to show that it is a sum of several values. "Sum of lowest possible values" seems slightly better, but is still weird. "together worth at least" might be another possibility. 'Pessimistic full payout' ?
'individual Biological Value' is more diffucult. I'd like to get rid of the word 'biological' entirely as it adds nothing to the actual meaning, and also the word 'individual' assuming that the term 'value' always is used for a single sample. 'Max lowest possible value' might do if 'sum of lowest possible values' was used. 'Best pessimistic single sample payout' ?
'Pessimistic' might be replaced with 'Guaranteed'.
Tricky.
You can't guarantee that any of the predicted species is actually there. Sure BI is nearly perfect, but that's not enough to guarantee anything.
True, so scratch that.
Hello! long time observatory and bio-insight user! I recommend it to ever new biologist going out into the black as 100% essential. If I could add any feature request it would be that alongside the lovely pictures of every lifeform, maybe have a little blurb about how to best find it? Like "mostly found in rocky mountainous area" or "easy to find on most flat terrain". I think it would help so so many new players who struggle to find samples before they start to memorize where things like to grow.
I've released small updates to BioInsights, Evaluator and AstroAnalytica that fixes a theming issue experienced by a small handful of people.
I've also added an option to have the "bodies still to map" persistent notification always shown while there are still bodies marked "worth mapping" (instead of just in DSS). You can also adjust it's position.
If you've not turned off auto-updates, you should get them soon. Otherwise, they're available here
I've also added an option to have the "bodies still to map" persistent notification always shown while there are still bodies marked "worth mapping" (instead of just in DSS). You can also adjust it's position.
If you've not turned off auto-updates, you should get them soon. Otherwise, they're available here
Here's a odd thing I've just noticed after running into a couple of systems with more than 12 planetary bodies.
When the notification voice says something like 'body 13 C has ...' there's some kind of glitch in the pronunciation of 'thirteen' (or perhaps the space immediately after it). It sound a bit like a old-style gramophone record click. It's not a major problem -- at least it's not more irritating than to have to listen to 8 repetition of 'body 13 A|B|C...'. But there's something there that probably shouldn't be.
As far as I can tell, Core voice settings are all default
When the notification voice says something like 'body 13 C has ...' there's some kind of glitch in the pronunciation of 'thirteen' (or perhaps the space immediately after it). It sound a bit like a old-style gramophone record click. It's not a major problem -- at least it's not more irritating than to have to listen to 8 repetition of 'body 13 A|B|C...'. But there's something there that probably shouldn't be.
As far as I can tell, Core voice settings are all default