Vasil VasilescuMy suggestion: If you are using Inara to search the markets, look at the updated column when searching for commodities to buy and sell. Don't fully trust anything over a day, three at the most. And especially don't fully trust anything over 12 hours if the buy or sell price is awesome. "Updated" means the last time that price/quantity was verified, not what it currently is, or that a carrier is still in the same place.

In the past, I've had orders for commodities (sometimes 10-20K) filled within a day and items listed for sale at good prices sold within 2 hours.

Vasil VasilescuMy suggestion: If you are using Inara to search the markets, look at the updated column when searching for commodities to buy and sell. Don't fully trust anything over a day, three at the most. And especially don't fully trust anything over 12 hours if the buy or sell price is awesome. "Updated" means the last time that price/quantity was verified, not what it currently is, or that a carrier is still in the same place.

In the past, I've had orders for commodities (sometimes 10-20K) filled within a day and items listed for sale at good prices sold within 2 hours.

KensaiVG

I do keep this in mind but this one was a couple of hours - really, it seems Ralph Thum and I were gunning for the same carrier

Miner WillyWent for the silver fox look personally, ended up looking like a William Hartnell on hunger strike.
but yep of that age.

SakashiroNo doubt Elite Dangerous is the game with the highest rate of grey-haired bearded gentleman avatars. I love that.

Did you guys play the original 1984 game?

Sampi OgonekSome bio types are indeed very picky about the type of terrain they can spawn on. In particular, certain species of Osseus grow only on larger patches of rock sticking out of sand. I’ve had a few instances where I had to fly dozens of km over the terrain looking for the second/third specimen to sample. (A trick that makes certain bios, especially Osseus, easier to spot is to fly with night mode on — it makes those things look more distinct in daylight.) Bark mounds are even worse in this respect, although on the plus side if you find one you will almost always find the other two nearby.

In case of bacteria, there are two problems that one may encounter:

• Some genera of bacteria are associated with geo features (geysers/fumaroles). You have first to find a field of those geo features, then fly around trying to spot bacterial colonies among them.
• Several genera of bacteria generally do not stand out much from the terrain. On a distant, low light world it can be nigh impossible to see them without using lights and being quite close (which means it is easy to fly right past them and not notice them because your ship lights were pointing a few metres off to the side).

Now, if I decide to bother to go out to scan biologicals on a particular world, I do my best to scan all of them on that world. I recall two instances where I failed. One involved a planet with both bark mounds and brain trees; it appears that bark mounds cannot spawn where brain trees do, and in that particular case brain trees covered most of the world, including apparently every patch where bark mounds might spawn otherwise. (The other instance involved some atmospheric biological, AFAIR Osseus, which just refused to spawn anywhere I looked, and I looked a lot.)

Faiza I think I've just run into a similar scenario - a planet with supposedly 4 biological signals. I've scoured every section of the planet...it is covered in geysers and only one biological spawns near them. I haven't detected any of the other three, not even bacteria. Just geysers and the fumaroles. Very frustrating!

SakashiroNo doubt Elite Dangerous is the game with the highest rate of grey-haired bearded gentleman avatars. I love that.

Did you guys play the original 1984 game?