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I've spotted it on EDDiscovery 3D Map and its name made me want to go there and check it out. [yesnod]
I've spotted it on EDDiscovery 3D Map and its name made me want to go there and check it out. [yesnod]
Noob rides a Dolphin into the black
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It's probably raining pure diamonds there.
Update 3: 5 kLy done!
I've traversed Wayfarers' Graveyard and the level of excitement is not even close to what I had expected from this area. A single USS, no ELWs, vast majority of stars are common M-class with ice bodies. At least no problems with fuel scooping. I hit The Perseus Transit to achieve 5 kLy from home and surprisingly things got slightly more interesting. A white dwarf, two neutron stars, several ammonia worlds, several water worlds, even a water world orbiting another water world! An excitement is definitely back.
And the best part - only 25 of last 300 jumps were on previously discovered systems. All remaining are untouched ones! Just 5 kLy from the Bubble! I didn't expect that.
The Dolphin is still in mint condition, no problems at all. I start thinking that fitting it with shields was unnecessary. OK, I did a stupid mistake at the beginning of my trip and lost 1% of hull and 2-3% of almost every module. But I think having repair limpets instead of shields would serve better. AFMU fixed damaged modules but not the hull. Without shields I would have probably taken more damage, but with AFMU and repair limpets I would have been able to recover completely. Even the smallest modules with ability to synthesize AFMU ammo and limpets should give me a long-range capability of fixing outcomes of unexpected errors.
Now I start to head back to the Bubble. Need to prepare a good tactics of selling data for Engineers-related goals. I hope I have enough to become a close "friend" to Elvira, Felicity, Marco and Professor. They should be able to help me prepare a ship for next trip. On the other hand - I'd like to sell it as soon as possible to not take unnecessary risk. Well, I still have some time to think about it.
I've traversed Wayfarers' Graveyard and the level of excitement is not even close to what I had expected from this area. A single USS, no ELWs, vast majority of stars are common M-class with ice bodies. At least no problems with fuel scooping. I hit The Perseus Transit to achieve 5 kLy from home and surprisingly things got slightly more interesting. A white dwarf, two neutron stars, several ammonia worlds, several water worlds, even a water world orbiting another water world! An excitement is definitely back.
And the best part - only 25 of last 300 jumps were on previously discovered systems. All remaining are untouched ones! Just 5 kLy from the Bubble! I didn't expect that.
The Dolphin is still in mint condition, no problems at all. I start thinking that fitting it with shields was unnecessary. OK, I did a stupid mistake at the beginning of my trip and lost 1% of hull and 2-3% of almost every module. But I think having repair limpets instead of shields would serve better. AFMU fixed damaged modules but not the hull. Without shields I would have probably taken more damage, but with AFMU and repair limpets I would have been able to recover completely. Even the smallest modules with ability to synthesize AFMU ammo and limpets should give me a long-range capability of fixing outcomes of unexpected errors.
Now I start to head back to the Bubble. Need to prepare a good tactics of selling data for Engineers-related goals. I hope I have enough to become a close "friend" to Elvira, Felicity, Marco and Professor. They should be able to help me prepare a ship for next trip. On the other hand - I'd like to sell it as soon as possible to not take unnecessary risk. Well, I still have some time to think about it.
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I decided against using my Dolphin. I do like it and it is upgraded and engineered - but I wanted to use something a bit larger, so I could fit a good 1st class cabin and a class 5 scoop on it as well as the usual AFM unit, hangar & SRV for collecting materials and a small cargo hold of around 16t. Then some good weapons, just in case. That meant using the Orca.
I'm currently shipping a scientist out to a place near Colonia (17,000LY from the Bubble). Just arrived at Hillary Depot and already got 30-odd first discoveries, which surprised me. Just wish I had taken two heat sinks instead of one - can never find the material necessary to synthesise the refills. But it would have reduced the 23.4LY jump range, which is already small enough.
I always use open play for exploring - but rarely ever see other players. If you see me, give a shout.
I'm currently shipping a scientist out to a place near Colonia (17,000LY from the Bubble). Just arrived at Hillary Depot and already got 30-odd first discoveries, which surprised me. Just wish I had taken two heat sinks instead of one - can never find the material necessary to synthesise the refills. But it would have reduced the 23.4LY jump range, which is already small enough.
I always use open play for exploring - but rarely ever see other players. If you see me, give a shout.
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The dolphin (heck even the Orca) are great exploration ships. At least they "feel" like they should be out in the black (and not in the closet holding some shoes.... looks at the shoebox appearance of the ASP).
I am personally 19,500ly outside the bubble in my Expluga... FSS (Federation Science Service) Steven Hawking....loving it! 42ly jump range with my 53% increase in optimal mass roll with Farseer...
Thinking about doing a exploration diary....
Good luck commanders O7
I am personally 19,500ly outside the bubble in my Expluga... FSS (Federation Science Service) Steven Hawking....loving it! 42ly jump range with my 53% increase in optimal mass roll with Farseer...
Thinking about doing a exploration diary....
Good luck commanders O7
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I like you OP.
Update 4: Back in the Bubble
Trip basic results:
- number of jumps: over 1000
- max. distance from home: 5393 ly
- total distance: around 16 kLy
- ELW discovered: 1
- min. distance of untouched system: 420 Ly from Sol (the unknown is still so close...)
- hull health after the trip: 95%
- general impression: it was greeeeeeaaaaaat! [heart] [heart] [heart]
Ok, I'm back and I immediately started preparations for the next trip. Even though my Dolphin did a great job, I want to go for something bigger and more specialized. First thought - Orca. Looks amazing and is quite solid in terms of slots and parameters. But the only thing I dislike about the Dolphin is the visibility from the cockpit below the eyeline. I use TrackIR-like device so I could really appreciate having the possibility to simply look down. But instead I had to fly upside down to see anything on planet surface or turn around and around near the outpost like an idiot to find a landing pad. And Orca is nothing better than Dolphin on this. So I checked cockpit view presentations on YT and when I saw AspX, the decision was made.
So, the next goal is to get the ugliest ship in ED, show it to some Engineers and then hit the black again. First two of them, Felicity and Elvira, were not so happy to see another dusted, smelly, self-proclaimed explorer, but when I showed them some of my hand-painted maps of distant systems, they changed their minds. Several pages of exp data was more than enough to convince both of them to show me their... G5 blueprints, of course (a side effect - almost 60 MCr income, even though a lot of data still waits for its turn to be sold). However, I wanted to act unapproachable, so I took a quick look at them and said "Maybe later, darling". I'm sure they think my head must have hit something very hard during my trip.
Anyway, next shot - mister Marco. This one didn't want to even look at my maps, but demanded Modular Terminals. I had to do a small refit to my Dolphin to be able to store 25 tons of cargo. And some passenger cabins because it turned out that this stuff is available only as a mission reward. So I started doing taxi missions. Stations, landings, beacons, satellites. All systems explored and tagged to the smallest screwdriver drifting in the middle of empty space between planets. I was so desperate that I even boarded illegal passengers and became familiar with silent running and using heat sinks.
Now, after 5-6 hours of doing such missions the package for Marco is ready. I need to pay him a visit, sell some goods and pull an info from him about the last one I want to see - Professor Palin. I don't think I will have enough patience to meet any other. After that I'll buy the ship, see what I can get with several rolls for every available module and leave the civilization as soon as possible.
To be honest - I was little bored just before I arrived to the Bubble. Jump-honk-scoop was happening kinda outside of me, automatically. Sometimes I saw something more interesting than a brown dwarf with several ice balls, but it was not often. However, after several hours in the Bubble, the traffic, message spam, interdictions every "5 seconds" (one of them finished at 3 km above the planet surface, straight from supercruise of course...), mission boards, police scans near every station... Oh, how I miss the black. How I miss this boredom, this calm, this silence. I hope that Marco and Professor won't take me too much time.
I know 99% of galaxy activity happens in the Bubble. Now I'm pretty sure my way is to look for the remaining 1%. Or maybe to avoid "activity" at all. I need to figure out where to go when my new ship is ready. Haven't read much about different areas of galaxy so far. And would rather not use a catchy name (like Wayfarers Graveyard) again. Hope to find some more or less remote location where nobody wants to go and spend some time there, staring at stars and listening to the sounds of the deep space. I cannot wait to leave...
Trip basic results:
- number of jumps: over 1000
- max. distance from home: 5393 ly
- total distance: around 16 kLy
- ELW discovered: 1
- min. distance of untouched system: 420 Ly from Sol (the unknown is still so close...)
- hull health after the trip: 95%
- general impression: it was greeeeeeaaaaaat! [heart] [heart] [heart]
Ok, I'm back and I immediately started preparations for the next trip. Even though my Dolphin did a great job, I want to go for something bigger and more specialized. First thought - Orca. Looks amazing and is quite solid in terms of slots and parameters. But the only thing I dislike about the Dolphin is the visibility from the cockpit below the eyeline. I use TrackIR-like device so I could really appreciate having the possibility to simply look down. But instead I had to fly upside down to see anything on planet surface or turn around and around near the outpost like an idiot to find a landing pad. And Orca is nothing better than Dolphin on this. So I checked cockpit view presentations on YT and when I saw AspX, the decision was made.
So, the next goal is to get the ugliest ship in ED
, show it to some Engineers and then hit the black again. First two of them, Felicity and Elvira, were not so happy to see another dusted, smelly, self-proclaimed explorer, but when I showed them some of my hand-painted maps of distant systems, they changed their minds. Several pages of exp data was more than enough to convince both of them to show me their... G5 blueprints, of course (a side effect - almost 60 MCr income, even though a lot of data still waits for its turn to be sold). However, I wanted to act unapproachable, so I took a quick look at them and said "Maybe later, darling". I'm sure they think my head must have hit something very hard during my trip. Anyway, next shot - mister Marco. This one didn't want to even look at my maps, but demanded Modular Terminals. I had to do a small refit to my Dolphin to be able to store 25 tons of cargo. And some passenger cabins because it turned out that this stuff is available only as a mission reward. So I started doing taxi missions. Stations, landings, beacons, satellites. All systems explored and tagged to the smallest screwdriver drifting in the middle of empty space between planets. I was so desperate that I even boarded illegal passengers and became familiar with silent running and using heat sinks.
Now, after 5-6 hours of doing such missions the package for Marco is ready. I need to pay him a visit, sell some goods and pull an info from him about the last one I want to see - Professor Palin. I don't think I will have enough patience to meet any other. After that I'll buy the ship, see what I can get with several rolls for every available module and leave the civilization as soon as possible.
To be honest - I was little bored just before I arrived to the Bubble. Jump-honk-scoop was happening kinda outside of me, automatically. Sometimes I saw something more interesting than a brown dwarf with several ice balls, but it was not often. However, after several hours in the Bubble, the traffic, message spam, interdictions every "5 seconds" (one of them finished at 3 km above the planet surface, straight from supercruise of course...), mission boards, police scans near every station... Oh, how I miss the black. How I miss this boredom, this calm, this silence. I hope that Marco and Professor won't take me too much time.
I know 99% of galaxy activity happens in the Bubble. Now I'm pretty sure my way is to look for the remaining 1%. Or maybe to avoid "activity" at all. I need to figure out where to go when my new ship is ready. Haven't read much about different areas of galaxy so far. And would rather not use a catchy name (like Wayfarers Graveyard) again.
Hope to find some more or less remote location where nobody wants to go and spend some time there, staring at stars and listening to the sounds of the deep space. I cannot wait to leave...
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