Where is an airless planet?!?!

[MrSchweda]

I have spent 2 hypercores and a FREAKING STACK OF WARPS looking for that distinct rusted metal resource that's a telltale sign..... and i can't find a SINGLE FREAKING ONE. what can i do other than constant mind-numbing jumping to take that stupid picture for the expedition?

[Jaggid Edje]

Pain in the butt for me too, but not nearly as hard of a time as you're having.

I'd recommend going to the anomaly to see if you can find any bases built on a dead-biome planet showing up in the "Other Bases" list. Quite a few people have built such bases a this point to make it easier for other people to find a proper planet for that milestone.

If you don't play with multiplayer enabled, or otherwise prefer not to try that method, you could also check out this thread, wherein someone gave very clear directions on how to quickly get to a system with an Airless planet from an expedition rendezvous system.

[Other]

Go to the starting system, ask polo for atlas coordinates, go to that system. It has a Terraforming Catastrophe, which is one of the "dead" biomes, and will count.

[sgrey]

An airless planet is going to be any planet that is dead. It would say a catastrophe or dead or a cataclysm, anything that indicates the planet is dead or is about to explode. There are some planets that specifically say "airless" in the description, but you don't have search for that specific one, any dead planet will do for the picture quest. It should be relatively easy to find one after 2-3 jumps. Maybe try a system with a black hole or a dissonant one. I found some dead planets in those systems.

[MrSchweda]

heck even airless discription i couldnt find. BUT.... i followed that thread thanks to that i got to that ONE dead planet i've seen this whole expedition.

[sgrey]

Dead planets aren't that rare, I would say I see them in almost every other system I jump to. You might have either hit some "bad" cluster or maybe you just didn't see them because they were covered by another planet. I often see some planet located far away and is blocked by some enormous planet and is easy to miss.
The easy way to scan everything is to get a free freighter from a pirate rescue, install a scanner room and just jump and scan a few times. You should easy find some catastrophic or dead planet.

[MrSchweda]

well yeah usually i run into them on my normal runs no problem. just for some reason i just had the dumbest stream of bad luck jumps conveniently when im doing the expedition.

[sgrey]

Originally posted by MrSchweda:

well yeah usually i run into them on my normal runs no problem. just for some reason i just had the dumbest stream of bad luck jumps conveniently when im doing the expedition.

funnily enough, I don't remember now how it was on this expedition, but I found that very often in the expedition all the planets you need would be in the rendezvous system of that particular phase or a neighboring system to it.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by sgrey:

I don't remember now how it was on this expedition, but I found that very often in the expedition all the planets you need would be in the rendezvous system of that particular phase or a neighboring system to it.

Yep, this is normally true, normally if you have a photograph milestone during an expedition, it will be in a Rendezvous system (or the starter system). That's generally true for all milestones except for those that ask you to visit Atlas Stations, black holes and (sometimes) specific color stars).

One of the Rendezvous systems did have a dead biome planet in the initial run of the expedition, but that is, unfortunately, not the case for the Redux.

[sgrey]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Originally posted by sgrey:

I don't remember now how it was on this expedition, but I found that very often in the expedition all the planets you need would be in the rendezvous system of that particular phase or a neighboring system to it.

Yep, this is normally true, normally if you have a photograph milestone during an expedition, it will be in a Rendezvous system (or the starter system). That's generally true for all milestones except for those that ask you to visit Atlas Stations, black holes and (sometimes) specific color stars).

One of the Rendezvous systems did have a dead biome planet in the initial run of the expedition, but that is, unfortunately, not the case for the Redux.

I think I found a dead planet during the redux in the dissonant system where I went to get the sentinel ship, so it was on the way as well.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by sgrey:

I think I found a dead planet during the redux in the dissonant system where I went to get the sentinel ship, so it was on the way as well.

Yah, there's also one on the way to the Atlas station closest to Rendezvous 1. Thing is, not every player is going to start from the same system for either of those things, so they may not be getting sent to the same place.

I, for example, didn't run into a single Airless planet in any system I visited for the entire expedition. I left that milestone pending specifically because I figured I'd end up just seeing one eventually, but it never happened. So I had to go out of my way exploring to get that milestone completed.

It took me 17 systems before I found one, which is just plain bad luck, because they are certainly more common than that normally.

[mystikmind2005]

I had a hell of a time finding one as well.

Many aspects of this game being a low to exceedingly low RNG probability, it often toys with certain individuals playing 'keep away' all day long, while others have little trouble at all. I do see this as a major flaw with the game.

[sgrey]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Originally posted by sgrey:

I think I found a dead planet during the redux in the dissonant system where I went to get the sentinel ship, so it was on the way as well.

Yah, there's also one on the way to the Atlas station closest to Rendezvous 1. Thing is, not every player is going to start from the same system for either of those things, so they may not be getting sent to the same place.

I, for example, didn't run into a single Airless planet in any system I visited for the entire expedition. I left that milestone pending specifically because I figured I'd end up just seeing one eventually, but it never happened. So I had to go out of my way exploring to get that milestone completed.

It took me 17 systems before I found one, which is just plain bad luck, because they are certainly more common than that normally.

This is nuts to struggle so much, but it's also understandable since this game is very heavily reliant on luck. I guess that's just how rng is.

[AC Dosage]

As you travel in the future make tiny bases named for the resources/features you found there with a base computer to make claim, power supply and teleporter whenever you find rarer features, it makes the game easier as you go because you won't need to hunt around anymore for those rarer resources/features.

[smurfy]

This issue is the Redux takes place in a different set of systems to the original run of Exp 12. In the original systems, this milestone was easy as there was one of the three qualifying planets in at least one of the rendezvous systems. This time, they slipped up and left the milestone as requiring an Airless system even though there wasn't one to use along the way.

Usually when hunting a specific biome type, there are ways to get the game to help you find them by pinning resources common on that planetary biome. However, dead systems don't have a common searchable resource to help this time.

[mystikmind2005]

Originally posted by AC Dosage:

As you travel in the future make tiny bases named for the resources/features you found there with a base computer to make claim, power supply and teleporter whenever you find rarer features, it makes the game easier as you go because you won't need to hunt around anymore for those rarer resources/features.

Except that this is an expedition, so you wont see any of those bases, but otherwise its good advice