60,000 light years, 500 Neutron Stars, 70 Black holes, 1 Supermassive and 22mil Profit!

_Dastardly_

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Zenith said:
Well done OP!

I've switched from the "prospector" activities looking for interesting worlds with life, terraform candidates and Earth-likes. I'm now in "industrial grinding" mode and in a neutron star rich area, just like you were.

I keep a spreadsheet running of my discoveries so I still log if I find a gas giant with water or ammonia based life, or a likely looking terraform candidate (I've got very good at spotting them now). Just lately though, 2 out of 3 stars are neutron stars or white dwarves. With this data tracked, I calculated that I scanned through more than 1.5M Cr of exploration data last night alone!
I've already worked out how many objects it will take and the approximate timescale. My intention is to stay out here gathering enough data to guarantee leapfrogging Pioneer straight to Elite.

I've also found gas giants with water and ammonia based life in orbit around neutron stars. I've even found a couple of terraform candidate high metal content planets around neutron stars.

The closest I've come to an Earth-like around a neutron star was a K class star 50k ls out with a mini system of 4 terraform water worlds and an Earth-like in orbit. They aren't directly in orbit around the neutron star though.
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I found 3 earth likes on neutron stars, all about 2k ls out from the star. I guess this is because of their temp, also lots of X-rays from neutron stars apparently.

I just kept kept a loose count on my head over 2 days while I was doing the neutron star blitz. :)
 

Kalpa

Kalpa
Jumping to these stars, ponging the scanner, moving on is ultimately rather, very, extremely boring. Much more so than fully scanning a system with 100 bodies, even though the latter takes way more time and gives out much less reward in terms of (eventual) credits.

But that's just how I feel about it. Others can and will disagree.

ps. Do not presume we explorers did not know about the peculiarities of Stellar Forge, post-1.1 the starmap color filters have shown the boxy nature of our galaxy in even greater detail than before ;)
 

jpaulwilson1982

jpaulwilson1982
Dastardly, those are some beautiful shots you got there. Very impressive work, my friend.

I've been pondering a trip to Sag A for a couple of weeks now.... The best thing I have ATM is an almost fully kitted out Cobra, which gets just over 13ly. So, I'm going to need to get another ship to cut down on the number of jumps, or I could just go for it. I dunno, I'll have to ponder it a bit longer.

+Rep, Dastardly. Congrats on your safe return.
 

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FalconFly said:
It's quite ironic that not Discovering but rather shotgunning (only Detail-scan what is within immediate range, then jump right off) is the most profitable and fastest way indeed...

Only moving around for Earth-likes or Terraforming candidates then, leaving 99% of these Systems unexplored since it simply consumes way too much time and is highly unprofitable at the same time.
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That's capitalistic "exploration". It has nothing to do with the ideal set by the discoverers back in the days, like Humboldt, da Gama or Livingston
 

jpaulwilson1982

jpaulwilson1982
I know what some of you mean. I've gotten to where I don't scan any rocky or icy planets, which leaves out most astronomical objects I've encountered. However, I do come across quite a few gas giants, far more than I expected to see.
 

Sim Maker

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If you classic explorers really scan every body in every system you jump to, how far out are you? Doing a trip like that to the core would take......years?.......
 

_Dastardly_

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Ulysses_W said:
Maybe, just maybe the OP doesn't want one? Believe it or not, Not all of us do.
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It would be nice if there was an upgrade for exploring from the asp...

also I would not recommend this as your only method of exploring, but it does increase your final income from a run significantly which is nice.
 

Rimsey

Rimsey
I am currently 10K from SOL and gotta say i'm not looking forward to jumping all the way back to hand in my scans. Need some stations way out here lol.
 

Ulysses_W

Ulysses_W
I'm about 14k out, heading to SAG A. (I hope someone's opened a kebab van out there by now). I was going to turn back after that, but I've decided not to. I'm just going follw my nose and keep going.
 

Cmdr Rhott Roe

Cmdr Rhott Roe
_Dastardly_ said:
It would be nice if there was an upgrade for exploring from the asp...
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I started my journey to SagA in an Asp two weeks ago. After 600ly I turned her around and went back to get my Python. Now I'm half way to SagA and taking my time. Been doing a lot of scanning and only skip the non interesting systems. I consider my Python an upgrade to the asp though few would agree. I feel more secure in it. Also racked up nearly 300k in bounties just on the interdictions on my way out. Makes me feel all warm inside LOL. Anyways, I figure I will be out for another 4-5 weeks and wanted a ship to be reckoned with on my return since 1.2 will be in full swing.
 

drpaul

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_Dastardly_ said:
It would be nice if there was an upgrade for exploring from the asp...

also I would not recommend this as your only method of exploring, but it does increase your final income from a run significantly which is nice.
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I'm not sure I agree. I find the Asp really fits the bill for me. Has nice jump range and enough firepower to survive travel through the badlands when it is time to return and sell data. Still, I wish we explorers could have the community goal of building a station at Sag A* and we need some jackpot very rare items to come across when exploring. I'd reckon it took me about 20 hours or so to get there going about as fast as I could. I'm taking my time on the way back and scanning. But even with very rapid trip in I came across four earthlike worlds including two orbiting each other as twins. It would be nice to get that data back and have the tags.
 

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jpaulwilson1982 said:
Dastardly, those are some beautiful shots you got there. Very impressive work, my friend.

I've been pondering a trip to Sag A for a couple of weeks now.... The best thing I have ATM is an almost fully kitted out Cobra, which gets just over 13ly. So, I'm going to need to get another ship to cut down on the number of jumps, or I could just go for it. I dunno, I'll have to ponder it a bit longer.

+Rep, Dastardly. Congrats on your safe return.
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You might consider trading rares for a bit. That got me from Cobra to Asp and it is a fine ship for exploring.
 

_Dastardly_

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Rofl. That clip just made my morning!

I think we need more stuff to find out in deep space to make this interesting, aliens, abandoned ships, alien colonies, malfunctioning generation ships.. anything at all really (but preferably not the nonsense USS style random encounter that makes no sense at all....)
 
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