My adventure to HIP 28711 (Black Hole system)

[owain1122]

I decided that I would go to my first black hole (again...) the first time I travelled the roughly 350lys to HIP 28711 from Eranin to view a Black Hole. However I had only fitted a Basic Discovery Scanner and I was unable to pick up anything but the huge class O star in the system. This time I travelled there with an Advanced discovery scanner.

If you don't want visual spoilers don't click the link!


http://imgur.com/a/rZ6sk


The effects on the black holes are superb and it was actually quite disorientating at first. I took a few images and flew around in the distortion before packing up my things to leave. Apart from witnessing my first black hole (some ]thing I've wanted to do since I first got the game in Beta 1) I also

Earned roughly: 256,000 credits for scanning all the systems I went through but only surface scanning the odd one.
I earned the Exploring rank: Surveyor
I also increased my rep with the Alliance at Lave

 

[CreepyD]

Nice one! Exploring is fun isn't it
I just took a 200 system trip earning 1.6m myself
Annoying though, not a single Earth Like planet to be found! Plenty of Terraformable ones and Water worlds though.

First one I came across I dropped out when I got too close, I was squinting at the screen trying to work out how close I was from the distortion.

Here's my pic I took of one - also inside a Nebula here

Spoiler

 

[owain1122]

Nice one! Exploring is fun isn't it
I just took a 200 system trip earning 1.6m myself
Annoying though, not a single Earth Like planet to be found! Plenty of Terraformable ones and Water worlds though.

First one I came across I dropped out when I got too close, I was squinting at the screen trying to work out how close I was from the distortion.

I'd recommend not exploring that many yet until they fix the lag. It was taking up to 10s to turn in each system to begin with, it got better as I wittled it down gradually. I think it took an hour to turn them all in!

Here's my pic I took of one - also inside a Nebula here

Spoiler

Yeah mine got slowly less laggy too!

1.6M? that's awesome your picture looks much better haha I wish I could have had something light behind mine!

 

[CreepyD]

I've been itching to go exploring for ages, but didn't actually do it until I had the Advanced Disc. Scanner and a a decent jump range (18ly atm).
I wouldn't have 1/4 of that amount without that scanner, there's just no way you'd find a lot of the more valuable planets without it, being they're generally small.

 

[owain1122]

I've been itching to go exploring for ages, but didn't actually do it until I had the Advanced Disc. Scanner and a a decent jump range (18ly atm).
I wouldn't have 1/4 of that amount without that scanner, there's just no way you'd find a lot of the more valuable planets without it, being they're generally small.

Yeah, when I took the basic scanner out to the system, I scanned and couldn't find anything. I flew for nearly half an hour trying to look for the black hole. It turns out the Black hole was 150,000LS away. the Basic scanner has a range of 500LS? haha
The advanced discovery scanner is essential.