Exactly. I'm despicable to everyone!
I hate valuable planets suckers
- Thread starter CMDR Kantos Kan
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Oh yeah ? Come and get my ELW, while you are wasting time scanning random rocky body ! I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of those wonderful THOUSANDS of credits I earn daily from those planets !
Yes you heard that right, I even get a MILLION sometimes !
What's the use of mapping planets, anyway? It doesn't help any other Cmdr with their travels one bit.
I, too, tend to ignore the less worthy planets. Or any planets for that matter. I may map planets that EDMC-Canonn suggests - unless they are more than a few kLs out.
Sometimes I map all the planets in a system, just on a whim. Maybe there is something out there to be found. I wouldn't know.
Submitting neutron stars to EDDN for use in the spansh neutron plotter is probably the single most useful application of exploration, so that maybe, one day, one Cmdr can shave off a few hops from their route to look at icy bodies at the other end of the galaxy.
(Edit: plus, I just like making those 290ly jumps for no other reason)
I, too, tend to ignore the less worthy planets. Or any planets for that matter. I may map planets that EDMC-Canonn suggests - unless they are more than a few kLs out.
Sometimes I map all the planets in a system, just on a whim. Maybe there is something out there to be found. I wouldn't know.
Submitting neutron stars to EDDN for use in the spansh neutron plotter is probably the single most useful application of exploration, so that maybe, one day, one Cmdr can shave off a few hops from their route to look at icy bodies at the other end of the galaxy.
(Edit: plus, I just like making those 290ly jumps for no other reason)
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So the other day I was an a-hole if I scanned and mapped every single planet and moon in the system rather than let the poor real explorers add their name somewhere. A bit before that we were all a-holes for discovering all the stuff near the bubble leaving nothing for the new people. Today i am an a-hole for not scanning and mapping everything in the system. Good lord you are a bunch of screeching divas.
Yep, that's exactly how I roll. If it's interesting or valuable I map it. If it's got enough life I might walk on it. You can have the snowballs and stones if you like, or not. That's REAL exploring. Just like the days of the high seas where the hunt for riches and notoriety was the calling.
Yep, that's exactly how I roll. If it's interesting or valuable I map it. If it's got enough life I might walk on it. You can have the snowballs and stones if you like, or not. That's REAL exploring. Just like the days of the high seas where the hunt for riches and notoriety was the calling.
Ah, it's been soooo loooong since someone complained about cherrypicking...
Bark!
Deal with it.
Well, not sure whether I'm a real explorer, but...
These days (post FSS), if I decide a system is interesting in any way I always scan (FSS) everything, leaving nothing behind for any who might follow. Meanie. But... I'll typically only map ELW's, WW's, AW's and occasionally, if they're not to far away HMCW's, leaving plenty behind for any who might pop in later. So I'm a filthy cherry picker when it comes to mapping, but an obsessive compulsive completionist when it comes to scanning...
Pre FSS I was a completionist. If I thought a system was worthy I'd fly out and scan the lot leaving nothing for latecomers. With a few exceptions when there were secondary stars many hundreds of thousands of Ls from the primary. So even meaner, really. But interesting side note. When the FSS came out I returned to the few part discovered systems and snagged those far away secondary stars and associated bodies with the FSS. And nobody had scanned any of them in between times.
So best thing is just go to completely undiscovered systems (I'm pretty sure there a quite a lot out there ) and neither filthy cherry pickers nor compulsive completionists will bother you at all.
These days (post FSS), if I decide a system is interesting in any way I always scan (FSS) everything, leaving nothing behind for any who might follow. Meanie. But... I'll typically only map ELW's, WW's, AW's and occasionally, if they're not to far away HMCW's, leaving plenty behind for any who might pop in later. So I'm a filthy cherry picker when it comes to mapping, but an obsessive compulsive completionist when it comes to scanning...
Pre FSS I was a completionist. If I thought a system was worthy I'd fly out and scan the lot leaving nothing for latecomers. With a few exceptions when there were secondary stars many hundreds of thousands of Ls from the primary. So even meaner, really.
But interesting side note. When the FSS came out I returned to the few part discovered systems and snagged those far away secondary stars and associated bodies with the FSS. And nobody had scanned any of them in between times.So best thing is just go to completely undiscovered systems (I'm pretty sure there a quite a lot out there
) and neither filthy cherry pickers nor compulsive completionists will bother you at all.
Well, not sure whether I'm a real explorer, but...
These days (post FSS), if I decide a system is interesting in any way I always scan (FSS) everything, leaving nothing behind for any who might follow. Meanie. But... I'll typically only map ELW's, WW's, AW's and occasionally, if they're not to far away HMCW's, leaving plenty behind for any who might pop in later. So I'm a filthy cherry picker when it comes to mapping, but an obsessive compulsive completionist when it comes to scanning...
Pre FSS I was a completionist. If I thought a system was worthy I'd fly out and scan the lot leaving nothing for latecomers. With a few exceptions when there were secondary stars many hundreds of thousands of Ls from the primary. So even meaner, really.
So best thing is just go to completely undiscovered systems (I'm pretty sure there a quite a lot out there
I use Elite Observatory and map everything it tells me is worth more than a million, that way people following me have to put up with just the chicken feed rocky and ice worlds worth almost nothing that I leave behind, that's how I swing, and let me tell you, it feels gooooooood!
And they say explorers are carebears that never feed of their victims tears like gankers do.
I had to use an astrolabe to find some of my first's.
Scanning planets is so mind-numbingly dull, tedious and pointless why would you bother scanning anything other than the most valuable bodies? 
The real issue is that exploration gameplay isn't more evolved and engaging. And exobiology scanning is a real joke, but at least they got rid of that awful lining up circles mini-game
The real issue is that exploration gameplay isn't more evolved and engaging. And exobiology scanning is a real joke, but at least they got rid of that awful lining up circles mini-game
Scanning planets is so mind-numbingly dull, tedious and pointless why would you bother scanning anything other than the most valuable bodies?
Well for a start you don't which ones are actually valuable until you scan them, that rocky planet might be terraformable, but how will you know until you scan it? So you scan them all and "map" the valuable ones.
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Gankers are the only group that are honest about that.