15 minutes of exploring.
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Exploring is very profitable. And fun
Get your self a fuel scoop. This will give a lot more freedom and you can go deeper before you need to get back to sell.
OK not a bad Idea.. But is it not possible to explore new ports? or are those already set in stone?
Also when you get the scoop make sure you have enough fuel left to jump back to a suitable star, i've been caught out with little fuel next to a supermassive class A-B white blue star.
Couldn't get close enough to scoop without burning up over 130%
One crazy high speed run later i had just enough fuel to get back....half of my hull had burned away but heck
I survived
You also want to scoop around mostly red dwarfs and G to K class suns, haven't really tried the brown dwarfs as a source of fuel
I think the stations are there standard when you jump into an unexplored system, many times i've jumped in to a binary system found nothing with MK1 eyeball then found a station 1200Ls out on system view
A couple of planets/jovians on the way
Couldn't get close enough to scoop without burning up over 130%
One crazy high speed run later i had just enough fuel to get back....half of my hull had burned away but heck
I survived
You also want to scoop around mostly red dwarfs and G to K class suns, haven't really tried the brown dwarfs as a source of fuel
I think the stations are there standard when you jump into an unexplored system, many times i've jumped in to a binary system found nothing with MK1 eyeball then found a station 1200Ls out on system view
A couple of planets/jovians on the way
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It is very possible to discover new objects in systems that have ports. But you'd be better off exploring new unscanned systems.
At least before, you automatically see all the ports in the system even if it's unexplored ... there are a lot of uninhabited systems with no ports so you need a scoop to explore outside the "civilized" space
I noticed you make good money without even exploring each individual unexplored spot. Just finding the unexplored spots by scanning right after you get out of warp you get credits. I noticed no increase of credits by scanning the individual spots.
only takes 10 seconds to jump in BRRAAAPPP your scanner and get some tasty creds for just a single sun before moving on.
In the final game as far as i can see there will be 2 restrictions though that limit how far you can get away from the last station: Your life support will run out and your gear will wear off (take a look in the repair section of a station, wear and tear is already simulated a bit but repairing it doesn't cost money at this point). So although there is no more "hard" pill that limits us there is a soft one which allows us to only get to probably 10000-20000 systems max once lifesupport and wear and tear are fully functional.
I thought my old freagle was getting a little scratched on the canopy, been wanting to get another CMDR to blow it off for me to get a new one XD
It really does make a difference
Go back to that same system with a detailed surface scanner, scan everything, and report back
The individual scans increase the revenue a lot, especially with detailed surface scanner but you still get nice payouts for just jumping in and doing a quick scan sometimes.