How to detect antimatter?

[Ixal]

I do have Antimatter traps and noticed that orbits have an antimatter value, but is there an overview to find places with antimatter?

The prospect and solar system overview only show planets, not orbits and I have not found any orbit with antimatter by looking at them manually.

[Eltoron]

Originally posted by Ixal:

I do have Antimatter traps and noticed that orbits have an antimatter value, but is there an overview to find places with antimatter?

The prospect and solar system overview only show planets, not orbits and I have not found any orbit with antimatter by looking at them manually.

I don't know if it static or random from game to game. But I have one Earth orbit with a bit of animatter. And a lot on Jupiter and it satellites.

[Ixal]

Originally posted by Eltoron:

Originally posted by Ixal:

I do have Antimatter traps and noticed that orbits have an antimatter value, but is there an overview to find places with antimatter?

The prospect and solar system overview only show planets, not orbits and I have not found any orbit with antimatter by looking at them manually.

I don't know if it static or random from game to game. But I have one Earth orbit with a bit of animatter. And a lot on Jupiter and it satellites.

I did a lot of clicking and something seems wrong.
Some Jupiter moons and Jupiter itself have 1 or 2 AM.

Yet the closest Saturn moons have 440 and 880 AM which seems a bit out of proportion compared to all other sources.

[Darrenb209]

I think that they're probably meant to produce a lot more antimatter, although the scale might be off. Or it could just be yet again a problem with reading the overcomplicated system of measuring the game uses only for antimatter and it's actually the accurate amount.

Saturn is generally regarded to be the largest source of antimatter in our solar system IRL.

[Ixal]

Well, it sounded too good to be true.
I build a station at the 880 AM orbit and build two farms, each giving me 333f (no idea what the f stands for) according to the tooltip which results in exactly 0 monthly AM gain.

Put it on the bug pile.

[ArcticISAF]

As far as I know the f is femto units, like 10^-15. Seems basically worthless, maybe Saturn with 880 makes *something*. But I totally recommend making supercolliders, place them around Mercury for that sweet power. 0.1 per month, per supercollider - you can place 5 or 10 or whatever, you can fuel your ships with it or just sell it for a nice profit to earth. Uses your spaces resources so of course be cautious there in going overboard, but I like them myself.

[Ixal]

Antimatter Farms are completely broken.
I build one around Jupiter, just to test if the 880 orbit is bugged but the ones with 1 or 2 work.
A single farm would give me 8f which is completely unusable.

Basically currently Collider are the only reasonable way to get AM

[Soul]

The only place i've found antimatter in the solar system so far is in low orbit around low jupiter orbit and an infinitesimally small amount around medium earth orbit.

[nephilimnexus]

Two ways tog get antimatter in abundance:

1) Jupiter low-orbit antimatter harvesters. This is by far the more efficient output, but the handicap is actually getting to Jupiter (and defending it). Four farms on a ring with heavy fusion reactors powering them works dandy and will only need maybe 3-4 or four units of nuclear goop to keep running. Need more? Duplicate the station.

2) Any place in Mercurial orbit cranks out so much solar power that you can spam supercolliders with ease. This is easier to set up (and defend) but produces a lot less antimatter (like, 1/10th as much) and gobbles down your nuclear materials like mad. Four supercolliders will drain away 40 points from your stockpile, and considering most sources only give 1 or 2 points, well, you get the idea.

[Lantantan]

If you insist on using the anti matter harvesters, Saturns moons have way more antimatter than Jupiter. But they still don't hold a candle to mercury atom smashers.

[Ixal]

Originally posted by Lantantan:

If you insist on using the anti matter harvesters, Saturns moons have way more antimatter than Jupiter. But they still don't hold a candle to mercury atom smashers.

As I said above, I tried that but even on the 880 moon a trap only produced 333f which didn't even translate to 0.0001 monthly income.
In fact I could not even see any difference in my AM income when the traps came online.

[Burnin Prograde]

+1 put antimatter on the prospecting page.