I mean if you honk a system you've scanned before and already sold the data. Just using the discovery scanner.
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Two buttons to pan left and right and two buttons to zoom in and out. It's a Candy Crush in space. The UI may look a bit intimidating, yes, but it really isn't that bad and the rewards are great.
The hardest thing is to learn which signals deserve closer attention and which don't if you're short on time -the only commodity that matters in Elite. But when you're out there in The Black, any distraction from the endless jumping is much welcomed.
Once you've honked and sold, it stays sold no matter how many times you honk it after. Of course, if you've only sold the data you've got from honking, there's a lot more data to be had - but that means using the FSS.
However:
You can get body exploration data by being close to it. This was how exploration used to work - and it still does if you choose that way of doing things. In fact, if you don't want to use the FSS, you can opt to explore a system by flying to each body to get the data. It's slow going though and will teach patience if the second star in the system with all those luvvly looking planet is 500 Kylies away
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Um... what is that thing?
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Thargoid sensor
One source of sensor fragments for palin and the other engineer who take them to unlock.
They have a few other uses too but u need an anti-corrosive cargo rack to move them w/o damaging your ship.
I was able to grab a few 1st mapped omw out to the mining cg
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Thargoid sensor
One source of sensor fragments for palin and the other engineer who take them to unlock.
They have a few other uses too but u need an anti-corrosive cargo rack to move them w/o damaging your ship.
Once u get paid u can't get paid for "honking" a system again but u can still get paid for scanning the individual planets w/ the dss and fss. Dss comes off as more complicated than it is esp w/ that in game "explanation".
I was able to grab a few 1st mapped omw out to the mining cg
Two buttons to pan left and right and two buttons to zoom in and out. It's a Candy Crush in space. The UI may look a bit intimidating, yes, but it really isn't that bad and the rewards are great.
The hardest thing is to learn which signals deserve closer attention and which don't if you're short on time -the only commodity that matters in Elite. But when you're out there in The Black, any distraction from the endless jumping is much welcomed.
Thanks. Maybe I should just watch a couple of youtube vids or something since it seems like it could be useful.Once you've honked and sold, it stays sold no matter how many times you honk it after. Of course, if you've only sold the data you've got from honking, there's a lot more data to be had - but that means using the FSS.
However:
You can get body exploration data by being close to it. This was how exploration used to work - and it still does if you choose that way of doing things. In fact, if you don't want to use the FSS, you can opt to explore a system by flying to each body to get the data. It's slow going though and will teach patience if the second star in the system with all those luvvly looking planet is 500 Kylies away
I was aware of getting more information from a system by flying through it but it just didn't seem to occur to me that I was missing this information with simply honking. Maybe because I didn't have the time anyway. Not on a long trip.
I also remember collecting some things from a crash site for an engineer but I don't remember how I did that (a HIP system, I think). Maybe I had to scan it with something first but I know I was looking for certain coordinates when I got close to the ground.
This was in Horizon so I used my SRV to blast the items and then pick them up.
You can sell three sets of data about a system :-
The 'Honk'
The FSS from each planet scanned
The map of each planet using the DSS
But you can only sell them once, the 'honk' for the whole system the other two for each planet.
Honking only reveals the main star and whatever bodies are very close by. The entire rest of the system is undiscovered until you either FSS it, or fly close to every body.
So yeah, you're missing a bit of info if you just honk and move on.
In the bubble it doesn't matter much because it's all pre-discovered and shows up in your system map as "unexplored" for you, but it shows up.
Outside the bubble, in undiscovered systems, none of it shows up from just the honk.
I don't know how many times I've come across a system that had been honked and found ELW's, ammonia worlds, gas giants with water or ammonia based life. Those are all worth lots of credits, I call it "cleaning up" so I don't mind. Plus, you get a small bonus for completing a system, discovering all the bodies and I map the ELW's and ammonia worlds.
Hmm, my girl start holding herself solo some small ships.
I swapped Aegis Taipan for her tho.
I swapped Aegis Taipan for her tho.
Indeed
And if you find an undiscovered system, you get the added bonus of your CMDR name tagged on to the disco. This also applies to first map and, if in Odyssey, first footfall.
Additionally, should you be the first to discover something new in a galactic sector, you'll have your very own Codex entry.
The thing is though, you will have to travel a way outside the bubble to start getting first disco's. I did start finding some as close as PRU EUQ and PRO EURL (those spellings may be off a little) but normally, you'll start seeing them around 2Klys out.
I remember 1 system I finished, it had 74 bodies and only 32 had been FSS scanned, when I was done I opened the system map and I was the 5th commander to explore that system. It would seem to me that most explorers go east of the bubble at first, it was very heavily explored, my first trip to Colonia, I found unexplored systems on the other side of the Sagittarius Gap, I stayed about 2000Ly south of the Colonia Freeway all the way there. On the way back I stopped at all the planet side bases, each and every one is in a nebulae (don't know why).
As Horse wrote, they are called Thargoid Sensors. I went to Maia yesterday to look at the Thargoids. I have never had any beef with them before, but I must say they have become slightly trigger happy. I have mostly just avoided them, but I've been pulled once, and that was just spectacular. I saw that Maia B was a black hole, and approaching that, there was a planet with atmos, so I checked it out and found a lot of wrecked Thargoid ships. I landed at one of them, and noticed that Thargoid sounds were emanating from somewhere inside the wreck, and then I also saw light, so I decided to leave the SRV to have a look at it.
These things are highly corrosive, so while I was using the camera drone and taking pics for the album, I suddenly went to "no vitals" and then to a rebuy screen
Back at civilization I went to one of those giant spaceships and landed there. Then I tried to "sit". After sitting for a few sec realizing it was mildly boring, I went to the bar. The bartender wouldn't sell me coffee, so instead I noticed these two dudes, went to them and said: "Look, a naked supermodel!"
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You should have knocked, maybe they were cooking dinner and drinking beers
Just bought the game. Downloading it now.
I played Eve Online for free for a while and liked it except for the fact that you're just somebody's punching bag the instant you try to do anything in non-high sec space. Read that you can sort of do your own thing here without too much worry about that sort of thing.
At any rate, I only paid 8 bucks for the game, so how wrong could I go?
I played Eve Online for free for a while and liked it except for the fact that you're just somebody's punching bag the instant you try to do anything in non-high sec space. Read that you can sort of do your own thing here without too much worry about that sort of thing.
At any rate, I only paid 8 bucks for the game, so how wrong could I go?
The main thing is that you found this sub-forum. There is a lot to get you head around in the game and this place is always happy to help, no matter the question.
Before you start, be aware that the mouse does not do anything in the cockpit, you have to use the "focus" keys to move around the menus and make your selections:
Welcome to the party!
Docking into the station at the end of the first tutorial to The Blue Danube was epic.
Welcome CMDR~! O7
We are on the same boat. Me was in Eve Online like 10 yrs ago (I just checked the eve killboard, my last pewpew was in Nov 2012).
Welcome.
The amount of that sort of thing you have to worry about is variable and entirely within your control.
In the region where you start experienced commanders are locked out, as you will be once you attain any experience rank and dock outside the region.
There are far more possible locations to be than there are people on Earth let alone players so outside of a few dozen locations the chances of meeting someone looking for a punch bag are low.
Then there are the 3 playing modes which you can think of like a filter:-
Open let’s anyone through for you to encounter
Private Group just let’s in other people that the organiser has signed up
Solo just let’s you in
No matter which mode you are playing in it is all the same Galaxy and importantly it‘s clock is running continuously, there is no pause so unless you are logged out or at the initial menu you are in the game, also if you take a mission the timer is running in the Galaxy so if you log out the timer keeps going while you aren’t there.
About the tutorials some of them are really training so are as hard or harder than the game itself and can cause problems for experienced players.
The game has changed a lot over the years so when looking at videos or other guides check the date as many older ones are now wrong.
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