After Exploring........

Gut Rumble

Gut Rumble
Just curious about what you fellow explorers do once you return to relax.:rolleyes:
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I myself like to mine , I have a fantastic place next to my home world , outside the PP and two jumps and your out the bubble again ;)
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the gassy explorer Gut Rumble :eek:
 

Zieman

Zieman
Maybe some combat or some trading. Usually I just immediately return to the most relaxing thing there is in the game: exploring. :)
 
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Ulysses_W

Ulysses_W
Exploration is the only thing I've ever really done in the game. I did do some bounty hunting back in December followed by a small (failed) exploration run to the North American Nebula.

I was back out on the way the the Heart and Soul Nebulae within a matter of hours after my return. I then did a rare run to get an ADS and was back out again in mid Feb. I'm still out here now and suspect that after I return again sometime in November, I'll just turn around and head out again.

For me the game is called Elite: Exploration.

I'd love to find some alien spuds or tobacco to bring home. If only to get myself in the history books. :D
 
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tiger61378

tiger61378
For me, it will be mining away from the RES points. There's something hypnotic about watching your drones swarm around picking up what you're blasting off the rocks, and its calming hanging out in rings (plus, if you're far from the RES points there's almost NO pirate traffic).
 

Cmdr Raz

Cmdr Raz
I think a couple of days of pew pew while deciding my next destination :) Maybe even some PeePee, haven't tried it yet :p
 
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Zenith

Zenith
I've done a number of things since I got back from my last long expedition.

I've bought a Vulture and gone RES bountyhunting. I've gone from Novice to Expert doing that in a few days.
I've bought a Cobra to recapture the feeling of my early days and took it for a weekend outing to Pleiades, Betelgeuse and back.
I've been helping the research with Unknown Artefacts by trying to find one and constructing experiments to test them.
I've bought a Python and participated in the Abres mining CG and learnt that practice makes perfect. I can fill 192t of precious metals in a couple of hours now.

One thing that stands out as a long-distance explorer is that the entirety of human populated space is so... small!
A 1000ly trip is a matter of an hour or 2. I think nothing of a jaunt out to Pleiades, Betelgeuse and back in a few hundred light year circle. Yet some Cmdrs couldn't even contemplate the 300ly+ to Pleiades because it seems so far for them.

All that said though, my eyes are turning outward again. I'll probably spend another couple of weeks in the bubble before heading out on my next research trip.
I'm still flipping a coin which way to go. I've been coreward, so it's either spinward or rimward.
 

Eli Jack

Eli Jack
I always get back to the bubble thinking, 'that's it for exploration for a while' and within an hour I'm generally
heading back out.

When I've been out for a week or so I think, 'I'd like to be back in the bubble doing something else'.

As we don't have more than one Cmdr slot this was/is becoming a real pain. The only solution so far is
to buy another copy of the game, which I did a couple of days ago.

In my new game I fly a Sidewinder and smuggle goods, do missions and last night had my very first
pvp encounter. I will not do any trading or exploring in this game, I won't fly anything bigger than a Cobra and I
will only play in open. I might even have a go at this PP lark. So, the complete opposite of my original game.

When I have the urge to return to exploring I'll fire up the other game, start up the Eagle and continue
the journey. This is a solution that works for me but I'm aware that others may view it as beyond crazy.
 

Sapient6

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Chaodiurn said:
Selling data is something really relaxing to do before heading out again.
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My current plan is similar, although with over 2000 systems scanned on the current trip, and only "sort of" heading back to the bubble, I expect it may look more like:

1. Spend longer than I'd like to sell less than a quarter of the data.
2. Post disgruntled complaint on forums about cartographic sales interface.
3. Generous glass of scotch.
4. Wear out my buzz and still not done selling data.
5. Bump previous disgruntled post.
6. More scotch.
7. Sell more data.
8. Incoherent muttering.
9. Consider flying into the local star in order to be done with it.
10. Head back out into the black in order to Relax.
 

goemon

goemon
i often choose a "smaller" project - flip that system, get allied with the alliance, get data on all rare goods where data is missing, be a smuggler... heading out again after 2-3 weeks. so my playtime is splitted between 50% exploration and 50% everything else, besides me not being very much interested in combat - neither res nor cz nor combatmissions, if not needed for flip or rep
 

thehairymob

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Did a little rares trading back just before 1.2 but that was only to get my Asp fitted out. Since then I have been out in the deep. If I ever return with the data I'll head out again. If I'm forced back because of alien attack or accident I may be forced to do some more rares to cover insurance for another trip out. Let us hope it never comes to that though as the call of the stars is so great :)
 

Dommarraa

Dommarraa
Since making elite, I have tried trading and mining. Have gone over to hunt for ua. It makes exploring look exciting, but at least it doesnt feel like grind yet
 

Imsaho

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When I was exploring closer to the bubble, I made notes whenever I ran across Metallic rings reasonably near the system entry point.

Closing in on Elite and once I'm back I'm planning on kitting out a second ship and heading out to see if the life of an occasional miner suits me.

The commitment to the task of being 20,000 Ly out is nice and (to me, anyway) definitely part of the appeal (my last 1500 systems have been unexplored), but every couple of weeks or so, sometimes I think it would be nice to even just spend an hour or two doing something a little different.

Not quite enough, though, to get a second account ;-)
 

Zieman

Zieman
Popped in to the bubble to sell data, was thinking about buying a Python & trading for a while, to finance the purchace of Anaconda.

That resolve didn't last even until all data was sold. :D

Back to the void, trying to reach a couple of stars of my main exploring goal with the Asp - if unsuccessful, I have a couple of more attainable stretch goals to do before really needing the Annie...
 
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Bam

Bam
Repair, sell data and go back into the black.
There are a lot less idiots per system 10,000ly away, I find its 1 at the most.
 
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