Tourist stations- placed in geyser fields.

[Jaylem]

currently the aspect of geysers and volcanism is a little under looked. for instance I never knew it even existed for about 8 months until I stumbled on a post on the Cannon site. (in game there are literally NO pointers whatsoever).

If you have't been to these sites, then I recommend it for two reasons. first being it is a heaven for Engineer resources, and second being they look beautiful!

Humanity has been known to capitalise on natural wonders, why not have it in Elite? On rare occasions, some stations can be found in the middle of geyser/Fumarole fields. giving CMDRs a warm welcome upon approach. and attracting the interest of people from all corners of the bubble as a point of interest.

Thoughts?

CMDR Jaylem

 

[varonica]

currently the aspect of geysers and volcanism is a little under looked. for instance I never knew it even existed for about 8 months until I stumbled on a post on the Cannon site. (in game there are literally NO pointers whatsoever).

If you have't been to these sites, then I recommend it for two reasons. first being it is a heaven for Engineer resources, and second being they look beautiful!

Humanity has been known to capitalise on natural wonders, why not have it in Elite? On rare occasions, some stations can be found in the middle of geyser/Fumarole fields. giving CMDRs a warm welcome upon approach. and attracting the interest of people from all corners of the bubble as a point of interest.

Thoughts?

CMDR Jaylem

I believe there are tourist missions to some vulcanism sites, although I don't do them myself, and there is one station next to a bio-site. The problem with situating stations in volcanic sites is the same reason we don't build cities on volcanoes (well not these days at least, Pompei showed us that much), geysers and fumaroles should be located in areas of high geological activity that makes it unsuitable for stations. Ok that's a real life reason, in game that's not the case and we can put bases anywhere, but I would put some near, not in fields, with an interactive research facility in the field, maybe even have some collecting missions to run your SRV through the fields collecting, or send people out from the base in SRV's to research the fields.

 

[space voyager]

A lot of passenger missions lead you to visit geological activity sites. If you only want to see it, this is the best way. You will see them AND make quite some money.