Newcomer / Intro D-Scan & other tips

Thwarptide

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Thwarptide
OK, I've been waaaaay out of the bubble for a few weeks now. With exploring confidence built up, sold my data in colonia. Took a two day break, now I'm back in the black, honking and FSS scanning. Discovered my first earth like planet (I shall call it Vito Corleone 🤪). Things are going well.

Buuuut I do have a rather different question. I've not found any planets in a system further than 80,000ls out. From being in the bubble I do know that there are some 250,000 ls out.
1. With that I'm wondering what the effective range of the D scanner is
2 and once done FSS scanning would it occasionally be worth the bother going out further and d scanning again?
3. If I should, what would be an indication that I should?

Side question: I've yet to see any odd ball signal sources or those weird system anomalies where you find metal crystals and such. Am I doing something wrong or are they more rare out here (depending on where you are).
 
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Faded Glory

Faded Glory
The FSS has infinite range within a system, so when it tells you that you have scanned the system 100% then that is it. So, no, no point in flying off into the black...

Notable Stellar Phenomena are relatively rare, so no, you are probably not doing anything wrong.

And congrats on your ELW! :)
 

Dommarraa

Dommarraa
The hard core codex hunters flit between nebulae, not the big ones, the tiny 1 system planetary nebulae that you can only spot by the blur on the galaxy map.
 

Sapyx

Sapyx
The Stellar Forge frequently generates secondary stars out to about 600,000 Ls; systems bigger than that are relatively rare and I think are only generated if the secondary has a highly elliptical orbit which takes it out beyond the 600,000 Ls line. The ridiculously long ranges of systems like Alpha Centauri and 36 Ophiuchi, where secondary stars are fractions of LY (millions of Ls) away, are impossible. For single stars, planets rarely form beyond 10,000 Ls; again, most of the exceptions you'd find are highly elliptically orbiting planets.
 
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