Another tip that can help with bacteria/small plants: use the external camera from your ship or even srv if you dont see anything. Also for maximum credits, try to scan only unmapped / first footfall planets
Hello! Elite I Exobiologist and certified deep space madness victim here with some extra tips: I've found it a lot easier to align my ship horizontally at an altitude just high enough to be clear of any hills and then use the camera suite to look down at the ground, instead of constantly managing your thrust vectoring with your nose down. Then again I'm a KB+M player, so your results may vary. You generally want to keep your speed pretty low, and exactly how low depends on your computer. Biologicals are some of the last objects to populate as the terrain LODs in, so if you go too fast they'll end up appearing only once they're already under or behind you where you can't see them. I have a somewhat older PC and try to stick to about 30-50m/s. How quickly your ship can stop is also obviously a factor here. The Dolphin's starboard side disembarkation zone is nice, but really any small ship with a forward zone like the Cobra, Viper, Hauler, or Adder will do. What you want to avoid is rear disembarkation zones like the Diamondback Explorer( which also has the longest landing gear deploy time in the game IIRC). The landing footprint of the ship is especially important when going for Fungoid*a* and Frutex*a* up in the mountains. I've hunted those down in an Anaconda a fair number of times before and let me tell you it's not fun. (Well okay. The mountain-climbing SRV driving in low gravity was _kinda_ fun...) If there's bacteria on an icy world that's dimly lit and/or dark shiny brown on the surface... you may be in for a bad time. This might well be the curse that is... _Bacterium Acies!_ [dramatic thunder] Acies( ack-ee-ess) is practically invisible against dark surfaces. I recommend ignoring what the heatmap says about the optimal zones and just try to find an area of the surface with lighter topsoil where the bacteria exists at all. If there is no such area... Far God help you. Your only recourse is to walk in a straight line occasionally pinging with the sampler tool and listen for a hit. ...Or you could just spare your sanity and leave. Some types of Osseus are just as bad, spawning so sparsely you'll question if they exist at all before finding your first one. For these I recommend just circling craters, searching near their edges both outside and inside the lip. o7 Good luck out there fellow flora finders.
To be honest I consider the Ping function of the Artemis Suit just a bad joke, what's the use of 50m sensor range on a piece of rock spanning millions of square kilometers surface area with several kilometers between each sample? I'd increase that seriously because I actually like that mechanic - the closer you are to a life form the louder the pings come in which adds a nice touch like this Hot and Cold game 😂 Or at least provide an upgrade for SRV's so we can detect biologic signals like we can do already with surface materials.
@@shadowmystery5613Yeah, biologicals definitely should show up in the wave scanner. I'm sure the only reason they don't is they couldn't code the generation system with enough long range certainty to prevent ghost signals. But even as it is the ping is still useful for finding the exact boundary where the clonal colony range ends. :P
@@Monody512 Yeah that's how mainly use that function of the genetic sampler. My other remark was more or less caused by those effing bacteria (I know the pay out scanning these isn't great but the inner perfectionist demands it 🤣) - finding these is just annoying af because they're hard to see/spot and I can't come up with a better than idea than flying upside down, on the dark side of the planet, flying with enabled light vision and ship lights 😂 At least my "training" is now finished, I am pretty much self sustaining now and can go anywhere, I just don't hope I get the stupid idea again to repair my thrusters 30m above the ground with an AFMU 😏
Well excuse my diamondback explorer. On the ice world, if you decide to stay and look for that hard to find bacterium there is a chance you will be the first to find it and will get discovery credit. I have three now to my name just by walking around and scanning.
@@bung0144 Oh I've got first discovery on dozens of those invisible bacteria species because I'm a completionist and refuse to leave a system with unsampled biologicals. I recognize not every player is that masochistic though. :P
Huge tip for landing in difficult spots: Use a docking computer! It auto lands on planet surfaces and can find spots impossible for players to land! The cheapest basic model is all you need. It weighs nothing, takes size 1 slot, and uses very little power.
Just coming back to Elite (I played when it first released and then stopped) and it's just not even the same game. Your tutorials have been amazing, thank you!
Hello Commander. Nice tutorial as usual. I mainly do exobiology with a sidewinter so I can easily land near frutexia, with my fleetcarrier somewhere in jump range :) The sidewinter is customized for a 30ly jump range. Two tips to complement your video: 1) Switching to rear camera view gives you a view of the whole environment and makes searching much easier, as well as being very pleasant to watch. 2) The best way is to find systems that have already been scanned, but with planets that have not been visited (you can easily find some 2K light years from the bubble). This avoids the system scan stage. Thank you for what you give to the community. ps : if you use Voiceattack, i'll be very pleased to show you a plugin that i'm developping to connect VA to OpenAI APIs. Let me know if you are interrested.
Just got back from a trip to the black. I feel I did pretty good. I don't get to play that much with my schedule but still made 3.65 billion credits. Codexes were 3.1 million, exploration was 68.8 million and the rest was exobiology.
2 comments, what I missed in this video: you can mark already within the vss your next targetplanet/moon to fly. 2nd, you can make a codex scan already if you're still in your ship (needs a firegroup for the scanner). This works as well in a fighter for bio-search, if you're in your conda as usual ;) I use another tool providing the same infos as your proposed, I use ED Exploration Buddy (in connection with edmc for data-transfer) Nice video, thx for this and generally for your great videos!
Thanks for the video! I'm a big explorer and already use Ed observatory. Bioinsight disappeared and I couldn't fix it. Grateful for the link! The site lists a bunch of other plugins, do you know what those are?
The best and ones worth looking at are: Evaluator - This gives you a good idea of which bodies in a system are worth DSSing for credits. Earth-likes, Water Worlds, Ammonia Worlds and the terraformable high metal content. SignalMonitor - Will let you know if there are any interesting signals, such as notable stellar phenomenon. BioInsights Codex Companion - Keeps track of all your personal commander codex entries and along with Bioinsights will let you know if there is something new for you to discover. BoxelStats - Gives information on boxels you have mapped. Very handy when used along with MattG's ED Journal Processor. AutoUpdater - Ensures all MattG's plugins are kept up to date.
I just loaded my ED back up after 3 years, and getting my grove back I've missed being in the black,I know this is a dumb question but how do you use the plag ins? you talk about?? just start it up when I start the game?
Hello there!! Really appreciate your tutorials 👍 I got a question/problem (I'm beginner). The thing is, I found a few planets (like 3) with just one biological (I'm in the starting system), and trying again and again to find that biological thing without any lucky 😢 and give up. After that found a planet with 4 biologicals and it was so easy to find all of them. So my question is, did it happen to you the same or is just some random thing happens to me? Should I ignore the planets with just one biological?
A lot of the time (not always), the BIOLOGICAL (1) signals are just bacterium, which is the gray stuff I scanned in this video that was laying flat on the ground. They can be very difficult to spot, which is why I advise using a ship to canvas the ground instead of an SRV if you can help it. Also, there are very rare moments where a planet will show a biological signal but there will simply be nothing there. It happens and it's time to just move on. You don't necessarily have to skip single biologicals, but know that they are usually just going to be bacterium. I hope this helps a bit! o7 and thank you for the kind words!
I've got pretty much the same ship. I've never got past using 2 of the 4 SRV's but I like the comfort of having them. Currently somewhere between SagA and Colonia. Probably heading "north".
Any way this works with onboard ship tools? I am a big fan of the vr aspect of the game. Thats why I always come back to my aspx. I will stay away from fps as far as I possibly can because it breaks everything i love about elite.
Prefer much more going randomly around instead to know everything it's cool to study books like wiki as it was a book monstrorum for The witcher, but knowing everything is just mechanical work.. not even gameplay. Operating for profit is a non educative process... and also damages research.
Just found your channel. After 5 years I'm back to ED. Exploration is my thing and I'll look to you for tips.
Great to hear! Welcome to the channel. There's still so much more to see!
Another tip that can help with bacteria/small plants: use the external camera from your ship or even srv if you dont see anything.
Also for maximum credits, try to scan only unmapped / first footfall planets
Hello! Elite I Exobiologist and certified deep space madness victim here with some extra tips:
I've found it a lot easier to align my ship horizontally at an altitude just high enough to be clear of any hills and then use the camera suite to look down at the ground, instead of constantly managing your thrust vectoring with your nose down. Then again I'm a KB+M player, so your results may vary.
You generally want to keep your speed pretty low, and exactly how low depends on your computer. Biologicals are some of the last objects to populate as the terrain LODs in, so if you go too fast they'll end up appearing only once they're already under or behind you where you can't see them. I have a somewhat older PC and try to stick to about 30-50m/s. How quickly your ship can stop is also obviously a factor here.
The Dolphin's starboard side disembarkation zone is nice, but really any small ship with a forward zone like the Cobra, Viper, Hauler, or Adder will do. What you want to avoid is rear disembarkation zones like the Diamondback Explorer( which also has the longest landing gear deploy time in the game IIRC).
The landing footprint of the ship is especially important when going for Fungoid*a* and Frutex*a* up in the mountains. I've hunted those down in an Anaconda a fair number of times before and let me tell you it's not fun. (Well okay. The mountain-climbing SRV driving in low gravity was _kinda_ fun...)
If there's bacteria on an icy world that's dimly lit and/or dark shiny brown on the surface... you may be in for a bad time. This might well be the curse that is... _Bacterium Acies!_ [dramatic thunder] Acies( ack-ee-ess) is practically invisible against dark surfaces. I recommend ignoring what the heatmap says about the optimal zones and just try to find an area of the surface with lighter topsoil where the bacteria exists at all. If there is no such area... Far God help you. Your only recourse is to walk in a straight line occasionally pinging with the sampler tool and listen for a hit. ...Or you could just spare your sanity and leave.
Some types of Osseus are just as bad, spawning so sparsely you'll question if they exist at all before finding your first one. For these I recommend just circling craters, searching near their edges both outside and inside the lip.
o7 Good luck out there fellow flora finders.
To be honest I consider the Ping function of the Artemis Suit just a bad joke, what's the use of 50m sensor range on a piece of rock spanning millions of square kilometers surface area with several kilometers between each sample? I'd increase that seriously because I actually like that mechanic - the closer you are to a life form the louder the pings come in which adds a nice touch like this Hot and Cold game 😂
Or at least provide an upgrade for SRV's so we can detect biologic signals like we can do already with surface materials.
@@shadowmystery5613Yeah, biologicals definitely should show up in the wave scanner. I'm sure the only reason they don't is they couldn't code the generation system with enough long range certainty to prevent ghost signals.
But even as it is the ping is still useful for finding the exact boundary where the clonal colony range ends. :P
@@Monody512 Yeah that's how mainly use that function of the genetic sampler. My other remark was more or less caused by those effing bacteria (I know the pay out scanning these isn't great but the inner perfectionist demands it 🤣) - finding these is just annoying af because they're hard to see/spot and I can't come up with a better than idea than flying upside down, on the dark side of the planet, flying with enabled light vision and ship lights 😂
At least my "training" is now finished, I am pretty much self sustaining now and can go anywhere, I just don't hope I get the stupid idea again to repair my thrusters 30m above the ground with an AFMU 😏
Well excuse my diamondback explorer. On the ice world, if you decide to stay and look for that hard to find bacterium there is a chance you will be the first to find it and will get discovery credit. I have three now to my name just by walking around and scanning.
@@bung0144 Oh I've got first discovery on dozens of those invisible bacteria species because I'm a completionist and refuse to leave a system with unsampled biologicals. I recognize not every player is that masochistic though. :P
Huge tip for landing in difficult spots: Use a docking computer! It auto lands on planet surfaces and can find spots impossible for players to land! The cheapest basic model is all you need. It weighs nothing, takes size 1 slot, and uses very little power.
Just coming back to Elite (I played when it first released and then stopped) and it's just not even the same game. Your tutorials have been amazing, thank you!
Hello Commander. Nice tutorial as usual.
I mainly do exobiology with a sidewinter so I can easily land near frutexia, with my fleetcarrier somewhere in jump range :) The sidewinter is customized for a 30ly jump range.
Two tips to complement your video:
1) Switching to rear camera view gives you a view of the whole environment and makes searching much easier, as well as being very pleasant to watch.
2) The best way is to find systems that have already been scanned, but with planets that have not been visited (you can easily find some 2K light years from the bubble). This avoids the system scan stage.
Thank you for what you give to the community.
ps : if you use Voiceattack, i'll be very pleased to show you a plugin that i'm developping to connect VA to OpenAI APIs. Let me know if you are interrested.
didn't think about just flying the ship around on surface. got a asp explorer, was having to refuel srv every 2-3 planets. nice how to video, thanks
Just got back from a trip to the black. I feel I did pretty good. I don't get to play that much with my schedule but still made 3.65 billion credits. Codexes were 3.1 million, exploration was 68.8 million and the rest was exobiology.
2 comments, what I missed in this video: you can mark already within the vss your next targetplanet/moon to fly. 2nd, you can make a codex scan already if you're still in your ship (needs a firegroup for the scanner). This works as well in a fighter for bio-search, if you're in your conda as usual ;) I use another tool providing the same infos as your proposed, I use ED Exploration Buddy (in connection with edmc for data-transfer) Nice video, thx for this and generally for your great videos!
My favorite little explorer, Dolphin! Though I prefer hunting Thargoids, slower creds just a touch more exciting 🎉
The thing I’m trying to figure out is if the star matters, so that I can avoid dead/cheapsystems
Thanks for this (and previous) tutorials. Could you share sugestie by you Conda fit for exploration?
good vid!
Great tutorial. Sub 👍
Thanks for the video! I'm a big explorer and already use Ed observatory. Bioinsight disappeared and I couldn't fix it. Grateful for the link! The site lists a bunch of other plugins, do you know what those are?
No idea, unfortunately. I just use the BioInsights.
The best and ones worth looking at are:
Evaluator - This gives you a good idea of which bodies in a system are worth DSSing for credits. Earth-likes, Water Worlds, Ammonia Worlds and the terraformable high metal content.
SignalMonitor - Will let you know if there are any interesting signals, such as notable stellar phenomenon.
BioInsights Codex Companion - Keeps track of all your personal commander codex entries and along with Bioinsights will let you know if there is something new for you to discover.
BoxelStats - Gives information on boxels you have mapped. Very handy when used along with MattG's ED Journal Processor.
AutoUpdater - Ensures all MattG's plugins are kept up to date.
I just loaded my ED back up after 3 years, and getting my grove back I've missed being in the black,I know this is a dumb question but how do you use the plag ins? you talk about?? just start it up when I start the game?
a question here do you automatically have the hand scanner or do you need to buy it
It comes as standard equipment on the ARTEMIS suit.
@@CMDRExorcist thanks
Hello there!! Really appreciate your tutorials 👍
I got a question/problem (I'm beginner). The thing is, I found a few planets (like 3) with just one biological (I'm in the starting system), and trying again and again to find that biological thing without any lucky 😢 and give up. After that found a planet with 4 biologicals and it was so easy to find all of them.
So my question is, did it happen to you the same or is just some random thing happens to me? Should I ignore the planets with just one biological?
A lot of the time (not always), the BIOLOGICAL (1) signals are just bacterium, which is the gray stuff I scanned in this video that was laying flat on the ground. They can be very difficult to spot, which is why I advise using a ship to canvas the ground instead of an SRV if you can help it.
Also, there are very rare moments where a planet will show a biological signal but there will simply be nothing there. It happens and it's time to just move on. You don't necessarily have to skip single biologicals, but know that they are usually just going to be bacterium.
I hope this helps a bit! o7 and thank you for the kind words!
@@CMDRExorcist thx a lot for the information 👍It makes sense to what happens to me 🙂
damn if i wernt using cloud gaming the plugin would be soo much awesome .. but cant use them due to cloud gaming haha
I dont know if it was talked about but is there a post or anything talking about ypur anaconda exploration build?
I've made a few changes recently, but this is the basic build: s.orbis.zone/nt87
Thank you so much I will check it out after work
I've got pretty much the same ship.
I've never got past using 2 of the 4 SRV's but I like the comfort of having them.
Currently somewhere between SagA and Colonia. Probably heading "north".
Any way this works with onboard ship tools?
I am a big fan of the vr aspect of the game.
Thats why I always come back to my aspx.
I will stay away from fps as far as I possibly can because it breaks everything i love about elite.
No, ship tools just give a codex entry but don't count for the genetic scanner.
Prefer much more going randomly around instead to know everything it's cool to study books like wiki as it was a book monstrorum for The witcher, but knowing everything is just mechanical work.. not even gameplay. Operating for profit is a non educative process... and also damages research.
Daaaaaam thats lazy af 😂😂😂. Maybe you shoud do something else.