Discovery (give a little, take a little).

robo

robo
Little tip for anyone who is planning to gear up for discovering, get a detailed surface scanner (I think that's what it's called), it works along side a normal discovery scanner & doesn't need to assigned to a fire group, plus you'll receive bigger payouts for your scans.

On a similar note, when exploring, I only seem to be able to explore a systems primary star & it's orbiting bodies. I'll go into the systems map & see there'll be 2, maybe 3 stars, but I can't target them from either the systems map, or the left hand systems panel, I've also spun my ship around hoping to spot them in the night sky, but to no joy. Does anyone have any tips on finding binary or a greater amount of stars within systems?
 
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harag

harag
Take a little - give a LOT :)

Not used a detailed surface scan, but I'm still in a sidewinder... As for the finding of the larger stars, you need to look, or get yourself an advanced scanner - which was is reported to have an unlimited range (don't know if this is true as I've never even got pass the free basic one).

What I do to look is fly away from the starting star and then get up to about 50.0c in speed (the faster the easier) then fly around the orbit of the starting star. Have a look at the system map and take a note of the colour of the other starts (red, white etc) then as you're flying around the orbit look for these colour starts that are moving slightly differently from the background - the further away they are the less they will move. When flying around the orbit of the starting star don't do tight circles, but slow long circles. For me I use the sidewinder and look up through the "sun roof" and fly 90 degrees on the orbit path - e.g. so the orbital path is running top to bottom of the screen.

Once you spot one that you think might be the 2nd star - DON'T head for it straight on, but head to it at an angle, while heading at an angle compare it's position to the stars around it. if your heading off to the right of it then you should see it move closer to the "background" stars. This way you can be sure you have the right one. Once you are 100% sure, head for it.

You won't be able to select it or anything until you scan it, if you still have the basic one then you have to be within 500ls to scan. While heading for it, SC like you would with docking, watch your speed and as it drops down to around 20ls from the start, start scanning. One found target it.

Rinse and repeat for planets etc.

Hope this helps.
 

robo

robo
Cheers harag, seems like a lot more flying around, but I'll more than likely give it a go. I'll wouldn't mind giving an Advanced Scanner a go, as I've only got an Intermediate at the moment, it's finding one to pick up though.
 

CDR TSquared

CDR TSquared
It is certainly going to take a LOT of scanning to pay the advanced scanner off. Just pinging a system and detail scanning the main star gives you around 1-3k. Spending 15+ minutes detail scanning everything brings you up to maybe 3-6k. Definitely not going to help you pay for ANYTHING except ammo and repairs (assuming you can find a station when you get 100ly off the beaten path).

I think the benefit to exploring/scanning will be finding pristine mining areas nobody else has touched that might be close to pure metal. Just gotta find a good ship for exploring/scanning, mining and hauling all wrapped up in one so you don't have to head back to civilization with a full hold very often.
 

stephen_usher

stephen_usher
robo said:
Little tip for anyone who is planning to gear up for discovering, get a detailed surface scanner (I think that's what it's called), it works along side a normal discovery scanner & doesn't need to assigned to a fire group, plus you'll receive bigger payouts for your scans.

On a similar note, when exploring, I only seem to be able to explore a systems primary star & it's orbiting bodies. I'll go into the systems map & see there'll be 2, maybe 3 stars, but I can't target them from either the systems map, or the left hand systems panel, I've also spun my ship around hoping to spot them in the night sky, but to no joy. Does anyone have any tips on finding binary or a greater amount of stars within systems?
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The best way of finding the second star in a binary is to target the main star and look for its orbital line. Follow this around looking for a "bigger" star on the horizon which may be shimmering. This is likely to be the other star.

In a thrinary or quaternary system it's more tricky as the orbital lines only show one of the orbits, with the closest bound member of the group. Sometimes you can get a hint from other ships in the system coming from a distant star otherwise you need to get up to a high speed (>100c) and scan the heavens for stars which move against the background. This can be very tricky if the other star(s) are a very long way out.

There's no need for an advanced discovery scanner if you're skilled and have time.

As for the Detailed Surface Scanner, it does indeed pay more, especially if you find metal rich planets or Earth-like planets. However, I've not managed to save up the 250000Cr needed to buy one as I'm getting only around 1000Cr/hour exploring on the frontier with the basic scanner only.
 

zenoic

Z
Another quick tip, watch for NPCs in super cruise, they'll be heading to or from planets, if you cant see their start or end point just head in that direction.
 
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