Question about srv resource collection

Ghillan

Ghillan
Even if i've been player ED for 6 months, just recently discovered in a video about srv collecting from meteorites and outcrops, but i didn't really understood how it works.

I usually surface scan the planets with geological poi, land and collect with srv, but never came at one of those so I'm starting to wonder if those are found on landable planets but without POIs, but then how i'm supposed to know where to land? how practicallyknow if a landable planet have any of those ( dont want circumnavigate a moon in an srv just to discover there's NOTHING ), and in case there is something to grab, how i'm supposed to know where to land? I undertand how srv radar works, but i'll rather not drive hundreds of kilometers .... :p

While I'm here, there another thing i never found an answer ... does sensor engineering improve also SRV sensors?

Tnx in advance.
 

Ghillan

Ghillan
Factabulous said:
Anywhere a few km away from POI can spawn them - they are RNG
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So its still around POI's, and there's no reason to land on planet without geological POI's.
Wondering how came I never seen one .. are they quite uncommon, or its just bad luck on my side?

btw, thanks for the reply
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Even without POI's (which might be crashed ships or nav beacons or marooned SRV's or little mining installations or cache's of cargo protected by skimmers or all sorts of other things) planet surfaces are littered with outcrops, meteorite's, chondrite's etc which can be detected by your wavescanner. Check out the following website which illustrates the different signals that each type of surface feature produces.

Elite Dangerous: Horizons Wave Scanner Object Identifier [Animated]

www.wavescanner.net www.wavescanner.net

Basically just follow the signals on your scanner - they'll start out vague and then solidify into a definite signal as you get closer before a dot marking the item itself finally appears on your radar. With the outcrops and chondrite's and thing just just them and they'll break up into chunks of material like iron, nickel, tin, etc which can be used for synthesis and engineering.
 

Ghillan

Ghillan
I understood the part of following signals in SRV, what i'm missing how works before that:

It means that ANY landable planet have them? And no mater where i land on the planet , i'll find them close enough to be reachable by srv's?
There's no way to find them while i'm still on my ship, to be able to land close enough ? What's puzzling me its that unless they are literally spread everywhere ( i never bothered to check planets without POI's), its not very practical "blindly" land on a planet hoping to see a crop or meteorite exactly there.

in the end.. how time consuming is finding them? its worth doing or its just better move on and find a geo POI with the mineral yours looking for? ( obviously unless you are absolutely in dire need of them )
 

Zieman

Zieman
Ghillan said:
It means that ANY landable planet have them? And no mater where i land on the planet , i'll find them close enough to be reachable by srv's?
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Yes.

Ghillan said:
its not very practical "blindly" land on a planet hoping to see a crop or meteorite exactly there.
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Before those GEO & BIO POIs became a thing, that was what we got.

Ghillan said:
in the end.. how time consuming is finding them? its worth doing or its just better move on and find a geo POI with the mineral yours looking for? ( obviously unless you are absolutely in dire need of them )
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That is purely at the mercy of RNGesus. :)
Usually I get some drops of what I need within 10 minutes of landing.
Sometimes I get anything but the mat I'm looking for.
If you want to grind a particular mat, then the POIs are your best bet.
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Ghillan said:
I understood the part of following signals in SRV, what i'm missing how works before that:

It means that ANY landable planet have them? And no mater where i land on the planet , i'll find them close enough to be reachable by srv's?
There's no way to find them while i'm still on my ship, to be able to land close enough ? What's puzzling me its that unless they are literally spread everywhere ( i never bothered to check planets without POI's), its not very practical "blindly" land on a planet hoping to see a crop or meteorite exactly there.
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The things like outcrops, chondrite's, etc are spread everywhere - so yeah, land blindly and go rock hunting.

Check the planet in the system map to see how high its concentrations of various minerals are. So if you're looking for iron for example then find a planet with something like 15-20% Iron on it, but then just land anywehere and start scouting.

in the end.. how time consuming is finding them?
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Not very. Depending on how fast you are in the SRV you should be finding one every 5 minutes or so (and you'll often find several quite close to each other).
 
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