FINALLY!! An Earth-Like World!

Himilco

Himilco
I'm ~1.4k LY from Lave now and still headed outwards to the Galactic rim. The endless stream of hostile and useless planets has been monotonous.

I'm out here to dutifully collect all relevant system and planetary data and report back to UC...and I do....but I admit it was such a JOY to discover my first Earth-Like World tonight.

I think I'll just lay up in orbit here for awhile and appreciate the view.

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Safe explorations, Commanders.

Commander Himilco, out.
 

Reido

Reido
Congratulations on your find.

Finding that first Earth-like is a special moment.

As you study the system data you'll start to get a feel for what's common, what's uncommon and what's rare, so you may have many firsts coming along in the future.


CMDR Andrew Reid
 

DiddleDum

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Great find, CMDR! I do the same thing. Park, sit back, and enjoy the view. And +1 on finding a good looking ELW. Good land mass and weather patterns. Looks down-right homey!
 

X-Terminator

Banned
X-Terminator
Does it have a Coaster Park on it?
BTW if you get to Obambivas there's 2 in the same System! This was my old home. I terminated the population but since retired ;0
 
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Engadine

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Congrats on your find Commander!

It is nice to get the first one under your belt, took me a long while to find my first.

Here's to many more for you.
 

Katejina

Katejina
I found 4 today and each one still excites me as much as the first. Enjoy building your repertoire in hopes we get planetary landings because I can tell you now, earthlike-hopping will be a wonderful thing!
 

Yaffle

Volunteer Moderator
Yaffle
Great shot.

I too am headed out towards the Perseus Arm, from memory about 1,500LY out and several hundred stars. So far no earth likes at all. Must be like the Neutron Fields on the way to the centre, quite barren out there.
 

Ozmodion

Ozmodion
I went to NGC 8654 the other week, about 20k ly return trip and found 2 earthlikes, was really special.

when i got back and sold the date somebody beat me to one of them but i have my name over 1 earthlike in this galaxy. that feeling is even better :) :) :)
 

matemaster

matemaster
currently I am in a super dense star cluster around 7K LY from core
all star types within 3-6LY range, black holes, neutron stars
Got bored scanning blackholes, neutron so decided to look for EAW's, WW. Yesterday found 4 EAW's also found 4-blackhole system (4 blackholes orbiting around each other)
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Do earthlike planets tend to occur in the same sort of orbits (i.e. orbiting the same sort of star types and at certain distances, i.e. much like the position of our own earth in respect to Sol) in order to get just the right balance of heat and radiation or is their distribution somewhat random?

In other words, any tips on the best places to find them?
 

matemaster

matemaster
Alec Turner said:
Do earthlike planets tend to occur in the same sort of orbits (i.e. orbiting the same sort of star types and at certain distances, i.e. much like the position of our own earth in respect to Sol) in order to get just the right balance of heat and radiation or is their distribution somewhat random?

In other words, any tips on the best places to find them?
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I plot around 10 jump economical routes especially trough star types G, F, A, some K. In a dense cluster individual jumps are no longer than 7LY so I dont spend any fuel so no delay in scooping
The first most important factor to find EAW is the planet has to be in habitable zone (this zone differs by star types. ex. for type A star it is around 2000 days orbit period, for type K its around 200 days orbit period)
The planet even when in habitable zone have to contain water, oxygen (when not its mostly metal rich planet-candidate for teraforming)
The planet even when in habitable zone, with water and oxygen if it doesnt contain land mass is still water world-candidate for teraforming
 

dannywhac

dannywhac
Alec Turner said:
Do earthlike planets tend to occur in the same sort of orbits (i.e. orbiting the same sort of star types and at certain distances, i.e. much like the position of our own earth in respect to Sol) in order to get just the right balance of heat and radiation or is their distribution somewhat random?

In other words, any tips on the best places to find them?
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You need Jackie's Hab-Zone calculator:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=127522&p=1956065&viewfull=1#post1956065

In general they do (although there's some exceptions for oddities). I *think* in the 1.3 update as well they may have stopped the crazy in Neutron Star systems (well made crackers stuff less frequent).

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GrillMonkey

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Alec Turner said:
Do earthlike planets tend to occur in the same sort of orbits (i.e. orbiting the same sort of star types and at certain distances, i.e. much like the position of our own earth in respect to Sol) in order to get just the right balance of heat and radiation or is their distribution somewhat random?

In other words, any tips on the best places to find them?
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I don't know if it has a greater chance of finding earth likes but I tend to try and find stars like Sol. Which I think it a G2, so I try to aim for G5s to G0s. I find plenty of water worlds and terraforming candidates. I think I've found about 6 earth likes on my current trip, I'm 200ly from Sagittarius A* but I've spent a lot of the journey 1500ly "downwards" scanning blackholes and neutron stars.

I found a nice system with two earth-likes and one of the earth-like was spinning around a Water World +TC.

In another system I found an earth like orbiting a gas giant, which I thought was unusual.

Happy hunting :)
 
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