Exploration, how do you mentally prepare
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Rack up a 40+ hour playlist of films, series and music either on 2nd monitor or laptop.
Its perfect for something like this as long as you can focus on 2 things and not fly into a star
Its perfect for something like this as long as you can focus on 2 things and not fly into a star
I don't think about it because I enjoy it.
yeah there's no combat or brainless trading but there are really interesting planetary bodies out there
have you seen a water world with 2000x surface pressure?
An earthlike around a neutron star?
Rings that spread out 300LS?
Thats what keeps me going the thirst for the unknown and weird
yeah there's no combat or brainless trading but there are really interesting planetary bodies out there
have you seen a water world with 2000x surface pressure?
An earthlike around a neutron star?
Rings that spread out 300LS?
Thats what keeps me going the thirst for the unknown and weird
It takes a certain... I don't want to say mental fortitude, but ability to handle hearing and repeating the same thing over and over. I'm pretty well-known in other games for my ability to constantly perform monotonous tasks for achievement... I'd like to thank working retail for my prowess...
As to how to actually prepare: Have a general goal set in mind. Find an area you want to get to as either an end-goal or checkpoint. Become committed. Have food/drink available and if needed, some music or other media to distract you from the boring supercruise sessions. I am working on some costume/props and when I am fuel scooping or supercruising, I usually step away to do a bit of work. It's not all as bad as some make it out to sound, so long as you realize that you have options.
Having a ship with 30+ ly jump capability helps a ton, too...
As to how to actually prepare: Have a general goal set in mind. Find an area you want to get to as either an end-goal or checkpoint. Become committed. Have food/drink available and if needed, some music or other media to distract you from the boring supercruise sessions. I am working on some costume/props and when I am fuel scooping or supercruising, I usually step away to do a bit of work. It's not all as bad as some make it out to sound, so long as you realize that you have options.
Having a ship with 30+ ly jump capability helps a ton, too...
I have fun with it, the first 1000Lys out (and sometimes further 1200+ was the furthest I've seen em) you run into signal sources, since I have an ASP i left a cargo bay in one of my slots and for awhile become a deep space salvager, the npcs I run into I make stories for (one was a fellow (npc) explorer whom I then decided had scanned some of the same systems and started threatening me not to hand in the data, it turned into an ugly fight of ramming where I eventually won out.) The further out I got the more I concentrated on finding odd things, beautiful views, weird noises (coming from systems, stars, planets) taking the perfect screen shots, ect.
Shameless plug for my Exploration Log (to give you an idea of how I approach it to keep it fun for me)
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=139911
Shameless plug for my Exploration Log (to give you an idea of how I approach it to keep it fun for me)
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=139911
No shame in sharing bro, that's what makes exploration fun as well, seeing what others have seen/accomplished.
First off, you need to recognize that what's happening back in human-space isn't very important; it's going to repeat itself or just keep stumbling along, and whether you're there or not won't make much difference to what's happening or to you. Then, being out in the big deep doesn't mean you're missing anything.
My RL job requires a certain amount of writing, and the pace of exploration is flexible and I can write on one computer and park-and-scoop on another. It's a relaxing distraction I can do at my own pace.
My RL job requires a certain amount of writing, and the pace of exploration is flexible and I can write on one computer and park-and-scoop on another. It's a relaxing distraction I can do at my own pace.
No shame in sharing bro, that's what makes exploration fun as well, seeing what others have seen/accomplished.
Very true, I enjoy reading other people's logs, it can help you come up with your own takes or ideas.
Fair warning, the way I play (as seen in my log) can end up with you dieing or getting fined quite often, I wouldn't take that path unless you don't mind. i.e. I got caught smuggling my "salvage" 4x in a row, and now I went from Allied to Friendly with the Feds (the only Faction I actively support) though I'm hoping regaining the rep with them will allow me to gain more rank missions (been hit hard by RNGeesus for the last 3 weeks now
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I didn't prepare for me first exploration trip at all.
I started out, just before the 1.2 wings beta started.. so I guess end of February, with the intention of a short 5000ly trip to the Lagoon nebula.
After reaching that I got the crazy idea to keep heading out towards the core. I never thought I'd reach Sagittarius A* though. Instead I started making small targets for myself. Like visiting more nebulas towards the core. Finding earth likes and black holes. I think black holes really started pulling me to go further and further towards the core.
So after more than 2 months of dithering around, I am now sat 497LY away from Sagittarius A*...
I honestly think that if I had planned the trip, with that as the goal, I never would have made it.
I started out, just before the 1.2 wings beta started.. so I guess end of February, with the intention of a short 5000ly trip to the Lagoon nebula.
After reaching that I got the crazy idea to keep heading out towards the core. I never thought I'd reach Sagittarius A* though. Instead I started making small targets for myself. Like visiting more nebulas towards the core. Finding earth likes and black holes. I think black holes really started pulling me to go further and further towards the core.
So after more than 2 months of dithering around, I am now sat 497LY away from Sagittarius A*...
I honestly think that if I had planned the trip, with that as the goal, I never would have made it.
I meditate at my starting point until i tread the line of consciousness and comatose. This way i achieve a sense of disassociation that makes it impossible to suffer the inevitable boredom. 8 hours goes by as if it were only seconds....
A bottle of whiskey and some valium.
This thread makes me think that Exploring is currently broken. If you have to role play or distract your self with other RL tasks and stimuli to keep from going mental, then something is wrong. Imo it's missing 3 important elements:
1) increased risk the further you tread from human space
2) active gameplay elements (science/surveying based mini games, etc)
3) individual systems need a bit more personality, which of course means more variables in the stellar forge.
It might also help if they increased the texture resolution on some of the uglier celestial objects like brown dwarfs.
1) increased risk the further you tread from human space
2) active gameplay elements (science/surveying based mini games, etc)
3) individual systems need a bit more personality, which of course means more variables in the stellar forge.
It might also help if they increased the texture resolution on some of the uglier celestial objects like brown dwarfs.
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I lick frogs.
Just go for it.
Well no..its not broken
Its what exploring would be like in real life isn't it?
It would take time and be repetitive, you would find mostly quiet uninteresting systems because that's what most of our galaxy is.
Red dwarves and iceballs