Please add at least several geological formations to any planet with geo activity. Looking at Earth or even Europa having a single spot is highly unlikely.
More than one geo location on a planet
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Try more like the Moon or Enceladus... Your examples are planets with atmospheres and we can't currently land on them.
Although I'm curious what the limit for such RNG instances are, especially when you consider how much traffic we can see from NPCs alone in a solo/private group instance. I agree it's unlikely it would only be one and more than that would mean a better chance of seeing a tourist spot from orbit.
are these geo-formations volcanism (geysers, magma and such) by any chance?
because if that's the case then....Rep Rep Rep +++
I strongly agree in that case, and with the Earth there isn't just one type, we have geysers and magma (as well as other things I am sure)
I have spent many countless hours (well over 24 in the past week and a half) trying to find these things with no success, apparently they are limited to a max of three per body. to have that number increase would be to drastically increase my odds of success!!
because if that's the case then....Rep Rep Rep +++
I strongly agree in that case, and with the Earth there isn't just one type, we have geysers and magma (as well as other things I am sure)
I have spent many countless hours (well over 24 in the past week and a half) trying to find these things with no success, apparently they are limited to a max of three per body. to have that number increase would be to drastically increase my odds of success!!
are these geo-formations volcanism (geysers, magma and such) by any chance?
because if that's the case then....Rep Rep Rep +++
I strongly agree in that case, and with the Earth there isn't just one type, we have geysers and magma (as well as other things I am sure)
I have spent many countless hours (well over 24 in the past week and a half) trying to find these things with no success, apparently they are limited to a max of three per body. to have that number increase would be to drastically increase my odds of success!!
The maximum number of volcanic sites so far found on one body is 14, I suggest that's not an absolute maximum either, but it will be round that number, probably not more than 20 per small body. The 14 were found on a small moon less than 200km in radius, Hyadum I 2 a. Here is a rough location map, The red V's are volcanic sites, the horizontal and vertical numbers are lat and lon, just add a 0, so 18 would be 180. It's accurate enough to bring you within discovery range with the radar set to max range and linear;
Full co-ordinates and pictures of each site can be found in the album if you want to check further;
https://imgur.com/a/alLzh
The smallest number can be down to three or lower, I have explored the moon Coltan in the Dahan system that has only two volcanic sites. To increase your chances of finding sites look on small moons, 300km radius or smaller is probably best, if the sites are limited in max number then you have a much higher chance of finding them on a small moon than a large one, also make sure that the moon or planet you are exploring has "MAJOR" vulcanism, not "MINOR", while this doesn't appear in the system map it is listed in the journal, generally moons or planets with an orbital period of less than 1 second will have major vulcanism. I am pretty sure that major and minor are linked to the number of sites per body, with shorter orbital period bodies having more. Also note that vulcanism can't be spotted from orbit or SC, you need to be in glide mode to spot the blue POI associated with the minerals that gather around volcanic vents and normal space to actually see the smoke and fire from the volcanic site.
Good luck hunting and pop over to the vulcanism thread in the exploration sub-forum for more info.
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I've only recently heard of glide method for finding vulcanism (thank you all for understanding this is what I meant by geological formations). I've never found any form of vulcanism so I mean to test this out ASAP after this recent CG ends.
Wow, fantastic find with the graph! you can see there are more average sites around the equator (which kinda makes sense as it is usually the warmest point as well as having the most strain from gravitational forces)
Wait, you were exploring coltan as well?! I was too hahaha!! you where 2 sites more successful than I though
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Wow, fantastic find with the graph! you can see there are more average sites around the equator (which kinda makes sense as it is usually the warmest point as well as having the most strain from gravitational forces)
Wait, you were exploring coltan as well?! I was too hahaha!! you where 2 sites more successful than I though
Ah yes, but it took me more than a week and more than 50,000kms traveled in real space to do it, so don't think you have failed, Coltan was a ludicrously hard moon to search, the sites don't seem to be associated with any major landmarks so the only way to find them was to fly over the entire moon at around 450mps. There are only two sites on Coltan, I have replied to your PM with details
Thanks for this information. This to me sounds like a limitation with the game engine. I'll keep this in mind when I'm ready to start looking for such instances for the tourist shots.
Well not sure there, I think the game engine will support as many per planet as we want, after all it is the same engine used for planet coaster and have a look at some of the details in planet coaster parks. The problem I think is that these features are not randomly generated, they are in fixed location, so for every volcanic planet out there around 400b stars any player going to the same planet will find the volcanism in the same place (barring bugs of course) so therefore this information may be stored rather than procedurally generated and loaded each time the system I entered. If it isn't procedurally generated then the limitation could be one of data storage rather than generation. If we had only a relatively few systems like some space games we might have a lot more stuff on planets. Of course only FDEV know the actual info, just wish they could be a bit more open with it.
Varonica, you wrote about moons with orbital period of 1 second. Was that actually meant 1 second?
He he, did I say second? I meant one day, such silly mistakes, so easy to make. One day or less, I think there is only one moon we can count in seconds, and that's Mitterand Hollow in Epsilon Indi system with an orbital period of I think 90 seconds around New Africa. Now that's a place well worth visiting, but don't try chasing it, got to let it come around and hit you in the face!
But it takes soooo loooong to come around!