The beautiful thing about six years and over a million light years of exploration is that I really don't give a fart in a high wind what anybody thinks.Oh you're in trouble now
I didn't give one six years ago either 
I hate valuable planets suckers
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I tried exploring. Several times. You guys all have something wrong with you. Especially the ones who take it too seriously. Especially Especially the ones who take it too seriously AND are bad at math. O7
Could we possibly start a joint class action as ED has also driven me to drink!?You have forgotten drinking. Drinking is the key to salvation!(and that also explains the thing with the bad math) ^^
I only role play, of course, I swear
That's all I did for five years and you've probably never seen my name. Over 400 billion stars. RYFS?
So there I was scanning a cabbage the other day in Wredguia something dash something number letter .... or whatever .......an of course somebody else had already discovered pretty much every body in this system and indeed on my route so far but fewer were mapped and fewer again had first footfall, so I'm getting something for my efforts eventhough not many HMC or ELWs are on that list yet.
As the cabbage scan completed and I am walking back to my Viper, the figured that, being five jumps away from another Wredguia something dash something number letter (my planned initial route out here) , I likely would need to drop the Routing and go randomly from star to star and see what's around. Above comments suggest same.
For me, exploring with a nice peaty dram mixed with a drop of still water, just to open the flavours, the music turned up to 11 and being not interrupted by anyone is the life of a space explorer for me
WARNING - GLASS CONENTS LOW - Dream Sequence Ending - Deposit more uisce beatha to continue
OP, I think it's fair to vent, we've all been there but just don't forget, the lowest fruit always get's picked first eh !.
S!
As the cabbage scan completed and I am walking back to my Viper, the figured that, being five jumps away from another Wredguia something dash something number letter (my planned initial route out here) , I likely would need to drop the Routing and go randomly from star to star and see what's around. Above comments suggest same.
For me, exploring with a nice peaty dram mixed with a drop of still water, just to open the flavours, the music turned up to 11 and being not interrupted by anyone is the life of a space explorer for me
WARNING - GLASS CONENTS LOW - Dream Sequence Ending - Deposit more uisce beatha to continue
OP, I think it's fair to vent, we've all been there but just don't forget, the lowest fruit always get's picked first eh !.
S!
It actually doesn't in my experience. It's perfectly possible (I've done it twice) to achieve Elite in Exploration in nothing but an un-engineered Sidewinder, and discover a load of fresh systems.
The key is simply to fly out in a direction (not towards the centre, as that is well-travelled), about 4K or 5K light years out, then go up or down from the galactic plane for another 500-1000ly. After that, fill your boots with economy routing. You don't need a big ship with a big jump range, because you're only making 2 or 3 ly jumps. It'll be extremely rare that you find systems that others have already discovered & tagged.
Another tip is that if you set your jumps to only go to KGBFOAM systems, you have a much higher chance of finding ammonia, WW, or Earthlikes.
The latter,it was a reaction to constantly being told what 'true explorers' do during the flame war about the FSS. That's what the HO-NK tag is about too. NOT that I'm looking to start that discussion again, it's a really old picture but the no true Scotsman aspect was relevant hereI like the ID of your ship: HO-NK
Does "no true Scotsman" refer to the fact that you are Scottish (but not a typical Scot) or to the philosophical term (I guess it's the latter)?
I would just like to clarify that I was never there.
Ah, ladles and mentlegen, thank you for this topic again, it has been quite fun. To all the people who are drinking though, a reminder: the drinking game only applies to the exploration subforum by default, and extending it elsewhere (such as here in the DD) is listed as the "hard mode". As always, please drink responsibly!
What does achieving Elite (and even twice!
No, just experience. There's zero challenge to it. Also not much fun... which meant I tried various ways to find good stuff before finalising on that method I mentioned. Feel free to ignore it.
I imagine some are more system completionists, which I would lean to, though not always. But it is what it is and as is said, people's motivations differ, and it's a big galaxy.
That's what carriers are for...
In my opinion, doing lots of exploring leads one to recognize (and look for) things that they might be missing earlier on. Rare Gas giants, really small or huge sizes of all the planets moons etc, weird orbits, unusual body compositions, combinations of bodies that lead to great views if you visit them, strange or unusual systems and so on..
I tend to fss everything, but mostly map earth, ammonia, water worlds, terraformables of any kind, the moons of all the previous ones, rare gas giants, anything with ammonia or water based life, or anything out of the ordinary that make strike my fancy. Also i pay attention to any kind of biological or geological stuff in the system landable planets.
I tend to fss everything, but mostly map earth, ammonia, water worlds, terraformables of any kind, the moons of all the previous ones, rare gas giants, anything with ammonia or water based life, or anything out of the ordinary that make strike my fancy. Also i pay attention to any kind of biological or geological stuff in the system landable planets.
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Green Gass Giant and a system with 99 bodies...then I can hang up my HOTAS.I guess I'm a typical "planet eater". Whenever I come across systems with more than 50 bodies, my heart beats faster and I scan them all, without rhyme or reason. Outside the explored regions, hardly anyone is likely to find a system I have explored incompletely scanned. If someone wants to hate me for that, I can live with it.
Never understood why this bothered people. Sometimes I'll map everything, but if I'm making a very long trip I'm definitely not going to map every single thing along the way.
In fact, some explorers consider it good etiquette not to. The more people who are able to get their name in an interesting system the better, I say.
In fact, some explorers consider it good etiquette not to. The more people who are able to get their name in an interesting system the better, I say.