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Guide / Tutorial Nutter’s explorers guide to the Galaxy
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Awesome stuff- it's what I like about exploringGents! I have reached California Nebula today. Yay!
Few jumps before that i was looking in the map for my next waypoint star when i found HIP 16556. My first black hole and neutron star, both in the same system.
The black hole was a very small one (2.8 Solar masses), but the lens effect was great.
I approached the neutron star to around 1-2 LS and then i got scared and pulled away. This thing is so small and yet so massive and decided not to risk my ship to see how much further i can go against it.
Today was a good day.
Bet you got warm by that Neutron!Yes - Page 40 - Jackie Silver
Interesting - I have an A4 fitted on the Cobra and that was a big chunk of cash, with the new Asp I'm using only a D6 scoop and it still seems to get the job done as well as the A4 did for filling the Cobra's tank. I'd planned to upgrade to a bigger scoop but may give it a miss if it's so expensive! Going to see what the wear-and-tear is like when I get back from HIP 26212, got a feeling I'm in for a nasty shock.
Just returned from my little expedition out to California Nebula, Orion nebula and various points and clusters inbetween over many days. 400 systems or so visited and my wear and tear was down to 58%, 250k repair cost or so for that. Pleasantly surprised because I was expecting it to be 0% and a massive bill. Apologies in advance I didn't find you any rocky candidates for terraforming any closer than that
. Not sure if the Asp wears out less quickly because it's bigger and more resilient or they've tweaked things again.
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I read that there was a 200 system limit for data.
Is this still the case? Was it the case? If not, is there a limit?
I don't want to waste time if I can help it.
Thanks for any info on this!
Is this still the case? Was it the case? If not, is there a limit?
I don't want to waste time if I can help it.
Thanks for any info on this!
Completely false. I regularly sell data from over 500 systems at once.
Thanks for the reply!
I think he is fibbing. He may regularly sell data from over 500 systems one at a time, but 'at once' was apparently disabled back in the gamma. Selling 500 systems worth of data will take an hour or so ...
Yes, I got his meaning. Thanks for clearing that up though for those who are unaware of how things work in the game now-a-says.
I'm halfway to Orion nebula and it occurred to me to ask.
At once I meant in one sitting. I meant that I could stock up on more than 200 systems of data at once, not selling them all instantaneously. Sadly I know the time sink that selling data is. :/
Gents! I have reached California Nebula today. Yay!
Few jumps before that i was looking in the map for my next waypoint star when i found HIP 16556. My first black hole and neutron star, both in the same system.
The black hole was a very small one (2.8 Solar masses), but the lens effect was great.
I approached the neutron star to around 1-2 LS and then i got scared and pulled away. This thing is so small and yet so massive and decided not to risk my ship to see how much further i can go against it.
Today was a good day.
Hah, nice. I also found my first neutron star today. Thankfully I did some googling before I found it, the damn thing is hot... Got ca 1-2 Ls away from it like you but then my ship's heat meter began to climb
i found a lot of these. nothing uncommon i think.
damn, i'm trying but i can't see any number or geometric shapeUnless he is seeing some numbers or geometric shape in there...?
It looks like a normal protuberance to me.
Just got back from a long looping trip to Orion's belt (well, Mintaka region), HIP 26212 and California - happily, I shouldn't need to go out there a second time just to scan the Rocky CFT as I found a closer system (HIP 19039) that so far as I can tell has a few.
I did bag another Ammonia world and He Ae/Be protostar along the way, and found some other interesting things like super-high-mass Metal Rich Worlds that I will go back and check out - after the Buckyball.
I did bag another Ammonia world and He Ae/Be protostar along the way, and found some other interesting things like super-high-mass Metal Rich Worlds that I will go back and check out - after the Buckyball.
Found system with two black holes near California, one of them was around 300kLS so didn't bother.
However, the next system with black hole i stumbled was a massive system with 48 bodies (it took me almost hour to scan it). The black hole is again at 300kLS away but this time i am going there.
It is around 10 solar masses, the strange thing is that there is a small planet orbiting it. I want to go to the planet and take a picture.
However, the next system with black hole i stumbled was a massive system with 48 bodies (it took me almost hour to scan it). The black hole is again at 300kLS away but this time i am going there.
It is around 10 solar masses, the strange thing is that there is a small planet orbiting it. I want to go to the planet and take a picture.
Interesting to hear about all these black holes being discovered. It seems they are far from rare indeed. I am currently in NGC 7822 Nebula, and more or less every system here has at least one black hole.
Depends on your point of view - if you were to scan through all those zillions of low mass main sequence star systems, you could reasonably conclude that black holes were rare to the point of nonexistence.
We just like to fly to the big shiny blue balls where black holes hang out.