I can't go on like this...

iain666

iain666
... if I keep scanning every last thing I'll never get home. Every body (bar belt clusters) in 1000 systems scanned but my planned route will take until late 2016 to finish at this rate.

I can and I will stop spending 45 minutes scanning dozens of icy planets in a single system or flying 450,000ls to scan a T dwarf with nothing orbiting it. I have to.
 

kenwshmt

kenwshmt
its a time for choice.
I have 20k stars in the patch I'm in, I am intentionally avoiding the ice worlds, and pink. if its not orange or blue or purple or green, i ignore it.
 

Kancro Vantas

Kancro Vantas
iain666 said:
... if I keep scanning every last thing I'll never get home. Every body (bar belt clusters) in 1000 systems scanned but my planned route will take until late 2016 to finish at this rate.

I can and I will stop spending 45 minutes scanning dozens of icy planets in a single system or flying 450,000ls to scan a T dwarf with nothing orbiting it. I have to.
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I know...it gets crazy... specially if you like terraformable candidates....its a nightmare for OCD's....

I had to make a bow with myself..decide to stop only for any "water": Water Worlds or Earth Like Planets only!!...

And, once I confirm one, then I am allowed as a treat, to go all OCD and scan all of the system -sans asteroids of course.

Every jump I am getting closer and closer to the Neutron Field though...I am not sure I will survive that...I probably will spent the next 50 years of my life there if I don't gather the will power to keep me going to Sag A*...
 
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Fen Harel

Fen Harel
There are many things I love about this game - and some things I am not crazy about. What I love the best is that it is a game of choices. We all makes choices, big and small, all the time and have no choice but to live with the consequences.

You can scan alot and not get as far out, or you can go for distance, or somewhere in between, or alternate methods depending on the details of the system, or just look for ELWs or... etc. etc. They are all equally valid methods, and no matter which way one proceeds you still get to call yourself an explorer.

Personally I go for several of the more interesting types, up to a point, and have given up on the ice cubes.
 
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EddyRockSteady

EddyRockSteady
All the Mighty will fall when confronted by the Snowballwall

Fact.

It's all good and fine if you are exploring a specific sector but these 50000LY+ sightseeing journeys we undertake does not lend itself to 'must scan eveything' gameplay, especially not now that there are beasties lurking in the unknown.......If I have a HDD chock - full of data now might be a very good idea to turn back and get to the cartographers before you get assimilated.
 

Whiterose

Whiterose
Its taken me 19 days to do 25Kylies, another 50 to go. I will scan more on the way back but only potential water, ELW, NH3 and TC's. Icy, rocks and moons can take comfort that they will not see my DSS.
 

Zieman

Zieman
Whiterose said:
Icy, rocks and moons can take comfort that they will not see my DSS.
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Not all moons should be ignored - there are high metal content and rocky ones that may be terraformable, and then there are the few odd metal-rich ones too. Plus the occasional water world. :)
 

Philip Coutts

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Philip Coutts
I am cursed with the trait of being a "Completer / Finisher". I have to complete everything which means I have to scan every bloody thing I come across. It's a really hard habit to break and I'm not sure if I can! I need help...:p
 

willowfan

willowfan
I've given up on scanning icy rocks and moons (except really juicy ones) also any system that's already been extensively discovered by X if I happen upon one.

I do still scan all undiscovered stars, even the ones 500,000ls+ away.

It's speeded up progress on my trip to Sag A* (a bit) :)
 

Katejina

Katejina
Scan all stars, all water worlds/earthlikes and their potentials, all planets that like like they have a special atmosphere, fun colors, large ringworlds, etc, etc... Turns 10~15 minute trips into 45 minutes...
 

Minsysreq

Minsysreq
My methodology consists of showing up at star, scan it and anything within 10 ls of said star, then bounce. Seems to work.
 

Cmdr PeryplusErithrea

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I can't stop....its like some sort of horrible disease we all have isn't it?
I do skip icy's most of the time....unless they are very close to the star and shouldn't be icy then i have to go see

But i always stop for anything that could be terraformable or interesting, which is most things
I'm never getting back to the pill :(
 

Katejina

Katejina
And why should you if you enjoy it? I feel guilty going to scan a planet and there are others within range that are generic icy or rocky planets... Then I get near them and more get in range, then more, and more... Ugh. Maybe one day they will add "First scanned by..." LOL. Irk us even more.
 

Cmdr PeryplusErithrea

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Katejina said:
And why should you if you enjoy it? I feel guilty going to scan a planet and there are others within range that are generic icy or rocky planets... Then I get near them and more get in range, then more, and more... Ugh. Maybe one day they will add "First scanned by..." LOL. Irk us even more.
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Very true
Although my rickety old cobra did need some mining lasers before i headed out 3 weeks ago so i could prospect a little out there.
And the canopy's more scratches the glass,the refinery's heavy, the19.6LY jump range, class 3A fuel scoop,

Oh look a cluster of class G's!
 

Jon474

Banned
Jon474
I feel your pain. I try very hard not to scan everything but somehow I fail almost every time. It does get very dull endlessly scanning rocky and/or icy planets. So much so that on a few occasions I have contemplated running the self-destruct sequence just to escape...except that I use Cmdr Mossfoot's modified IronMan rules and I would only have a 1% chance of survival when I re-spawned in the Station. I'm not yet ready to die in the game and besides I do have a lot of data to log.

It really does get dull though. I have seen all of the high-metal planet variants, all the blue gas giants, many many many examples of icy planets. We do need more variety in the planets and the whole Exploring gig.

I have tried to make a sub-game using a role-play which compels me to follow a route uploaded to my NavCom and to be required to scan every fourth planet, or every fourth moon of a planet with four or more moons, for evidence of a Rebel Base. If I do this my ship isn't blown apart by a FedSec bomb planted on the ship. My RP is allowing me to work out how to regain control of my ship. Will this be enough? Not sure. I might just let the ship blow up in the end.

Flying...
Jon
 
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R'awx Najjar

R'awx Najjar
InMemoriamSirocco said:
I have taken up "selective scanning" a long time ago. Anything up from 1000 cr per body is fair game, anything below I just skip. I've even made a guide for wannabe explorers in my own thread some time ago:

"To scan or not to scan? - An illustrated guide"

An illustrated step-by step guide to "selective scanning". Moons are your friends!
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I don't even scan half the stuff that you suggest there. I *never* scan high metal content worlds that don't have some sort of atmosphere or are not close enough to the star to be terraformable.
Also these days it's very rare that I scan gas giants that I don't suspect to have ammonia or water based life, or that I haven't encountered before (still looking for a helium and water giant...). I also won't scan other stars unless they are within scanning range to begin with or unless I'm traveling to them to investigate a planet in their orbit.

But to each his own.
 

InMemoriamSirocco

Banned
InMemoriamSirocco
ROXunreal said:
I don't even scan half the stuff that you suggest there. I *never* scan high metal content worlds that don't have some sort of atmosphere or are not close enough to the star to be terraformable.
Also these days it's very rare that I scan gas giants that I don't suspect to have ammonia or water based life, or that I haven't encountered before (still looking for a helium and water giant...). I also won't scan other stars unless they are within scanning range to begin with or unless I'm traveling to them to investigate a planet in their orbit.

But to each his own.
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As time passes, people seem to become pickier... ammonia and water-based life on gas giants does not mean they pay well, btw. Only gas giants class II pay significantly more than others.
 

Engadine

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iain666 said:
... if I keep scanning every last thing I'll never get home. Every body (bar belt clusters) in 1000 systems scanned but my planned route will take until late 2016 to finish at this rate.

I can and I will stop spending 45 minutes scanning dozens of icy planets in a single system or flying 450,000ls to scan a T dwarf with nothing orbiting it. I have to.
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I was exactly the same when I first set out my first trip, still on the same trip! However, I've started being more selective and not bothering with any Ice looking ones.

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I can only imagine it being similar to train spotting, but getting the carriage numbers as well!
 
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