Guide / Tutorial Nutter’s explorers guide to the Galaxy

Nutter · Mar 29, 2015

Archvillain said:
In my cockpit, alone in deep space, Nutter's Guide is the kind of wisdom and reference I need close at hand, so I "obtained" a cheap and well-worn but serviceable copy of this esteemed publication, printed by a small no-frills press out on the frontier. (Ignore the coffee-stain, it's... uh... cover-art of a moon!)

[url]https://forums.frontier.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=24743&d=1427505037&thumb=1[/URL]

It comes complete with the Objects Guide as an insert glued into the back cover that folds out, and video tutorials displayed on tablet via QR codes:

[url]https://forums.frontier.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=24745&d=1427505355&thumb=1[/URL]

I've uploaded the PDF so you can quickly and easily print yourself a cockpit-ready booklet of the Explorer's Guide too, I've put it in the Community Creations area, here.

Most Excellent +1 - I hope to refresh this Soon... I've been away having a small OP but back and recovering - Soon as I get back from my deep space trip I will give this guide a lick of paint and update prices and all the great stuff Jackie and the exploring community has been adding.

Nutter

Razar · Mar 29, 2015

Nutter said:
Most Excellent +1 - I hope to refresh this Soon... I've been away having a small OP but back and recovering - Soon as I get back from my deep space trip I will give this guide a lick of paint and update prices and all the great stuff Jackie and the exploring community has been adding.

Nutter

Sorry to hear that you had to have an OP. Glad you are back, and everything is doing okay. Hope you recover really quick, and that you don't need anything like that again.

Have fun, and happy gaming.

Razar.

J. diGriz · Mar 29, 2015

Did the rank progression bands change when the increased the credits received for selling data? If so what are the new thresholds?

nutyyyy · Mar 29, 2015

Hey, I'm new to exploring and I have a dumb question to ask, So I'm going on a short journey to Maia and I set my target waypoint on the system map but whenever I target an unexplored star in a system I jump to I have to manually go back into to the system menu to reset the waypoint. Is there a way I don't have to do this or am I doing something wrong?

Skyflyer · Mar 29, 2015

nutyyyy said:
Hey, I'm new to exploring and I have a dumb question to ask, So I'm going on a short journey to Maia and I set my target waypoint on the system map but whenever I target an unexplored star in a system I jump to I have to manually go back into to the system menu to reset the waypoint. Is there a way I don't have to do this or am I doing something wrong?

You can bind a key to target next waypoint in your route. Then you can scan all interesting things in the system and then just press the key to target your next waypoint and hit the frame shift drive to jump. The keybinding is located in the section called Targeting and is called 'Target next system in route'.

nutyyyy · Mar 29, 2015

Skyflyer said:
You can bind a key to target next waypoint in your route. Then you can scan all interesting things in the system and then just press the key to target your next waypoint and hit the frame shift drive to jump. The keybinding is located in the section called Targeting and is called 'Target next system in route'.

Got it, thanks man!

Sammy5IsAlive · Mar 30, 2015

Found an interesting Waterworld CFT. It is way up above Sol (in the highest system I could get to going more or less straight up - 925 on the up/down axis). The listed temperature is actually below freezing point so I guess it is an average temperature (the polar ice caps look pretty big). As long as everyone wraps up warm I guess it might be a nice igloo bolthole in case of Thargoid invasion!

beelzeblub · Mar 30, 2015

Thanks for the info

Thanks for this great thread! I'm starting playing tomorrow on mac Beta and your input was all I needed to get a basic sense of what I'm about to embark on!

Jakspratt · Mar 30, 2015

I have posted this here rather than start a new thread as I feel readers of this thread will have the answers (or guide me to them). My issue is finding the companion stars in multiple systems. I have watched Nutter’s video on this subject (although he only covered a Binary system) but could not replicate the process to find the centre of the system. When I ‘selected’ the system in the Galaxy map once at that position, the graphic that appeared was not the exclamation mark, but what I might describe as a radio wave? I do not know what this is supposed to depict. The other thing different is that the other stars do not appear in the Navigation list on the l/h target panel so cannot be ‘selected’

It would not scan or react to the discovery scanner despite how close I got.

And how would I use this process on a system like this?

Yes, someone got there before me......

PS Buggered if I can find out how to insert spoiler tags

Ambivalent · Mar 30, 2015

'Go Advanced' to get spoiler tags.

Werppa · Mar 31, 2015

Sammy5IsAlive said:
Found an interesting Waterworld CFT. It is way up above Sol (in the highest system I could get to going more or less straight up - 925 on the up/down axis). The listed temperature is actually below freezing point so I guess it is an average temperature (the polar ice caps look pretty big). As long as everyone wraps up warm I guess it might be a nice igloo bolthole in case of Thargoid invasion!

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You'll actually see these kind of WW's rather often if you're taking a longer trip.

Azardamus · Mar 31, 2015

made a trip 'down' from TSU for the community event. Cannot go any lower now as no stars they have run out. nothing seen so far but huge stars and some massive systems with 30+ bodies.

The nebula looked like a pepsi logo to me so took a piccie for you all.

Thanks to Nutter and all the others in this thread for tips that have kept me alive and the trip going. Now just need to get back and in one piece!

interfector · Mar 31, 2015

here are some more screenies from my journey.

Purgafox · Mar 31, 2015

Hey there,

as i posted a few pages earlier, i found a very incredeble system a few weeks ago. But up until now the forum wont let me post screens. So here we go without further delay behold the beauty of HIP 47296

I was kind of baffled to find a system like that

Especially the two Black Holes in the lower left corner. I didnt notice them at first glimpse

Purgafox

Chezburgar7300 · Apr 1, 2015

Good god! That's a system and a half. Distance from Sol, if you would?

Jakspratt · Apr 1, 2015

Purgafox said:
behold the beauty of HIP 47296
Purgafox

Staggering system, I would imagine it would take a long time to scan it all

See my post on previous page.... were you able to 'find' all those other suns? Does it require an Advanced Discovery Scanner to get these to appear on the Navigation list in the L/H UI panel

PS. Just re-read a few pages back (mossfoot #1465). Seems like I need an ADS. Will purchase one from my earnings from my current exploration. (must go back and read the last 20 pages or so, lots of good information there.

PPS I seem to spend more time here reading the forum than playing the game

Jakspratt · Apr 1, 2015

After some more routing around other threads I found the answer to most of my questions on this You Tube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etohsvSe9tM My thanks to CMDR Wilson

Purgafox · Apr 1, 2015

Chezburgar7300 said:
Good god! That's a system and a half. Distance from Sol, if you would?

Actually its not that far from Sol. But it is towards the outside of the Galaxy. If i remember right it was around 350 to 400 LYs from Reshas and around 550 - 600 from Sol. It took me in my Cobra around 1 Hour to scan the whole system. From the outer Sun on the right to the Black Holes it was 440.000 Ls.

Before you go out exploring i highly recommend the ADS (Advanced Discovery Scanner). It has an unlimited Range and will reveal every planet and sun in the system once you jumped into the System and scanned the System. Also remember you only get the full Credit reward once you scanned the planets via the Detailed Surface Scanner.

And yes when you fly in you only see the First Sun and the Black Holes. The other Suns need to be discovered via the ADS and scanned via the DSS

Best Regards

Purgafox

P.S: This System made me 230.000 Credits before Patch 1.2. So by now it should be more around 460.000 Credits.

CdrTwisted · Apr 2, 2015

New to exploring, or new to doing it properly. Great guide, but I have one question - is there a way of distinguishing between the types of planets from your HUD? Obviously I can tell a star from an asteroid belt from a planet.

Purgafox · Apr 2, 2015

CdrTwisted said:
New to exploring, or new to doing it properly. Great guide, but I have one question - is there a way of distinguishing between the types of planets from your HUD? Obviously I can tell a star from an asteroid belt from a planet.

Well you cant distinguish the Planet type from your HUD ingame to good. Best way to do that is by looking at the System Map after you used the ADS (Advanced Discovery Scanner) and then use this Picture for comparison:

This helps in some way.