How OCD are you?

[Ulysses_W]

My OCD is to do with what I do at the end of my session to log out :
1. refuel
2. move a long long way away from orbit lines and plane
3. reduce speed to 30KM/s
4. come out of super cruise
5. wait for 0 speed and for FSD to come back online
6. save and exit

sad

Sadly, you're not alone in your sadness.

I do exactly the same things.

 

[JeffRyan]

Ah your first exploration mission...

I was like that, scanned EVERYTHING, stars (didn't matter how far away they were), planets, moons, rocks, ice planets, the lot.

Now I scan stars that are within a reasonable distance, gas giants and any terrestrial planets that look interesting.

 

[Engadine]

Ah your first exploration mission...

I was like that, scanned EVERYTHING, stars (didn't matter how far away they were), planets, moons, rocks, ice planets, the lot.

Now I scan stars that are within a reasonable distance, gas giants and any terrestrial planets that look interesting.

Very much the same.

I'm still on my first outing and started off like this, however after about 6 weeks out I've dropped the OCD as I was taking ages to get to places I wanted to visit.

I've now started being a lot more picky about what I do and don't scan and I'm now get further out a lot more quickly.

Oh, there's still some systems I'll end up doing the lot, but they're fewer.

Regards

 

[Bacon Sarnie]

My OCD is to do with what I do at the end of my session to log out :
1. refuel
2. move a long long way away from orbit lines and plane
3. reduce speed to 30KM/s
4. come out of super cruise
5. wait for 0 speed and for FSD to come back online
6. save and exit

sad

We do exactly the same routine.
Op, when I first started exploring I scanned "everything" even asteroid belts.
after a couple of hundred systems I started to cherry pick, now I scan very very selectively.
When you've been online for 4 hours and you realise you've covered maybe 250ly due to scanning everything you quickly realise you will get no where unless you are a lot more selective.
I will scan waterworlds if there are more than 1, metal rich etc if there is at least 1 water world in the same system
If I spot an earth like candidate I will scan it no matter what distance from the star.

 

[TruffleSnout]

Question is, how far have you travelled?

Not very. This first trip is only going to go about 1000 Ly out. I'm currently about 600.

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My OCD is to do with what I do at the end of my session to log out :
1. refuel
2. move a long long way away from orbit lines and plane
3. reduce speed to 30KM/s
4. come out of super cruise
5. wait for 0 speed and for FSD to come back online
6. save and exit

sad

I have a step 5.5 in there: Turn and face the primary star. Centered in the viewport.

 

[TruffleSnout]

I don't know if you'd call it ocd but I have a rule that I follow, if there is at least one decent scannable I feel honour bound to scan the entire system.

This is what I'm doing. If a system is fully tagged and nothing but ice worlds I'll honk and move on. If there's at least one untagged body, or something tagged but more interesting, I'll fully scan the entire system, both tagged and untagged.

Although I can already feel my OCD-ness waning. I'm no longer scanning asteroid clusters.

 

[dognosh]

Not very. This first trip is only going to go about 1000 Ly out. I'm currently about 600.

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I have a step 5.5 in there: Turn and face the primary star. Centered in the viewport.

Pffft , you have a problem

 

[Iron Orchid]

We do exactly the same routine.
Op, when I first started exploring I scanned "everything" even asteroid belts.
after a couple of hundred systems I started to cherry pick, now I scan very very selectively.
When you've been online for 4 hours and you realise you've covered maybe 250ly due to scanning everything you quickly realise you will get no where unless you are a lot more selective.
I will scan waterworlds if there are more than 1, metal rich etc if there is at least 1 water world in the same system
If I spot an earth like candidate I will scan it no matter what distance from the star.

That's almost what I do - except I very rarely look at the system map - just in case there is something interesting. I don't have the time to scan every object - I'll scan things if they are convenient i.e. the other star in a binary or a Gas Giant that's in range but at the moment it's purely jump, scan, scoop, jump. I can do one jump every 50 to 75 seconds. (1000ly ~ 40mins) but I start detail scanning it drops to to 20 to 40 minutes per system. (I'm 12kly out, so to get back to home base if I don't scan 8hrs, If I fully scan ~230hrs!)