I think I am starting to get it...

Poplin

Poplin
Whiterose said:
and if you do forget, I think the record is about 5.67 expletives per second.
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I had one of those moments earlier, I was looking at a blackhole, and walked away as SC was charging. Forgot I had to align with an escape vector, there went 43% of my hull. Also was 13,000 LY away, so I didn't want to turn back.
 

lefty1117

L
I made more money in the Lugh events than I had made in all my previous time in the game. And what did I do with it? Fitted out a new asp with all the best exploration modules, of course!
 

Richard

R
pdizzle said:
The whole mentality of enjoying the journey; I never got it. I wanted the next biggest baddest ship to conquer the galaxy. Last night that started to change.
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I had swapped into an adder to fly over to where my Asp had been stationed (I just picked up a vulture and was going to sell my a-class combat asp for outfitting cash on the vuture). It was about 400 LY away in empire space. I outfitted the adder to near A-class, but kept it lightweight to maximize jump range. You know, you can find a lot of cool things in a 400 LY span. It should have taken me about 15 minutes to get there, but I ended up way out in uncharted space because I saw a cool nebula was not that far away.
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By the time I finally headed back, I had found one earthlike planet, visited the nebula (which was awesome!) and had about 300k in basic scan data. Instead of selling the asp and gear, I outfitted it for exploration. Sagittarius A*, Here I come!
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Right on Commander!
 

Richard

R
Ziggy Starduster said:
Pdizzle hops warily into space
With the brim pulled way down low
Ain't no sound but the sound of his horn
Scanners ready to go

Are you ready, hey, are you ready for this
FSD severly worn
Out of hyperspace the fuel scoops
To the sound of the horn - yeah

Dun, dun, dun
Another one caught the bug
Dun, dun, dun
Another one caught the bug
And another one gone and another one gone
Another one caught the bug, eh
Hey, I'm gonna scan you too
Another one caught the bug
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Took me a second or two to get that - nice one!

You reckon we need to request an 'Explorers got the horn' t-shirt from the Zaonce store? :p
 

Nagual

Nagual
Annoyingly I can only recall the chorus lol

Ziggy Starduster said:
Pdizzle hops warily into space
With the brim pulled way down low
Ain't no sound but the sound of his horn
Scanners ready to go

Are you ready, hey, are you ready for this
FSD severly worn
Out of hyperspace the fuel scoops
To the sound of the horn - yeah

Dun, dun, dun
Another one caught the bug
Dun, dun, dun
Another one caught the bug
And another one gone and another one gone
Another one caught the bug, eh
Hey, I'm gonna scan you too
Another one caught the bug
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Reido

Reido
Welcome to "The Void" Commander.

Exploration is the best way to mine for wallpaper :D

N America Sector IR-W d1-b1 AB1(3).jpg

Andrew
 

Draxxen

Draxxen
pdizzle said:
The whole mentality of enjoying the journey; I never got it. I wanted the next biggest baddest ship to conquer the galaxy. Last night that started to change.
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I had swapped into an adder to fly over to where my Asp had been stationed (I just picked up a vulture and was going to sell my a-class combat asp for outfitting cash on the vuture). It was about 400 LY away in empire space. I outfitted the adder to near A-class, but kept it lightweight to maximize jump range. You know, you can find a lot of cool things in a 400 LY span. It should have taken me about 15 minutes to get there, but I ended up way out in uncharted space because I saw a cool nebula was not that far away.
.
By the time I finally headed back, I had found one earthlike planet, visited the nebula (which was awesome!) and had about 300k in basic scan data. Instead of selling the asp and gear, I outfitted it for exploration. Sagittarius A*, Here I come!
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Don't you love it!
Be careful though; before you know it, there was those few more nebulae you want to drop by, a week has gone by and you are 5000LY from home. Happened to me. At least you get millions in discovery data when you return.
And you get to be the first to discover things like these two twin Earths:

Asp explorer 59 - my second and third earth-like worlds in same system.jpg
 

steevaavoo

steevaavoo
thehairymob said:
Remember to cut throttle when in Hyperjump. It will save you star kissing :D
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I stay at max throttle then refuel like a boss - then it's off to the next system in a thrice.

Only gets hairy if it's a brown dwarf or T tauri. Then if I hear the fuel scoop noise with no scoopy goodness taking place, I pull away hard.
 

ElectricZ

ElectricZ
Good luck on your expedition and congrats on getting away from the ship grind. Once you figure out that you're not a slave to the grind, it opens up all kinds of possibilities for enjoying the game. When you come back, work on building rep with some local factions. Find a system where two or more factions are going at each other, read the descriptions and pick a side. Start running missions to help "your" faction and to thwart the others. You'll be surprised at how the "boring" bulletin board missions take on a new flavor when you're doing it to help your system. You start running cargo not based on profit/ton, but how well it assists in your goals. Enjoy the animosity of becoming hostile with a faction and the difference of seeing red and green contacts on your scope. That's with the existing game mechanics, no less. The 1.3 patch is rumored to add even more.

I also get a lot of enjoyment out of knowing my "neighborhood" and telling visitors where to go for commodities, where the close stations are, good spots for pirate hunting, etc. I've met quite a few friendly commanders out there, and once you get into the habit of using the local comms, the longer trips to more distant stations become an excuse for friendly chit chat.

Trying to zoom up the ladder as fast as possible is the fast track to burnout. Glad you found a way to keep that from happening to you!
 

InMemoriamSirocco

Banned
InMemoriamSirocco
I contribute most of my beauty shots in the "Screenie(s)" thread from time to time... but have some exclusives from the Californian Nebula:

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Gas Giant with waterbased life

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Ammonia world with high metal content moon

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Crossing the dark side of a metal rich planet...

I never get tired of taking pictures! <3

EDIT:

En route to Barnard's Loop now... reporting back when I get there!

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