Newcomer / Intro Exploration questions!

saremun

saremun
Hi everyone!

I just started my exploration journy and kinda have some omportant questions:

1) I can scan the stars from far like more than 800Ls but i can't do that to the rest, is that intended?

2)When i scan the System with the Advanced scanner can i see all the planets from the System panal and even see if an Earth like planet is between them or i have to yes the detailed scanner?

3)If i enter a system and scan the system with the Advanced scanner but someone already been there and did the same thing do i still get money for that?


Thanks for your patience :)
 

divisionbyzero

divisionbyzero
I'm still not very experienced at elite dangerous, but when I play I'm mostly exploring so I'll try to give you answers.

1) The distance you can scan an object at depends on its mass. You can scan more massive objects from farther away, so yes, it's intended.
2) The Advanced Discovery Scanner is capable of discovering all objects in a system regardless of distance, but it will only give you the location in the system. Blatantly stolen from the wiki: The Detailed Surface Scanner will give a pilot info on the composition of a moon, planet, star, or other stellar body and also data such as orbital distance and orbit time.
3) Yes but not as much. The first person to scan something in a system with a DSS gets an extra 50% bonus.

You can find this info here: http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Explorer

Hope this helps you.
 
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saremun

saremun
So you can't just by looking to the list and the colors of bodies define whether there is an Earth like planet or not, and i don't mean here detailed but just by the look of the body, because so far every system i visit has many bodies and they are all Pink but when i scan the it says either Icy or High metal..


My point is that i want to have an idea on how to find Earth like planets with out wasting the time because i just found a system with 52 bodies lol.
 

Zenith

Zenith
This is what an Earth-like looks like on System Map.
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Earth-like worlds are likely to be found around F, G, K or M stars (though I have found a single Earth-like world in orbit around a neutron star, that was a unique case).
You can't mistake it for anything else because of the blue and green with clouds. If it is JUST blue and cloudy without any green, then it will probably turn out to be a water world. That is still worth investigating.
If a small rocky/metal planet looks like it has clouds (like the ones either side of the Earth-like in the image), then it's worth scanning to see if it is a terraform candidate high metal content world.
If you see a particularly spotty gas giant with defined stripes, then it is worth scanning because it might harbour water-based or ammonia-based life.
If you see a brown world with dark brown splotches on it near the outer edge of a system, it may be an ammonia world. Again, they're of interest to UniCart and pay out quite well.

It is simply a case of practice makes perfect. The more worlds you actually go up to and scan, the better you get at recognising which ones are worth the effort.
Good luck scanning out there!
 
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Varthorne

V
The Basic scanner is limited to 500Ls, the Intermediate to 1000Ls, and the advanced scanner has infinite range. Mind you, this only applies to the distance at which it can detect a celestial body; I'm not sure if it has any bearing on the distance at which it can scan an object. I only just moved up to an Intermediate scanner.

The DSS boosts the value of your data simply by extracting more detailed data.

Once you've fired off your scanner, the various planets/moons that you have spotted will show up, even if you haven't scanned/explored them yet. However, this won't display their type until you actually scan them. This can give you clues as to the type of planet that it is. However, this gets tricky, because some planets may not be what they appear to be. For example, I once saw a white-ish planet with a gray bar spanning the equator. I expected it to be an icy-rocky planet due to the colours, but it turned out to be a water planet. The hologram that appears in your targeting system can provide some clues, but makes far fewer distinctions between the various types. In fact, I can only picture it using 3-4 different images, despite the fact that there are many more types of planets.

As others have said, discovering something first gives you an automatic 50% bonus, but you still make money off the data. Otherwise, this profession would be all but impossible for new players, since older players would have long since discovered everything within a reasonable distance of the starting areas. After visiting 200-300 different systems, and traveling off the beaten path (to the point where I couldn't find an inhabited system for the life of me), I finally made my first discovery today, but only got around 1200 Cr for it.


Lastly, I'm curious TC: did you start out with a different profession?
 

cmdr lowest

C
saremun said:
So you can't just by looking to the list and the colors of bodies define whether there is an Earth like planet or not, and i don't mean here detailed but just by the look of the body, because so far every system i visit has many bodies and they are all Pink but when i scan the it says either Icy or High metal..


My point is that i want to have an idea on how to find Earth like planets with out wasting the time because i just found a system with 52 bodies lol.
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Yes the advanced scanner will display those elusive little blue dots on the system map. However there are many, many more icy/rocky planets than earth-likes out there... Earth-likes are relatively rare.
 

Zieman

Zieman
saremun said:
Hi everyone!

I just started my exploration journy and kinda have some omportant questions:

1) I can scan the stars from far like more than 800Ls but i can't do that to the rest, is that intended?

2)When i scan the System with the Advanced scanner can i see all the planets from the System panal and even see if an Earth like planet is between them or i have to yes the detailed scanner?

3)If i enter a system and scan the system with the Advanced scanner but someone already been there and did the same thing do i still get money for that?


Thanks for your patience :)
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1) Yes. Some big bright stars let you do the surface scan from 20000 Ls away. Usually stars reveal their type 1000-6000 Ls away, depending on their brightness. Some big gas giants can be surface scanned a tad over 1000 Ls away. Black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs and (asteroid) belt clusters don't reveal their secrets farther than 5 Ls away. How close you have to be for planets/moons vary by their size - from 5.1 Ls up to 1100 Ls.

2) Advanced Discovery Scanner reveals all astronomical objects in a system. To discern what the objects really are, you have to do a surface scan. You do not need the Detailed Surface Scanner to do the surface scan, but it improves the value of your scans.

3) Yes. First one to surface scan a body and sell the data gets a 50% bonus for first discovery, but you still get the normal amount being second or third or Nth.
 
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