My Unlocking of Palin Adventure

[shadragon]

I took one of my newer accounts and decided to unlock Palin for the DD5 thrusters. I only had Felicity Farseer, so I needed to unlock a few other engineers to get Palin. I thought about the bast way to do this and ended up doing it kind of backwards, but it was fairly easy to do.

On that account, I'd only traveled 1,000 LY from start so I needed to go past 5,000 LY to get a Palin invite. I decided to do that first. I equipped an AspX with a 34 LY jump range and set course for the rim. Went out 5,100LY turned left 90 degrees and went 300LY before turning back (to make sure I didn't go through the same systems on the return trip.)

Came back with roughly 15 mil in exploration data and a lot of first discoveries. I needed to unlock Sirius to get to Marco Qwent. I went to Avik, where Sirius Corporation is in charge and sold the first page of exploration data. I logged off and back on. I was allied with them and earned the Sirius permit.

To get the Qwent invite I first needed to go through Elvira Martuk. Went to Ngirii, picked up eight Soontill Relics then went to her base and unlocked her, selling the rest off at a profit. I scanned unexplored systems along the way. Cashed in another page of exploration data and went to level 4 upgrades with her. Boom, an invite from Qwent appeared.

Went back to Sirius, Equipped a passenger AspX and began taking passenger transport missions with Modular Terminals as rewards. An hour and a half later, I had 27 of them. Unlocked Qwent, sold off another page of exploration data to get to grade 4 upgrades and the Palin invite appeared.

I'm now collecting unknown fragments. I still have two pages of exploration data left which should take me to level 5 upgrades once I can unlock him. I already have the needed materials for the DD5's and should be modding my thrusters tonight. Tomorrow at the latest.

In addition to the exploration data, I made at least 10 mil from missions, passengers and selling off unused materials. It took me about a week of game play to do the above. The activities along the way were varied and didn't feel repetitive. I actually had fun.

TIP: I've heard of people doing the 5,000LY trip only to self-destruct their ship. You are making it a lot harder on yourself by doing that. The exploration data you would otherwise collect lets you advance your status with each engineer by leaps and bounds on your return.

 

[Taranis Dekker]

I took one of my newer accounts and decided to unlock Palin for the DD5 thrusters. I only had Felicity Farseer, so I needed to unlock a few other engineers to get Palin. I thought about the bast way to do this and ended up doing it kind of backwards, but it was fairly easy to do.

On that account, I'd only traveled 1,000 LY from start so I needed to go past 5,000 LY to get a Palin invite. I decided to do that first. I equipped an AspX with a 34 LY jump range and set course for the rim. Went out 5,100LY turned left 90 degrees and went 300LY before turning back (to make sure I didn't go through the same systems on the return trip.)

Came back with roughly 15 mil in exploration data and a lot of first discoveries. I needed to unlock Sirius to get to Marco Qwent. I went to Avik, where Sirius Corporation is in charge and sold the first page of exploration data. I logged off and back on. I was allied with them and earned the Sirius permit.

To get the Qwent invite I first needed to go through Elvira Martuk. Went to Ngirii, picked up eight Soontill Relics then went to her base and unlocked her, selling the rest off at a profit. I scanned unexplored systems along the way. Cashed in another page of exploration data and went to level 4 upgrades with her. Boom, an invite from Qwent appeared.

Went back to Sirius, Equipped a passenger AspX and began taking passenger transport missions with Modular Terminals as rewards. An hour and a half later, I had 27 of them. Unlocked Qwent, sold off another page of exploration data to get to grade 4 upgrades and the Palin invite appeared.

I'm now collecting unknown fragments. I still have two pages of exploration data left which should take me to level 5 upgrades once I can unlock him. I already have the needed materials for the DD5's and should be modding my thrusters tonight. Tomorrow at the latest.

In addition to the exploration data, I made at least 10 mil from missions, passengers and selling off unused materials. It took me about a week of game play to do the above. The activities along the way were varied and didn't feel repetitive. I actually had fun.

TIP: I've heard of people doing the 5,000LY trip only to self-destruct their ship. You are making it a lot harder on yourself by doing that. The exploration data you would otherwise collect lets you advance your status with each engineer by leaps and bounds on your return.

Nicely done [up]

I agree with exploration and self-destruction point. If you've got to go 5k LY you may as well get some extra benefit from the trip!

 

[Gun Star]

To some people exploring is just so boring they would rather run passengers day and night to earn the money and they will let their explorer rank sit stagnant and not unlock those engineers. Some of them also dont realize to get the best explorer payouts you need the Advanced Discovery Scanner and Detailed Surface Scanner, so when people like you and me that have explored and talk about great payouts they dont see it. They are getting pennies on the dollar for their data, so they dont see the effort=/=money translation.

My first 1000+LY trip was when passengers first dropped. I took a scientist for 36 mil to the edge of the galaxy 6600 LY from the bubble to see a Nebula. I got so many first discovered (couple of Earth Like Worlds in there) It was great. SOme people just really find it really boring and dont see any beauty in the galaxy.

 

[JudeSaint]

Im just now about to hit my 7200 LY exploration trips destination (i took a travelconda with a 55Ly jump range with a passenger cabin and a passenger that is paying me 20mil to take him out to some nebulas) I must say i am torn on the exploration. On one hand it is kind of fun but on the other i feel that i can only do it in spurts and that it feels more like a chore. Its the same thing over and over again. Jump to this system, honk, look for valuable planets, scan, jump, rinse/repeat. Honestly i am not trying to complain here and i think so far Fdev is doing ok (im sure we ALL feel that there could be things done better but i digress) but i really wish there was just more to it. More unknown USS to pop into where there is a wrecked starbase or something. A lost civilizations structures long since decayed on planets surfaces that i could go and check out to earn more exploration data. Things like that. Not just jump here scan there maybe hit up the rover to check out some view.

Anywho. Fly safe guys!

 

[Factabulous]

Im just now about to hit my 7200 LY exploration trips destination (i took a travelconda with a 55Ly jump range with a passenger cabin and a passenger that is paying me 20mil to take him out to some nebulas) I must say i am torn on the exploration. On one hand it is kind of fun but on the other i feel that i can only do it in spurts and that it feels more like a chore. Its the same thing over and over again. Jump to this system, honk, look for valuable planets, scan, jump, rinse/repeat. Honestly i am not trying to complain here and i think so far Fdev is doing ok (im sure we ALL feel that there could be things done better but i digress) but i really wish there was just more to it. More unknown USS to pop into where there is a wrecked starbase or something. A lost civilizations structures long since decayed on planets surfaces that i could go and check out to earn more exploration data. Things like that. Not just jump here scan there maybe hit up the rover to check out some view.

Anywho. Fly safe guys!

I'm exploring. You know that there are alien ruins out there you can keep an eye out for - riiiight? The Guardian Ruins being found across the galaxy because people are checking for them. You can also look for Brain Trees and geologic locations, always fun to drop in on some fumeroles. If you know what to look for, helps break up the trip.

I think the main thing the OP is doing is playing the whole game - too many CMDRs take one aspect, repeat over and over and then complain the game hasn't got enough depth - and the sad thing is they aren't even aware of what they're missing. I wouldn't mind, but it doesn't seem to make them happy.

 

[SciTrekker]

I'm exploring. You know that there are alien ruins out there you can keep an eye out for - riiiight? The Guardian Ruins being found across the galaxy because people are checking for them. You can also look for Brain Trees and geologic locations, always fun to drop in on some fumeroles. If you know what to look for, helps break up the trip.

I think the main thing the OP is doing is playing the whole game - too many CMDRs take one aspect, repeat over and over and then complain the game hasn't got enough depth - and the sad thing is they aren't even aware of what they're missing. I wouldn't mind, but it doesn't seem to make them happy.

If only the information was readily accessible in the game to answer the "what to look for" question....[noob]

 

[Cruise]

Any tips on locations of ‘unknown fragments’ would be appreciated, as that’s what I need too.

 

[Nick Sticks]

Any tips on locations of ‘unknown fragments’ would be appreciated, as that’s what I need too.

Alien crashed ship

HIP 17862 6 C A
+30.3398
-98.5876

Shoot the UA's.

 

[Drelthar]

Any tips on locations of ‘unknown fragments’ would be appreciated, as that’s what I need too.

Alien crash sites (google it, or look for cannons website, possbily the elite wiki for their exact locations) (EDIT: Or use the above information!!)

Couple of the sites have Thargoid sensors on the ground. Shoot the sensors, to get fragments, which you scoop in your SRV, they are materials so dont take cargo space.

You can probably re-log to spawn more tharg sensors if there arent enough for enough fragments.

Alternatively, go to the pleidies (sp???) and find none human signal sources with thargoids in, and try to scoop up the thargoid sensors that can be lying about around there.

 

[Cruise]

Thanks for the help guys, much appreciated

 

[IndigoWyrd]

This thread tell my own tale of unlocking Professor Palin: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/336382-There-and-back-again-In-a-Beluga?highlight=There

In summary, I needed to make the 5k Ly trip, so I picked up a passenger wanting to go 5200 Ly.

Made the trip, took the screenshots, made an extra 28m for the passenger, plus exploration data, plus the unlock, picked up my fragments on my way there, along with some Pharm Isolators. Still haven't run out of Isolators.

 

[shadragon]

II think the main thing the OP is doing is playing the whole game - too many CMDRs take one aspect, repeat over and over and then complain the game hasn't got enough depth - and the sad thing is they aren't even aware of what they're missing. I wouldn't mind, but it doesn't seem to make them happy.

Repped.

 

[Drelthar]

Unfortunately, even though I tried to find stuff to do on the 5kly trip, I had a pretty sad time of it.

I looked up distant places on forums/etc, and ended up going to the Guardian ruins, but that was only a fragment of the needed distance.

Tried going out to an asteroid base, but I mean... it was nice to pick up some heat sinks and refuel/repair, but... it's just a base, seen quite a few.

Came back with a lot of exploration data (though I didn't scan that many planets because... it's not the greatest mechanic in the world, to me)

Two ancient relics, two succesful scans of the guardian pillar things (man, that puzzle is pretty bad... it's just a brute force test so far as I can tell... terrible) and a few survey caches.

I mean... it was ok, but I really would have gotten the same experience from a 1000LY trip. The other 4000 (and BACK) was pretty... I hesitate to say boring because people get touchy about these things, but really, most of it was looking at the hyperspace animation, and looking at the system map a bit.



Glad other people get something out of it but for me, this unlock would serve just as much of a purpose if it was only 1000ly instead of 5000ly.

 

[shadragon]

I mean... it was ok, but I really would have gotten the same experience from a 1000LY trip. The other 4000 (and BACK) was pretty... I hesitate to say boring because people get touchy about these things, but really, most of it was looking at the hyperspace animation, and looking at the system map a bit.

Exploration isn't for everyone and some do get bored. I suspect the Palin unlock is used to entice people to at least give it a try. The 5,000 LY limit is probably so folks come back with a few first discoveries to their credit.

 

[JudeSaint]

I'm exploring. You know that there are alien ruins out there you can keep an eye out for - riiiight? The Guardian Ruins being found across the galaxy because people are checking for them. You can also look for Brain Trees and geologic locations, always fun to drop in on some fumeroles. If you know what to look for, helps break up the trip.

I think the main thing the OP is doing is playing the whole game - too many CMDRs take one aspect, repeat over and over and then complain the game hasn't got enough depth - and the sad thing is they aren't even aware of what they're missing. I wouldn't mind, but it doesn't seem to make them happy.

Id love to know how/what to look for to find these alien ruins.

 

[JudeSaint]

Can i just find them randomly on a planet somewhere?(alien ruins that is) ... or is there a specific place to go for them? If thats the case then my point is still valid. I just jumped 7kly out towards some nebulas. I scanned well over 50% of the systems i jumped into and found ..... dirt. Oh and like 3 signal sources with data caches in them.

Edit 1
Just looked at a ruins guide. So they are not really random (anymore since so many have been found) and if was to come across one in any of the systems ive been through i would have since i honk every system and if it has even a remotely valuble planet thats within 10kLS i go for the scan. If there were ruins in any of the systems i have been in wouldnt they have showed up?

 

[SciTrekker]

Can i just find them randomly on a planet somewhere?(alien ruins that is) ... or is there a specific place to go for them? If thats the case then my point is still valid. I just jumped 7kly out towards some nebulas. I scanned well over 50% of the systems i jumped into and found ..... dirt. Oh and like 3 signal sources with data caches in them.

Edit 1
Just looked at a ruins guide. So they are not really random (anymore since so many have been found) and if was to come across one in any of the systems ive been through i would have since i honk every system and if it has even a remotely valuble planet thats within 10kLS i go for the scan. If there were ruins in any of the systems i have been in wouldnt they have showed up?

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Id love to know how/what to look for to find these alien ruins.

Here's a thread that should tell you all about it:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...UARDIANS-MISSION-GUIDE(Step-by-Step)-201-M-Cr

 

[Spacecat]

It really isn't that bad, but supposedly the Sirius permit was glitched at one point. The worst part is hauling your new ship out to Palin every time, especially if it's jump range challenged.

 

[Drelthar]

Id love to know how/what to look for to find these alien ruins.

Brain trees on planet surfaces.

But, you know, to find those you need to go right down to the surface, and eyeball it.

Though, there are, I think, certain conditions to narrow down which planets, like temperature and gravity or something. I dont know the specfics.

 

[JudeSaint]

Here's a thread that should tell you all about it:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...UARDIANS-MISSION-GUIDE(Step-by-Step)-201-M-Cr

But doesnt this negate the whole "exploring" aspect? Its a detailed map of where to go to find things. Thats not really the type of exploring im talking about. Im more talking about random events or random USS pop up where you find like a wreckage (no the stuff we have now like ... here is a private data beacon .... or here is a data cache) Like what if i jumped in on a huge downed capital vessal that was a science ship... and rummaged through some data beacons and found coordinates to a system that had a [Insert whatever you want here] ... see THAT would be exploration. Not looking through some guide that tells me exactly where to find things and on what planets. The guardians thing does look cool and i will eventually look into it for sure. But i think, as of now, the guide really stalls the whole "exploration" part of it.

Brain trees on planet surfaces.

But, you know, to find those you need to go right down to the surface, and eyeball it.

Though, there are, I think, certain conditions to narrow down which planets, like temperature and gravity or something. I dont know the specfics.

Are you also referring to the guardians things?