Exploring - where do you park?

Kayweg

Kayweg
No point in parking near anything.
SC, slow down, disengage, log out.
Simple and 100% safe...the explorer's way ;)
 

Crank Larson

Crank Larson
In case anyone was worried, I found my Asp where I left it, though it was a little darker by then. :)

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Varrag

Varrag
I usually cut the speed down to 30 km/s, make sure that all celestial objects are few dozen light seconds away from me, drop from SC, save. I wouldn't dare to save anywhere near the asteroids - getting spawned on the top of some randomly placed, crazy spinning rock would be quite unpleasant experience.
 

CMDR Space Lurker

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With all the horror stories of Exploding Clippers and Anacondas parked in RES sites.. I always park my exploration Cobra a few hundred LS above the plane of the system I'm in, really far from anything. :) I drop out of supercruise, look around and log out. Best to be safe.. I wouldn't want to die before reaching home with all my data, I've been out for over a month now, currently 16500LYs from Sol.
 

Haral

Haral
Ian Phillips said:
I do not park in asteroid fields :)

I usually jump into a new system and re-fuel. Then I get away from the star and target the nearest planet, lining up so that I am heading for it. Then I shut down.

Next time I log in I just start up supercruise and I'm heading for my first scan of the day :)
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Great minds think alike! I do the exact same thing my friend.
 

Kid Firestorm

Kid Firestorm
After learning about the insta-kill bug from the rings I figured I'd play it safe and keep outside an object's mass lock and kill my engines so the ship can't do anything weird. I'm usually still pretty close to planets when I log out though.
 

Reido

Reido
Allitnil said:
They may not move relative to your ship (or if they do, only very slowly), but they aren't permanent objects. When you log in again they will be re-generated and may be in different positions. So whilst you may be able to sit in a field for hours, logging out & back in again is rolling a die. If you're a little above them then you are safe, but only if you are 100% confident that when they get regenerated they can't be shifted up a bit by the algorithm....

FWIW, I usually head well away from any body before exiting.
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Sadly, I can confirm this.

I was inside an icy ring of a gas giant when I lost my server connection. I was re-connected and back in the game in probably less than 30 seconds, and when I got back in my ship it was spinning wildly and then blew up, lost two weeks worth of exploration data.


CMDR Andrew Reid
 

Fen Harel

Fen Harel
I've been told that explorers who have the elite rank get special parking slots in all systems. I'm not there yet, so I don't know if its true or not. :)
 

hvygunner13

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Dont park in an astroid field bro.....bad stuff happens. I know this first hand....I always try to find an awesome view then shut down...I really enjoy the eclipse effect of parking behind a planet just enough to watch the horizon...its nice
 

Gold Member

Gold Member
I haven't had any problems parking near a planet but usually will head out of the planar orbit into empty space. Parking near an asteroid field could cause issues. As a matter of fact there is another thread going right now about someone whose freshly minted Anaconda appeared inside an asteroid. Word is the asteroid survived.
 
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