Guide / Tutorial Nutter’s explorers guide to the Galaxy

Jackie Silver

Jackie Silver
CmdrPSB said:
HIP 40906 is a Class A III giant star. Given the description for water giants in the system info, I'm going to guess they're more likely in systems with a non-main sequence giant, as the increase in size and luminosity of the star as it evolves cause more energy to arrive at outer massive icy planets which flips them into a water giants.

Whether I'm just blathering on nonsensically or whether the proc gen is really REALLY clever and actually doing that, I'll leave up to you :)
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Sounds plausible. ;) Looks like the model for the giants can draw from different appearances, then - I was expecting them all to have that dark blue colour (i.e. similar to Class III) but these ones are more similar in appearance to Class I giants.

(I think the ordinary gas giant model draws from both incident radiation from the star and the giant's own mass to calculate its temperature; the closer to the star / brighter the star / higher the mass of the giant, the higher its surface temperature works out. Once it has the temperature it picks the appropriate Sudarsky class. And that'd be why we don't always see the classes in a nice line from V closest to the star to I furthest away.)
 

vicwolf

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Erimus said:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=85123&highlight=

I got there around Dec 19th and was stuck for 3 days before support answered my ticket. They moved me to different sectors surrounding Sag A so I could begin the journey home but they had all become unstable. After a few days back and forth correspondence with game support they said the devs had become aware of the issues and it was best to remove me from the region as a fix for the issue is going to take some time.

If you've ticketed it you can ask them to physically move you out of the core regions, somewhere closer to home where the sectors are far more stable.
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Thanks m8. I can't understand why they'd have something like this persist in the game when the obvious solution would be to do what it does on a transaction server disconnect and just send you back to the system you were jumping from or try to keep sending you back on your path until you hit a stable system.

Did you at least still have your ship when they reset your position?
 

Chack321

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Hello Nutter and fellow explorers,

I hear some of you have been on trips thousands of lightyears long. I have questions. How do you pick where to go? And how the hell do you get there? The ingame routing only takes you 100 ly max. How do you get where you wanna go? And how dow you find back to inhabited space.

I will soon have my Cobra fitted out for exploring and will try to leave inhabited space behind. I just thought i should clear up how I will find back home before I do.
Questions about the fitting on my cobra as well: I have the Detailed surface scanner, a good (2A) Fuel scoop, will get the best discovery scanner, and a shield gen. That leaves 2 spots currently filled with 16t cargo racks (Rare trading right now). Any recommendations? What should i take along for the ride?
 

Erimus Kamzel

Erimus Kamzel
vicwolf said:
Thanks m8. I can't understand why they'd have something like this persist in the game when the obvious solution would be to do what it does on a transaction server disconnect and just send you back to the system you were jumping from or try to keep sending you back on your path until you hit a stable system.

Did you at least still have your ship when they reset your position?
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Yeah, still got my ship. I only lost stats, I kept my credits and ranks. However I can't sell any of the data I collected. I've been waiting for them to restore the lost stats and fix the issue preventing my from selling data for over a week now.
 
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vicwolf

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Erimus said:
Yeah, still got my ship. I only lost stats, I kept my credits and ranks. However I can't sell any of the data I collected. I've been waiting for them to restore the lost stats and fix the issue preventing my from selling data for over a week now.
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wow, so you weren't able to sell any data after that either?
 

nokander

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Chack321 said:
Hello Nutter and fellow explorers,

I hear some of you have been on trips thousands of lightyears long. I have questions. How do you pick where to go? And how the hell do you get there? The ingame routing only takes you 100 ly max. How do you get where you wanna go? And how dow you find back to inhabited space.
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Dunno how others do it, but i try to find the general direction in the galaxy map and then use large giants or HD/HIP -stars as waypoints for the map router. Memorize the (non-)refuelable stars!

Chack321 said:
Questions about the fitting on my cobra as well: I have the Detailed surface scanner, a good (2A) Fuel scoop, will get the best discovery scanner, and a shield gen. That leaves 2 spots currently filled with 16t cargo racks (Rare trading right now). Any recommendations? What should i take along for the ride?
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I'd say your good to go after you've picked up the adv.discovery scanner.
 

SpacialKatana

SpacialKatana
Chack321 said:
Hello Nutter and fellow explorers,

I hear some of you have been on trips thousands of lightyears long. I have questions. How do you pick where to go? And how the hell do you get there? The ingame routing only takes you 100 ly max. How do you get where you wanna go? And how dow you find back to inhabited space.

I will soon have my Cobra fitted out for exploring and will try to leave inhabited space behind. I just thought i should clear up how I will find back home before I do.
Questions about the fitting on my cobra as well: I have the Detailed surface scanner, a good (2A) Fuel scoop, will get the best discovery scanner, and a shield gen. That leaves 2 spots currently filled with 16t cargo racks (Rare trading right now). Any recommendations? What should i take along for the ride?
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Fuel Scoop best you can afford.
Detailed Surface Scanner.
Advanced Discovery Scanner - Take no less if you want to hunt black holes efficiently.

NO cargo + Best FSD you can afford, you want a 25+ ly jump range if possible.
NO weapons/shield cells/KWS - weight you don't need to be haulin' round the cosmos, keep yer shields though (interdictions can happen up to 500 ly out).

The sky's your oyster, head for a nebula and PUNCH IT CHEWIE :D
 

carazvan

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Great posts everyone .. still on vacation for a few days but just spent some time reading all the new posts and sharing some rep. I will try and gather the exact data on the dwarf and neutron stars to see if I can find the exact formula and also incorporate the 3 datapoints that were mentioned earlier in the thread. I'll share the excel table also as soon as I can get all the data in there.

I really would incorporate the mass aspect to the black hole information at least since it's ~270*MASS which can be a pretty big difference between 2 different black holes
 
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Jackie Silver

Jackie Silver
carazvan said:
Great posts everyone .. still on vacation for a few days but just spent some time reading all the new posts and sharing some rep. I will try and gather the exact data on the dwarf and neutron stars to see if I can find the exact formula and also incorporate the 3 datapoints that were mentioned earlier in the thread. I'll share the excel table also as soon as I can get all the data in there.

I really would incorporate the mass aspect to the black hole information at least since it's ~270*MASS which can be a pretty big difference between 2 different black holes
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I should be getting data for another four neutron stars and one more black hole soonish, I'll post when I get back from the current trip.
 

SpacialKatana

SpacialKatana
Jackie Silver said:
I should be getting data for another four neutron stars and one more black hole soonish, I'll post when I get back from the current trip.
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What data do you need specifically? I've found tons (no pun intended) of black holes and neutron stars. The area I'm cruising to at present(still 3k ly away) is absolutely peppered with neutron stars. I can't wait to get there!
 

vicwolf

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SpacialKatana said:
What data do you need specifically? I've found tons (no pun intended) of black holes and neutron stars. The area I'm cruising to at present(still 3k ly away) is absolutely peppered with neutron stars. I can't wait to get there!
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If you play around with the map a bit a few thousand ly above or below the arms just outside of the central bulge you'll see that like every other star is a neutron star.
 

Jackie Silver

Jackie Silver
SpacialKatana said:
What data do you need specifically?
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What I'm collecting is the credit value for a detailed scan of one single object at a time, noting the object's type and mass (and anything else of particular interest). I visit a system once, use the advanced scanner once to see what's there, and then if there's something there that I want details for I schedule a return visit once I've sold the data, go back and scan that object only, then return to civilisation and see what it's worth.
E.g. I previously visited HIP 78756 (interesting system - one "B" star and seventeen protostars) scanned it with the ADS and saw there was a Herbig Ae/Be protostar there. I went back and sold the data. Now I've come back I'm going to scan just that one protostar - I note that it is 5.1133 solar masses and is an Ae/Be 1 VI, and when I get home I'll see what it is worth.
If you're in a position to do the same for any of those neutron stars and black holes it would be great, but I appreciate it's time consuming for distant stars! (I do round trips of a dozen or so interesting systems at a time, but still.)
Top of my wishlist at the moment is the location of any "High Metal Content - Candidate for Terraforming" worlds close to inhabited space.

I swear down. I literally posted this, jumped to the next system and the first ' world from the sun is an HMC CFT world. :D
I can't scan it in isolation but at least I can estimate it from scanning all the rest... :)
 
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Norwyn

Norwyn
Red Spider Nebula shines over dead world orbiting dim dwarf star...

Took a bit detour from my main objective NGC 6357, headed towards Lagoon Nebula, and then took another detour to Red Spider Nebula... Worth it :)

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Blackfoxx

Blackfoxx
Lovely thread. keep updating it, i'll check on it every so often. I've having a mini-break from exploring and am currently trying out warzones, mining and other bits for the time being. Do love exploring though, i'm not an expert at it, but what i've found so far has been very rewarding.. particularly 4 metallic asteroid rings of which 2 of them were rich in high value metals.
 

DeeDeeWinters

DeeDeeWinters
Awesome list. One recommendation though. I'd be careful with the no-weapons advice. I'm 7k LY out right now. If an update came within the next week or two introducing something hostile out here, or really anywhere in my path, running from everything would...suck. So I'm willing to lose a few LY of jump range as insurance, you know?
 

CmdrPSB

CmdrPSB
Jackie Silver said:
I swear down. I literally posted this, jumped to the next system and the first ' world from the sun is an HMC CFT world. :D
I can't scan it in isolation but at least I can estimate it from scanning all the rest... :)
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Not sure where you are at the moment but the ones I've got are in systems whose names I noted due to a high total scan value to give people nice places to go scan:

HIP 67779 2
HIP 68780 C 4
HR 5283 A 5 and 6
HIP 69498 5, 6 and 7
HIP 98693 A 5, 6 and 7
HIP 94491 A 3 and 4 (as a bonus A 2 is an earthlike :D)
HIP 101591 2 (with 3 a bonus terraformable water world)
HIP 105086 C 7, D 6 and 7, EF 8 (yes, really :D)
COL 285 Sector AG-O D6-86 3

Hopefully that's plenty to be going on with - worth noting for anyone who isn't looking for specific types of planets, if you're in the neighbourhood of any of those they're all worth a reasonable sum of credits :)
 

eruccio

eruccio
Hey!

Thank you for this very comprehensive guide. The rating system is very helpful. I've spent hours exploring systems that were populated with icy planets (thanks to my advanced discovery scanner) and was always disappointed with the outcome. Now I know why I earned so little exploring those systems. :)

Cheers!
 
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