Water Giant

CMDR Nirnroot · Oct 22, 2015

My first one. I didn't know there were such things.

jrb · Oct 22, 2015

Very Nice!

Katejina · Oct 22, 2015

They are fairly rare, often disguised as smaller gas giants. The handful (less than 10) I've found have all been in the 20-40 Earth Masses range and of the same color, like the one in your screenshot.

They aren't worth much though.

CMDR Nirnroot · Oct 22, 2015

Katejina said:
They aren't worth much though.

If I was worried about the cash I wouldn't be out here exploring

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16K LY out and no Earth Likes yet. I did find an ammonia world a while back, should have done a selfie

Katejina · Oct 22, 2015

CMDR Nirnroot said:
If I was worried about the cash I wouldn't be out here exploring

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16K LY out and no Earth Likes yet. I did find an ammonia world a while back, should have done a selfie

Just an observation.

You will appreciate the value of Earthlikes even if you aren't exploring for the profit lol.

I'm at about 12,500 systems and I've found on average, 1 per 200. Certain areas of the galaxy (clusters of type F,G , K stars, neutron fields) have a higher chance, but I don't seek them out so I don't find them as often.

GregMalcolm · Oct 22, 2015

Nice find! I think I've found one in my entire exploration career.

Cdr Voorheez · Oct 22, 2015

Well done Cdr. I found One out of thousands scanned on my last exped, they are incredibly rare yet incredibly worthless sadly. Congrats anyways.

Jackie Silver · Oct 22, 2015

They're like Helium Giants inasmuch as that the cirumstances of their formation are very rare and they tend to come in clumps - if you're lucky enough to find one in a system it's worth checking the other giants to see if there are more.

newman1702 · Oct 22, 2015

I like finding these even though they aren't worth much. Still a rare find

t3l3c0n · Oct 23, 2015

Are these just Gas Giants with Water based life or something different?

Jarsil · Oct 23, 2015

When you talk about water giants are you meaning "Gas Giants with Water based life"? or they are just called "Water Giant"?

Just out of curiosity, I found a couple of the former, but never seen the latter so...

CMDR Nirnroot · Oct 23, 2015

Just called 'Water Giant'

Katejina · Oct 23, 2015

CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI · Oct 23, 2015

This is their sound

[video=youtube;fOUmgLjPdJQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOUmgLjPdJQ[/video]

Unfortunately. Gas Giant Bearing Water Based Life have a very similar sound.

[video=youtube;6rL_7qCG664]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rL_7qCG664[/video]

After 1.3 they gave them the same holo icon too.
Basically, if they sound like water streams and are relatively small for a gas giant, they can be Water Giants.

Jarsil · Nov 1, 2015

This is funny... I posted in this thread that i never saw one of those.

Then, two days ago, I jumped into a system with two of them...

CMDR Space Lurker · Nov 1, 2015

I have only found one or two of these in my career as an explorer as well... It seems they are all murky brown-grey. It would be cool to find a clear blue one..

Cmdr Frawd Digger · Nov 1, 2015

Pretty sure I have seen 1 water giant on my trip through the black...don't remember where though. Probably on my first trip out.

Frawd