Maybe it is not something new, but I must admit that Engineers modifications, namely the FSD range mod is a nice addition to exploration. Not for the absolute jump range, but I found that with modified FSD, the router is able to find routes which are slightly off the beaten tracks which was made in the past by Explorers with classical unmodified ship builds.
As a result, even if I am at the well known route to the Formidine Rifts, I am mostly visiting systems where no one was before. Frequently, I am jumping 20 or 30 systems in the row, all of them "Unexplored". Only just around the well known waypoints (systems from the Formidine Rift spreadsheet) I can see in the System view that the system was firstly visited by someone else.
For this, you do not even need the top FSD modification. I am using just average level 4 modification in FSD range.
As a result, even if I am at the well known route to the Formidine Rifts, I am mostly visiting systems where no one was before. Frequently, I am jumping 20 or 30 systems in the row, all of them "Unexplored". Only just around the well known waypoints (systems from the Formidine Rift spreadsheet) I can see in the System view that the system was firstly visited by someone else.
For this, you do not even need the top FSD modification. I am using just average level 4 modification in FSD range.