Explorers superstitions (I always wear my explorer pants!)

[GunnerBill]

Well actually no but I've developed this thing where I always have to scan lone stars. Just because no one else will and it's sad

And then I pretty much can't go to bed without having landed my ship on a planet.

Anyone else have their superstitions?

 

[Major Klutz]

Nope. No superstitions that I can think of.

I always scan the primary star in every system I jump into anyway, (if it's not already tagged) even lone star "systems", but that's just because I want to tag the system even if i don't want to scan any of the other bodies.
I used to land before logging off but I got out of the habit since it takes extra time to do that.

The only thing I have that's remotely superstitious is ...
I always get at least 500ls away from the star, throttle down and drop out of SC before logging off.
I know it's not necessary, but even if I get disconnected around the same time I'm preparing to log off, I'll log back in and check on the ship status before logging off.

I never walk away from the computer (or log out) while my ship is near a star or anything else it might eventually crash into.

 

[Goobertech]

I share you need to land before logging. I also need to complete every jump on my route before plotting a new one. Usually that last jump is tiny, but I do it anyways. It feels like if I skip it and replot to maximize my jump range, I'll miss a system and that system will have been my chance to discover my first ELW.

 

[verminstar]

I like to scan everything a system has, even the most worthless balls of ice and asteroid belts and Im an OCD "cleaner" in that if I jump into a system and see just the primary star scanned or the odd ww or elw cherry picked by someone while everything else is ignored...Ill make a point of scanning everything left in the system.

Now, the important thing being that one does not complain about others who do this, even though it could be an OCD trigger to some. Thats because I believe in karma...if I do that enough, then Ill find something special when I least expect it.

Last year ish, I came across about half a dozen systems, one after the other which had been cherry picked. Now such a thing isnt rare within 5klys of the bubble, but this was significantly further out and not even close to anything more than minor nebula. The first one annoyed hell outta me so much, I scanned everything in every system I jumped into which had been cherry picked which took me well past what normal working people would consider acceptable on a weeknight.

And the karma being? On the 6th jump and at the point where daylight is once more filling the edges of my reality, I found an untouched system...with twin orbiting elw almost within spitting distance of each other...and now with my big fat noob name plastered all over them

Karma...enjoy the little things ^

 

[Sapyx]

It's not a "Superstition" for me, as I don't believe the Creator of Cubes will give me an ELW in my next system just because I did or didn't do some ritual in my previous system.

But I do try to plant at least one flag in every system I visit, just a "Sapyx was here" kind of thing. If the only thing left Untagged in a system is a small ice moon around a Tagged class 1 gas giant 5,000 Ls away, I'll go out there and Tag it. If more than one world in the system is Untagged, I'll only claim one or two, and leave some for subsequent visitors. And if the system is completely Untagged, I try to leave at least one other high-value planet behind for someone else to Tag.

 

[Willowswitch]

Superstitions...

If I happen upon an occupied escape pod I have to take it.

I often land when logging out but not always. When I land, whether to log out, curiosity, or for mats, I land near the sunset or sunrise, where I can see the local sun on the horizon.

I have shields and weapons always.

 

[GunnerBill]

It feels like if I skip it and replot to maximize my jump range, I'll miss a system and that system will have been my chance to discover my first ELW.

Thanks for sharing guys

Goobertechs last leg resonate somewhat with me also but I've not yet come to think of that as a "thing" in my routine!! YET...

 

[marx]

I like to make sure I always have the Braben bobblehead equipped whenever I set out.

Also, if the question "should I jump there, or move on?" comes up, I always decide to go see. It would always bug me that perhaps that system would have held a rare discovery, and I might later come to regret passing up on it.
(However, this has yet to actually yield anything rare for me.)

 

[goemon]

if out exploring, before calling it a night, i either orbit a waterworld if i can find one, or, if i can't, i land somewhere (like you), or at least drop into a asteroid ring with some distance.

i turn off all moduls beside life support, and watch the canopy freezing.

 

[ejka]

I always take a towel natural fabrics and petunia shans charis orchid on my exploration trips.

 

[phelbore]

Superstitions...

If I happen upon an occupied escape pod I have to take it.

I often land when logging out but not always. When I land, whether to log out, curiosity, or for mats, I land near the sunset or sunrise, where I can see the local sun on the horizon.

I have shields and weapons always.

Interesting. I shoot escape pods (and also always have weapons) because I have no cargo room and they should have a chance at getting to whatever afterlife they believe in.

 

[CMDR Pugwash]

if out exploring, before calling it a night, i either orbit a waterworld if i can find one, or, if i can't, i land somewhere (like you), or at least drop into a asteroid ring with some distance.

i turn off all moduls beside life support, and watch the canopy freezing.

I do this!!!!

 

[iain666]

I always mutter "it's getting late, one more jump and then I really do need to go to bed" while jumping at least a dozen times before I log off, does that count?

 

[thundernuns]

One thing I do (not as a superstition) is only scan the body that I land on. I like to think there is a one in a billion chance that someone will find a system with an icy moon with my name on, with everything else left unscanned and think "Who the hell does this??"

 

[Strangepork]

Well actually no but I've developed this thing where I always have to scan lone stars. Just because no one else will and it's sad

And then I pretty much can't go to bed without having landed my ship on a planet.

Anyone else have their superstitions?

I superstish, there is not a lot to do apart from watching a losing screen loading thousands of times and seeing Rng created systems, placing my imagination into hyperdive. It is shamefully lacking in content and not a feasible thing at the moment. FD flesh it out maybe?

 

[goemon]

being currently out, i recognized what is probably another superstition: i detail scan any L-class main star, i simply love the colour. i also have them in any filtering included.

 

[Orvidius]

No superstitions exactly, but a few standard operating procedures that have changed over time. I used to throttle to zero, and scan the arrival star, in every system. Now I only scan anything if something particularly catches my eye, or there's a high value object (WW, ELW, etc), in which case I'll usually also scan the star. I have a hard time resisting scanning those binary/trinary/etc systems with no planets. When it's just a bunch of stars orbiting each other, and undiscovered, I'll usually stop to scan them.

I too prefer to log out for the night on a planet, but I don't always bother. If I log out in space, I always drop out of supercruise first, and get at least a few light seconds away from the scooping zone of the star, minimum.

And I never travel without shields.

 

[mikelipino]

My new superstition / SOP is during the hyperspace countdown, throttle down and watch my in-game hand throttle down.

Why? I play in VR and I am 20K ly out. Last weekend I made the umpteenth bazillion jump to a new star and found that I had lost all throttle and stick control and slammed into the star. Thanks to some quick reflexes, peeking out of the VR HMD, and use of one of my precious heat sinks, I got out relatively unharmed. It just took some AFMU work to get most stuff back up to 100%.

The culprit? In the countdown time for hyperspace, my motherboard popped up a notification that took focus away from ED thus locking out controls in game, which I could not see in VR. All I could do was watch my poor ship hit the no fly zone. This all happened the day after the RNGods jumped me through one of a close binary star again forcing me to eject a heat sink. After a quiet two months in the black (and holding probably over $10M in scan data, and my first discovered ELW, ammonia, black hole, and neutron stars), this was too much action for one weekend! I am so glad I decided to bring TWO sets of heat sinks and the AFMU. You never need em till you need em.

As always, fly safe

mike