Back to civilization after about 6 weeks.

[drh61]

Hello fellow travelers, I just returned from my second exploration trip.

Start. 11/27/2017 from the Macoceluta system.

End. 01/11/2018 At Morgan’s Rock in NGC 6188 Sector LC-V c2-28

Asp explorer. Max jump range 47.6 LY.
My configuration gave me 44.63 LY with no cargo.
Actual range for most of my trip was about 43.3 LY with some cargo I picked up here and there from some crash sites. I found one or two sites where I found skimmer components among other things.

Max distance from start system 10,190 LY
Total travel distance. 43,134 LY

Total scans with ADS

Stars. 758
Planets 1557

First discoveries
Total first discovery systems. 136
Stars. 235
Total Planets 1247
Ammonia Worlds. 5
Earth Like. 2
Gas Giant 61
GG Ammonia Life. 8
GG Water Life. 7
High Metal Content. 185
HMC Terraformable. 43
Metal Rich Body. 2
Water World. 7
WW Terraformable. 13
Generic Rocky/Icy bodies. 908

Average system age. 6,942 million years
Oldest system. 13,047 million years
Youngest system. 4 million years
Avg stars per system. 1.74
Max stars in a system. 6
Avg Planets per system. 6.03
Max planets in a system. 20
Avg moons per system. 3.27
Max moons in a system. 41

For all you seasoned explorers out there, is this breakdown of world types pretty consistent with your results?

Total exploration income from the trip. $99,012,836

Total exploration income to date is $179,184,821

This trip got me promoted to pathfinder for exploration.

I’m going to put this game down for a week or so and finish Horizon Zero Dawn and perhaps Dark Souls 3.

I’ll be back!

 

[Cpt Shadow Wolfe]

Its only consistent if you are plotting a route in a straight line from A to B, I normally just pick a direction and filter out everything mostly below class F stars, so most the time only visiting Class A, B, O, and the high end star systems, which means I will find a higher majority of High Metal Content worlds and Rocky worlds, not many ice worlds will be found in those type systems. Of course you will find the whole gambit of Gas Giants in them as well, too include the Helium Rich and Water Giants, and if they have moons they tend to be rocky worlds which pays a bit more than icy worlds (as first discoveries). I generally skip scanning objects in a system that have already been discovered regardless of what they might be. I pick and choose which systems to go to as opposed to plotting a course. And if I plot a course and it routes through Class M or something, I reroute around it and go to a better star nearby that has a higher potential of the money planet scans.

I left the bubble about the end of November and have accumulated around 10k first discoveries for this trip with 500 mil in scan data. But decided to head back to the bubble and maybe outfit an Orca for the next exploration trip, the Anaconda I am currently using is ok, but I wanna do the deep space runs in luxury, and if I can get an Orca above 40 Ly jump range, then that will be good enough for me, this conda does 58, but still turns like a slug in super cruise and that can become tedious sometimes, I know the Orca can turn so much better, will have to decide whether to take a shield or a repair module though, since there isn't enough slots on the Orca to be able to take both with all the other gear I need to take.

 

[Sapyx]

It does depend on what exactly you are seeking to find.

For example, finding only two Earth-likes in 440 jumps is well below average, if one is specifically seeking Earth-likes that is. Earth-likes are most probable in G, F and lower-mass A class stars, so many ELW-seekers filter their route to only include those star types. Do that, and you should find (on average) one ELW per fifty jumps, or about nine ELWs in a 450-jump trip.

Now, it's all random; you might go a thousand jumps without seeing an ELW, you might find a cluster of half a dozen ELWs all within a few jumps of each other. But it should even out to about the average.