I've just found my 1st one, around 10000ly corewards.
I must be doing something wrong for this to be my first one ever?
I must be doing something wrong for this to be my first one ever?
1st ELW
- Thread starter Paranoid Shark
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Congrats. You can increase your chances by scanning clusters of Dx (yours is a D9) systems. Someone once made a statistics about probabilities in Dx systems and afaicr D2,3 and 4 give the highest yields. I did scan a full D6 cluster with about 180 systems and found 3 ELWs. Thats one in 60.
Any "D" masscode. The number itself is just more-or-less where that sub-sector is in the main sector. No number at all is on the "southern end" of that particualar sector, and the numbers increase up to 14 the more "northerly" you travel. I have done extensive studies on the subject, and found that D masscodes are anywhere from 4 to 6 times more likely than a "C" masscode system to have an ELW present.
And to the OP...Congratz! You never forget your first!
And to the OP...Congratz! You never forget your first!
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I've been exploring for a long time now, and my heart still jumps when an ELW is found (even still when it's looking like an ELW and then turns out to be a water world).
Congrats on the first of what is hopefully many. Don't forget to submit it to the catalogue link in another thread where we are bravely(/stupidly) trying to map all the ELW's discovered in the game.
Congrats on the first of what is hopefully many. Don't forget to submit it to the catalogue link in another thread where we are bravely(/stupidly) trying to map all the ELW's discovered in the game.
Nice find. I also like how it's trinary with two Class II gas giants. The view from the surface will be marvelous (once we get to land there, soon™)
Wait, is that a contrail above the continent, lower left part of the screenshot? [noob]
Wait, is that a contrail above the continent, lower left part of the screenshot? [noob]
Mm, gas giant sandwich.
Not really. If you're only heading in a straight line, it wouldn't be that unusual, especially with an engineered Dolphin's range. A better thing to measure by would be the number of jumps you took. For example, I could survey 50 systems near a nebula, and don't even move 200 ly from my starting point.
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Noice. I love gas giant-ELW pairs; a trinary is even better. I hope you took some more snaps before you jumped out of there.
Hunting ELWs is a bit of a fine art, but if you're really interested, I'd recommend Marx's guide.
Hunting ELWs is a bit of a fine art, but if you're really interested, I'd recommend Marx's guide.
Gratz man the first one is always the best one.
+1 for choice of ship
looking a little tatty you must spend some time in SC
looking a little tatty you must spend some time in SC
Congrats. Still waiting to find my first one. Good to see others finding theirs.
Loving the weathered Dolphin on that shot, looks pretty cool. Congrats on the first ELW - a shame it's without rings, as this was actually a good candidate for that; fingers crossed you find one next time in a system of this type
Quick, someone get to that system and sell the map data!
Great find CMDR. What I like doing, is picking out a nice random spot ~1k light years out and then just make the first jumps off the nav computer. You find a lot of "cool" things that way. Plus, the new HUD software enables you to skip the brown dwarfs. Though I did find a water world in a brown dwarf system once...
Great find CMDR. What I like doing, is picking out a nice random spot ~1k light years out and then just make the first jumps off the nav computer. You find a lot of "cool" things that way. Plus, the new HUD software enables you to skip the brown dwarfs. Though I did find a water world in a brown dwarf system once...
I've got a couple of those, and I'll not be done with Elite until I've got an ELW in a brown dwarf system (I've got them orbiting brown dwarves but there's always been something else hotter nearby in the system).
looking a little tatty you must spend some time in SC
Thats mine after about 1000 jumps. The paint seems to be one reason for the low cost of that ship.
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I hope i do not have to worry. It does not only look tatty it looks it might fall apart soon. However, its a fantastic little ship.
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It is time spent in supercruise, not number of jumps, that wears paint. You lose 1% per 100,000 Ls travelled.
Your ship integrity loses 1% every 100,000 Ls too, but you can't see your Integrity statistic until you're landed. So paint wear is a handy indicator of integrity loss.
Your ship integrity loses 1% every 100,000 Ls too, but you can't see your Integrity statistic until you're landed. So paint wear is a handy indicator of integrity loss.
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Just chanced upon an untagged ELW less than 200LY from Sag A*. I do have to thank the Cmdr who passed by the system previously surface for scanning only the primary star, and moved on without noticing. Nearly missed it myself. Looking at the system map while the FSD's being charged, just managed to cancelled the FSD charge in time. [yesnod]
Yep this ^^ I keep my sc to a minimum if I'm honest 5k here and there going to planets sometime 30-80k but if it's over 100kls I'd rather chop my foot off with a rusty hacksaw
so some folk can keep their paint quite shiny despite travelling 100,000 ly while a "quick" trip to Hutton orbital while your washing the pots (or rewriting war and peace) will see your paint looking scabby in no time
personnally I hate the paint degredation because it looks terrible, red dwarf with its cardboard models stained in tea bags did a better job of it, wish I could turn it off!
Thanks for all the words of wisdom about finding the ELW's I have just been setting my route plotter to class A, F or G, before this. I will look out for the D codes in future.
I guess I lost the paint when I fell asleep on my way to a binary pair of black holes 380,000 ls away from the main star. I woke up 200,000 ls past the black holes... whoops!
I'm on the way to Colonia to get rid of my passenger cabin, repair, resupply and then who knows where. I failed my 22 million passenger mission to "Back Hole Trio" because I was going to slow. In the 4 weeks I got less than halfway!
I guess I lost the paint when I fell asleep on my way to a binary pair of black holes 380,000 ls away from the main star. I woke up 200,000 ls past the black holes... whoops!
I'm on the way to Colonia to get rid of my passenger cabin, repair, resupply and then who knows where. I failed my 22 million passenger mission to "Back Hole Trio" because I was going to slow. In the 4 weeks I got less than halfway!