How OCD are you?

[TruffleSnout]

Please share your most outrageously obsessive scanning.

I'm on my very first exploration tour, and I've already gone 416,000 Ls away from the arrival point to scan a T-type star with 4 ice balls orbiting it.

 

[adoredtv]

You'll soon give that up lol. I don't even scan water worlds any more unless there are at least 2 in a system.

 

[EddyRockSteady]

Question is, how far have you travelled? You'll no doubt hit the snowballwall where all you want to do is take a blowtorch to those irritating ice-orbs. Took me 30000LY.

 

[Fen Harel]

I started off the way, but gradually became more picky. I will scan the biggies - ELWs, etc., as well as terrestrial worlds near the primary, gas giants and secondary stars a little farther out. I have been known to go a hundred thousand ls or so for a likely Ammonia World.

But, basically I am fairly picky.

 

[iain666]

1200 systems into this trip and maybe 10kly travelled I'm scanning everything (except belt clusters).

Might stop one day, might not. I may not be earning credits at the optimal rate but I'm still having fun. Maybe when I set my sights on something on the far side of the galaxy I'll start to take speed over thoroughness...

 

[dognosh]

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

 

[Kancro Vantas]

If I scan a giant, I MUST scan all of its moons...all or zero!!...

I know...shoot me!

 

[EddyRockSteady]

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

Lol weird as that is EXACTLY how I do it too

 

[R'awx Najjar]

Main star, water, ammonia and earth-likes are my only imperative. I do scan other terrafromables and gas giants if reasonably suspicious and near.

 

[iain666]

Lol weird as that is EXACTLY how I do it too

Me too

 

[shiny57]

Me too

Yeah, I'm afraid that's the only way to go.

 

[Nilt]

Yeah, I'm afraid that's the only way to go.

Clearly, seeing as that's how I do it too.

 

[Ziljan]

I love this thread and wish I had an OCD story to tell. Unfortunately my OCD is tinged with laziness and greed, and it's usually faster and more profitable to jump to a new star and scan it than it is to Super Cruise to any of the planets in a system.

 

[Greyhawk]

I scan everything when I hit my target area. On the way I just honk on arrival, do a quick check for anything not tagged and/or likely terraformable then jump out.

If I can scan anything else from the jump point (ie they are close to the jump star) I'll scan those too.

I always scan anything that's not been tagged - no matter how far away or if they are ice worlds.

 

[Galten75]

Used to scan everything. Now I always scan metal planets in close orbit around the landing star and gassies within 1500-2000ls as well as water worlds, ammonia worlds and ELWs. After that I'll pick and choose, if something looks interesting I may have a looksie. If I feel like it I can go for distant planets and/or suns, but that is case by case. Almost never go for 150 000ls+ objects unless there are really interesting stuff. Rocky/icy planets gets a scan if they are in my path but never go out of my way to scan those, that goes for moons as well.

// G

 

[Thoris]

If I scan a giant, I MUST scan all of its moons...all or zero!!...

I know...shoot me!

I won't...because I feel the same need

But generally, for me it depends. I'll usually scan anything that doesn't look like an ice world (exception: gas giant moons, as said above . But only if its somewhat close...I've set myself a limit of about 50k ls. There must be something really interesting (or many scan-worthy objects) to entice me to fly further in a system.

 

[Malgiliath]

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 even includes the furthest star which currently stands me at 566K ls from insertion point.

 

[Whiterose]

the only OCD I have is to fuel scoop at every stop, I dont need to, its just habit.

 

[dognosh]

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

Lol weird as that is EXACTLY how I do it too

Me too

Yeah, I'm afraid that's the only way to go.

Clearly, seeing as that's how I do it too.

YOU SAD BAS..... oh , I see

Glad I am not alone

 

[pippo]

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

Me too, and then people wonder what all these ships are doing at USS, traveling at low speed and out of supercruise. Having a nap of course...