Do you bother with icy planets?

cidlockie

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Apologies for asking a question I don't doubt has been asked elsewhere (can't find this specific question in Nutter's guide), but are icy planets worth scanning? It seems to me the credits you get are pretty poor but I just want to check.

Also, I read somewhere that if you find an icy planet at, say, the fourth planet in a system, then the fifth, sixth etc planets will always also be icy - is that right?

Thanks.
 

ste

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I dont bother. If they are white or slightly pinky white on the system map I just do a normal scan. Unless I'm in OCD mode and feel the need to perfect.
 

xDreadnoughtx

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cidlockie said:
Apologies for asking a question I don't doubt has been asked elsewhere (can't find this specific question in Nutter's guide), but are icy planets worth scanning? It seems to me the credits you get are pretty poor but I just want to check.

Also, I read somewhere that if you find an icy planet at, say, the fourth planet in a system, then the fifth, sixth etc planets will always also be icy - is that right?

Thanks.
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Pretty much yes, don't bother scanning. After many hundreds of systems, the likelihood of finding anything far out is minimal.

Gas giant though is another matter.
 

AMcA

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Normally I don't bother.
Except it's a gas giant and I'm so close that those ice planets are in scanner range without having to move the ship any further.
 

Dervrak

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Usually, no....
I typically pop my advanced discovery scanner, then go straight to the system view, look for anything that could be a Earthlike or waterworld, then anything that looks like it has an atmosphere (candidate for terraforming). I tend to skip 'white balls of rock' altogether but will hit other balls of rock 'hi metal worlds' unless they are really far away and not worth the time, I then hit the gas giants but usually ignore the moons which tend to be the aforementioned white balls of rock.
 
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