Mic Turner Base and the bark mounds

[Val Sylvana]

I've just been out to the California Nebula for the first time since before Odyssey, but I seem to remember the tourist beacon and bark mounds used to be right next to Mic Turner Base in Horizons. Now, the planet seems to be devoid of bark mounds, though the beacon is still there on the other side of the planet, and there are Thargoid barnacle sites everywhere.

I don't keep up with all the tin-foil hat stuff, but do Thargoids somehow convert bark mounds into barnacles, or is there maybe some other connection?

 

[metatheurgist]

That sounds like a really bad Australian band name.

But you're not wrong, this is how it looked liked around Mic Turner.

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[Florenus]

I don't keep up with all the tin-foil hat stuff, but do Thargoids somehow convert bark mounds into barnacles, or is there maybe some other connection?

Odyssey just places those biological (and geological) signals differently - they're not concentrated in POIs (like thargoid barnacles), but spread around the planet.
In Odyssey many tourist beacons that pointed to some POI's no longer make much sense, since f.ex ice geysers that were there in Horizons in large number around the tourist beacon, are gone and you must look for them if you actually want to see them. I suppose the same is true for bark mounds.

 

[Val Sylvana]

Odyssey just places those biological (and geological) signals differently - they're not concentrated in POIs (like thargoid barnacles), but spread around the planet.
In Odyssey many tourist beacons that pointed to some POI's no longer make much sense, since f.ex ice geysers that were there in Horizons in large number around the tourist beacon, are gone and you must look for them if you actually want to see them. I suppose the same is true for bark mounds.

Oh yeah, I know bio/geo stuff is distributed all over in Odyssey, and it would be a fluke if they were still next to the starport. I did DSS the planet, and there don't seem to be bark mounds at all any more, no heatmap for them despite the "Mic Turner Bark Mounds" tourist beacon still being there. I think the Thargoid presence is recent, and didn't remember barnacles last time I out was there. So I just had this weird idea that maybe they convert bark mounds into those, being a similar kind of shape and all.

 

[Florenus]

Oh yeah, I know bio/geo stuff is distributed all over in Odyssey, and it would be a fluke if they were still next to the starport. I did DSS the planet, and there don't seem to be bark mounds at all any more, no heatmap for them despite the "Mic Turner Bark Mounds" tourist beacon still being there. I think the Thargoid presence is recent, and didn't remember barnacles last time I out was there. So I just had this weird idea that maybe they convert bark mounds into those, being a similar kind of shape and all.

Oh, I see. It's weird bark mounds are completely gone in Odyssey.
Your theory is interesting and I prefer it to my suspicion that its just a bug (or oversight if they were f.ex placed by hand in Horizons and nobody thought to do that with Odyssey). It doesn't mean that it might not become true, once Fdev notice and someone decides to explain it somehow.