Explorers - How generous are you?

[Fenris Wolf]

I've been doing a fair bit of exploration again lately, heading out to the Formidine Rift in oft' random route. On my route I've seen systems with one or two items scanned right up to 60+ planetary bodies all scanned and it got me wondering...

When you find a system that hasn't been visited/scanned before, how generous are you to other Commanders?

What do I mean by this? Well, lets say that you arrive at a system that no one has visited. There are three stars, several Type II Gas Giants, a handful of High Metal Content (HMC) planets and some other Rocky planets.

Will you take time to scan everything in this system? Or will you leave some of them for Commanders who may visit this system at a later date?

Personally, when I find a non-scanned system I will often scan the main star and a couple of the HMCs and then go to the next system. Leaving the rest of the planets for other people to scan and get their Commander name on the first recorded discovery.

Although I do tend to scan Water Worlds, Terraforming and Earth Like planets before moving to the next system.

So... How generous are you?

 

[Erimus Kamzel]

I rarely scan stuff these days, you'll hardly see my name out among the stars even though I've travelled nigh on 2 million light years since gamma. If there's nothing interesting in the system, I usually leave the star and everything in it untagged. There's a few exceptions though - mainly POI markers for the mapping project, unremarkable systems, but significant for their locations only.

 

[newman1702]

Considering it will take us over a decade to get to 1% scanned at this pace, I don't think this question has any real relevance. To feel the need to leave something unscanned for others is nice, but misguided and a result of not really comprehending just how mind bogglingly huge the galaxy is.

 

[Alex Brentnall]

Previously I'd scan items of value only.

Now I hate to see that kinda stuff (hypocrite I know) so fully scan systems when I find them. Just to say I was here, this was mine. There are so many systems I don't see the need to leave planets out as the real goal of all explorers has to be to map the galaxy... Or at least get to 1% before we all die.

Darnit, ninja'd by seconds

 

[askavir]

You don't need other people's generosity, the vast majority of the galaxy is unexplored.

 

[Mengy]

I've taken to scanning the main star and anything close by whenever I scoop. Sometimes when I jump into a close pair of binary stars I'll take the time to scan because all it takes is pivoting the ship a bit. And I almost always stop to scan any water, earth like, or ammonia worlds. And especially any black holes or special stars too,


I also have a soft spot for blue white stars. Dont' know why, I just like them.

 

[Flash_Baggins]

I will scan anything of value, ease of scanning and interesting scannable objects- So all black holes neutrons and white dwarves, Metal riches near a sun, 3 hmc's in a trinary orbit, anything that I think could be terraformable, ELW's and WW's
Other than that I mostly leave everything

 

[Fenris Wolf]

To feel the need to leave something unscanned for others is nice, but misguided and a result of not really comprehending just how mind bogglingly huge the galaxy is.

Oh I do... I really do...

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[Iskariot]

Personally, when I find a non-scanned system I will often scan the main star and a couple of the HMCs and then go to the next system. Leaving the rest of the planets for other people to scan and get their Commander name on the first recorded discovery.

Being a Trailblazer still, I have not done much exploring, but I do not leave planets for other people.
I do not scan everything either, but that's just because I'm lazy.
I do not believe my name is attached to any discovery yet, and I do not care about that kind of thing either.

I will go full explorer mode when there's more out there to discover: when landing on atmospheric planets is in the game and when there's alien plant and animal life.
I can't wait for that to happen.
I still won't care about being the first one to discover anything and having my name attached to it though.

 

[Jon474]

I also have a soft spot for blue white stars. Dont' know why, I just like them.

Same here. I scan every O, A and B star I find. I love them. When I have the time I often park up and just watch them.

The rest of the stars, well, I'll scan them if they are in an "interesting" configuration or an usual "mix" of binary stars but if not...I scoop and jump on.

Flying happy
Jon
T-6E

 

[iain666]

I always scan the main star, beyond that it depends what mood I'm in and how interesting the system map looks. Sometimes I jump on without scanning anything else, sometimes I think 'I've not scanned a whole system for a while' so I do and pretty much everything in between.

My first 1000 or so systems I scanned everything. If that meant flying for 20 minutes to scan a solitary brown dwarf that was what I did. As I approach 13,000 I've gotten (mostly) more selective.

 

[Cmdr Frawd Digger]

OP, if I am in the mood and have the time, I scan the whole damn lot...but in reality I usually leave ice balls for others to scan.

That said, I am often thankful that other Cmdrs don't scan everything as it gives me an opportunity to put my name on a system...even if it is on a lowly ice ball

Frawd

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I rarely scan stuff these days, you'll hardly see my name out among the stars even though I've travelled nigh on 2 million light years since gamma. If there's nothing interesting in the system, I usually leave the star and everything in it untagged. There's a few exceptions though - mainly POI markers for the mapping project, unremarkable systems, but significant for their locations only.

I found one of yours the other day Cmdr, about 63.5KLY from Sol. Main star scanned and maybe a water world but everything else left untouched...so I scanned everything

Frawd

 

[Roqinn]

I scan things that are worth anything: ELW, WW and AW. I will scan the main star every single time and any other star in the system that is within scanning range of the main star. I will scan any gas giants that are within scanning range of the main star. I only scan things out of that range if they catch my eye in the system map, e.g. pretty gas giants or possible water giants. I never scan everything in the system. Never. I hate scanning all the piddly little moons and planets that aren't worth anything. It just takes to damned long!

tl;dr If it's bright and shiny, I'm scanning it!

 

[Jaiotu]

I tend to be an "all or nothing" guy. If I scan anything at all in the system I scan everything (except the belts, of course).

I usually drop in, honk, engage my FSD and then quickly check the system map. If I see anything that stands out I cancel the jump and begin my tour of the system.

 

[CMDR Argent Steel]

I rarely scan stuff these days, you'll hardly see my name out among the stars even though I've travelled nigh on 2 million light years since gamma. If there's nothing interesting in the system, I usually leave the star and everything in it untagged. There's a few exceptions though - mainly POI markers for the mapping project, unremarkable systems, but significant for their locations only.

I think the fact that I kept finding your name on things I was exploring is what made me start saying "Dammit Erimus why did you come here already?!" After a while it became an amusing game to me.

As for the OP's question, I always scan the star but I usually only scan a few planets that look good to me or are within easy reach. Partly I don't feel like investing the time but partly I do want future explorers to have a chance to get their names on things.

 

[crushdepth]

Lazy might be a better word. I only do earth, water and ammonia worlds + black holes.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Lazy might be a better word. I only do earth, water and ammonia worlds + black holes.

No, I like generous. When I can't be bothered to scan a whole system, I'm being generous. Not lazy, or careless or anything like that

 

[Macros Black]

Scan anything interesting, Usually pay no heed to other explorers. There's one exception though; currently stalking escorting Frawd. Still scan, but will only sell a week after Frawd's arrival to the bubble.

 

[gooddoc]

For me, the clue is in the name - Exploration.

What's the point of entering a system & then not scanning anything.

That said, I would normally scan everything except Ice/Rock Worlds & Asteroids in a system untagged OR tagged.

However, Im on my way back from Beagle Point & want to hit my 'Home Station' by a certain date, so I'm starting to chose what I'm scanning now & leaving more unscanned.

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Scan anything interesting, Usually pay no heed to other explorers. There's one exception though; currently stalking escorting Frawd. Still scan, but will only sell a week after Frawd's arrival to the bubble.

That's nice! how are you guy's doing? Made it across the Abyss yet?

 

[dayrth]

Not very generous I'm afraid. I scan absolutely everything, even the belt clusters. It does mean my progress is very slow though, so I am leaving more completely undiscovered systems for others to find.