As a side endeavour to my current journey, I've decided to look into what the regional differences might be, and here are some results pertaining to amphora plants.
First off, why those? Two main reasons: none have been found in the Inner Orion Spur (IOS, or just simply bubble region), and second, they have a bunch of restrictions. To recap, said restrictions are:
With that in mind, I wondered about what spawn rates might be possible on such very rare planets. So, I set out to check candidates in three regions along my way. One of them contained a report of amphora plants, so I was wondering how many others there might be there - we only know there is one, after all.
Here are the results summarised:
The one planet in the Norma Expanse that was a candidate and didn't have any amphoras was also the only one there that didn't have any volcanism. There might be a hidden requirement that a candidate planet needs volcanism as well. (Wouldn't be the first time the Codex left something out.)
I should also note that in the Norma Expanse, the distance between the farthest POIs I've found was around 3,000 ly, so unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that they'd surround some specific areas of interest (like brain trees and barnacles do). Even if they were, a search radius of 1,500 ly would be far too wide to be of much use. There were no nebulae nearby.
So, in conclusion, I'd say that either amphora plants are not present in a region at all, or they are present on all the suitable candidate planets (once you factor in volcanism) - or I just had an extremely unlucky streak. The fact that the most well-travelled region has none reported even after more than a month leads me to suspect that it's not down to luck, but down to whether a region has the amphoras toggled or not. It doesn't look like they are confined to small areas either, unlike brain trees and barnacles, so I don't expect them to surround areas of interest.
And well, since the POIs themselves are boring, I don't plan on looking into them any more. Hope this was of some use to others at least.
First off, why those? Two main reasons: none have been found in the Inner Orion Spur (IOS, or just simply bubble region), and second, they have a bunch of restrictions. To recap, said restrictions are:
- Planet must be Metal Rich (and landable, of course)
- System must contain a class A star
- System must contain any of the following: ELW, WL / W giant
With that in mind, I wondered about what spawn rates might be possible on such very rare planets. So, I set out to check candidates in three regions along my way. One of them contained a report of amphora plants, so I was wondering how many others there might be there - we only know there is one, after all.
Here are the results summarised:
- Inner Orion Spur (no amphoras reported): 13 candidate planets checked, 0 amphora-bearing planets found
- Norma Expanse (amphoras reported): 7 candidate planets checked, 6 amphora-bearing planets found
- Norma Arm: (no amphoras reported): 7 candidate planets checked, 0 amphora-bearing planets found
- Sanguineous Rim: (no amphoras reported): 3 candidate planets checked, 0 amphora-bearing planets found
The one planet in the Norma Expanse that was a candidate and didn't have any amphoras was also the only one there that didn't have any volcanism. There might be a hidden requirement that a candidate planet needs volcanism as well. (Wouldn't be the first time the Codex left something out.)
I should also note that in the Norma Expanse, the distance between the farthest POIs I've found was around 3,000 ly, so unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that they'd surround some specific areas of interest (like brain trees and barnacles do). Even if they were, a search radius of 1,500 ly would be far too wide to be of much use. There were no nebulae nearby.
So, in conclusion, I'd say that either amphora plants are not present in a region at all, or they are present on all the suitable candidate planets (once you factor in volcanism) - or I just had an extremely unlucky streak. The fact that the most well-travelled region has none reported even after more than a month leads me to suspect that it's not down to luck, but down to whether a region has the amphoras toggled or not. It doesn't look like they are confined to small areas either, unlike brain trees and barnacles, so I don't expect them to surround areas of interest.
And well, since the POIs themselves are boring, I don't plan on looking into them any more. Hope this was of some use to others at least.
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