Is anybody else easily distracted?

Galactic Fork

Galactic Fork
So, I'm plodding around right now in my nominal circumnavigation, but I find I'll travel some, but then get distracted and spend hours doing random stuff. For example, I was going to finish my current plotted course today, and maybe get through a couple more 1kly plots in. But I saw a pair of potato moons co-orbiting each other really close to a gas giant. Soooo then I spent the next 2 hours flying from one to the other in real space.

Aaand since I landed on one, for my next playing session, I'm seriously considering driving all the way around it. Just because.

Is this anybody else's "exploration" experience?
 

opal2501

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How on earth do you have the patience to spend 2 hours travelling between 2 moons!? I'd barely last 10 minutes before getting bored and supercruising the rest of the way.

My policy to exploring is to pick somewhere cool to go like a nebula and stop at anything that looks cool along the way. It took me about a week to go between the California Nebula and Barnard's Loop because I kept finding interesting things to check out. I don't see anything wrong with circumnavigating a potato moon, but I'd love to know how you'd manage that without going completely crazy.
 

Aura Lorell

Aura Lorell
I get distracted by shinies all the time. On my way to the outer rim yesterday I stumbled across a few catalogue stars and, guess what? Bookmarked them and started running in circles trying to visit all of them. It's going to take a few days but I don't mind it. It's fine, it's part of the experience.
 

Pirin

Pirin
Galactic Fork said:
So, I'm plodding around right now in my nominal circumnavigation, but I find I'll travel some, but then get distracted and spend hours doing random stuff. For example, I was going to finish my current plotted course today, and maybe get through a couple more 1kly plots in. But I saw a pair of potato moons co-orbiting each other really close to a gas giant. Soooo then I spent the next 2 hours flying from one to the other in real space.

Aaand since I landed on one, for my next playing session, I'm seriously considering driving all the way around it. Just because.

Is this anybody else's "exploration" experience?
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My current trip route looks like a drunken butterfly tries to find its way home :D :

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I seem to be completely unable to fly in a straight line...
 

JesusRocks1988

JesusRocks1988
Heh, yep! It took me far too long to get to Colonia in the last two weeks because I kept stopping at cool looking Icy Bodies on the way and just spending an hour or so flying through canyons, or searching for geysers and fumaroles. I went up above the galactic plane, and diverted course a few times (sometimes by a couple of thousand lightyears) to visit a cool looking nebula or a particular sight.

After getting to Colonia itself, I had in mind to explore the nebula there first, but after jumping through a few of the inhabited systems, I think shot upwards to a black hole, then straight down to out of the nebula to the lowest point below the galactic plane in that area. (Damn you, Malenfant, you got there first!) Even then in that only a couple of thousand lightyear trip, I got distracted by cool looking things (before deciding I'd never get there at this rate and summarily ignoring many systems I went through).

So yes, OP, I get where you're coming from.

Exploring is more than just scanning something.
 
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Cmdr Frawd Digger

Cmdr Frawd Digger
Galactic Fork said:
So, I'm plodding around right now in my nominal circumnavigation, but I find I'll travel some, but then get distracted and spend hours doing random stuff. For example, I was going to finish my current plotted course today, and maybe get through a couple more 1kly plots in. But I saw a pair of potato moons co-orbiting each other really close to a gas giant. Soooo then I spent the next 2 hours flying from one to the other in real space.

Aaand since I landed on one, for my next playing session, I'm seriously considering driving all the way around it. Just because.

Is this anybody else's "exploration" experience?
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I love potato moons! They are the only interesting kind of landable world...

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aRottenKomquat

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Ooh look, a shiny! Squirrel!

Yesterday, I had half a mind to fly from Obsidian Orbital down to its planet when I saw it would only take 5 hours without supercruising...just to say I've done it. Then I decided not to abandon my mission and I'd do it later.
 

13A

13A
I'm currently out on my latest trip, and find myself taking a detour and heading for Veil Nebula West because it's blue.

That's it, no great scientific endeavour, but just because it's blue!
 
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Aura Lorell

Aura Lorell
13A/24B said:
I'm currently out on my latest trip, and find myself taking a detour and heading for Veil Nebula West because it's blue.

That's it, no great scientific endeavour, but just because it's blue!
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Blue is a fine colour (and distraction reason). Not as good as purple but still fine. :D
 

Orvidius

Orvidius
I'm capable of going in fairly straight lines when I want to. And then I spend time bouncing around in an area smaller than a pixel on the map screenshot. :)

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duckofdeath

duckofdeath
I noticed I hadn't mapped anything on the opposite side to Cygni X-3 yet, so, I went there. A short 50,000 LY detour to get a scanned system in my logs.
Found a 0.09 EM terraformable planet on the way, so, not a complete waste of time! \o/
...and this on the other side.
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Redfox

Redfox
Galactic Fork said:
[...] Is this anybody else's "exploration" experience?
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This is me, trying to get back home from Beagle Point... haven't gotten out of the N/W sector since DWE. I'll get into certain topics or small projects along the way: First, massive stars (as far as available up there), then surveying certain aspects of a sub-sector, then on to a C*-/S-/MS-class spree, etc. As much as I enjoyed DWE - exploring with no timeline is so relaxing :cool:
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