To all explorers - do you only scan stars or entire systems?
- Thread starter Fangrim
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I normally head to a particular spot scan that well then come back.
My next spot to scan is 27,000ly from SOL - to get there, I Jump, beep the horn, cherry pick, move on. When I get to crazy town I hop from black hole to neutron stars.
Then fingers crossed I complete my 60,000ly loop and land. My last trip I collided with another player and went pop some 8,000ly from home.
It's Dangerous!
My next spot to scan is 27,000ly from SOL - to get there, I Jump, beep the horn, cherry pick, move on. When I get to crazy town I hop from black hole to neutron stars.
Then fingers crossed I complete my 60,000ly loop and land. My last trip I collided with another player and went pop some 8,000ly from home.
It's Dangerous!
I have OCD. I scan everything. 
I pop in and scan everything, set up to scoop, surface scan the star, then look at the system map and see if there's anything that looks interesting. I don't bother surface scanning balls of ice or rock belts, but if I see something that might harbor life, or may look earthlike or a water world I pop over and scan it. Sometimes I get a system that looks really interesting overall in which case I surface scan everything for posterity.
If I'm heading home I usually make max-length jumps and just bungie in, discovery scan, surface scan the star, and bungie out.
Last night I found a system with 4 brown dwarves with elaborate rings, orbiting eachother. I scanned all of those, because, um, I dunno!
That's interesting!
I've noticed some people like to scan for minerals, some for nice real estate, etc. I scan for life. I love finding signs of life. Dunno why.
If I'm heading home I usually make max-length jumps and just bungie in, discovery scan, surface scan the star, and bungie out.
Last night I found a system with 4 brown dwarves with elaborate rings, orbiting eachother. I scanned all of those, because, um, I dunno!
That's interesting!
I've noticed some people like to scan for minerals, some for nice real estate, etc. I scan for life. I love finding signs of life. Dunno why.
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No I Don't scan everything - and not even stars - when I see an interesting system with blue planets or a black holes or class 2 gas giants I will scan a bit more - Apart from earning more money like that it allows you to move quickly to the centre of the universe or whatever destination you have in your mind. I used to scan a bit more when i was searching for specific objects like Class 5 gas giants, ammonia worlds.
Jump in. Scoop. Scan star. Blow the horn and look system map in the meantime. If water world or earth like candidate, then SC directly to it, regardless of distance.
If confirmed, then I scan the entire system, including asteroids cause I hate to see the unexplored tag in nav panel.
If no candidate or turns out to be metal/rocky then I jump out to the next system.
Been following this method during my 12k ly journey to a nebula. Started last sunday, I still have 8k ly to go. But hey! 6 water worlds/earth like planets so far!!
Only exception I concede is if the system is over 50 objects and most of them seem metallic. Then I scan. So far only one such system that I have bothered though.
If confirmed, then I scan the entire system, including asteroids cause I hate to see the unexplored tag in nav panel.
If no candidate or turns out to be metal/rocky then I jump out to the next system.
Been following this method during my 12k ly journey to a nebula. Started last sunday, I still have 8k ly to go. But hey! 6 water worlds/earth like planets so far!!
Only exception I concede is if the system is over 50 objects and most of them seem metallic. Then I scan. So far only one such system that I have bothered though.
I'm an OCD explorer. Must.......scan........everything.
I only scan other objects than the jump-in-star if I see something interesting. In 99% of the cases only the jump-in-star.
Only after surface scan. But that can be done without the detailed surface scanner.
1:Go to system
2:Advanced Discovery Scan
3:Check System map for planets days to orbit (250-400 days) i usually scan the planets if they look like they have water,metal,gas giants. Dont usually bother with rocks/moons.
4: Scan the Star and leave for next.
A little trick i found for finding black holes/rare systems ETC is to zoom out of the Galaxy map until you can barely see any visible stars and then pan across. Anything showing on the map when you do this and dark Blue is usually a neutron star/black hole system. You can check obviously via the panel on the left of the galaxy map that tells you the star content.
Also search out G2v systems. They tend to have earth like planets and on the galaxy map they will be a very light yellow/white
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advanced and another module with detailed surface scan. Detailed works alongside the scanner to provide more in=more creds. Its auto activated when your ship scans and will display "detailed scan complete" or something when its done
2:Advanced Discovery Scan
3:Check System map for planets days to orbit (250-400 days) i usually scan the planets if they look like they have water,metal,gas giants. Dont usually bother with rocks/moons.
4: Scan the Star and leave for next.
A little trick i found for finding black holes/rare systems ETC is to zoom out of the Galaxy map until you can barely see any visible stars and then pan across. Anything showing on the map when you do this and dark Blue is usually a neutron star/black hole system. You can check obviously via the panel on the left of the galaxy map that tells you the star content.
Also search out G2v systems. They tend to have earth like planets and on the galaxy map they will be a very light yellow/white
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advanced and another module with detailed surface scan. Detailed works alongside the scanner to provide more in=more creds. Its auto activated when your ship scans and will display "detailed scan complete" or something when its done
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I scan everything, even the asteroid fields. call it immersion if you like but the truth is that I find exploring to be very relaxing after a day at work.
I was using the intermediate. I liked finding things outside of its range by flying around and looking for objects moving against background. But then I went to a system with a black hole in it (hip 100289). I was able to locate everything in the system but the black hole. I know that I had gotten close to it because it knocked me out of super cruise twice. But for some reason the intermediate scanner didn't pick it up. When I came back with the advanced scanner, boom, there it was. Right where I thought it should be. I think that the advanced scanner is worth the money.
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It is just IMPOSSIBLE to find everything in the system only using parallax method. There are moons, dark bodies, tiny bodies that you won't see no matter how fast, no matter how attentively you look for points moving against the background.
Yes, it's fun to locate some like that. But it is, by most means and cases, an incomplete picture. If I travel 4k ly to a system, to do a half @ s s scan, might as well just stay local and do nothing. At least that's what I think.
The advanced scanner is worth it and no, it won't kill the fun because you will still need to travel to the object to detail scan it. And the other satisfaction that it provides is that once your are done, you know for sure there is nothing else in that system. The feeling I might have left something out -perhaps that Earth Like planet- when exploring with the basic or intermediate, was a killer for me. Advanced scanner is the way to go if you are into serious exploration.
*shakes head*
I can't believe that there are so many people still don't know that any planet that is within 0.4 - 1.2 AU (depending on star) can be terraformed like the metal planets. Also, moons from the gas giant can be terraformed. Guess us TRUE explorers can claim it.
I can't believe that there are so many people still don't know that any planet that is within 0.4 - 1.2 AU (depending on star) can be terraformed like the metal planets. Also, moons from the gas giant can be terraformed. Guess us TRUE explorers can claim it.
I bet 99% of those seemingly not scannet objects in that range range are because of the bug that prevented first discoveries registering properly.*shakes head*
I can't believe that there are so many people still don't know that any planet that is within 0.4 - 1.2 AU (depending on star) can be terraformed like the metal planets. Also, moons from the gas giant can be terraformed. Guess us TRUE explorers can claim it.
I meant the people on the thread. They are all only going water worlds and earth-like planets. Never take a look at metal planets or gas giant moons. lol
Edit: This is what you get if you look at metal planets.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=95490&p=1812730&viewfull=1#post1812730
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