You have no idea how much time i spent to find all the barnacles i found.
I dont even fully know but would estimate around 3 months solid play 24 hours a day for 3 months, would maybe be a fair estimate. That is just pure eyeballing planet canyon after canyon, system after system, with no idea if there were things there or not.
Still many mysteries, as you do need to visit each site to identify what type of biological or geological it is.
Rather than spend the next 6 months finding 2 or 3 barnacles or a bark mound , we now have the ability to understand much more.
Finding the right systems and planets first of all, not just in areas we know about , but elsewhere, other nebulae.
Why are the barnacles often grouped in pairs, and sometimes pairs group in pairs.
Why only certain systems in certain nebula ?
if we continued on the old method of exploration we would never find any answers as finds are so slow, or random.
Now we can go far into the black to explore distant places , or other nebula with some confidence you will be able to find things there, might not be what you hoped to find, or maybe you find something far more than you expected.
Old method i have visited many nebula, systems, and passed by things nobody knew were there till much later, still many things hiding right under our noses all this time. E.g the Tubers, and other things we dont know of yet.
While in the beta i traveled and explored several nebula nearby i would not normally take the time to visit , due to unlikelyness to find anything. Revisited several nebula nearby i never found things before, and things were there all the time.
Closer to home, the Pleiades.. many of those planets . big ones,, too large to seriously search by eye alone, and even the tiny potatoes, where we had barnacles on both planets each side, but unable to find them there..
.. they are there.
Bark mounds,, thought they were rare as hell, a single system, 2 locations, other nebula had three or four finds. We find them all over the place, sometimes sharing planets with barnacles and other things.
Pumpkins, they were near impossible to find or understand, but now have a good idea about those.
Could be wrong, but they do seem to be always with bark mounds, and if there are no bark mounds there are no pumpkins. I dont think they are directly linked, but rather the pumpkins may need the BM to feed perhaps.
Tubers ,, i have no idea on those, near the core i hear but i presume they should be elsewhere too, with the right criteria.
That lot is just what is currently in game, and has been for ages.
Most were never found by the old method.
Finding a individual site is nice, but understanding why, where and what it is and how we can make use of them and find them elsewhere is far better science.
Some new beta stuff, which seemed to of got taken out after i found a few.
Gotta read the land here,,
seems these were few among many regular ones,
mountainous ones i think they should of all been before redacted
added my comments to the above thread mensioned..
I have no wish to see planet exploring nerfed to what he seems to suggest like a Minor/major geological Minor/major Biological. ( minor major guarian\thargoid\human ? )
then some tuning to see the stuff? that just bats out any nice things like finding their placement to know whats there.