Not unless you actually want to discover new planets for yourself without spending hours using parallax, as already mentioned, in the hope of locating them. I do find using the FSS in the bubble to be a pain due to the number of USS's some systems have. Using parallax I expect you could find a lot of close bodies, but there are many even with the FSS that are hard to find, bodies not on the orbital plane that would be impossible to find without using the FSS.
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Not unless you actually want to discover new planets for yourself without spending hours using parallax, as already mentioned, in the hope of locating them. I do find using the FSS in the bubble to be a pain due to the number of USS's some systems have. Using parallax I expect you could find a lot of close bodies, but there are many even with the FSS that are hard to find, bodies not on the orbital plane that would be impossible to find without using the FSS.
If you want to do "true exploration" and discover planets that no-one else has scanned and sold the data for, then yes. (unless you want to go all hardcore and use the parallax method).
I just found a partially scanned system. Looks like I'm going to have to figure out how to use the FSS. I'm getting to old to easily learn new stuff!
I just found a partially scanned system. Looks like I'm going to have to figure out how to use the FSS. I'm getting to old to easily learn new stuff!
Yeah you will find lots of those. In the early days you would honk and fly to the good ones ELW, WW, Ammonia etc to do a detailed scan and leave the rest. Now when you honk in a system like that these are the only bodies that show, the rest will be invisible until scanned with the FSS.
I was right. When they announced the changes to exploration, I knew that it was going to take longer to scan each system. If I had used the current system during my circumnavigation, I would probably still be out there.
Are there certain signals for ELW, WW and AW? If I knew what they were, I could at least cut my time down instead of scanning each and every little ice ball and rock.
Are there certain signals for ELW, WW and AW? If I knew what they were, I could at least cut my time down instead of scanning each and every little ice ball and rock.
Earth Like Worlds, Water Worlds, Ammonia Worlds, they show up in a specific location in the FSS, it actually tells you on the right what you have tuned in to so you set to that and just scan around until you have located those, you can leave the rest if you want, I will take the Bio bodies and Guardian/Thargoid sites since they never appear on any of those three types. Of course you will also miss the NSP and etc, two new types of phenomena were discovered in the last few weeks, they don't pay much but if all you are after is money then feel free to hunt the money and leave the discoveries to those interested!
I will admit that I am mostly a cherry picker, but I do like finding the rare oddity. I love to look at O type stars and Carbon stars. As for money? Meh. I have money from my previous expeditions, so I really don't need it and I'm not a hoarder. If I were, I would stay in or near the Bubble and find the exploits to use.
There's a distinct break in exploration styles when you look at stats on EDSM under the records, people with 100,000+ first discovered systems, I think I am sitting just under the top 100 with just under 27,000, but do I ever expect to get up to 100,000? Probably not, my exploration style changed markedly when the FSS came out, it will probably change again when Odyssey comes out due to the new features such as sampling and etc, we still have to little information to really say though.
I will just change and adjust my exploration styles to match the new content and tools, it doesn't bother me that much, some people it does, some people stopped playing when the FSS came out.
The FSS system is actually better at spotting WWs and AWs. A small percentage of WWs and AWs look exactly like a HMC or iceball world and would readily be passed over using the old "spot the planet in the system map" technique. With the FSS, they can't hide.
There's an awful lot that you can;t do, though - at least, not without spending time to scan the entire system. Finding terrafromables, for example: you need to run the FSS on every single water world, HMC and Rocky planet to find them - then you need to open the system map anyway, since the FSS doesn't tell you if a planet is terraformable.
There's an awful lot that you can;t do, though - at least, not without spending time to scan the entire system. Finding terrafromables, for example: you need to run the FSS on every single water world, HMC and Rocky planet to find them - then you need to open the system map anyway, since the FSS doesn't tell you if a planet is terraformable.
I've just noticed that. I found my first WWs using the new system and my first GG with waterbased life. It's so much easier to see that they are to the right of center of the FSS. The new system is beginning to grow on me. I wont say I like it as much as the old honk and scoot method, but I'm liking it more than I did a week ago.
Thanks everyone for your help, suggestions and comments!
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I find the FSS to be much faster than flying to each & every planet to scan them.