Thank you! I’ve already found a lot of exobion that I have never seen before but we also some interesting rings and planets.
Also I am surprised how fast you become credit blind outside the bubble! Inside the bubble I’d easily do a mission for 100.000 but out here, if it doesn’t pay more that 5mil it’s not really worth it
In case of Manganese (you’ll have to do research for Phosphorus yourself), since it’s common in raw group 3, I would go rather after Ruthenium and trade down.
Use Spansh to search for bodies with vulcanism and high Ruthenium contents near your location (I’ve put Sol and range 1000Ly in this search)
or search for fungal life. It will probably be further away than volcanism but from my observations plants prefer flat areas so are easier to harvest even on high gravity planets
you might also want to add to the search to have the least percentages of other rare materials. From my experience it’s not that important to do so but YMMV
in theory you might want to search for landmarks instead of just volcanism/genuses but most of the database has data from before Odyssey so it’s not filled out much. Landmarks/POIs has changed. Whether a body has volcanism or genuses, not so much
Watch this on how to find a concentration of landmarks. You don’t need an SLF but you need to fly low for landmarks to render (below 200m).
You are looking for
Phloem Excretions on the plants. Just land in a concentration of plants and you should find some
Needle Crystals that seem to be most common on Lava Spouts. But I think I’ve found some on geysers/fumaroles in the past too
if you landed in a place and can’t find growths or protrusions you are looking for in 5 minutes, take off and try another patch of blue
If you are running EDMC with Canonn plugin, scanning a growth or geyser should put it in landmarks in Spansh for future searches
EDIT: mining will also give you raw mats but rather lower grades and I don’t know how to search for a ring so you get mats from group 3 and not another one
It’s been a while since I’ve played but I have this spreadsheet bookmarked as my go-to for engi mats. In my experience I had a lot more fun by farming tons of all the mats and then ignoring them. Trying to accrue them naturally takes forever.
The raw material notes in that sheet apply only to legacy. For live, it’s the same planets, but you either drop in the blue and look yourself, or you navigate to some known coordinates. …frontier.co.uk/…/live-4-0-materials-farming.6107…
Koli Discii C 6 is your best bet to farm engineering resources imo. Right in the bubble, easy to get to, and a variety of mats to pickup. You’ll need to relog though to keep up the farm but you can get a decent amount of crap in an hour or two. You wanna find the crashed python on the planet.
Can’t speak for synthesis mats though, never bothered with it myself.
You could be in a region where they are more common, but more likely you’re exaggerating for effect, while not recording the distribution scientifically.
Not sure about why all the dwarfs, hopefully it’s realistic. But you can filter star types and only use scoopable ones for your routes. You want KGB FOAM types. That’s a handy acronym.
If I manually plot a route, I can do that. Can I filter them out when using the automatic route plotting? My destination is almost 2000ly away. It would take ages to manually plot!
Edit: NVM I see now. There’s an “apply filter to route” option way at the bottom I didn’t see at first. 🤣 This is a big help.
Oh yeah. But now I am looking into this “Neutron Highway” a friend on Discord mentioned. I have a trip of just under 1400 jumps ahead of me, and since I know the game doesn’t have wormholes I am willing to do anything to get there faster. I should have checked the destination before I agreed to the fare, but the dude was paying so much I just accepted it lol
I haven’t played ED since the first person expack dropped. Really enjoyed it back then. Worth checking it out again? Has there been content releases? Heard the first person expack was pretty mixed.
Gameplay hasn’t changed at all, except for the Odyssey on-foot stuff, which is optional (and costs extra). I love the on-foot stuff and don’t mind the grind, but it’s not for everyone. If you liked the game before, there’s no reason you wouldn’t like it now. If you want to try the on-foot stuff, wait for a sale. It’s grindy but definitely adds a new dimension to the game.
It’s been too long since I’ve played. I haven’t played since they announced they were abandoning console players. Maybe I’ll return, but I’m never spending another cent on an Fdev product, so I guess I play on Xbox until they let the server collapse.
Keep an eye on your fuel gauge and remember to check your last available refuelling point on the route plotter for long journeys. (Last main sequence star if you have a fuel scoop or last inhabited system if not)
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