Points of interest

[marvispontiax]

Some planets have points of interest marked before you land there (e.g. "civilian outpost". The times that I landed at these, they seemed to be the same as a random such place that you can find when you land somewhere randomly. But I've seen claimed in different places now (youtube, here on the forum, etc.) that these contain special missions/stories. Can anybody confirm this? The once I tried seem to just have the generic missions (e.g. there's a base of spacers nearby bugging us).

[Nite69]

Yes thats confirmed, those places are for alot of the radient missions that are repeatable, the ones you get from the areas that have the computer console / bounty payoff

[nzguzzi]

many PoI have have landed at have basic missions.
Find missing person
Scan cave for resource
Hunt animals to provide meat for lost survivors
Negotiate with local pirates
Kill bandit leader
guide lost hunter back to settlement etc etc

They are out there, its all RNG
Systems that have the 3 dots on planets will offer more as it has actual things going on , higher chance of ship encounters etc.

Systems with no 3 dot PoI are dead zones, lower spawn rates etc

Any settlement, mining station, fracking station, science outpost all have those quests.

[marvispontiax]

So they're just generic. There's no special stories to discover there?

[lizzo(overturned bans x 69)]

Originally posted by marvispontiax:

So they're just generic. There's no special stories to discover there?

nope welcome to sf

[marvispontiax]

Whenever I land somewhere, just walking around for 5 minutes there seem to be ships landing etc. anyway...how are the ones with the three dots special/better?

[marvispontiax]

Originally posted by Lizzo:

Originally posted by marvispontiax:

So they're just generic. There's no special stories to discover there?

nope welcome to sf

Ok thanks!

[alanc9]

Originally posted by marvispontiax:

So they're just generic. There's no special stories to discover there?

Anything special will be spotted from orbit. However, some generic structures can be spotted from orbit too.

I find that the game is best approached like Mass Effect 2. Only land someplace you have a reason to land at.

[sarcastic_godot]

Originally posted by marvispontiax:

So they're just generic. There's no special stories to discover there?

There are a few side quests to get there, one of which even is a complex one with several stages. And in some, you can discover a bit of a backstory...

...but basically, they're mostly generic.

[drommels]

This page mentions all systems with the more unique poi, (including cities) https://www.ign.com/wikis/starfield/Starmap_-_List_of_Systems_and_Planets