no materials on many planets

[Q GT70]

re: Horizons materials via meteorites


I just wanted to ask if fdev is aware that the material generation is toast on lots of planets and seems to be getting worse as in more damaged planets every day..

seems like any body that once had good materials that has since been visited by EDO players gets nerfed.

in horizons when I land, the area I am in is the only place that will generate meteors. drive outside that area and nothing.

this has ruined a lot of good planets.
if you were not aware hunting materials by geo only is a joke and always has been. nothing wrong with it as far as I am concerned, but its a limited amount at each site and so you have to keep moving back and forth into ship, into srv..etc.
A huge waste of time when it comes to selenium.
I have done this enough times to know that it is soo much faster and less aggrevating to just find meteors to break open.

please fix these planets so we can drive around and find meteors like normal.

 

[varonica]

in horizons when I land, the area I am in is the only place that will generate meteors. drive outside that area and nothing.

They are instanced drops, so they generate when you drop in to the planetary instance but only appear a certain distance away from the player. If you drive outside the instanced area they will eventually appear but not right away. I have driven a long way in Odyssey and still found meteorites, outcrops and mesidorites etc, but you can't just keep driving at full speed in one direction or they appear behind you and you never see them.

A huge waste of time when it comes to selenium.

Normally you just harvest until grade 5 mats are full then go to material traders and trade for the harder to find stuff, of course not much help outside the bubble but that's what most players do.

 

[Q GT70]

well aware of materials instancing in all its forms in this game.
I have over 29mm in the srv in one of my accounts...very good at finding materials and very good in srv.
fwiw there are many vids on youtube by me on how to srv and how to find mats and how to read the scanner(sonar) created when horizons came out as I spent soooo much time and effort finding and noting good planets long before any fixes or changes we all saw.


and In this situation I took 3 of my accounts to my fav selenium planet on a carrier because of its distance.

the first account is the only one with EDO, and EDO itself took away from this planet and replaced what was there with a lot of new geo sites.

upon using my other non EDO accounts here is where I see that all this planet now has is the area you land at or the geo sites.
in all my next days of testing, this happened. destroyed every planet I landed at.

even months later I go there and only where I land works.
you can drive for hours and relog all you want, nothing appears.
you have to recall ship , get in, lift off and land again for it to generate meteors again. or go back to the tiny area you landed at originally. even then it still usually needs a relog first.


this is in the bubble just over 200kls out is all
normally I can go and get 50 selenium in 1-2 hours

between all my accounts I have found 2, so I got 6 selenium. that is more than 4 hours a day at least once a week trying this planet.

 

[varonica]

you can drive for hours and relog all you want, nothing appears.

Not true at all, I have driven a long way on Odyssey planets and deposits appear all the time, the other day after driving a fair distance I had 3 meteorites all appear within viewing distance of each other. Now it may be true of you, I won't discount that, but it's not true for everyone and that is a demonstrable fact.

 

[Q GT70]

I think you are missing the point.
I am telling you this is what I see.
I tried to indicate a certain level of my history and experience, so its seems being contrary is the topic instead of the issue.
to say its not true, then maybe just not to me is the point, and to second guess someone on what they experience is not very friendly or useful.
and the whole point once again is there is a bug, it is a very destructive bug.

it is perfectly normal on lots of planets.

but, many are toast now and more are becoming toast.

I can recreate the effect on any planet that isn't already screwed.

just because it is working 100% for you as you should conclude, is not the same for everyone.

I am sure we are all happy you are not affected.

more important to this particular bug, do you own EDH and EDO as separate accounts thererby being able to even test what I have said?