Paradise planet on Survival ?

[Tom]

I thought that there are no paradise planets when playing in survival, only on normal. A bunch of online posts and YT videos say so as well.

Guess I was wrong. Took me about 200 hours of gameplay on this save, but I have found my first paradise planet on Survival:

https://imgur.com/a/UBsX9uQ

Dropping a base there. Cool !

[Jaggid Edje]

All difficulties have paradise planets, they are just more rare on Survival difficulty because the chance of a Lush world having hostile or high sentinel activity is greater on higher difficulties and having low sentinels is one of the requirements for a planet to be classified as a Paradise planet.

I actually found a planet last year that was Paradise on survival difficulty but NOT on normal difficulty because, oddly enough, turning down difficulty doesn't necessarily mean a planet will remain light on sentinel activity.

I generally change difficulty settings both up and down whenever I'm on a Lush planet just to see if it's Paradise on any of them. You don't even need to save/reload or anything, it changes in real time.

The most common change though is the case that a Paradise world in Normal mode transforms to not-paradise when you increase the difficulty to Survival+. Sentinels going from nearly non-existent to Extreme being terribly common.

[Jaggid Edje]

Also, you might want to check that planet with boots on the ground. It may not be an actual Paradise planet despite what discovery shows. Boots on the ground and check what it says when you exit the ship to confirm it's legitimate. You cannot trust discovery when it comes to that.

[Crazy Earl]

Set foot on a Paradise planet a few days ago to find that while it was pretty nice overall... it was overrun with giant Worms every which way, and hostile as heck.

[Consoomer]

Lots of paradise planets on Permadeath in lush galaxies e.g. Eissentam

[Tom]

Checked with boots on the ground and confirmed. Yes, it's in Eissentam, that probably raised the chances. I'll see if it makes for a nice base planet.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Tom:

Checked with boots on the ground and confirmed. Yes, it's in Eissentam, that probably raised the chances. I'll see if it makes for a nice base planet.

Awesome, congrats on your find!
They aren't super-rare on survival but they are still quite a bit more rare than if you were playing normal mode, so definitely enjoy it.

[Zoran]

In the PD game, it's not too rare to find a paradise planet, but they always seem to have something wrong with them: aggro sentinels, predatory animals, killer storms, no water.

Best I found was a paradise moon (no water) or Dissonant Worlds. The later is my best hope for a good home planet. Dissonant sentinels leave you alone and a few crystals won't ruin the look.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Zoran:

In the PD game, it's not too rare to find a paradise planet, but they always seem to have something wrong with them: aggro sentinels, predatory animals, killer storms, no water.

Best I found was a paradise moon (no water) or Dissonant Worlds. The later is my best hope for a good home planet. Dissonant sentinels leave you alone and a few crystals won't ruin the look.

If they have aggressive sentinels they are not paradise planets. If they have Storms, they are not paradise planets.

You're mixing up Lush Biome planets with what the game actually labels as a Paradise planet (when you're ON the planet, as mentioned earlier, Discovery gets it wrong sometimes). Both storms and aggressive sentinels are specifically counter to the rules the game uses to determine if the "Paradise" label is applied.

[Zoran]

Went through my discovery list, sadly nms forgot most of the details (I did Freighter Scan all of them). But, I found at least one:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3352810231
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3352810540

See whats wrong with that one?!? No station. Probably had predators too... must have been a reason I left and did not bother to plant a base.

There is always something wrong with paradise planets in PD.