I just got back yesterday from my first 'beyond 1000LY from the civilisation bubble' trip to the Crab Nebula. It's taken around 4-5 weeks and I've scanned most everything in every system I jumped into on the way out and back. I was surprised I didn't come across many undiscovered systems until I got around 50- 100LY beyond Barnard's Loop. After that, everything on my chosen route to the Crab was pretty much virgin territory.
Total distance I reckon I've covered on this trip is around 16,000LY. It's about 7000LY in a straight line to the Crab so this is a rough approximation.
I only found 1 undiscovered Earth-like planet (plus 1 previously discovered in an 'M' class system near the Orion Nebula) but I found plenty of water-worlds, terraforming candidates and gas-giants with water-based and ammonia-based life, also ammonia worlds, a dozen or so neutron stars, 1 carbon star and a few black holes here and there.
Before selling the data, my plan was to record every newly discovered system but this was taking far too long and I quickly ditched the plan and sold the data by the page. So at this point I have no record of any of the systems that now have my name on apart from the few screenshots I took in certain systems.
I really hope FD give us the option in the future to query the database and filter out systems with our 'first discovered' tags so we can acquire a list.
A few statistics:
cr. before selling data: 21,453,346
cr. after selling data: 55,608,589
munitions cost (AFM/Heat sink ammo): 3288
repair cost: 946 + 266,447 for ship integrity
total profit: 34,155,243 - 3288 - 946 - 266,447 = 33,884,562cr
Hull was down to 90%, power plant 98%
Not much damage at all really
The little damage I had was due to running into an unlit ring around a gas giant. Those AFM units are a 'must have'.
Was a Pathfinder, now a Ranger
A few piccies:
Ship needs a scrub and a re-spray:
View from Trapezium Sector CB-W C2-3:
M78 from Trapezium Sector CG-X D1-18:
Spirograph Nebula and Barnard's Loop:
Inside the Spirograph Nebula:
Black hole Lam 01 Orionis:
Crab Nebula from Crab Sector DL-Y D1:
Crab Nebula from Crab Sector IH-V C2-2:
Looking back towards civilisation from inside Crab Nebula:
Earth-like PYULT VF-M D8-4 8:
Total distance I reckon I've covered on this trip is around 16,000LY. It's about 7000LY in a straight line to the Crab so this is a rough approximation.
I only found 1 undiscovered Earth-like planet (plus 1 previously discovered in an 'M' class system near the Orion Nebula) but I found plenty of water-worlds, terraforming candidates and gas-giants with water-based and ammonia-based life, also ammonia worlds, a dozen or so neutron stars, 1 carbon star and a few black holes here and there.
Before selling the data, my plan was to record every newly discovered system but this was taking far too long and I quickly ditched the plan and sold the data by the page. So at this point I have no record of any of the systems that now have my name on apart from the few screenshots I took in certain systems.
I really hope FD give us the option in the future to query the database and filter out systems with our 'first discovered' tags so we can acquire a list.
A few statistics:
cr. before selling data: 21,453,346
cr. after selling data: 55,608,589
munitions cost (AFM/Heat sink ammo): 3288
repair cost: 946 + 266,447 for ship integrity
total profit: 34,155,243 - 3288 - 946 - 266,447 = 33,884,562cr
Hull was down to 90%, power plant 98%
Not much damage at all really
The little damage I had was due to running into an unlit ring around a gas giant. Those AFM units are a 'must have'.Was a Pathfinder, now a Ranger
A few piccies:
Ship needs a scrub and a re-spray:
View from Trapezium Sector CB-W C2-3:
M78 from Trapezium Sector CG-X D1-18:
Spirograph Nebula and Barnard's Loop:
Inside the Spirograph Nebula:
Black hole Lam 01 Orionis:
Crab Nebula from Crab Sector DL-Y D1:
Crab Nebula from Crab Sector IH-V C2-2:
Looking back towards civilisation from inside Crab Nebula:
Earth-like PYULT VF-M D8-4 8:
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