Confessions of a Completionist

GreatlyUnknown

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When I first started dabbling in exploration, I can't tell you how many asteroid belts, icy planets, and everything else I thoroughly scanned. I really liked the idea of having entire systems to my name. Now not so much. But then, I've been working on making my way out to Sag A* and didn't want it to take an eon to do so, so I've been scanning primary star, stars that I can reach from where I jump in, and planets that look like they have a good chance to be ELs. And this reminds me, is Sag A* pronounced A-Star? A-Prime?
 

bazutti

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MarcusVatta said:
Reading these forums, I'm struck by how many commanders scan strategically - Don't scan the moons, or just scan the stars unless they are a certain class. Listen to the unexplored on the system map to determine if they are worth visiting. These are all great tips for efficiently finding the most interesting and valuable bodies to maximize the volume of space you can cover in a session.

Unfortunately, none of that pertains to me. That's because...

I scan everything. Every star, planet, or moon in the system must be scanned with a detailed planetary scanner. Then, it gets worse: I look over the results of my scans, and if a planet looks unusual - temperature, atmo composition, or class, I'll go and eyeball the planet. Obviously this does terrible things to my efficiency, and I waste precious minutes dropping into and crawling out of gravity wells, but I don't care. That's why I'm out there.

Right now, I'm spending up to half an hour scanning a single system, and sometimes longer if it's a large or complex system.

Horizons will make that longer, I'm sure. I'm certain I'll want to take an even closer look at some of these planets. It's going to be awesome, but it isn't going to help me rack up the klys.

"To stand upon the surface of an unknown world and look beyond it, to the next one." That's me.

Any other completionists out there? Or am I alone in my brand of madness?
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I'm in between. I sometimes get everything (especially if the system is unexplored by everyone), and other times just get metals/earths/etc (everything except rocks and far stars that are uninteresting). I guess I drop out of hyperspace, scan the system and the star in front of me, take a look at the system map and just get a "feel" as to whether or not I'm going for a quick slant or post route for the touchdown.
 

Bomba Luigi

Bomba Luigi
I am sometimes a completionist, it really depens on my mood and is sorta related to how long I am out explored.

On my current trip I started scanning everything, at some point I started to no longer scan Icy and rocky planets and a bit later evern started to ignore HMC Plantes and some Gas Giants. But after that cool-down period I then started to scann more again, it goes up and down.
 

Leviathan

Leviathan
Well I am not a completionist myself but my wingman is and it is a pain I tell you :rolleyes:

ME: Let's meet up in "system so and so"
Buddy: OK only two jumps

*one hour later*

ME: Dude you coming or what ?
Buddy: O'course I just finished scanning the 30th body in the first system only one jump to go ...
ME::mad:
 
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