Not a question, just a kvetch about being too scared to keep going farther! :(

Piratescribe

Piratescribe
This stage of still being pretty new and making minor advancements that SEEM major, really puts a kibosh on going for bigger!
Like last night, I set a path to go straight "up" as far as I could (with KGB FOAMs) with the goal of eventually finding a system that hasn't been discovered yet! But along the way, I map some pretty expensive worlds, and also find a couple worlds that I was the first to map! (Though not discover.) I know that's meh to veterans, but that still just totally stokes me! But now I'm like, I REALLY don't want to lose the credit and the credits, I should turn back and get these recorded. But man, I feel like if I go just a little farther, I might get that system that has undiscovered worlds!
I end up going back to play it safe 😬 Part of the fun of the game IS playing that game of risking your data... but sometimes I kinda wish they had a mechanic for sending off a probe with your accumulated data since last time, with like a 75% chance of it successfully reaching a base to be recorded :D
 

Eeka

Eeka
Hello CMDR o7

You may be new to the role, but the enthusiasm and respect you handle it is what makes the difference. Many older pilots doesn't care much about what they do, making it poorly valuable.

Regarding exploration, there are 400billion systems out there with less than 1% already explored so you can print your name in as many as you can reach. I would recommend you to stablish a goal, reach for it, then go back. Then go out again whenever you feel like you should/desire, with another goal.

I say this because there are reports of cmdrs that went out to explore but did never come back because of space madness. Some managed to find the way back home, but only after a few years where they were barely able to remember what their native language was.

So, treat your ship well, stablish your goal, plan your routes and have fun!

o7
 

Nordmarken

Nordmarken
Piratescribe said:
Would they not appear on a system map? I had gotten to the point last night where I was seeing zero bases, landings, or even FCs at all for many systems in a row! Was pretty exciting :)
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Yes if you're in a system they will obviously show if they're there. However you can check https://www.edsm.net/en/galactic-mapping#2/0/0/25000 to see where they are in nearby systems if you've found something particular you definately want your name on. Otherwise you can also sort the galaxy map to only show systems that have carriers in them. However that might be harder to spot if you're far out from the bubble.
 

Faded Glory

Faded Glory
At this stage you'll probably want to have traveled about 2,000Ly from your starting system before you start to find many totally untouched systems. Once you do start to find them you'll realize that that's pretty much all there are. As said above, 400 billion systems, and considerably less than 1% currently explored.

I haven't really explored since fleet carriers were introduced, but when I was exploring I was only interested in totally untouched, unexplored systems. If I dropped into a system and it had already been visited I jumped onwards immediately. I have many first discovered systems, many, and not once in all the time that I explored did I ever find that a system that I had scanned had in fact been scanned and handed in before me. Not once. It's a very large galaxy. Fleet carriers may make it a bit smaller and easier for others to hand in data before you do, but if you head away from popular locations (such as nebulae), you have a very good chance of being the first to hand in discovery data. :)

Piratescribe said:
Huh, why? Does something happen at 5000 LY??
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Requirement for Professor Palin and those lovely grade 5 dirty drives... ;)
 

Vetinari

V
Piratescribe said:
Was planning on hitting the Engineering stuff in a concerted push in a couple weeks probably. :)
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most of mine got unlocked through regular gameplay, like finding out I had illegal goods and needing somewhere to sell them. But the 2 that need something a bit out of the ordinary I did have to go on a trip for. Youll find if you do a bit of everything they are watching.....and are tapped into your ships Nav computer somehow as well.
 

Vetinari

V
Yeah, Y2K had zero foundation in fact.

O2K does have the infinitesimally small but possible chance that something will go wrong, it will be put right or by asking Support ofc Do what the best people do when unsure, let someone else go first :)
 

Chrystoph

Chrystoph
@Piratescribe - What you are experiencing is normal progression for explorers. As was said above, statistically, it is unlikely that someone is 🦮 you, especially since you are out on walkabout as opposed to an expedition.

Expeditions tend to mostly follow the same path which is why the directish route to Beagle Point is so difficult to find an unclaimed object.
 
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B0K

B
That fear of losing everything you scanned so far is a huge part of the challenge. If you ever get out to beagle point, on the way back there is a region of space where the stars are further apart... to the point where you need to keep your fuel low to make it to the next star even with max frame shift boost. At least it was like that back before guardian boosters. Anyway that moment when the hyperspace jump locks in and your fuel bar is being completely spent and you start second-guessing yourself if the star you're going to is really scoopable... yeah, space madness.

Probably anyone who has been really far out had the same feeling when they finally came back to land that they would screw up something simple like getting through the mail slot. After a few thousand jumps your ship integrity gets to 0 and even a little bump could blow you up. It's enough to give you sweaty palms thinking everything you scanned for the last 3 months could be lost.
 

Mrat13

M
You could fly to Colonia OP. There's bases along the way in case you get scared, and of course Colonia is basically a mini bubble to finish off your journey. You could even choose to live there, as that part of the galaxy has far more interesting sites than anything near the bubble.
 

Aeorath

Aeorath
Colonia, Sag A*, some deep space bases might have facilities for that, it all depends whichever's closer to the OP.
 
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