How do you stay sane while exploring?

Tikanderoga

Tikanderoga
Fellow explorers,

I'm currently out and about, trying to get Elite V in Exploration.
I gave up on Exo, that's just nuts.

I jump to a system, honk, most of the time it's just ice rocks. 6-17 of them. Maybe a Gas Giant or two.
Next system. Same.
Next system, same. And so on.
Out of a 100 jump scenic route stretch, about 80 are either popcicles or just rocks that pays peanuts. Not even worth mapping.
I'm trying really hard to see the rewarding side of things too, but it's just hard when you see the same planets over and over again.
But how do you stay sane in all this?
 

ORANGEORANGE

ORANGEORANGE
Para Handy said:
Are you using the FSS or just honking?
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It really depends on what you want to do. When I first started out I would always FSS every system completely. But now that I've seen a million icy bodies I usually just look at the FSS and see if there's a valuable planet like ELW or WW, and if there is, then I will completely FSS. Otherwise I just leave it at honking.
 

Frankymole

Frankymole
I listen to the radio - comedies, album stations (Radio Caroline is perfect)...

Basically, just go for the stuff with a high payout on the infographic.
 

Frankymole

Frankymole
varonica said:
FSS everything, map the valuable bodies, set yourself a target, for instance visit the largest star in the galaxy!

Once that's done set yourself another target!
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Yeah, good advice. Highest, lowest (which used to be only survivable with the double-neutron charge bug), nearest to Andromeda, one with most bodies, furthest from any other star, etc...
 

nemolomen

nemolomen
I find that typically, you don't.

Case in point: I have a friend who has been "exploring" since December of last year. He's currently 63,000 LY out and only about halfway through his journey. Sanity left him long ago.

But seriously, if you use all of the tools (DS, FSS, DSS, CS, SRV, WS, etc), you're actually quite busy and jumping from Neutron Stars tends to bring things "quite" into focus every once in a while.
 

marx

marx
In my experience, having goals beyond just getting rank (credits) helps quite a lot. Things you wish to check, surveys you want to help with, things you want to find, or for tourism, things others have found and you want to see. So if there were only one thing I could recommend to explorers, it would be this.


If all you're looking for is to get Elite V in exploration, that should be pretty easy to do, and your best approach is to restrict the star types you wish, honk and FSS every ELW and WW, map the terraforming candidates (and of course the Earth-likes).

By the way, Elite in Exobio isn't nuts, it should be around where Elite in exploration originally was... but it's far more monotonous. After all, all you'll be doing is holding a button on handcrafted assets, and the variety will last far shorter than space exploration does. Since you can just do already-discovered planets and progress at the same pace, the biggest "challenge" in getting Elite rank in exobiology is to endure the monotony.
 
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PRORABBIT67

PRORABBIT67
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rootsrat

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rootsrat
Tikanderoga said:
Fellow explorers,

I'm currently out and about, trying to get Elite V in Exploration.
I gave up on Exo, that's just nuts.

I jump to a system, honk, most of the time it's just ice rocks. 6-17 of them. Maybe a Gas Giant or two.
Next system. Same.
Next system, same. And so on.
Out of a 100 jump scenic route stretch, about 80 are either popcicles or just rocks that pays peanuts. Not even worth mapping.
I'm trying really hard to see the rewarding side of things too, but it's just hard when you see the same planets over and over again.
But how do you stay sane in all this?
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Get a little program called ED Observatory - it highlights interesting places to visit as you scan them. Very customisable!
 

Sakashiro

Sakashiro
Listen to music. Take a break for a round of CQC. Have an alt in the Bubble. Open your ship for multi-crew and be surprised to find a copilot next to you.
 
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