Guide / Tutorial Nutter’s explorers guide to the Galaxy

Junkit

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So I found an ammonia world last night. Just curious if anyone else has come across one of these before.

Not sure how much these are worth. But it's the first one I've seen.
 

cozmicdad

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Jole said:
There is only one at the moment afaik. That would be the Detailed Surface Scanner for 250k. Just make sure that you have that one AND a Discovery Scanner (Basic, Intermediate or Advanced, doesn't matter) as it's quite useless without one of those. Effect is that it doubles (?) the value of each object you scan.
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I wish I knew this before I replaced my "loaned" intermediate scanner with a detailed surface scanner.
Spent 250k on something that is now absolutely useless.....
.....Got rid of it again when I discovered this (and decided to go trading instead) - an Intermediate Discover Scanner is 505k to buy - more than I have!!!!
 

Jackie Silver

Jackie Silver
Junkit said:
So I found an ammonia world last night. Just curious if anyone else has come across one of these before.

Not sure how much these are worth. But it's the first one I've seen.
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I'm looking for them - have run into them accidentally but they're really hard to spot - someone gave me the location of one to check but it's a long way away.

Can you tell me the system where you found one please?
 

Nutter

Nutter
Jackie Silver said:
Cross-posting this here as it is also relevant to this thread, simple price list.

The value of celestial bodies depends on two things:

1) The type of body.
2) Its mass.

Without going into too much detail, here's what you're looking at for detailed scans:

Gas Giants
...with Ammonia Based Life: ~500 to 1000
...Helium Rich: ~500 to 1000
...Class I: ~1000 to 2000
...Class II: ~5000 to 6000
...Class III: ~700 to 1200
...Class IV: ~700 to 1200
...with Water Based Life: ~500 to 1000

Water Giants
...I don't yet know, but I suspect about the same as a gas giant.

Small Planets
...High Metal Content: ~2000 to 4000
...Icy: ~300 to 800
...Metal Rich: ~4100 to 6000
...Rocky Ice: ~400 to 500
...Rocky: ~300 to 400
...Ammonia: unknown

Protostars:
...T Tauris: ~1200
...Herbig Ae/Be: ~unknown, probably ~1300 (as they're more massive than most stars)

Stars:
...OBAFGKM of any size: ~1200, up to about 3400 for the very largest stars, but almost all are about 1200
...Carbon Stars (C,S): ~1200 as above
...Wolf Rayet: ~unknown, probably ~1200

Stellar Remnants:
...Black Hole: ~~20000, I don't have enough data to be more precise on the range
...Neutron Stars: ~18000 to 20000
...White Dwarfs: ~9000 to 13000

Valuable Planets:
...Earth Like Worlds: ~28000 to 31000
...Water Worlds (candidate for terraforming): ~22000 to 30000
...Water Worlds: ~10000 to 14000
...High Metal Content (candidate for terraforming): unknown

I'm working on it.

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Nutter, the Neutron Stars I've got values for are:
Stellar Remnant Neutron Star 1.7773 18395
Stellar Remnant Neutron Star 1.8906 18426
Stellar Remnant Neutron Star 8.8672 20312

I don't think a 9 solar mass Neutron Star is possible, though perhaps if it was spinning stupendously fast... I dunno. Most massive known is about 2 solar mass per wiki.
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Hi Jackie,

Fantastic progress you are making with this data, do I have your permission to put this data into the first post, of course mentioning your awesomeness in the collating of this data! :D

Cheers

Nutter
 

Hermann

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Dablin said:
Thank you Nutter. As an explorer I really appreciate your advice. Can't wait for your "How to find bodies out of range like a boss" video. I found a few myself by seeing some AI take off into the middle of no where, wondering where they were going and followed them to some far out systems.
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Go super cruising at top speed look out the side of window if you see a star which is moving slightly then that's a close body you can head to. I made 300k in one system alone & more if you find interesting bodies light black hole system :)

PS like you avatar "the black knight" the parts of a broken interstellar craft been in our orbit before sputnik & it's not an asteroid that for sure.
 

mungy

mungy
great thread. I can now scoop with impunity thanks to your vid. Having recently upgraded to a cobra, exploring seems like a good way to spend my time. Got rid of my weapons, bought a scoop and a surface scanner which has left me with 240,000cr. I'm about 60ly away from the edge of inhabited space, as far as I can tell. Hoping to make enough credits to buy an advanced scanner cos I am lazy :D
 

Mikey2305

Mikey2305
Cobra is a good ship for exploring. And with ads and dss and fuel scoops and a bit of cargo space for some rare trading it is excellent
 

vicwolf

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carazvan said:
2) Black Hole Value is 17914+270.48*(Black Hole Mass)
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Man, I wonder how much this thing is worth.
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Rackabones

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:O
Is that a massive star (or maybe some star about to die, like Eta Carinae looks like?) close to another system with a giant massive black hole? That's a fascinating sector you've found there! BTW, based on this calculation if we could (I believe it's already scanned) scan the central massive black hole in our galaxy's core, that would be some really good cash, huh..
 

Jackie Silver

Jackie Silver
Rackabones said:
:O
Is that a massive star (or maybe some star about to die, like Eta Carinae looks like?) close to another system with a giant massive black hole? That's a fascinating sector you've found there! BTW, based on this calculation if we could (I believe it's already scanned) scan the central massive black hole in our galaxy's core, that would be some really good cash, huh..
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There was a sneaky mention in the patch notes a while back that "supermassive objects no longer return supermassive payouts" - while I'm not sure, I suspect someone got back from Sag A* and became obscenely rich. Which to me sounds fair enough, but perhaps they didn't want every wannabe "first-to-Elite" explorer trekking off to the Galactic Centre. :)
 

Rackabones

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Jackie Silver said:
There was a sneaky mention in the patch notes a while back that "supermassive objects no longer return supermassive payouts" - while I'm not sure, I suspect someone got back from Sag A* and became obscenely rich. Which to me sounds fair enough, but perhaps they didn't want every wannabe "first-to-Elite" explorer trekking off to the Galactic Centre. :)
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Ouch! Yea, I'd really go for the VY Canis Majoris and such massive stuff... makes sense.
 

mungy

mungy
I didn't even make it to 400ly from Sol. It's just too damn nervy out there in the big black. Much, much kudos to all those who venture out there. I came back with 160,000cr worth of data which wasn't bad for a few hours flying time. I found a few candidates for terraforming, saw some gas giants, and a few odd little ice balls circling around each other. I'd have taken photo's but it was just too unnerving :D

I have come back with a sense of awe and wonder and no longer worry about the grind of hauling - the big black will eat us all - my respect and admiration go to those who go alone into the dark.
 

pchees

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I have started exploring recently. I have a Cobra with and Intermediate scanner at the moment. I do runs of around 20 systems and then come back to normal space to collect the dues. I have pulse lasers and mining lasers as I do a mining run on the way back just to collect extra cash. I keep the lasers because on several occasions I have been attacked and have to defend myself.

I normally bring back 200 - 250,000 a trip exploring and a 100,000+ for the mining. Each trip takes 2-4 hours.

I do a deep scan on everything including rings and asteroid fields.

The most valuable system I found so far was worth 80,000.
 

neXib

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I'd be interested in knowing exactly what people have in their ships loadout, and the reason for each, as I can see a use for many different things and would like to know what people use on the long runs where it would suck to get damage to the ship for instance.
 

RandomSanity

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Just posted to say thank you, this is great information for us new players. +rep

Added questions: How do you tell, prior to scanning, if a planet is Icy? The image is a bit of a hint, but I've found something I thought was Icy that ended up being metal-rich.

I can tell if something has rings from the system map, but other than that I can't tell the planet types apart.
 
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