Okay, thank you again, Zeeman. In that case, its time for me to prepare and go explore the galaxy
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Guide / Tutorial Nutter’s explorers guide to the Galaxy
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Okay, thank you again, Zeeman. In that case, its time for me to prepare and go explore the galaxy
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Oh, and be sure to bring an ample amount of Video's and Music with you....you'll need them happy trails
happy trails
Major work here. Thanks for
helping out the little guys.
rep at ya
helping out the little guys.
rep at ya
Great work here been a lot of help, but I've run into a problem. Is it still possible to get the 37ly jump out of the ASP, followed the video, with the exception of the shields I can't crack the 34ly jump. Not sure if it changed during a patch or what. Thanks in advance
I think that's depending on fuel weight at the time where you can jump longer distances. In the video he says that just under a quarter of tank gives him the 37.xx ly figure. A lot of people think it is a bit of a misnomer to say it has a 37ly range when a lot of the time during exploration you'll be travelling with more than a quarter tank.
I also make a few changes to what Nutter runs, but that's down to my play style.
Really very nice thread this. Got my asp fine tuned, thanks a lot. One thing to add, I use voiceAttack to navigate. 'Set course for <system>'. Have to be careful when you get astra to do anything on status-function panels though, and make sure status is set as first and all cursors set to the top. Once it was not and I asked her to set turrets to forward fire and self-destruct was chosen, it toggled the confirm/abort several times and my heart stopped, but the barrel came up empty. I did have a good laugh about it. You can use a number variable and just tell her to select the next on route and she will. Think this will help with getting to a place safely without having to remember and it will choose your systems, especially on the way back - you just decrement the count. You can even ask what current system you're in and fix the counter if you have to reset and it can talk-text back if you ignore the fact it drops 'n' from some words.
So you can have navigation scrips in voiceAttack for getting from A to B and then from B to A. She can even tell you how much fuel you need as you can use text to voice. I use her for trading too. It's the one thing elite lacks. We should be able to set navigation routes. Can with voiceAttack.
I set base camps in my nav comp and now go from black hole system to black hole on a route I know is safe. It takes almost no time to get to the last one. So I'm just extending my range further and further in five hundred to a thousand light year chunks then returning back to the last outpost to cash in.
I got 109,794 for HIP 31801 too.
Is there an Explorer's League group going by any chance?
So you can have navigation scrips in voiceAttack for getting from A to B and then from B to A. She can even tell you how much fuel you need as you can use text to voice. I use her for trading too. It's the one thing elite lacks. We should be able to set navigation routes. Can with voiceAttack.
I set base camps in my nav comp and now go from black hole system to black hole on a route I know is safe. It takes almost no time to get to the last one. So I'm just extending my range further and further in five hundred to a thousand light year chunks then returning back to the last outpost to cash in.
I got 109,794 for HIP 31801 too.
Is there an Explorer's League group going by any chance?
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Thanks for all the great info to get started. A couple,questions I have are:
the detailed planet scanner, does it work like the fuel scoop where you have to orbit the planet or it just is used when you scan something from far out?
and would the other rims or inner core be the more unexplored areas in game?
the detailed planet scanner, does it work like the fuel scoop where you have to orbit the planet or it just is used when you scan something from far out?
and would the other rims or inner core be the more unexplored areas in game?
Great guide!
One question I have:
If I do discover some bodies for the first time; how do I know what it was that I discovered first? Given that I've done a lot of scanning without checking what is/isn't already discovered.
I am told I've found COL 285 SECTOR TU-E A41-4 2 and get a 250 bonus.
I guess from the diagram in the OP this is a small rocky planet... is there a way I can check?
One question I have:
If I do discover some bodies for the first time; how do I know what it was that I discovered first? Given that I've done a lot of scanning without checking what is/isn't already discovered.
I am told I've found COL 285 SECTOR TU-E A41-4 2 and get a 250 bonus.
I guess from the diagram in the OP this is a small rocky planet... is there a way I can check?
I am a newbie to the game and to exploring...
Can someone explain this to me?
Looks like there should be a star here but I cannot find it. I'm confused.
Overhead image of the two gas giants which looks like there should be something between them.
Can someone explain this to me?
Looks like there should be a star here but I cannot find it. I'm confused.
Overhead image of the two gas giants which looks like there should be something between them.
I believe the x represents a centre of mass of the two other stars around which those planets are orbiting.
In the original post it says:
Photo Tips
To remove HUD press SHIFT+ALT+G
I also saw someone on reddit say Shift+CTRL+G
None of these worked for me. I dunno if it is the keys I have mapped on my keyboard or what. However I did find out how to hide EVERYTHING to make perfect screenshots.
Game Menu >> Options >> Controls >> Under Miscellaneous the last item is "Debug Camera Toggle".
I mapped debug camera toggle to one of my function keys. I then push that button. A little warning pops up to let you know how to get out of the camera view and that you can die in this camera mode. Just press the same button to leave this view. Let's say you want to map it to F9 because F10 is your screenshot. You press F9 to enter the mode. You hide the little dialog. You take your screenshot with F10. Then you go back into regular view with your HUD showing by pressing F9 again.
Photo Tips
To remove HUD press SHIFT+ALT+G
I also saw someone on reddit say Shift+CTRL+G
None of these worked for me. I dunno if it is the keys I have mapped on my keyboard or what. However I did find out how to hide EVERYTHING to make perfect screenshots.
Game Menu >> Options >> Controls >> Under Miscellaneous the last item is "Debug Camera Toggle".
I mapped debug camera toggle to one of my function keys. I then push that button. A little warning pops up to let you know how to get out of the camera view and that you can die in this camera mode. Just press the same button to leave this view. Let's say you want to map it to F9 because F10 is your screenshot. You press F9 to enter the mode. You hide the little dialog. You take your screenshot with F10. Then you go back into regular view with your HUD showing by pressing F9 again.
when you're in the system map, if there's NOT a name of who explored it on the celestial object, then no one has sold the data for it yet. If you're the first one to sell it, you'll get a notification showing you the first finders bonus and it will tell you the system name and objects.
The only way to know what type of planet it is, to my knowledge, is to write down the system name and planet names+types. I do this for terraforming candidates so I can track their value against their mass. Hope this helps!
I'm sure it says somewhere in this thread but I don't have much time to pick through it all so I'm just going to ask a couple of questions to help me on my way (I just got a pimped out Asp and signed up for the Grand Sirius exploration thing).
What are the more profitable things to look for?
Where/how might I find a black hole?
What are the most interesting things I can hope to find out here?
I know it distance isn't a factor when getting paid, but out of curiosity I'm heading towards the centre of the galaxy.
What are the more profitable things to look for?
Where/how might I find a black hole?
What are the most interesting things I can hope to find out here?
I know it distance isn't a factor when getting paid, but out of curiosity I'm heading towards the centre of the galaxy.
Use this link that's on the first page: http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb...s/c/c6/Explorer_Infographic_000_ElDubardo.jpg
It's accurate from 1.2, but the ratios are still the same. The best planets are the "Worlds" (up to 50k+ if you're the first to discover them) and then the Metallic planets, especially if they're a "candidate for terraforming? (CFT). After those, it's black holes/neutron starts at about 20k each. Class II, then class I gas planets can fetch you up to about 9k upon my last trip. White dwarfs are also a decent target.
The way I find a black hole is by going through the galaxy map and looking at all the blue stars - they tend to have black hole/binary star pairs. Another way to do it is on the view tab on the galaxy map, sort my star class, and unselect everything except "non-sequence star". the only thing it'll show you at that point is BH's, neutrons, and maybe white dwarfs.
Can you please tell me what the extra letters mean in the system info? For example I see F7 VI, or M5 VA, or K0 VZ. What are these V's?