Guide / Tutorial Nutter’s explorers guide to the Galaxy

Leskit

Leskit
It's their luminosity class taken from the Morgan-Keenan spectral classification (and the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram).
V means it's a main sequence star.

A number of different luminosity classes are distinguished[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#cite_note-CDS-18"][17][/URL]

  • 0 or Ia+ (hypergiants or extremely luminous supergiants). Example: Cygnus OB2#12 (B3-4Ia+)[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#cite_note-Caballero-Nieves-19"][18][/URL]
  • Ia (luminous supergiants). Example: Eta Canis Majoris (B5Ia)[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#cite_note-Prinja-20"][19][/URL]
  • Iab (intermediate luminous supergiants). Example: Gamma Cygni (F8Iab)[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#cite_note-GrayDF-21"][20][/URL]
  • Ib (less luminous supergiants). Example: Zeta Persei (B1Ib)[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#cite_note-Naz.C3.A9-22"][21][/URL]
  • II bright giants. Example: Beta Leporis (G0II)[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#cite_note-Lyubimkov-23"][22][/URL]
  • III normal giants. Example: Arcturus (K0III)[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#cite_note-GrayRO-24"][23][/URL]
  • IV subgiants. Example: Gamma Cassiopeiae (B0.5IVpe)[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#cite_note-Shenavrin-25"][24][/URL]
  • V main-sequence stars (dwarfs), Example: Achernar (B6Vep)[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#cite_note-Naz.C3.A9-22"][21][/URL]
  • sd (prefix) subdwarfs. Example: HD 149382 (sdB5)[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#cite_note-Cenarro-26"][25][/URL]
  • D (prefix) white dwarfs.[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#cite_note-27"][nb 2][/URL] Example: van Maanen 2 (DZ8)[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#cite_note-Sion-28"][26][/URL] (taken from wikipedia)
 

Gorudo

Gorudo
Good info here, helped me to get started and how to do it more efficiently.

Started playing again after a few months away (pre-1.2) and on a whim decided to try out the new ships.
parked up the truck (T-7) sold the sports car (viper) and flew off into the great beyond in a diamondback explorer.
Surprisingly got hooked on this whole thing. There's something oddly relaxing and compelling about plotting the route, checking the map to decide what to scan and all that.
Only at barnard's loop but damn it i'm not coming home till I get a first!

BTW was anyone else's first reaction to an earth-like to fly round the back and look for civilization lights? That would really be a eureka moment!
Maybe they should add a few around the galaxy and offer massive payouts for the first to find...
 

Leskit

Leskit
Hi Gorudo, I just returned from a trip the Orion Nebula in the explorer myself! My tip for finding unexplored systems: Plot a course 30-40 degrees off your desired destination and go that way. It'll take you well-traveled and straight to-and-from systems that most people travel. This method worked for me and it netted me my first unexplored earth-like world! (image below)

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TiberiuS

TiberiuS
Hey There, I don't know if someone already posted this, but I made some notes of the sizes and masses of objects and at what range you can deep-scan them.

I found out that there is no correlation between object mass and scan range at all. All that matters is the size of the object. Which makes sense when you think about it: The scanner needs a minimum angle at which it can scan an object at the desired resolution. So all that matters is size of the object vs distance to the object.

Here are the results:
Chart.jpg

As you can see, it's perfectly linear. The accuracy of the linear approximation is 99,996%. The results are valid for solid planets, jovians and stars alike. For stars you have to change the units though (Stars radii are given in 'Sun Radii', 1 Sun Radius is ~700000 km).

As you can see in the chart the factor to calculate scan range is 0.01316 ls/km.

Example: A stellar object with a radius of 6000km will be scannable from a distance of 78,96ls (6000km * 0.01316ls/km)

Edit:

Btw. Stellar Classification can be found on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification
 
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Brer Bunnie

B
Hello all.

Thanks very much to Nutter and everyone for this fantastic guide and showpiece of unusual systems! I've travelled roughly 2,000ly in my first steps as an explorer.

I would seriously love to try out your quests Nutter. I have arrived at the origin station (name not here; don't want to be a spoiler!). I can't find your mission at the station. Is it on the bulletin board? I'm a trailblazer, hope that doesn't prevent me from getting your quests. I would appreciate some advice. What could I be doing wrong?

Here's a tip for people wanting to be the first to discover systems:
I've found that if you travel out of the populated areas to around 500ly out (a radial path from a centre point) and then do an arc round your origin system (it was Lembava for me), i.e. like you are drawing a 500ly circle with Lembava as the centre point, you seem to hit more undiscovered systems than you would continuing out on a radial path. I could be wrong, but that's the way it seems to me.

Thanks again!
Brer Bunny
 

HUSKER222

HUSKER222
im trying to go to great annihilator in the center of the galaxy but only thing because i can only plot up to 1000 light years how do i find the right path?
 

aberent

A
Hi Genetix. I am just on my way back from the galactic centre (now about 10,000 ly from home). You don't really need a detailed route, there are many (probably millions) of almost equally good routes. Just follow the 0,0 line for 26,000 light years and you will be there. Choose any star at a good distance (say 500 to 1000 ly) in roughly the right direction for each navigation plot, and it won't make much difference to your total distance if you go a few 10s or even a few 100s of light years off the most direct line along the way.
 

CMDR Corleone

CMDR Corleone
I just sold all my weapons and armour, kitted myself out with scanners and hit the road with a 26ly max jump.

I've plotted a course out to the edge of the Galaxy, is this an unwise direction?
 

NeilF

NeilF
Bariri said:
A bunch of nice guys helping cmdrs without fuel.

http://www.fuelrats.org/

From the "About" section:
"We have fuel. And, if you don’t, we’ll rescue you if it’s at all possible."

And a funny quote:
"When you are out of gas, Fuel Rats will save your... butt."
Click to expand...

This to my mind is the only emergent gameplay in the whole game; A chat room on a third party web site, allowing you to ask for someone to bring you fuel. I'll swear we had bigger expectations for this game once...


Anyone here used them yet? Bet it was quite a nice experience?
 
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