When you get to a system you explore it, not just visit a little part of it & move on, that's not exploration. What you regard as etiquette, explorers regard as lazy.
Wouldn't the unwritten rule be more, "do a complete scan or not at all"? or that is what I would say, because there are more then enough systems out there, and leaving stranglers just seems silly.
When you get to a system you explore it, not just visit a little part of it & move on, that's not exploration. What you regard as etiquette, explorers regard as lazy.
The REAL ones! <drink>Which explorers, exactly? I mean, apart from those who just started their first trip to Sag A.
Tyrant of space, Dark Master of the void, turning the strongest of pilots to trembling heaps...
Compulsive liar
(been flying this ship for over 30 years and still can't find the sick bags...)
Humph.....
Currently riding the rim in a Beagle-wards direction up at the top of Mare Somnia and every single body in the edge systems has been scanned, down to the last moon!
Ooooh, another drinkps - if you are flying a route where every system is 100% discovered, then you're doing "exploration" wrong, LOL.
Well, here is my loose Scan Priority list I came up with a while a go to keep me on track when I am heading to places (like I am at the moment from Sag A* to Beagle Point), otherwise I would never get anywhere.
Once I get to my destination then I scan and map whatever takes my fancy.
On entering a system honk while positioning for fuel scoop.
Check System Map to see if it is already scanned. (not always)
Enter FSS.
Scan Gas Giants.
Less than 5 bodies, scan all.
If still fuel scooping scan until full.
@varonica Lol, it's just me being cautious with a method to give me time to use the FSS. I do enter fuel scooping quite high and then throttle down. Sometimes it's has a quick rate, sometimes not, I'm not super accurate in my positioning. Bearing in mind I'm in an un-engineered Asp-Explorer that I built from a cannibalised T7 I took to Colonia, I'm also enjoying a 30 Ly jump range.