When I'm exploring, definately Vegan. Have to see what every object in system is, even the 'roid clusters. When I'm travelling, however, it's just stop, burp, slurp, and run.
Are you Vegan? Veggie? Omni ? Meat-eater ?
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Omnivore here, though I can be a picky eater.
I know that I left AWs and especially WWs untouched when they were too far out and I wasn't in the mood (even half a handful of ELWs I think), but I have also travelled 000's of ls just to get to a deformed planet or nice looking gas giant.
I generally visit whatever picks my interest at the given moment.
Though I will never just honk and go without having a look at the sys map first.
Omnivore here, though I can be a picky eater.
I know that I left AWs and especially WWs untouched when they were too far out and I wasn't in the mood (even half a handful of ELWs I think), but I have also travelled 000's of ls just to get to a deformed planet or nice looking gas giant.
I generally visit whatever picks my interest at the given moment.
Though I will never just honk and go without having a look at the sys map first.
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Omnivore. These types of camparisons always make be think of these books!
If you have never read this series of books, take a few hours and do so...early Piers Anthony (if you can find it, get Macroscope, too!)!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Man_and_Manta
If you have never read this series of books, take a few hours and do so...early Piers Anthony (if you can find it, get Macroscope, too!)!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Man_and_Manta
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I'm on my way back from Sag A*, I'm kinda scanning, kinda getting back... I set a leg of journey and travel only using the Advanced Discovery Scanner. At (or near) the end of the leg, depending on fuel levels, I stop, refuel, scan around the locals, take a look at GalMap and go for the next leg. I'm interested in going around checking things out, but I kinda want to get back for Horizons.
I haven't taken a surface scanner with me, which was kinda stupid, but what can you do. I was in the mindset for getting to Sag A* as fast as possible.
I haven't taken a surface scanner with me, which was kinda stupid, but what can you do. I was in the mindset for getting to Sag A* as fast as possible.
I covered about 6 Kylies yesterday and added around a dozen or two-dozen systems to my ship's log (i.e. in those systems, I properly scanned at least the primary and possibly other objects); everything else was just honk-and-run.
But I'm on a mission of !!SCIENCE!!, not exploration, so my priorities are different. Those systems were mostly orange giants, so as far as orange giants are concerned, at present I'm an omnivore.
Next week it might be brown dwarfs, or black holes, or purple people-eaters, or who knows?
But I'm on a mission of !!SCIENCE!!, not exploration, so my priorities are different. Those systems were mostly orange giants, so as far as orange giants are concerned, at present I'm an omnivore.
Next week it might be brown dwarfs, or black holes, or purple people-eaters, or who knows?
By these definitions, I'm a Veggie. Been to Sag. A* twice now, haven't farmed neutrons - quick cheap and nasty way to gain exploration Elite - but that's just, like, my opinion mang.
After >1.5 years of ED, I'm still not Elite in exploration (or any of the other ranks).
Sitting currently at Pioneer 97% and hopefully will have reached Elite Soon[tm] as I'm now back out in my Clipper; Anticipation Of A New Griefer's Arrival, The , exploring nearby the Bubble and thoroughly enjoying myself
After >1.5 years of ED, I'm still not Elite in exploration (or any of the other ranks).
Sitting currently at Pioneer 97% and hopefully will have reached Elite Soon[tm] as I'm now back out in my Clipper; Anticipation Of A New Griefer's Arrival, The , exploring nearby the Bubble and thoroughly enjoying myself
I consider myself an omnivore. I'm on my first exploration, started out as a "walkabout." I tried the vegan thing, but traveling half a million LS to scan a comet with a Ford motor (Bow Tie/Mopar guy here) got to be ridiculous. So I went omni about the the time I decided to hit Sag A*. I had no problems picking up the crumbs of meat eaters, they left quality finds- neutrons, white dwarves, terraformables, even a few Earth likes and ammonias. I'm heading back in now, and I'd really like a better ship than the DBX. So I did some farming, found an amazing field of WD's BH's, and neutrons. The way I see it is it's all out there, first come first serve. If some king of the neutron fields gets upset over farmers, Monty said it best...
[video=youtube_share;-8bqQ-C1PSE]https://youtu.be/-8bqQ-C1PSE[/video]
) got to be ridiculous. So I went omni about the the time I decided to hit Sag A*. I had no problems picking up the crumbs of meat eaters, they left quality finds- neutrons, white dwarves, terraformables, even a few Earth likes and ammonias. I'm heading back in now, and I'd really like a better ship than the DBX. So I did some farming, found an amazing field of WD's BH's, and neutrons. The way I see it is it's all out there, first come first serve. If some king of the neutron fields gets upset over farmers, Monty said it best...[video=youtube_share;-8bqQ-C1PSE]https://youtu.be/-8bqQ-C1PSE[/video]
Omnivore.
Exploration related
Vegan = Highly believes ALL bodies must be scanned in any given system before moving on. Hates farming(like the Neutron Fields).
Veggie = Will scan many bodies, sometimes all. Live and let live regarding to farmer, but doesn't farm.
Omnivore = Does a bit of scanning or lots, but also farms. Farming is more a need to rank up than credits.
Meat-Eater = Pffft to scanning. Farms , purely for Rank/Credits/First Discoveries
I don't think any of these describes me.
I feel compelled to scan everything. Seeing UNEXPLORED in my Navigation Panel bothers me. I hold first discovery on MANY useless snowballs and Philadelphia snowballs (frozen rocks), some of which I flew hundreds of thousands of light-seconds in supercruise to scan. I've scanned countless asteroids and I think the addition of nav panel filtering is the greatest thing ever because I can now pretend the asteroids don't exist.
At the same time, scanning everything burns me out on exploration extremely rapidly and is largely the reason I have not yet reached Elite (at the time of this writing I am Ranger, 67% to Pioneer). I
Because of that, have started forcing myself to ignore icy and rocky bodies unless they are so close as to be effortless to scan. This is hard for me to do, and yet it makes exploration feel more worthwhile.
And then there is the fact that I have been to Sagittarius A* four times... all four times without scanners (see: The Buckyball Run A* and The A* Challenge), because I am also a racer and my ships of choice are so small that carrying scanners seriously impairs their jump range. I am seriously considering a trip with scanners in my Courier soon, however... the fact that I haven't been there with scanners bothers me.
I also don't have the patience for spending long periods of time in the black. I have severe ADHD, and I need variety in my gameplay to keep myself engaged. So I make short dashes of 1-5 kylies, explore until I start to yearn for something else, then head back and do combat or missions for a while... until eventually I get the urge to explore again.
So... I guess I am kinda the combo platter here... A mix of all styles (or, rather, I oscillate between them rather than actually mixing them).
Edit: Oops, someone linked me to this thread, I didn't realize it was ancient until after I posted. Sorry about that.
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