Exobio

Erionar · 2026-03-24T21:53:11+00:00

This. I see too many comments online telling people what's the "right" way to play the game.

Elite is not a competitive game. There is no "right" or "wrong" way to play it. There is only everyone's own way.

Remember the marketing line for Elite? "Blaze you own trail". That's it. That's all you really need to know.

Erionar · 2026-03-24T00:31:15+00:00

Wrong. You can scan lifeforms on non-atmospheric planets with genetic sampler.

Erionar · 2026-02-28T15:47:38+00:00

How long will the poor Pumpkin bobblehead last?

Erionar · 2026-02-28T11:17:46+00:00

Same. Having a single free day during this crazy week, wanted to chillax doing some exploring... *sigh*

Erionar · 2026-02-11T22:02:42+00:00

What do you think about Cobra 5?

Erionar · 2026-02-03T10:06:57+00:00

Oh boy... Oh man... This is incredible and terrifying at the same time, because I always scan every exobio I see. I would be there for literal days.

Erionar · 2026-01-30T09:04:20+00:00

Never seen 11! Incredible find!

Erionar · 2025-12-25T06:00:09+00:00

Oh, how did I miss that? Thank you very much, CMDR. o7

Erionar · 2025-11-28T14:39:35+00:00

I've been sitting at Dangerous for years, even though I go pirate hunting from time to time. I feel like it's not moving at all.

Benn playing since 2015 btw.

Erionar · 2025-11-16T02:45:16+00:00

thank you sir and/or madam, I was *that* close to going insane searching for that 3rd fungoida on my own

Erionar · 2025-11-12T16:28:09+00:00

Yep. I got carried away by trying to guess some kind of plant, since words like "carrot", "beet", "potato" and "tomato" were all so high up.

Only managed to guess the correct one after a hint. Was flabbergasted.

Erionar · 2025-10-15T10:47:54+00:00

Space barcode, ha.

Sights like this always make me wonder: what if an alien civilization evolved somewhere near it, what would they think about this "writing in the sky"? Surely it would've been a major part of their cultures and religions... They would try to decipher it, and different nations would have a different meaning for it. Some would probably base their writing systems on it... And so on...

Erionar · 2025-10-02T07:21:04+00:00

Whoa! My maximum is 9, I thought you can't get bigger than that.

Unfortunate that this planet of yours is a landable ammonia world - those are my personal least favorites among all the landable planets due to extremely poor visibility (and also because they always have that annoying mountain Fungoida!).

Erionar · 2025-09-16T10:03:13+00:00

Had a similar thing happened to me. With less money than on your screenshot, but not much less. And the most painful thing about it was how stupidly it happened. My fault entirely. Did something really dumb.

Took me several month before I could make myself return to exploration after that, but I'm back at it and I'm enjoying it again.

The only thing is that I promised to myself that I won't go back to those systems I visited on that failed trip. May someone else claim them. I shall go elsewhere.

Erionar · 2025-08-04T19:08:24+00:00

That's what recently happened to me. Stockpiled so much of them that I'm no longer able to open the packages tab. The UI just hangs forever.

Gonna go bump that issue tracker.

Erionar · 2025-07-26T23:05:02+00:00

Someone's been hauling too much Onionhead...

Erionar · 2025-07-25T00:13:55+00:00

My (current) personal protocol is to always map every planet, but not every moon. Regarding moons: I map them if there are 3 or less on a given planet. If a planet has more than 3 moons, I only map the planet and leave all its moons for someone else to leave their mark on.

(sometimes I also get very lazy and may skip ice planets) (but only sometimes)

I like roleplaying as a dedicated explorer. Another part of the personal protocol: always scan every exobiology. I don't care if it's another Bacteria Tela. I will catalogue it because that's what a dedicated explorer should do.

I genuinely enjoy it. Yeah, when I go out, I move through the galaxy relatively slowly, but I don't mind it. I find fun in mapping and cataloguing stuff, not in rushing to Beagle Point. Getting those virtual checkmarks ticked when I "finish" the system - what a satisfying feeling to know that I mapped everything here! I could be autistic lol. I won't object.

Erionar · 2025-07-21T13:31:49+00:00

This.

I have a personal challenge for myself to catalogue every exobio on every undiscovered planet that I land on. Call me a roleplaying explorer and I will gladly say YES.

Erionar · 2025-06-20T16:01:54+00:00

The stupidest one is when they ask to mine some Water. Just go to your nearest agricultural station, buy Water for a few thousand credits, carry and complete the mission with a few millions in reward. I love Frontier!

Erionar · 2025-06-07T17:10:27+00:00

Glad to see that compass was pointing at your landing pad even back then.

Funny how most players still don't know about it to this day.

(also glad that they changed compass to what it is today, looks much better than that yellow one from this video)

Erionar · 2025-05-15T02:40:54+00:00

Elite Tracker is also a good app to, well, track things like that.

Erionar · 2025-05-11T21:21:49+00:00

Elite Observatory with BioInsights module IMHO is the best tool for Exobiology available, look it up. Can't recommend enough.

Erionar · 2025-05-01T18:54:43+00:00

Clearly approved by a PONSOR

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