im guessing geysers, these new water plumes etc are in POI'S but how do i know what POI'S theyre at?
WHERE TO FIND GEYSERS? help
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They have to be eyeballed, they don't show as a POI. You may see a very small blue dot POI that is a mineable rock/material that spawns on the geysers, but that's not a guaranteed way to find them. Your best bet is just to pick a planet that has volcanism of some sort and do a few flyby of likely looking areas. There is a thread somewhere that lists the known locations.
cheers for the help guys!
DDastardly00
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Tried doing a flyby of Dione in the Sol system but no luck in finding any geysers yet. How far up can you see them?
I find that the main thread is lacking in consolidated information of how to eyeball them. Plenty of stuff telling you where the known ones are, but no easily accessible information on how others have found them in the first place. Important questions that need answering are:
- Are they visible from Orbital Cruise?
- Are they visible from Glide Mode?
- How far up are they visible from in normal flight?
- Does this differ between console and PC due to the graphical limitations of the Xbone?
- Does this differ between the types of geological phenomena?
- Are only Fumaroles visible from the air because of the smoke rising?
- What kind of phenomena can I expect to find on "Iron Magma" or "Water Magma" worlds?
- What are the "likely" areas we should be looking out for? Canyons, Valleys, Mountainous Regions, Flat Plains etc...?
Having accidentally stumbled across a field of Sillicate Vapour Fumaroles(?) in the Pleiades Sector once (but unfortunately didn't note down the system or co-ordinates), I can answer maybe one or two of those questions:
- I don't believe they're visible from Orbital Cruise, either because of the instancing or because of the height. I don't know about glide mode, though - certainly not at the initial height you drop out of OC.
- The fumarole field I discovered, I only found because I saw green clouds at my flight level (about 7km up), and they turned out to be in a canyon. When I flew away from them directly up in normal flight, I lost sight of the green cloud on the ground around 14km up. When I went back down, and tried Supercruise from a lower altitude, they disappeared immediately.
- Are they visible from Orbital Cruise?
- Are they visible from Glide Mode?
- How far up are they visible from in normal flight?
- Does this differ between console and PC due to the graphical limitations of the Xbone?
- Does this differ between the types of geological phenomena?
- Are only Fumaroles visible from the air because of the smoke rising?
- What kind of phenomena can I expect to find on "Iron Magma" or "Water Magma" worlds?
- What are the "likely" areas we should be looking out for? Canyons, Valleys, Mountainous Regions, Flat Plains etc...?
Having accidentally stumbled across a field of Sillicate Vapour Fumaroles(?) in the Pleiades Sector once (but unfortunately didn't note down the system or co-ordinates), I can answer maybe one or two of those questions:
- I don't believe they're visible from Orbital Cruise, either because of the instancing or because of the height. I don't know about glide mode, though - certainly not at the initial height you drop out of OC.
- The fumarole field I discovered, I only found because I saw green clouds at my flight level (about 7km up), and they turned out to be in a canyon. When I flew away from them directly up in normal flight, I lost sight of the green cloud on the ground around 14km up. When I went back down, and tried Supercruise from a lower altitude, they disappeared immediately.
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DDastardly00
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Thanks Alec and Jesusrocks1988, I got to about page 9 in that thread, will have to finish reading it later. It seems a lot has changed since the beta.
The last paragraph of Jesusrocks1988's post is what I was specifically after. At least I have a better idea on how to spot them and that orbital cruise is worthless, seems I need to change tactics a bit when searching for them. I'll give it another go tonight[big grin]
The last paragraph of Jesusrocks1988's post is what I was specifically after. At least I have a better idea on how to spot them and that orbital cruise is worthless, seems I need to change tactics a bit when searching for them. I'll give it another go tonight[big grin]
If anyone else can point me to the answers to the other questions, that would be most appreciated.
Down the Winchester?...
DDastardly00
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Spent an hour and a half on Actea looking for Fumaroles, found nothing. From page 7 of the thread posted above, I even checked the canyons where one person said he found them and made video of it. My guess is they have been moved since the beta, or it's the spawn bug.
Saw this Reddit post this morning...
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/575v31/actaea_is_broken_beta_6/
Saw this Reddit post this morning...
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/575v31/actaea_is_broken_beta_6/
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I took this pic of a geyser field in Colonia, C3A, coords -174.16 47.21. I was below 3K alt. and I think I was more like <1K. You can't see them in glide, or SC.
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Glad I'm not the only one having massive issues finding these.
Spent countless hours flying over Planets that should have them. Zero luck.
To this date, the only ones I've ever seen were on Screenshots posted by other Players
Quite odd. I actually can report that I've seen far more Unknown Artifacts and Alien stuff - than plain Geysers/Fumaroles.
Weird so say the least. Seems they are exceedingly rare.
PS.
Too bad all our Onboard Ship Systems including Discovery Scanners aren't worth (don't think I can post these words) when it comes to actually finding anything of interest.
Symptomatic that even fully energized Alien Ruins don't show up and couldn't be found using Ship Systems. Mark I eyeball discovery only, just like in the 16th century. (17th century already had basic magnifying optics which we don't even have in 3302 )
I'm dreaming one day that our Ship Sensors at least get a fraction of the detection abilities that mankind enjoyed in the 21th century. That'd be a blast to have, those were extremely useful things. Too bad the tech got lost somehow.
Spent countless hours flying over Planets that should have them. Zero luck.
To this date, the only ones I've ever seen were on Screenshots posted by other Players
Quite odd. I actually can report that I've seen far more Unknown Artifacts and Alien stuff - than plain Geysers/Fumaroles.
Weird so say the least. Seems they are exceedingly rare.
PS.
Too bad all our Onboard Ship Systems including Discovery Scanners aren't worth (don't think I can post these words) when it comes to actually finding anything of interest.
Symptomatic that even fully energized Alien Ruins don't show up and couldn't be found using Ship Systems. Mark I eyeball discovery only, just like in the 16th century. (17th century already had basic magnifying optics which we don't even have in 3302
)I'm dreaming one day that our Ship Sensors at least get a fraction of the detection abilities that mankind enjoyed in the 21th century. That'd be a blast to have, those were extremely useful things. Too bad the tech got lost somehow.
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DDastardly00
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PS.
Too bad all our Onboard Ship Systems including Discovery Scanners aren't worth (don't think I can post these words) when it comes to actually finding anything of interest.
Symptomatic that even fully energized Alien Ruins don't show up and couldn't be found using Ship Systems. Mark I eyeball discovery only, just like in the 16th century. (17th century already had basic magnifying optics which we don't even have in 3302
I'm dreaming one day that our Ship Sensors at least get a fraction of the detection abilities that mankind enjoyed in the 21th century. That'd be a blast to have, those were extremely useful things. Too bad the tech got lost somehow.
I second this, I was looking for these in my Asp X which is equipped with a surface scanner as well as a discovery scanner. One would think the surface scanner would be able to locate these geysers on a planet's surface and then we would be able to select the location as a nav point to fly to. Speaking of navigation points, that is another feature that is sorely lacking in Horizons, the ability to target a point on a plant's surface and set up the navigation computer to provide directions to it.
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I have been doing this for while and have about 8 sites on a spread sheet. Geyers are still the hardest to locate water ones that is. The silucate vapour thus far have been on rocky moons in or about canyons but not necessaeily deep ones. Usually i glide 30k up and look for white parches around the rock. That is vapour layering. I drop in those areas. At about 6km they are clear. Send me email ill share my spreadsheet. Balogm@hushmail.com
