How much of an explorer are you?

Flavio

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I don't mean to ask that question in getting facts about number of systems visited but because I visited a binary system where the inner planets were explored but the two outer ones were ignored (I say ignored because they were less than 1000ls away) and the system map just showed a brown dwarf which was also unexplored so off I went looking for this red dot, it eventually came within scanning range (intermediate scanner rather than the all powerful advanced scanner which takes the fun out of exploring ) at 240,000ls and had a few gas giants and ten of so ice worlds.
Now I know that it takes time to travel that distance but you explore to see what is out there and not for profit so how far have you travelled just to explore something. I know that one of the Lave Radio guys spent 3 weeks getting to the equivalent of the first star we discovered to have a planet orbiting it (can't remember the name ).
 

Whiterose

Whiterose
Not that much. Cant be bothered with Ice worlds. Will scan gas giants if less than 1KLs, stars less than 5KLs. The only things I will go distance for are ELW, H[SUB]2[/SUB]0 and NH[SUB]3[/SUB] worlds.
 

Allitnil

Allitnil
You're not more of an explorer just because you scan outlying planets in a system. You could spend that time travelling to more distant systems which is just as much what exploring is about - Old Earth explorers were noted for exploring in far flung places, not the next village down the road!
 

domaq

domaq
There are other threads that talk about the different types of explorers the Elite community have identified. Not all scan everything.
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I explore both for discovery and for profit. My newest technique is to fast jump 1000Ly out of the Bubble, eco-fast-jump (eco route planning, jump, honk, jump) another 2000Ly while taking screen captures of systems with interesting stellar bodies I want to revisit and detail scan. Then reverse route with fast-jump (still find new systems) to the marked systems and detail scan them all down...within reason. <100kLy is ok but more than that I will leave to the Vegans.
 

Zeeman

Zeeman
Why wast etime scanning worthless ice worlds when fa rmor einteresting, and profitable bodies may be found in the next system...

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Galten75

Galten75
Whiterose said:
Not that much. Cant be bothered with Ice worlds. Will scan gas giants if less than 1KLs, stars less than 5KLs. The only things I will go distance for are ELW, H[SUB]2[/SUB]0 and NH[SUB]3[/SUB] worlds.
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Pretty much this. It happens from time to time I get an urge to scan everything, mostly if I stumble upon a cool system in general, then iceballs will get their due as well.

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CMDR DoubleSkulls

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Zeeman said:
Why wast etime scanning worthless ice worlds when fa rmor einteresting, and profitable bodies may be found in the next system...

Z..
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Pretty much what I think too.

I'll always scan the primary star. I'll always scan potential ELWs and any AWs and "blue" WWs. Most of the time I'll scan all the MR/HMC/WWs. Sometimes I'll scan GGs. Occasionally I'll scan rocky/ice worlds. Very rarely do I scan ice/rock moons, although I will scan moons of terraformables.
 

Kalpa

Kalpa
I'm way too much a completionist to ignore stuff. If I start scanning a system, I almost always go all the way. This is also my argument why adv. scanner is a must-have tool (kinda burned myself out with basic scanner and parallax when I started)

Note the magic word 'almost' in 'almost always' - there are plenty of systems in the galaxy I've only partially scanned. And hundreds of systems of which I've only scanned the arrival star (this usually means I've refuelled there)
 
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