Earth likes - hints please

Deepfriedmal

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I am searching for my first Earth like - unexplored - so I can put my name to it. However not a lot of joy yet.
I have been out a couple of times now to around 1500ly's and found nothing, not even a terraformable one. Searching only A,B,G,F and K's with the occasional M just to top up fuel.
Any tips gratefully received.

Mal
 

Genar-Hofoen

Genar-Hofoen
Deepfriedmal said:
I am searching for my first Earth like - unexplored - so I can put my name to it. However not a lot of joy yet.
I have been out a couple of times now to around 1500ly's and found nothing, not even a terraformable one. Searching only A,B,G,F and K's with the occasional M just to top up fuel.
Any tips gratefully received.

Mal
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Earthlikes are few and far between - there are even earth likes found orbiting neutron stars. You're least likely to encounter an earthlike orbiting M-class stars though - they almost always have a batch of icy boringness orbiting them.

Just keep exploring - you'll find them eventually.

In my last trip to Sagittarius A* and beyond, I discovered 17 earth-likes.

You just need to keep going.
 
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Bacon Sarnie

Bacon Sarnie
I started looking around G2's a lot more, like our sun
Found 2 earthlikes in less than 90 minutes.
One was at a G2, other was at an F3
Stopped looking soon after, Im not bothered what I find, I just like exploring.
 

Deepfriedmal

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Thanks gents, that is a good tip on it's own.. I will keep an eye out for G2's and head for them a bit more... still on my way out

Mal
 
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Bacon Sarnie

Bacon Sarnie
Genar-Hofoen said:
Sol is a G3 ;)
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I'll just leave this here.

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drkaii

drkaii
Look also at Ks and Fs, and you'll find more unexplored ones further than you've been. I didn't find any on even a 2000ly trip but on the way to the core I've found loads. They are very rare even on the sol-like systems, and because the vast majority of systems are class M, your route plotter isn't much help. When you are closer to the core, the sol-likes are much more abundant, you can find huge regions of them, and your route plotter will select them more often. You will have to do some manual plotting though for your best chances, and you'll need a lot of patience!
 

Varrag

Varrag
I found most of them around F and G types, but as being said, you can expect them almost anywhere. Well, maybe except for the L, T and Y dwarves... I've never seen ELW near one.
 

gooddoc

gooddoc
It's just luck...this morning i jumped to a system of a Neutron star. The Neutron star had been claimed, but the remaining 7 objects were unexplored - these when i explored them included 1 Waterworld & 2 yes! 2 Earthlikes
 

Fen Harel

Fen Harel
ELWs can be around many stars, as has been said. When I am in a mood to search I stick to G and F - though the last time I just stuck with G. I don't even bother refining the subclass, I just start going from one of these to the next, to the next, etc., until one pops up. For me, these seem to have the higher chance of getting an ELW hit, though of course you are going to miss some around other stars.
 

CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI

CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI
gooddoc said:
It's just luck...this morning i jumped to a system of a Neutron star. The Neutron star had been claimed, but the remaining 7 objects were unexplored - these when i explored them included 1 Waterworld & 2 yes! 2 Earthlikes
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It's not luck: filter galaxy map for F,G,K stars and your probability to find one will increase drastically. Now, it's luck to find an uncharted one (not named), but recently one ELW un-named was found very close to civilized bubble (about 150Ly) From the following statistic, that's not complete but way better than a single explorer experience, the stars that most frequently have an ELW are K class.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=119065

From the thread:

STAR CLASS: Number of systems (of which have multiple stars)
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NON SEQUENCE: 28 (16)
O-TYPE: 0 (0)
B-TYPE: 1 (1)
A-TYPE: 60 (27)
F-TYPE: 159 (76)
G-TYPE: 147 (70)
K-TYPE: 172 (74)
M-TYPE: 53 (35)
L-TYPE: 0 (0)
T-TYPE: 0 (0)
Y-TYPE: 0 (0)
PROTO: 4 (1)
WOLF-RAYET: 1 (1)
CARBON: 2 (1)
WHITE DWARF: 0 (0)

TOTAL: 627 (302)


 
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Kancro Vantas

Kancro Vantas
I just think is pure luck. I would like to think that it follows more "logical" patterns but evidence points out to the opposite. e.g. I don't think it makes too much sense to find that many ELP around neutron stars as many report in here. Neutron Stars are pretty toxic environment, let alone light is just not there and right before its existence there was a star explosion/death. The main sequence star that generated the NS wasnt on the main sequence for too long either -Millions of years, not billions- whereas life on Earth took 4.5 billions to evolve to present state, and at least 1 Bn to even exist at all!

I used to go G,F,K's...and found maybe one....I just let the router alone...found 4 more...???

On all 3 explorations combined, currently in one, so far 50,000 ly travelled, have only found 5 ELP. I know, tough luck, but meh! I just accept is random...
 

CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI

CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI
Kancro Vantas said:
I just think is pure luck. I would like to think that it follows more "logical" patterns but evidence points out to the opposite. e.g. I don't think it makes too much sense to find that many ELP around neutron stars as many report in here. Neutron Stars are pretty toxic environment, let alone light is just not there and right before its existence there was a star explosion/death. The main sequence star that generated the NS wasnt on the main sequence for too long either -Millions of years, not billions- whereas life on Earth took 4.5 billions to evolve to present state, and at least 1 Bn to even exist at all!

I used to go G,F,K's...and found maybe one....I just let the router alone...found 4 more...???

On all 3 explorations combined, currently in one, so far 50,000 ly travelled, have only found 5 ELP. I know, tough luck, but meh! I just accept is random...
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It's not random. Following thread collects hundred of player experience wich, though incomplete, is better than a single explorer experience. F,G,K, stars have a much higher probability to have an ELW. The contributors in the following thread that discover 3 ELW per evening are not crazy people that jumps 2500 system/hour, it's people that filters galaxy map for only show F,G,K, stars.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=119065
 

gooddoc

gooddoc
It's all about your exploration technique...if i went out on a trip ELP hunting, then i would concentrate only on the type of stars likely to give ELPs. Then i would expect a decent return on the trip.
However i currently plot my route by aiming at waypoints that i set, until i reach an area of interest, that i may then search an area for a while. This more direct A-B-C-D etc will decrease my chances of finding ELPs.
My last trip of around 13k LYs i found only 1 ELP. This trip so far of around 6k LYs iv found 6, 5 have yet to be 'claimed', hope i get back & claim then b4 someone else finds them, but that's the luck of the draw!
 
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