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Guide / Tutorial Nutter’s explorers guide to the Galaxy
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To save weight you can equip one class lower Power Plant than the ships max. For example the Asp can take a Class 5 Power Plant and I run with a Class 4 D Rating Power Plant.
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.
To make lots of creds fast, exploring isn't your friend. Even with the Advanced scanner which finds every planet in 5 seconds, combined with a Surface scanner (and some knowledge of which planets to scan), you don't make a lot of money. At the moment, exploring is more for those who love the exploring itself
New features is promised, time will tell what and when we get it...No. When you scan a star, it becomes discovered. That's all it do. When you use your Discovery Scanner, you discover what else is in the system. When you have an advanced one, you find everything. Intermediate and Basic have range limits.
I've yet to be convinced that there is one.
One thing I've seen a few times is High Metal Content Worlds also flagged as candidates for terraforming.
These seem to be enormously valuable. I'm still putting all the numbers together, but the terraforming flag seems to add about 18k to the value of the HMC planet.
Wregoe KI-K D8-26 is an example system. It has two stars (K,M), two rocky planets, and 9 small high metal content planets (masses 0.4598, 0.3801, 0.1169, 0.2718, 0.3941, 0.8579, 0.4645, 0.2781, 0.2502), of which the last two are flagged as candiate for terraforming. The system value is 58838.
The stars and planets should only add up to about 22k, which leaves ~36k left for the terraforming bonus.
THAT my good sir, is a great find. Tnx for sharing! Think your numbers add up pretty perfect, so I think it's safe to assume that you get 18k for a terraformable planet.
If you want to test values for extremely small Metal Rich planets, HR 272 has 4, with masses: 0.0079, 0.0059, 0.0001, 0.0022
Although they don't have system data, they do have stellar data.
If you switch the Galaxy Map panel to the Info tab, and then move your mouse over any star, the panels shows all the stellar types in that system.
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Interestingly, it looks like (at least) icy planets do not follow the 1X, 2X, 3X value progression that stars do of discovery, basic scan, detailed scan.
You can predict pretty accurately which planets will be icy from the system map, and over many many systems, the average value of a discovered but unscanned icy world is ~250, but the value of a fully scanned one is only ~500.
By comparison, a main sequence star would go from ~200 to ~1200.
eg.
COL 285 Sector GM-L B8-0 - Main sequence plus 3 unscanned (presumed icy) worlds. 1200 + 3*250 = 1950. Actual value 1955.
COL 285 Sector NS-J B9-1 - Main sequence plus 6 unscanned (presumed icy) worlds. 1200 + 6*250 = 2700. Actual value 2704.
Arietis Sector XJ-R B4-1 - Main sequence plus 4 unscanned (presumed icy) worlds. 1200 + 4*250 = 2200. Actual value 2706.
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COL 285 Sector VP-D B7-1 - Main sequence plus 1 scanned icy world. 1200 + 500 = 1700. Actual value 1761.
By comparison, scanned rocky or rocky/icy worlds seem to only be worth around 100. Not sure on that figure yet.
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Ah, I forgot about that. Thank you sir! have some rep.
why is it belts / rings aren't worth anything?
surely a pristine metallic asteroid belt should be prime real estate....
surely a pristine metallic asteroid belt should be prime real estate....
To make lots of creds fast, exploring isn't your friend. Even with the Advanced scanner which finds every planet in 5 seconds, combined with a Surface scanner (and some knowledge of which planets to scan), you don't make a lot of money. At the moment, exploring is more for those who love the exploring itself
No. When you scan a star, it becomes discovered. That's all it do. When you use your Discovery Scanner, you discover what else is in the system. When you have an advanced one, you find everything. Intermediate and Basic have range limits.
... But then, the other objects in the system still show as "Unexplored". You will get credits for this, but you get more if you target them and scan them up close. You get even more for this part if you also have a detailed surface scanner. (But it also depends on what you're scanning. Earth-like worlds are more valuable than balls of ice, for example.)
I thought the same thing. They should have some value, not a lot maybe, but something.
I wonder if getting money for belts may depend on one of these talked about level 2 or 3 scans whenever they become available. I'm betting they relate to an Intermediate and advanced surfaced scanner. Possibly on hold because the relevant info isn't available in game yet? Hmm.
What about star size, or indeed type. Do I get the same for red super giant as I do for a brown dwarf? I discovered a red giant larger than Acturus during the week, wouldn't mind getting some proper recompense for that.
What about star size, or indeed type. Do I get the same for red super giant as I do for a brown dwarf? I discovered a red giant larger than Acturus during the week, wouldn't mind getting some proper recompense for that.