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Guide / Tutorial Nutter’s explorers guide to the Galaxy
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unless there are wormholes.
How the heck do you get to the White Eyed Pea, system BD+12 2966
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Apparently there are no wormholes in the game, or any other shortcut methods of travel.
It actually had 5-6 "fingers" in it but they had already faded when I got the screenshot, messed up the first one
Good news Commanders - Mission 2 ready!
Mission 2 - Intermediate
"Where's Wally?" - Major Expansion - Mission transmission received...
Mission 2 - Intermediate
"Where's Wally?" - Major Expansion - Mission transmission received...
Greetings Commander.
HQ was very pleased with the results of your first mission. The Starport is on the way to the site you discovered as we speak.
Now we have a new task, our leading scientists believe they have found a Binary System that could facilitate a major expansion for our cause. We have been struggling with over population for some time now and we desperately need a system with the resources and a planet to terraform.
System Name – “COL 285 SECTOR AL-O D6-150” – Co Ords “180:15:140”
There is speculation that there should be at least two candidates for terraforming and we need you to check it out!
One last thing before you go Commander, there seems to be a distant rouge object that we need a detailed scan of. We are not going to commit to anything in that system until we know what that object is!
On your successful return you payment will be available from your local Cartographics office as before.
Don’t forget we need that detail on the rouge object!
Good Luck Commander!
HQ was very pleased with the results of your first mission. The Starport is on the way to the site you discovered as we speak.
Now we have a new task, our leading scientists believe they have found a Binary System that could facilitate a major expansion for our cause. We have been struggling with over population for some time now and we desperately need a system with the resources and a planet to terraform.
System Name – “COL 285 SECTOR AL-O D6-150” – Co Ords “180:15:140”
There is speculation that there should be at least two candidates for terraforming and we need you to check it out!
One last thing before you go Commander, there seems to be a distant rouge object that we need a detailed scan of. We are not going to commit to anything in that system until we know what that object is!
On your successful return you payment will be available from your local Cartographics office as before.
Don’t forget we need that detail on the rouge object!
Good Luck Commander!
Found system with two black holes near California, one of them was around 300kLS so didn't bother.
However, the next system with black hole i stumbled was a massive system with 48 bodies (it took me almost hour to scan it). The black hole is again at 300kLS away but this time i am going there.
It is around 10 solar masses, the strange thing is that there is a small planet orbiting it. I want to go to the planet and take a picture.
If you find evidence of ancient civilization on it or some kind of devil, run.
Some systems, however interesting or even wrongly placed, you can't get to. Check out Omicron-1 Canis Majoris sometime.
So anybody have any credit information on Type V Gas Giants? The ones that have silicate clouds and are warm enough to glow of their own accord.
I have run across two in my travels, but didn't think to check the price in any meaningful way.
My first Black hole that system has two holes.
Main star
Class O
112+ solar masses
19+ solar radius
110,527,00K temp
4 class L dwarfs
1 class M star with two planets
1 binary Class T dwarfs
1 binary Class L + Class T
1 Black hole 14,2578 solar mass
1 black hole 11,0586 with two class M (one has Class Y circling and other has 9 planets - two terraforming candidates)
that system has two holes.Main star
Class O
112+ solar masses
19+ solar radius
110,527,00K temp
4 class L dwarfs
1 class M star with two planets
1 binary Class T dwarfs
1 binary Class L + Class T
1 Black hole 14,2578 solar mass
1 black hole 11,0586 with two class M (one has Class Y circling and other has 9 planets - two terraforming candidates)
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They're not very valuable - they're in what I think of as the "general purpose gas giant" curve.
(Credits on the y axis, mass on x axis in Earth masses.)
This is an older chart of it.
While the Class Vs on the chart are all at the lower end of the mass range, Class Vs of all masses can be found, so you're looking at a range of roughly 600 to 1200 credits.
Also: 28 million credits and still Ranger.
I'm having a look at some planets (three HMC, one WW) which are being terraformed - so far as I can tell the credit value for them is exactly what you'd get for a similar planet which was a Candidate for Terraforming.
I hope to get a value for the terraformed planet someone mentioned earlier (one of the Kepler exoplanets) and have some Rocky/CFTs to check up on, but they're a long way away so it'll still be a little while.
I made a chart showing the boiling (or sublimation) points (in Kelvin) for some of the more common atmospheres; not much practical use but quite edifying.
(It's more complicated really but this is a rough guide that my brain can handle right now.)
I'm interested to know if any of you find atmosphere types which aren't on this chart (I know of CO2-rich, and Ar-rich, guessing there can be other -riches.)
It's hard to say whether the precise composition is used to calculate pressure and temperature, or whether only the "majority" component is used.
In any case I'm not having much luck making sense of atmospheres.
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They're not very valuable - they're in what I think of as the "general purpose gas giant" curve.
This is an older chart of it.
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While the Class Vs on the chart are all at the lower end of the mass range, Class Vs of all masses can be found, so you're looking at a range of roughly 600 to 1200 credits.
Also: 28 million credits and still Ranger.
I am surprised the value of gas giants with life is so low.
Thanks for the information, though I'm a little disappointed that Type V are both rare and really cool, but are low value.
They're not very valuable - they're in what I think of as the "general purpose gas giant" curve.
(Credits on the y axis, mass on x axis in Earth masses.)
This is an older chart of it.
View attachment 9943
While the Class Vs on the chart are all at the lower end of the mass range, Class Vs of all masses can be found, so you're looking at a range of roughly 600 to 1200 credits.
Also: 28 million credits and still Ranger.
I'm having a look at some planets (three HMC, one WW) which are being terraformed - so far as I can tell the credit value for them is exactly what you'd get for a similar planet which was a Candidate for Terraforming.
I hope to get a value for the terraformed planet someone mentioned earlier (one of the Kepler exoplanets) and have some Rocky/CFTs to check up on, but they're a long way away so it'll still be a little while.
I made a chart showing the boiling (or sublimation) points (in Kelvin) for some of the more common atmospheres; not much practical use but quite edifying.
(It's more complicated really but this is a rough guide that my brain can handle right now.)
I'm interested to know if any of you find atmosphere types which aren't on this chart (I know of CO2-rich, and Ar-rich, guessing there can be other -riches.)
It's hard to say whether the precise composition is used to calculate pressure and temperature, or whether only the "majority" component is used.
In any case I'm not having much luck making sense of atmospheres.
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I would like to have seen Exploration rank factor in the number of systems visited and distance travelled - not merely data sell value on its own.
Jane Turner
Volunteer Moderator
Maybe I'm just unobservant, but this is my 1st water world with virtually no water and a metallic ring! It came a bit of a surprise when I scanned it - I'd assumed a metallic of some kind.
Nice System and Congrats on the Black Hole
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Nice Find Jane,
Every time I see a ringed planet like this my head says please be earth like! So want to find a ringed earth like!
I have a stupid question - what do you guys use to organize your exploration data? Do you keep data for your systems somewhere and how are you organizing it?
There are plenty of tools for traders but i haven't seen any suitable for explorers.
At the moment what i do is writing my route down on my notepad (pen & paper, much easier then Alt+Tab). Once i get back i am going to go through the notepad and put all data from the systems in one Excel sheet.
Yes it will probably take some time but i want to have the data for further references.
I am also pondering if it will be of any use to have then all data put in one database (PostgreSQL in my case). With this i will have access to information about all systems which i have currently visited and explored.
I think that the databases are much easier to maintain than Excel. Especially when the data will grow large.
P.S. - I have a small server running at home, so running a DB for personal use is not much of an issue.
There are plenty of tools for traders but i haven't seen any suitable for explorers.
At the moment what i do is writing my route down on my notepad (pen & paper, much easier then Alt+Tab). Once i get back i am going to go through the notepad and put all data from the systems in one Excel sheet.
Yes it will probably take some time but i want to have the data for further references.
I am also pondering if it will be of any use to have then all data put in one database (PostgreSQL in my case). With this i will have access to information about all systems which i have currently visited and explored.
I think that the databases are much easier to maintain than Excel. Especially when the data will grow large.
P.S. - I have a small server running at home, so running a DB for personal use is not much of an issue.
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macbook between my joystick and throttle with an excel sheet
| credits (added for high value systems after selling) | system name | distance to home (only some places) | distance to target (see home) | abbreviations for special things in the system (e.g. PfT - terraformable planet; WW - water world; ...) | space for additional information (e.g. nearby locked systems) |
Currently, I play on my main screen and use my second screen for spreadsheet, I plan my route with the spreadsheet before I go anywhere, normally pick an easy name to search for such as HIPxxxx, HRxxxx & HDxxxxx normally plot 400ly hops.
If I find a nice system I write the co-ords down and name, due the search tool being flaky at best! When it comes to selling I leave all the noted systems till last then compare value against the system map, quite often having to use the co-ords to find the system.
If I find a nice system I write the co-ords down and name, due the search tool being flaky at best! When it comes to selling I leave all the noted systems till last then compare value against the system map, quite often having to use the co-ords to find the system.
I have a stupid question - what do you guys use to organize your exploration data? Do you keep data for your systems somewhere and how are you organizing it?
There are plenty of tools for traders but i haven't seen any suitable for explorers.
At the moment what i do is writing my route down on my notepad (pen & paper, much easier then Alt+Tab). Once i get back i am going to go through the notepad and put all data from the systems in one Excel sheet.
Yes it will probably take some time but i want to have the data for further references.
I am also pondering if it will be of any use to have then all data put in one database (PostgreSQL in my case). With this i will have access to information about all systems which i have currently visited and explored.
I think that the databases are much easier to maintain than Excel. Especially when the data will grow large.
P.S. - I have a small server running at home, so running a DB for personal use is not much of an issue.
I've been using Elite Heatmap. It keeps track of every system you have visited and allows you to write notes down under each system. It also shows your distance traveled and number of systems visited.