Newcomer / Intro What are you up to?

[Marvin the Martian]

Effectively - yes. Which is why it's usually even faster to jump with a decent ship.

Reputedly, there's a Fleet Carrier Owner's Discord somewhere - and reputedly, there is a script that can do the jumping for you (not that difficult, as long as nothing goes seriously wrong).

I'm on the second jump now.

It does take longer, but it's nice to just push a button and walk away for a while and come back to find 500 light years gone by rather that sitting there jump after jump after jump...

Especially with the horrid server lag they've been having lately where you'll sit in the "tunnel" of a jump for 4 minutes straight every once in a while. That is VERY annoying.

The calculator is wrong as well. It told me 68 tons per jump and it's taking nearly 80.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

I'm on the second jump now.

It does take longer, but it's nice to just push a button and walk away for a while and come back to find 500 light years gone by rather that sitting there jump after jump after jump...

Especially with the horrid server lag they've been having lately where you'll sit in the "tunnel" of a jump for 4 minutes straight every once in a while. That is VERY annoying.

The calculator is wrong as well. It told me 68 tons per jump and it's taking nearly 80.

Just curious... did the calculator factor in your carrier facilities tonnage plus stuff you may have had in your inventory?

 

[Marvin the Martian]

Just curious... did the calculator factor in your carrier facilities tonnage plus stuff you may have had in your inventory?

I don't know. I assumed that it did.

EDIT: I just found my error. As I plotted the next jump, I noticed over on the left there's an area that says put the number of usage on your carrier screen here. That's why it didn't take it into account - I didn't enter it.

I had thought that since I was verified to the site through Frontier it knew the stats already.

 

[CMDRQuainMarln]

That's all in the future for me.

The here and now is to get out to that system and mine until I'm blue in the face to work up a couple to few billion credits to stash in the carrier so I don't have to worry about payments for a year or two.

EDIT: Ok, so it says "NOT A VALID CARRIER DESTINATION" any time I try to go anywhere near that system. Do I have to physically plot every single 500 ly jump I make with this thing?

EDIT 2: OK, so that site you all posted gives me the systems to jump to and I just do that one step at a time?

Yes you plot one jump at a time. It took me about 6 hours during my day setting one jump every 20 minutes (mostly) to get to our expedition location. There is a five minute cool down after a jump before you can set the next jump.
There is a way to automate this using voice attack and some kind of macro. Something I might look into one day.
The other bind on a long trip is you have to sit in your T9 or Cutter so that you can transfer more fuel in as the tritium depot empties.

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

"That's not right. I should be the predator, not the prey." - another contract killer, October 2022. I guess you still have to learn a lot, young Padawan...

"I never fail to fulfil my contract." - yet another contract killer... Sorry for putting a dent into your pristine record by escaping...

 

[Codger]

Well, it's finally happened. After all these years, I finally discovered my 2nd ever Earthlike World. So now I can no longer say I've only ever found one, lol.

I was out in the Courier, and took this shot.

I like the Courier. It's fast and agile, can land easily, pleasant cockpit, sleek looks -- it's just a nice little ship. Here I'm looking for Cactoida on a very dim red world.

Found some. Now I need help picking out the right pumpkin for Halloween.

 

[CMDRQuainMarln]

Well, it's finally happened. After all these years, I finally discovered my 2nd ever Earthlike World. So now I can no longer say I've only ever found one, lol.

I was out in the Courier, and took this shot.
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I like the Courier. It's fast and agile, can land easily, pleasant cockpit, sleek looks -- it's just a nice little ship. Here I'm looking for Cactoida on a very dim red world.
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Found some. Now I need help picking out the right pumpkin for Halloween.
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Would it be wrong to tell you I found 3 ELWs in 2 days visiting only about 30 systems within about 400ly of each other, although two were previously discovered but not mapped?
Too late ...
I am surprised you have not found more given all the exploring you do.

 

[Marvin the Martian]

. There is a five minute cool down after a jump before you can set the next jump.

Mine is 3 minutes, 45 seconds.

 

[0threeleven]

Got me a couple of Ammonia Worlds, one with rings.

Found a little Co2 moon with five bio-signs.

 

[Marvin the Martian]

Hot spots in the ring of one of the 15 ringed planets in this system:

 

[Codger]

Mine is 3 minutes, 45 seconds.

It varies a bit depending on server load or some such factor. I've seen it be over an hour, and everyone was complaining. It cleared up, after a bit.

 

[Codger]

I am surprised you have not found more given all the exploring you do.

Now that my losing streak is over I expect they'll be in every other system, right?

 

[Marvin the Martian]

Oh my. This is the next planet in the system. There are nearly two pages in the list of hot spots in it.

Looks like I'll be hanging my hat right here for a bit.

 

[Codger]

Oh my. This is the next planet in the system. There are nearly two pages in the list of hot spots in it.

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Looks like I'll be hanging my hat right here for a bit.

Awesomeness. You going to check every hotspot, or pick and choose?

 

[Marvin the Martian]

Awesomeness. You going to check every hotspot, or pick and choose?

I just dive into them. If it goes well I stay there. If not, I move on to the next one. It's the only way I know to do it.

 

[Marvin the Martian]

Never mind.

 

[CMDRQuainMarln]

It varies a bit depending on server load or some such factor. I've seen it be over an hour, and everyone was complaining. It cleared up, after a bit.

You get all the good photo opportunities instead, which is better than smelly old ELWs
No pretty pictures from me today, just a couple of WWs and a lot of high metal planets. So a reasonable haul for the exploration rank.

 

[Marvin the Martian]

You get all the good photo opportunities instead, which is better than smelly old ELWs
No pretty pictures from me today, just a couple of WWs and a lot of high metal planets. So a reasonable haul for the exploration rank.

Lately, I've been making more bank off the metal worlds than the water worlds.

 

[CMDRQuainMarln]

Lately, I've been making more bank off the metal worlds than the water worlds.

A lot more of them, so I do map those too.

 

[bugbait42]

Ok, visit to raw mat trader on hold, another audience with Felicity on hold and just to make a change I've just now left my base in my Mamba, hoping to teach a lesson to some of those stoopid NPC pirates who keep asking me if I'm "carrying anything nice."

Sorry pal but all I'm carrying are some pretty scary guns and I'm about to aim 'em at you.