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
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.
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)
For me at least the game changer was taking some time to get used to the key layout either remapping or just getting my fingers reaching for the correct place. If you have a HOTAS this can be mostly ignored but ideally when you get to further missions dog fights are going to be common so weapons and/or maneuvers are going to be needed.
I myself is in a similar situation. Here is a few medium/long/very long terms goals that is on my bucket list.
Visit historical sites like the voyager probes in Sol or Jameson crash site on HIP 12099 1 B
Go to hard to reach places just for the bragging right of it. Like Rackham’s Peak in HIP 58832 or Hutton Orbital in Alpha Centauri (warning, Hutton Orbital is even farther than Lunan Holdings).
While you are at Hutton Orbital, grab a few mugs and gins and participate in the 2 Hot 2 Messy event and get a chance to win a real Hutton mug.
Learn how the Background simulation work and participate in it to help your favourite faction.
Help repeal the Thargoids by combating them, help evacuate stations in system at risk of been invaded, help rebuild stations after a system repealed the Thargoids. For the Last one, check Operation Ida.
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
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