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The 12 month road map, I found underwhelming. I am going by what Down to Earth Astronomy published in youtube. New mission variant in May - probably an on foot mission variant that I'm never likely to play. My expectations were raised and dashed when they talked about a new mission variant for an earlier update, and it turned out to be defend a McGuffin in a base from on foot invaders. I played that game loop to death 20 years ago in the Half Life Counter Strike game extension.
After that, its story narrative stuff. That means its set dressing story with no meaningful game play contribution (CGs are just existing game play loops dressed up), or fight more Thargoids. You seem to need to be good at FA off piloting with fixed mount weapons to fight Thargoid Interceptors and their swarms. I'm no good at it, so I do other things I find fun. So I'm not really excited about more Thargoid content - unless they want to open up a permit locked area and have a mystery to solve while exploring that relates to Thargoids. Trouble is, there will always be someone that stays awake for 24 hours to be the first to solve the puzzle and make a youtube video about it.
I hope the optimisation they talk off resolves things like excessive pixelization of planet surfaces while exploring and horrible frame rates approaching stations. Oh, and I see rocks being rendered in front of me on planets. They need to be rendered before I see them.
Still, I do enjoy enough aspects of the game to keep playing and enjoy it.
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Jump 2 of 17. Little bit distracted by this binary HMC with 5 bio signals and no footfalls.

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The partner world also has 5 bio signals and no footfalls... might be here a while.

Edit: my commander has das bootay from this angle.
 
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That one needs to go straight into "stellar screenshots". Very nice!

Has anyonie else noticed that - if you are using it of course - that ELite Observatory reports more lifeforms than are actually on the planet?
No, you're reading it wrong.

When you scan the planet, Bioinsights predicts for you what lifeforms might be present, and shows how much they are worth and other details. It's not until you actually get down there and hand-scan (or scan with composition scanner) them that it knows which ones are actually there. (Thus the "Seen" column.

This gives you the opportunity to decide if it's worth going down there at all.

I usually scan everything anyway because even if the credits are small, the views might be excellent :)
 
PS if you want more info on how these are predicted, the CodexCompanion app has extensive info on all the biological types, such as what type of star they show up under, and what kind of material composition of the planet, etc. The Exobiology stuff is actually very nicely done, and much deeper than it appears at first. Kudos to Frontier on this.
 
PS if you want more info on how these are predicted, the CodexCompanion app has extensive info on all the biological types, such as what type of star they show up under, and what kind of material composition of the planet, etc. The Exobiology stuff is actually very nicely done, and much deeper than it appears at first. Kudos to Frontier on this.
Cheers, I'll look that up! (y)

See, what's baking my noodle is this:

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When I got down to the planet, the game says fonticulua and bacterium, being the two features. As you can see, Observatory says fungoida as well... So that is just a prediction by the app?
 
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Cheers, I'll look that up! (y)

See, what's baking my noodle is this:

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When I got down to the planet, the game says fonticulua and bacterium, being the two features. As you can see, Observatory says fungoida as well... So that is just a prediction by the app?
Yes. Well until you map the planet they all are.

It is why sometimes you also get several variants of the life form with multiple colours, of course it is easy to guess which predictions are right just look for cheapest one that is most difficult to spot.
 
For now, my version of exo-biology is, is this a biological I might not have seen before that might look interesting?
That means I'm flying past plenty of first discovered planets with bacterium and the like I'm not interested in sampling.
I've no clue how much any of these bio samples are worth in credits or rank, but if I don't get promoted from 'directionless' after this trip I'll laugh.
I am hoping to have done enough to get promoted to Elite I in exploration from this trip by the time I return to Colonia (12,000ly to go). Found an another new ELW and terraformable today, and its raining water worlds on my route. I ignore anything that has been previously discovered, and I gave up using road to riches a long time ago - before I reached Elite explorer.
 
For now, my version of exo-biology is, is this a biological I might not have seen before that might look interesting?
That means I'm flying past plenty of first discovered planets with bacterium and the like I'm not interested in sampling.
I've no clue how much any of these bio samples are worth in credits or rank, but if I don't get promoted from 'directionless' after this trip I'll laugh.
I am hoping to have done enough to get promoted to Elite I in exploration from this trip by the time I return to Colonia (12,000ly to go). Found an another new ELW and terraformable today, and its raining water worlds on my route. I ignore anything that has been previously discovered, and I gave up using road to riches a long time ago - before I reached Elite explorer.
For some reason, they've made the most boring bio worth the most (or thereabouts - I, personally, haven't encountered one worth more) - strata. They're worth ~803k each.

I like electro-doodahs the most but they are pretty rare. There's also one that's sort of a ball, latticed, and metallic looking but it's name escapes me. It's nice to see these when one becomes jaded with tussocks, fruitexa, aloieda, strata, fungoida, bacterium etc. :D

One day I'll find something I haven't seen before.
 
So that is just a prediction by the app?
Yes. I have mostly found the predictions to be interesting. It helps me learn the underlying info (like what kind of star, atmosphere, or material produces that bio). It has helped me in a couple of cases when there was just 1 biological sign (which is always a Bacterium of some kind). If the predicted type is Bacterium Acies (worth 50k) I might not bother. If it's Bacterium Informem (worth 426k) then I'll always take a look.

But like I said, I usually don't skip things, cuz I like to see the sights.

Anyway, today I found a nice system with a couple of landables with bio signs. One of them was ringed as well, so I went down expecting to see some cool stuff.
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The ringed planet was awash with Fonticula, and the overhead rings made for a striking sight. Fonticula always remind me of soft-serve ice cream :p
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There was even a Rock of Ubiquity :)
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The other planet had more types, including an Aleoida, which I'd never seen before.
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There was some Fungoida as well, nearby, giving me a 2-bio shot :)
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I thought these craters filled with rocks were interesting looking.
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All in all a fun excursion :)
 
Yes. I have mostly found the predictions to be interesting. It helps me learn the underlying info (like what kind of star, atmosphere, or material produces that bio). It has helped me in a couple of cases when there was just 1 biological sign (which is always a Bacterium of some kind). If the predicted type is Bacterium Acies (worth 50k) I might not bother. If it's Bacterium Informem (worth 426k) then I'll always take a look.

But like I said, I usually don't skip things, cuz I like to see the sights.

Anyway, today I found a nice system with a couple of landables with bio signs. One of them was ringed as well, so I went down expecting to see some cool stuff.
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The ringed planet was awash with Fonticula, and the overhead rings made for a striking sight. Fonticula always remind me of soft-serve ice cream :p
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There was even a Rock of Ubiquity :)
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The other planet had more types, including an Aleoida, which I'd never seen before.
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There was some Fungoida as well, nearby, giving me a 2-bio shot :)
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I thought these craters filled with rocks were interesting looking.
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All in all a fun excursion :)
The stellar forge must be in a Fonticula mood. Never seen them before, and just finished getting 3 samples of them. This is the landing spot for the night.
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Still on my way to Colonia... I'm over 2/3rds of the way now, hanging out at Gandharvi for a while to do some Oddy missions. The only other place on my travels which was offering Oddy missions was Lagoon Sector FW-W d1-122, the home of Attenborough's Watch.

Amassed a lot of cartographic data and bio data on the way and there's still the final leg to go.

Not been the first to find any ELWs on the way (yet?) but I did find a ringed Water World which I thought was an aesthetic find.

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Still on my way to Colonia... I'm over 2/3rds of the way now, hanging out at Gandharvi for a while to do some Oddy missions. The only other place on my travels which was offering Oddy missions was Lagoon Sector FW-W d1-122, the home of Attenborough's Watch.

Amassed a lot of cartographic data and bio data on the way and there's still the final leg to go.

Not been the first to find any ELWs on the way (yet?) but I did find a ringed Water World which I thought was an aesthetic find.

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I'm on the way back to Colonia Dream in the Ratraii system from my expedition beyond Beagle Point. If you've not been to Colonia before I can give a few tips on where to sell exploration data to get allied with factions for access to good pirate massacre missions and passenger missions. Allied with Colonia Council is a must for one of the engineers.
 
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