Exploration.....Finding Unscanned Systems.

[gooddoc]

What's this repair kit business? I admittedly only went about 1200 Ly out and back but during that time none of my modules took any damage at all. Or is it only if you take heat damage or are attacked the repair modules become useful?

Accidents will happen on longer trips - mainly losing concentration & flying too close to stars when scooping or flying into ring systems 'edge on' that you cant see.
These cause damage to your modules & with your repair kits you can restore them back to 100%

 

[SMcA]

Thank you very much for the great advise you guys are legends, i do see that all the Nebula's are always being explored so i started to head straight up from my current position and going to explore the ceiling...thanks again guys.

Hi Monomi, Just to give my tuppence worth.
I would not be concerned about Nebulas already being discovered. Last month I did a 3 day drip taking in Lagoon and Traikaae. I honked every system but only D-Scanned stars that I was fueling at or were high value. I only scanned planets if they were ELW or Water Worlds. Or if they were in a good position to use as a foreground against the Nebula. I made 5 Million in that test.
There are so many stars that you only need to detour about 100 Ly to the side and recalculate your route. And you are almost guaranteed to get a virgin route.
Last night I traveled from NGC 6357 to the Catspaw and I only saw a discovered by tag, when I arrived at the closest stars to the Nebula.
And the view is so good.

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[Whiterose]

I have over 5,000 systems to my name, the chances are you will never come across one of them, the galaxy is big. All the above advice is sound. This is my third time on a long explore, I dont event bother looking until I am 1,000Ly out. Just do what you want to do. I am in a DBE this time purely for the variety, alhtough the cockpit is very similar to the Asp, but the DBE does scoop and run a lot cooler.

 

[Mikey2305]

i doubt if 1% of everything out there has yet been discovered... enough to last a lifetime methinks

 

[Bran Tse Mallory]

Well i've just retired my cargo ship resting in a Hanger, going to smash the Exploration but everything has all ready bean discovered, is it worth still detail scanning system when they have all ready bean discovered? I really want to Explore undiscovered areas.. I have not cashed in any Data yet i just don't want to waist my time scanning planets if there is no real money in it.

Whats the best advice from Experienced Explorers? Do i still scan discovered areas or try to find my own undiscovered areas.

Diamond Back Explorer is my ride.

Was the idea to make this post almost unreadable?

 

[Whiterose]

Was the idea to make this post almost unreadable?

The grammar police have no power here. The post was perfectly readable.

 

[Chaz]

Definitely this! Even on regular trade routes I have made quite a nice chunk of change because many folks just "honk and go" to get their names on a Discovery but do not take the time to scan planets ("unexplored"). You will need the Detailed Surface Scanner to do this.

All planets in unsettled systems are unexplored until YOU scan them. You have to scan a planet to get your name down as the discoverer as far as I'm aware, ie you have to explore it. So just honking and jumping won't net you the first discovery bonus to the best of my knowledge. That is why you'll jump into systems and find that only the primary star at the jump in point has been scanned and discovered, or that an explorer has just cherry picked the best planets and left all the stuff like ice planets and stars that are 100's of ls out unscanned and undiscovered.

So if you jump into a system and see cmdr's names on planets then they have flown out to it and scanned it. It will still show as unexplored to you, because you personally have not scanned it yet. Planets without cmdr's names and an unexplored tag are your's for taking first discovery on, providing you get back to hand in the data before someone else does.

 

[Chaz]

The grammar police have no power here. The post was perfectly readable.

Not what he was referring to I think. If you're reading it on a PC, then it's charcoal grey text on a black background, so you have to swipe it to read it.

Edit: Except now the thread has been moved and it's now against a white background...

 

[Philip Coutts]

What are you looking to achieve commander? If it's getting your name on systems as the first discoverer then the best thing to do is jump without scanning anything for the first while and then start poking about. Also don't head for nebula or well known areas, head away from the common places and you are more likely to have some luck. Don't travel in straight lines either, it's a human thing to do so avoid it travel in zig zags and use all the planes of movement. Of course if you are just wanting to move up the rankings scan every system as you go and at least the main star, that way you get some money for your trouble!

 

[Bran Tse Mallory]

The grammar police have no power here. The post was perfectly readable.

As pointed out I just cannot see the text without swiping it first. If you want to be understood at least make clear what you are saying Or those of us who are older may have trouble even seeing your point!

Now that i have been able to read the OP I understand the question and it was a good one! The replies have helped me as I also wondered about the same thing.

 

[acg515]

Believe it or not, once you get a ship that can go over 20 ly in a jump, you will be able to go farther. The farther you go, the less chance someone made it there with their unkitted out Sidey or Cobra or whatever the heck people use to explore these days. With a Cobra that wasn't really set up for exploring because I just didn't know any better, I could get 16 ly in a jump. I scanned pretty much everything and spent a ton of time making it past the Pleiades and Barnard's Loop, which is a decent enough first longer distance cruise for a new explorer. I made 10 million on that cruise, making it to Barnard's Loop and back, and honestly I found very few unscanned systems because everyone and his brother wants to go to the Pleiades.

If you want unscanned, avoid nebulae because everyone likes to go to them - they really aren't that amazing once you've been to one or twenty.

 

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[Monomi]

Well just to report back bean flying scanning one full day now 2000ly out up in the ceiling cant go much higher no route as stars get further apart...found soo much stuff..unscanned, got my name on many things...heading over to Seagull neb then heading straight down, scanning all...

 

[newman1702]

The galaxy is in no danger of running out of unexplored systems any time soon I'm currently about 5k ly away from home, even close to a nebula that could be considered a landmark, so you'd think there'd be more discovered systems around it, but nope.. been quite a while since I've last seen someone's name on a system. Being aware of the 3rd dimension of the galaxy does help though

 

[xondk]

A general rule of thumb for me is that if it looks big and interesting, it is likely explored, however move your camera a bit off that and boom tons upon tons of undiscovered, and it is only really near known space it can be tricky to find it, 400 ly out or so, there are a lot.

 

[RanbowTrout]

Get the right area, and don't even need to go that far. On the current trip, jumped off from the 'bottom' edge of the Empire - and have seen exactly one tagged system since the third jump (just 55-odd ly out.) Currently only 250ly out, but keep getting distracted by shinies

 

[RMORTI]

I'm about 1,100LY south of the PP bubble continuing my survey of the SYNUEFE systems. I hit some nice pockets of undiscovered systems, and then suddenly there were explored systems everywhere. For sure, the farther out you move; the better your chances of finding what you seek. If you cross those paths leading to nebula, however, then I think you'll start to see explored systems.