Newcomer / Intro What are you up to?

[Nekozji]

Snooping around this ringed ammonia world that has apparently lost all its amosphere to space idk. ED graphics can be odd.

And having recently said I'd never found a nitrogen atmo planet... here's a 70% nitrogen atmo planet.

There's not really anything here, but the sunrise is nice.

Currently at 128 mil estimated scan value... I kind of want to come home, but also, the big thargoid thing is due on the 29th so... maybe not just yet?

 

[Marvin the Martian]

Various shots from Planet Mellow Yellow I was just on:

Sulphur Centari.

 

[bangermsuk]

Here's another odd one. This is the sight that greeted me on the way back to the hangar lifts from my ship:

It was the same exiting the lifts and going back to my ship. You can just run through that black wall.

I'd been here numerous times before without issue and relogging didn't work...

had that in u9 or 10. must be back with avengence. the black wall.

 

[Skürt Avil]

Various shots from Planet Mellow Yellow I was just on:

Beautiful colours.
When we get the olfactory update, I bet it smells of rotten eggs!

 

[aRJay]

Beautiful colours.
When we get the olfactory update, I bet it smells of rotten eggs!

Yes but that will get fixed as soon as the suit helmet is removed.

 

[Nekozji]

I have reached the Cat's Paw sector! To my surprise, the 2nd system was unexplored. There's nothing interesting in it, just a regular metal rich planet and some HMCs, I'm just surprised that anything with a view of a nebula remains unvisited...

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Yes but that will get fixed as soon as the suit helmet is removed.

Or they fix the livery bug.

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

I have reached the Cat's Paw sector! To my surprise, the 2nd system was unexplored. There's nothing interesting in it, just a regular metal rich planet and some HMCs, I'm just surprised that anything with a view of a nebula remains unvisited...

Some people do not really have an eye for beautiful vistas.
And sometimes, people are too distracted and miss a system, still thinking they got it.

Or they fix the livery bug.

That might fix itself in that case...

 

[Marvin the Martian]

Some people do not really have an eye for beautiful vistas.
And sometimes, people are too distracted and miss a system, still thinking they got it.

Hence the phrase: stop and smell the roses.

I've been guilty of it from time to time. In my rush to find a big system, or another earthlike world, or to make some money and gain a level, I sometimes just burn through one system after another without stopping to really take a look around at the systems I find myself in.

Now that I have pretty much everything in the game, I'm taking more time to look around. I'm enjoying it a good deal more as a result.

 

[bugbait42]

I'm 11,200 LY from Sol now and still in Temple. I've had a little more luck with exobiology since my last update and managed to get codex discoveries on Frutexa, Clypeus and Tussock (all stuff I've had before in the Inner Orion Spur but different varieties this time.)

I've plotted a route North (ish) to a star in Colonia - it's a 264 jump route but I only intend doing enough of it to get me out of Temple and a little way into the Scutum whatever it's called region, then I'll plot another route East towards a megaship called Stargazer's Legacy (prolly another couple of hundred or so jumps - not sure, that I hope hasn't flown off somewhere else by the time I get there,) to flog all the data I have so far to Cartographics and get repairs. Then it'll be a another lengthy route back to Bubble Land.

I just now got a first discovery on a system with two neutron stars in it - unusual? Not sure but it's the first time I've come across one. Not worth a great deal money-wise as has no planets as well but interesting I suppose.

 

[Marvin the Martian]

I'm 11,200 LY from Sol now and still in Temple. I've had a little more luck with exobiology since my last update and managed to get codex discoveries on Frutexa, Clypeus and Tussock (all stuff I've had before in the Inner Orion Spur but different varieties this time.)

I've plotted a route North (ish) to a star in Colonia - it's a 264 jump route but I only intend doing enough of it to get me out of Temple and a little way into the Scutum whatever it's called region, then I'll plot another route East towards a megaship called Stargazer's Legacy (prolly another couple of hundred or so jumps - not sure, that I hope hasn't flown off somewhere else by the time I get there,) to flog all the data I have so far to Cartographics and get repairs. Then it'll be a another lengthy route back to Bubble Land.

I just now got a first discovery on a system with two neutron stars in it - unusual? Not sure but it's the first time I've come across one. Not worth a great deal money-wise as has no planets as well but interesting I suppose.

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Now I see how you're covering so much ground: you're plotting routes with your full jump range.

Fun fact: you're missing about 3/4ths of the systems that have great stuff in it by doing that. My average jump while exploring is between 1 and 10 LY.

 

[Nekozji]

My average jump while exploring is between 1 and 10 LY.

I believe you can set route planning to efficient mode and it'll choose lots of short hops over a few big ones. Might take a bit longer to get where you're going though, depends if you're destination-driven or not

 

[bugbait42]

Now I see how you're covering so much ground: you're plotting routes with your full jump range.

Fun fact: you're missing about 3/4ths of the systems that have great stuff in it by doing that. My average jump while exploring is between 1 and 10 LY.

Aye I realise that but I've been selecting potentially interesting systems since I arrived in Temple with just single jumps here and there, but I've found that good stuff can be found in any system - including the common red dwarf ones (the only Earthlike world I've found so far was orbiting a red dwarf.)

When I plot a long route I'll leave out some stars if possible so I only arrive at G types etc, but at the moment the stars are pretty spaced apart so all star types are selected. When arrive in the Scutum thingy though hopefully I'll have a lot more options.

 

[Marvin the Martian]

I don't plot routes at all. I open the map and look at the stars immediately around me. I have them flagged for which one's I've visited (in teal) and which ones I haven't (in red). Then I start highlighting red stars and looking for a F, G, K or A and jump to it when I find one.

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

Now I see how you're covering so much ground: you're plotting routes with your full jump range.

Fun fact: you're missing about 3/4ths of the systems that have great stuff in it by doing that. My average jump while exploring is between 1 and 10 LY.

My approach is similar. The Star Moth is equipped with a V1 FSD, which gives me about 50ly jump range for a single jump. But I usually only use that if I want to get to a place in the bubble a little bit quicker. I still stop and scan most the systems I get into, unless I have been there before, but if time is of essence, I am able to go from Suhte to Deciat or Wolf 397 without a fuel stop ( or probably one). But in exploration mode, I usually jump from system to system without plotting a route. If there is a place I want to get to, I check the general direction on the map and look for the nearest star in that direction. The V1 FSD is just a reinsurance that my journey does not end in a call for the Fuel Rats if I should hit a row of dry stars...

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

I don't plot routes at all. I open the map and look at the stars immediately around me. I have them flagged for which one's I've visited (in teal) and which ones I haven't (in red). Then I start highlighting red stars and looking for a F, G, K or A and jump to it when I find one.

Does that work in 3.8, too?

 

[bugbait42]

I don't plot routes at all. I open the map and look at the stars immediately around me. I have them flagged for which one's I've visited (in teal) and which ones I haven't (in red). Then I start highlighting red stars and looking for a F, G, K or A and jump to it when I find one.

My favourite stars are basically KGBFOA. (No "M." )

I've found tons of good stuff already on this trip and it's got to the point where I want to move on and sell all this stuff as quickly as possible. Plotting a long route means I don't have to keep going back to the galaxy map and it saves time.

 

[Marvin the Martian]

Does that work in 3.8, too?

I'm not sure. I can check when I get to my computer.

The Star Moth is equipped with a V1 FSD, which gives me about 50ly jump range for a single jump.

My Krait Phantom has one as well with a 74.3 LY range. My Asp Explorer (which I'm in right now) doesn't have one. It has a regular FSD in it upgraded to grade 4 with a range of 59.5 LY.

If I switch the FSD out of the Krait into it, the Asp jumps up to a 70 LY range. But there's no need for it anymore as I have a fleet carrier, so the 59 LY range is more than I need.

 

[Codger]

I went through a phase of disliking the Asp X, mainly due to the thruster noise. I'm convinced FDev made the thruster sounds a lot more subtle during the period of time between Quain getting a Phantom and me starting up a second commander account that uses an ASP X.

Yeah, me too. It always sounded like it was farting, to me. I couldn't stand it. Has it been improved? I haven't flown an Asp EX in ages.

I have done it!!

I am now the proud owner of the Guardian Frame Shift Booster....

Many thanks Codger, Fnoord, etc, etc.....

Hey, congrats! I'm sure it was a memorable experience

Various shots from Planet Mellow Yellow I was just on:

Very nice shots!

 

[Codger]

I have not played much EDO this week so far. I have a bunch of things I want to do, but this little game called Cosmoteer has sucked up all my attention. It's an early-access spaceship designer thingy, and it's turned out to be quite engrossing for me.

Anyway, since I have no new screenshots, here's one from the backlogs. A truly impressive crater on a lovely little planet.