That's not an outcrop

[metatheurgist]

What he said is exactly right. There have always been two distinct kinds of outcrop, one with a widely spaced double line and one with a much more closely spaced double line.

The way that you used to be able to tell the second type from a metallic meteorite was that the metallic meteorites double lines were each far thicker than the outcrop's. That is much less noticeable than it used to be. The audio was also very different for both of them, although these days it's so quiet that it's hardly worth having as an identification aid.

Note: I don't disagree that really the two outcrop types should be named separately (and I think they may have been in the very first iteration) but it is absolutely 100% not a bug.

It's true. You can't change people's minds with facts. They believe what they believe.

 

[True Phoenix]

It's true. You can't change people's minds with facts. They believe what they believe.

citation required.

 

[Guyperson]

Someone here made this a long time ago:

 

[Pendergast]

Someone here made this a long time ago:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=97208&d=1453465576

that isn't quite right, chondrite is two lines close, not 3 touching; and its higher up the scanner too

 

[tafkabb]

Do they sound the same?

 

[Guyperson]

that isn't quite right, chondrite is two lines close, not 3 touching; and its higher up the scanner too

It's an old diagram. They used to look like that but changed a while ago.

Do they sound the same?

Mesosiderite, metallic outcrop and metallic meteorite all make a similar buzzing sound while the other two mineral types crackle.

 

[Hellakitty]

http://wavescanner.net/

 

[Spacecat]

I had the rock spawning totally break on me the other night. After a half hour with no contacts at all, I had to leave the planet and return to get them to spawn. Weird.