Greetings CMDR's,
after nearly 3 months and 3200+ systems I have finally returned to civilisation in the slightly battered and scratched Asp "Lightly seared on the reality grill".
I originally set out on the 13th March for a quick jaunt to the the Pleiades nebula, and got slightly sidetracked.
After visiting the Pleiades, I noticed the other nebulii were 'only' a short hop away, after the Horsehead, Running man, Orion and Barnards Loop nebulas (as well as a few others), I found myself at the California nebula. From there I headed straight 'down' as far as I could get and attempted to head core-wards at that elevation, after lots of backtracking I came back up a few hundred LY's and zig-zagged my way inwards.
Somewhere around this time I finally worked out how to filter for stars on the Gal-map and started using neutron stars and black holes as waypoints, it worked for me as I knew I would have a decent system at the end of each 'leg' rather than something random.
My plan at the time was to head to the core on the elevation I was on and then head straight 'up' to Sag A via the Great Annihilator, which I eventually did after been delayed slightly by a discovery of a neutron field and a meet up with another CMDR for a little exploring duet near the core.
After Sag A I was going to head out of the core a little to make plotting easier then head straight 'up' before making a slow return to civilisation or possibly heading on to the other side of the galaxy. However a chance encounter with a neutron star cracked my already damaged canopy to 50% and decided to head home as fast as possible. Well as fast as getting distracted by ooohh shiny! would let me.
I got home on Tuesday after an uneventful trip in, didn't see one other ship until the last 200 LY.. Selling the data however was a total pain, around 15 hrs in total.
And now the stats!,
as I was just popping out to the shops metaphorically speaking I didn't really equip for exploring, I set out with a fully armed and lightly shielded Asp with 28.8 LY jump range and an A3 fuel scoop, that scoop nearly made me give up a few times it probably added a few days to my trip.
Total Systems scanned: 3263
the lvl 2 & 3 scans seem to be still bugged as the lvl 2 didnt change but lvl 3 changed to 9698
Ammonia worlds: 18
Earth Like Worlds: 19
Water Worlds: 204
Black Holes: 75
Neutron Stars: 725 (half from farming, half from waypoints)
I made around 128 million from the trip, so I'm still a little short of getting Elite in exploration, something for the next trip!
Some pics in a bit, just need to resize them.
after nearly 3 months and 3200+ systems I have finally returned to civilisation in the slightly battered and scratched Asp "Lightly seared on the reality grill".
I originally set out on the 13th March for a quick jaunt to the the Pleiades nebula, and got slightly sidetracked.
After visiting the Pleiades, I noticed the other nebulii were 'only' a short hop away
, after the Horsehead, Running man, Orion and Barnards Loop nebulas (as well as a few others), I found myself at the California nebula. From there I headed straight 'down' as far as I could get and attempted to head core-wards at that elevation, after lots of backtracking I came back up a few hundred LY's and zig-zagged my way inwards.Somewhere around this time I finally worked out how to filter for stars on the Gal-map and started using neutron stars and black holes as waypoints, it worked for me as I knew I would have a decent system at the end of each 'leg' rather than something random.
My plan at the time was to head to the core on the elevation I was on and then head straight 'up' to Sag A via the Great Annihilator, which I eventually did after been delayed slightly by a discovery of a neutron field and a meet up with another CMDR for a little exploring duet near the core.
After Sag A I was going to head out of the core a little to make plotting easier then head straight 'up' before making a slow return to civilisation or possibly heading on to the other side of the galaxy. However a chance encounter with a neutron star cracked my already damaged canopy to 50% and decided to head home as fast as possible. Well as fast as getting distracted by ooohh shiny! would let me.
I got home on Tuesday after an uneventful trip in, didn't see one other ship until the last 200 LY.
. Selling the data however was a total pain, around 15 hrs in total.And now the stats!,
as I was just popping out to the shops metaphorically speaking I didn't really equip for exploring, I set out with a fully armed and lightly shielded Asp with 28.8 LY jump range and an A3 fuel scoop, that scoop nearly made me give up a few times it probably added a few days to my trip.
Total Systems scanned: 3263
the lvl 2 & 3 scans seem to be still bugged as the lvl 2 didnt change but lvl 3 changed to 9698
Ammonia worlds: 18
Earth Like Worlds: 19
Water Worlds: 204
Black Holes: 75
Neutron Stars: 725 (half from farming, half from waypoints)
I made around 128 million from the trip, so I'm still a little short of getting Elite in exploration, something for the next trip!
Some pics in a bit, just need to resize them.
