A trip out in the verse (Exploration Finds)


Lol the name of the thread was inspired more by the old Firefly TV series but I'll take a look at that game also

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So there's something there then? Some sort of celestial body? Sorry, I'm not sure I understand.

When a planet doesn't orbit a star but a center of mass there would be no place to show in the system map where they start from. In order to have something at the end of the line the game will place an X to represent the center of mass. Look at the following picture for example; there the planets are orbiting 3 suns out of a trinary system (the full system had 6 suns but that's not important here). In order to represent this there's an X placed between all of them and then the normal lines to the right with the planets.

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When a planet doesn't orbit a star but a center of mass there would be no place to show in the system map where they start from. In order to have something at the end of the line the game will place an X to represent the center of mass. Look at the following picture for example; there the planets are orbiting 3 suns out of a trinary system (the full system had 6 suns but that's not important here). In order to represent this there's an X placed between all of them and then the normal lines to the right with the planets.

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Look for explanation eg. here

Ah I see now. That makes perfect sense. I don't know why I couldn't figure that out haha! Thank you both for the explanation.
 
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almost a week after returning to TELLUS finally sold the last data from the trip out to about ~2000LY from inhabited space ... a top10 system value pic will be coming but first ... the overall benefit of the 4-day exploration trip:

Starting balance:

Rank:
Trailblazer Exploration Profit: 848,294 CR
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Ending balance:
Rank: Pathfinder Exploration Profit: 4,208,843 CR
Trip Profit: 3,360,549 CR
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Also as soon as the last few systems come in I'll surpass my trading profits via exploration ;)
 
Aah, you are getting paid then? Have a couple of systems on my ship computer that cartographics wont pay up for...
 
They will appear it just takes a while ... so for me it took almost 7 days to process that one 4 day trip. Be patient and keep selling.

Also just doing another trip now ... already found some fun pics
 
Nice finds !!!
You have just beaten my records with T Tauri stars by a large margin. I hope what they look like (what their system look like) is just a placeholder because it's wrong on so many levels...

Yeah but it's not only the look, those numbers in the description look way, way off too. I think that the devs should take a closer look at their PG formulas because some things seen in this thread shouldn't be happening.
 
Also as soon as the last few systems come in I'll surpass my trading profits via exploration ;)
Congratulations on successfully selling the data. Trailblazer here, as well, but with barely a little over 1mln-profit from exploration and half your amount of visited systems. However, my profit was cut down because before I was able to sell all of my data I lost my Cobra to, guess what, pad loitering :rolleyes: Thinking that I hadn't been shying of fighting Anacondas and lost it in this way seems somehow very funny to me but I wonder how much of it is of hysteria ;)

Yeah but it's not only the look, those numbers in the description look way, way off too. I think that the devs should take a closer look at their PG formulas because some things seen in this thread shouldn't be happening.
That depends on eg. what you define as the surface of T Tauri star. But yes, there are definitely bugs with formulas and I ticketed them whenever they seemed really off, eg. in case of F5 I supergiant that had 1.3 solar masses and 1.2 solar radius. If you find some dubious without any uncertainty just ticket them (yeah, I know how it sounds ;) ) - they need help in identifying issues because the Galaxy is so huge.
 
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Below are the Top 10 Systems by selling price from first round of exploration:

10: PRAEA EUQ RP-F D11-27 with 53066 CR
9: FINE RING SECTOR MX-U D2-78 with 53363 CR
8: FINE RING SECTOR EL-Y D32 with 54965 CR
7: HD 154873 with 58877 CR
6: PRAEA EUQ FI-J D9-1 with 62164CR

5: HD 148937 with 64058 CR
This was the system with 10 hidden M+ class stars and 9 metal rich planets
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4: NGC 6124 SECTOR LX-U D2-72 with 64466CR
A Red giant with some companion stars ... only checked 4 planets with 3 metal rich planets around the 2nd star
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3: HIP 74657 with 65888CR
O class star with companion neutron star ... 3 high content metal + 1 metal rich planet ... apparently it was worth a lot
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2: PRAEA EUQ FI-J D9-27 with 68120CR
A 6-ary star system with an Earth Like Planet orbits the first trinary part of the system
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1: HR 6164 with 68380 CR
An O class star with crazy rotation speed (full rotation in about 25 seconds) with 2 black holes and a neutron star.
A metal rich planet and 2 high metal content are in the system
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The 2nd great exploration trip has also been finished and will be coming shortly ... stayed within ~300LY of TELLUS but got to see many awesome systems in the areas of the LUPUS DARK REGION; Pics will be coming soon
 
The second expedition was a much shorter hop to the LUPUS DARK REGION and then continuing on to the nearest 2 O-class stars before turning back towards home.

Just another Ringed World
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Large heavy planet ... also this system really is pro-life
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Interesting view as we enter a system
... did Fdev license the Mickey Mouse logo?
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HIP 79439 is ringed heaven
3rd planet is miners dream ... pristine (I assume) metallic rings
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Oh look another Earth Like Planet with rings! .. Awesome
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Heh you though the previous 2 were nice? ... how about an Earth Like Planet with a pristine metallic ring and pristine metal rich ring
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This is an old star? ...
... interesting how it looks weird when starforge works correctly
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Ok I thought these were supposed to be rare .. what's going on?
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Who needs Helium .. lets make carbon ...
... with S class stars
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Got to the next O-class star ... HIP 63835
... it looks interesting from the star description
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.. Lets see how many of those new discovered objects are stars ... uhm quite a bit (that's 14 stars and 3 black holes)
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... it's fairly close to SOL also
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... dont think I'll be getting close to that black hole ... but how in the hell is this star still around!!!
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so a 15.4 Solar Mass black hole is orbiting within 0.7 days orbit of an O-class star ...
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Really ... an 'Icy Planet'
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That's a hot jacuzzi atmosphere
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.. last but not least a 4k screenshot of the gravitational lensing occuring near the 4th black hole with the many stars/planets orbiting the black hole binary in the background
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More miners rejoice
.. metallic rings for everyone
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.. and you dont have to go far to find the other one
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Also found an interesting planet with a moon
the planet ...
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... and the 'Moon'
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... continued below
 
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... continued from above


BETA MUSCAE looks like a place to invest for a new colony
metallic asteroid field
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... and every non-star body in the system is a metal rich planet
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even if some are very tiny!
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Guys DK2 is off .. I dont need to see double!
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Last notable stop was a visit was to:
an O0Vz star
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... was so happy to get there since it was 130k LY from main
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... that I forgot to slow down ... thank god for emergency stop!
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A very nice surprise also was the all the data I gathered I was able to instantly sell when returning! ... so no more waiting around for days before the next trip.
 
Good to know, thanks. I've fully scanned 40 systems so far. I guess I will stop playing too close to the black holes now, lol.

<grin>

I've definitely felt the sting of losing a few hundred LYs worth of exploring to a poorly handled interdiction. It's something you learn from quickly.
 
Just a few pictures of the trip out to NGC 8722 ... will not show too many in-system pics as everyone should really visit it themselves but here's some great views there and back:

NGC8722 Nebula
The first spotting back in Gamma 1.01 ... engines ready .. lets do this
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View from ~500Ly away above a Water World
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Some views and crazy stars/planets inside the nebula
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Damn .. that weight, temperature and pressure ... what a world!
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That's a lot of metal
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Just viewing some rings through a dirty windshield
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I wonder if I could tow this .. at 0 mass it sounds tempting ;)
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Moving back towards TELLUS home base now still had a few interesting views and locations.

This planet has a water atmosphere?
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A cold star ...
That's -20*C how the hell am I overheating when I get near it !?!
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Got to love the Wolf-Rayet stars .. last jump there
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Ah a very nice looking water world to terraform ...
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... on the other hand I probably wouldn't be comfortable seeing the system it's in ...
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The spoils of this trip? ...
a little over 5Mil ... and Ranger exploration rank now
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