How do I get rid of the weird colors in the map since I pledged allegiance to Federation?
What dors honk mean in relation to scoop-honk-jump?
What dors honk mean in relation to scoop-honk-jump?
Horizons Colors and honks
- Thread starter Mike Reacher
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If you mean the Powerplay influence bubbles you just select a different map layout. I'm not pledged to any power but I can still select the Powerplay overlap in the Universe map and will get those large multi-colored bubbles.
It's the sound that your discovery scanner makes when you finish a scan. It's a low-pitched sound that doesn't really sound a lot like a "honk" but it's what players started calling it so the name has sort of stuck.
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Devari is right - the discovery scanner sounds a lot like an old ship's steam fog-horn.
Many players just jump into a system, scoop fuel, honk the scanner, fuel finishes, climb out of star, check system map for interesting planets (ie high $ return for exploration data) and either jump out, or go scan the planets.
Hence the Honk, scoop, Jump for strings of uninteresting systems (maybe a couple of stars/brown dwarfs, no interesting planets)
Many players just jump into a system, scoop fuel, honk the scanner, fuel finishes, climb out of star, check system map for interesting planets (ie high $ return for exploration data) and either jump out, or go scan the planets.
Hence the Honk, scoop, Jump for strings of uninteresting systems (maybe a couple of stars/brown dwarfs, no interesting planets)
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High return scan? I want to know what planets are high return. Another question if you have the time.
questions keep rising. How do you do wetwork on a planet base?
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Basically any planets with life on them are high-value, typically around 50k credits with a detailed surface scan. This is often substantially more than what you get from a typical star + system scan which is usually around 10-20k credits (usually around 5-10k credits for the star and around 5-10k for the system scan) so it's worthwhile to scan these planets before moving on to the next system. When you open the system map you can usually identify planets with life (Earth-likes, Water Worlds and Ammonia Worlds) by their appearance which is quite distinctive. You can also get some decent value from scanning high metal content or metal-rich planets (which are usually medium-value unless they are terraformable) but they are usually not worth going more than 250-500 ls away from the star to scan. They can however be worth your time scanning if they are very close to the star (i.e., usually under 50 ls) because you can often scan these nearby planet as you're scooping without spending any actual travel time. Usually trying to scan everything in a system isn't worthwhile because the time you spend travelling is much longer than the time it would take to jump to another system, which just from the star and system scan will get you around 10-20k credits plus the potential to find more high-value planets.
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