Guide / Tutorial Nutter’s explorers guide to the Galaxy

I thought the same thing. They should have some value, not a lot maybe, but something.

I think they will at some point, just now the 'core' part of the game is getting dev time, fingers crossed though.

From what i've managed to glean from my data, everyone gets 'First Finders Payout' - As for making money, there are systems that pay as much as 150k and are great to look at too!
 
if you have a advanced discovery scanner do you need a basic and intermediate or can you just use the advanced and a detailed surface scanner ?

thanks
 
One other thing that surprised me is that your exploration rank isn't based on systems explored, but on exploration data sold.
Here is a before and after of selling a trip's worth of data.
Number of systems visited doesn't change, but rank does.

 
Thats somthing else I need to figure out and add..

Does anyone know the full list.

Forgotten the Starting rank, so we have, START, SURVEYOR, TRAILBLAZER, PATH FINDER, E, F, G, X ...

I'm on Path Finder Scanned close to 1,100 Systems, I'll firm that up when I login after kids have gone to sleep :D
 
I've got a bunch more data today on various objects but my boyfriend is up for Christmas so I'll stop being quite so fanatically geeky for a while. :p

I did find a 117.2891 stellar mass "O" star (3325 credits) and a 15.4961 stellar mass black hole (22105 credits) which are a couple of useful data points. Would be interesting to see more very high mass stars to see which way the curve is going. Perhaps this is what that "stopped supermassive objects having supermassive payouts" line meant in the patch notes?

It was a great relief to find that ginormous "O" star - HIP 23692 if you're curious - it's only 21 light years from a populated system, which is perfect. I thought I was going to have to fly forever (twice!) to find and scan one. :cool:
 
I've got a bunch more data today on various objects but my boyfriend is up for Christmas so I'll stop being quite so fanatically geeky for a while. :p

I did find a 117.2891 stellar mass "O" star (3325 credits) and a 15.4961 stellar mass black hole (22105 credits) which are a couple of useful data points. Would be interesting to see more very high mass stars to see which way the curve is going. Perhaps this is what that "stopped supermassive objects having supermassive payouts" line meant in the patch notes?

It was a great relief to find that ginormous "O" star - HIP 23692 if you're curious - it's only 21 light years from a populated system, which is perfect. I thought I was going to have to fly forever (twice!) to find and scan one. :cool:

Great Stuff! Fits in with where I'm at ...

Ok here is my Breakdown on whats going on with Stars.

Base Star Class (Highest – Lowest Value)
O, B, A, F, G, K, M, L, T, Y

Temp % Bonus (Highest – Lowest Value)
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Size % Bonus (Highest/Largest – Lowest/Smallest Value)
0, I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII
Example (Average) Star
G5 IV
Exceptions
S (Brown Dwarfs) – 2000 (Base)
D (White Dwarfs) 10,000 (Base)
N (Neutron) ?To Do
Black Hole 20,000 (Base)

Thoughts? Really busy but where I'm up to..
 
One thing to be careful of when logging results is that when you select a Class II Gas Giant, you get the description for a Class III one, so it is easy to think you have found a III instead.
(I'm assuming it is the description that is wrong)
 
One thing to be careful of when logging results is that when you select a Class II Gas Giant, you get the description for a Class III one, so it is easy to think you have found a III instead.
(I'm assuming it is the description that is wrong)

I've not got to Gas Giants yet.. but yes there are a few issues, also with High Metal and Metal Rich planets, the descriptions are opposite !
 
Base Star Class (Highest – Lowest Value)
O, B, A, F, G, K, M, L, T, Y

Temp % Bonus (Highest – Lowest Value)
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Size % Bonus (Highest/Largest – Lowest/Smallest Value)
0, I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII
Example (Average) Star
G5 IV

For main sequence stars the bonuses are extremely small.
The chart from Jackie Silver suggests that it is entirely mass-based, and a) all main-sequence stars are the same, there is no ranking, b) temperature might not matter either, or to such a small amount that we can't accurately determine it.
 
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There's a big problem with exploring at the moment, I have just returned from a 4500Ly exploration trip to the Lagoon nebula (9000Ly in total) and tried to sell my exploration data.

The game needs a sell all data button.. it really does, because if you think trading is grinding.. try selling hundreds of individual exploration data..

so please get me the "sell all" button for christmass FD haha

seriously though give to me..
 
There's a big problem with exploring at the moment, I have just returned from a 4500Ly exploration trip to the Lagoon nebula (9000Ly in total) and tried to sell my exploration data.

The game needs a sell all data button.. it really does, because if you think trading is grinding.. try selling hundreds of individual exploration data..

so please get me the "sell all" button for christmass FD haha

seriously though give to me..

Been there! - 7.000 lyl data took me an hour to sell!
 
Out of curiosity: How long did the trip take you and how much was the payout in the end? I'm quite reluctant to strip my Cobra of all her weapons and other fancy stuff and go out with just some Scanners and a Fuel Scoop, but if it's worth it... :D At the moment I'm just doing local exploration, going from one system to another for Bounty Hunter work and just exploring all the systems I pass by, waiting till I got the money for and Advanced Scanner.
 
Some of those little planet pics in the system view are sneaky. At first glance they look just like ice/rocky worlds but if you zoom right in you can see a slight bit of colour and when scanned they turn out to be metal worlds with atmospheres.
 
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