why are amonia worlds worth more than ELWs?

Vasious

Vasious
A Chance to study Ammonia-Carbon based life, an complete different biochemsity that ours.
Rumour has it, that the Thargoids may or may not be Ammonia Based.

Know they enemy?
 
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jmg

J
Vasious said:
A Chance to study Ammonia-Carbon based life, an complete different biochemsity that ours.
Rumour has it, that the Thargoids may or may not be Ammonia Based.

Know they enemy?
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Interesting.
Where in the galaxy are the thargoids supposed to be?
 

jspoto

J
IIRC, in the old games Thargoids attacked out of so-called "Witchspace", which is what the inter-dimensional jump tunnel was named in the lore. You'd get jumped by a ship+drones, literally during warp.

So Thargoids may not be from our galaxy, or spacetime, at all. Or so the legends say....
 

insanephoton

insanephoton
I believe Polaris was mentioned in the previous games and is currently permit locked (with no clue as to where a permit may be obtained)
 

CMDR Hagglebeard

CMDR Hagglebeard
Polaris is the location of the first encounter with Thargoids, but their home system is Miacke, supposedly 1,196 Light Years from Sol. It isn't on the GalMap, though.
 

Rottcodd

Rottcodd
Might be related to how rare they are. Gas Giants with ammonia based life are pretty common, ammonia planets - not so. And those helium giants better pay good money, I swear of all planet types those are the most rare.
 

Jackie Silver

Jackie Silver
It's complicated.

Short answer:

A truly massive Ammonia World like the one at WREGOE BQ-G D10-35 can be worth more than a small Earth-like World, but almost all ELW are worth more than almost all AMW.

Long answer:

Except...

...a High Metal Content / Candidate for Terraforming World which has been terraformed into an Earth-like World is worth only as much as an ordinary HMC / CFT.
It's much more common for an AMW to be worth more than an HMC / CFT.
 

Poseidal

Poseidal
Garix said:
Yet I haven't found a single ELW, where as I've scanned just over a dozen ammonia worlds.

Pure luck I know. But it certainly feels like ELW are much rarer to me than Ammonia worlds.

Even found a Water Giant which I didn't know existed
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I had previously found more Earthlike than Ammonia, but this trip I found three.

One thing to note: Earthlike is likely a subcategory of terrestrial water world, of which there are many types due to atmospheric differences (and mass/temp). Ammonia Worlds likely have a small subset that are suitable for Thargoid life, and I would say there are likely to be even rarer than Earthlike.
 

moofburger

moofburger
Because in 3301 AD the cryogenically preserved head of Barry Scott runs a pan-galactic conglomerate with a total monopoly on household cleaning products. - This is what Michael Brookes isn't telling you, 'Powerplay' is all about introducing Cillit Bang as a tradable commodity in the station markets.
 
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