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Guide / Tutorial Nutter’s explorers guide to the Galaxy
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When you say 0.7 < mass < 1.7 do you really mean 0.07 < mass as I have found many many CFT's in the 0.1x earth masses and as low as 0.07x
Here is one -
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I'm not certain of any of those boundaries, but they're about right. Rocky CFTs are rare because Rocky worlds are generally under the mass threshold.
In other news, I managed curves for standard gas giants (III,IV,V,He,ABL,WBL), class I gas giants and water worlds:
Standard:
Class I:
Water Worlds:
Python script.
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I meant 0.7, can you point me at a system with lower please?
In other news, I managed curves for standard gas giants (III,IV,V,He,ABL,WBL), class I gas giants and water worlds:
Standard:
Class I:
Water Worlds:
Python script.
Code:
adjustment = 1
power = 2
root = 1/3
linear = 30
initial = 8500
def calculate(mass,power,root,linear,initial,adjustment):
result = power ** (-((mass/adjustment)**root))
value = (2 * initial) - (initial * result)
value += linear * mass
return value
mass = 0
for counter in range(0,20):
value = calculate(mass,power,root,linear,initial,adjustment)
print(int(value))
mass += 0.25
##for mass in range(0,26):
## value = calculate(mass,power,root,linear,initial)
## print(int(value))
# HMC
# Good fit: adjustment = 1
# power = 2, root = 1/3.4
# linear = 10, initial = 2000
# Std. GG
# Good fit: adjustment = 150
# power = 2, root = 1/2
# linear = 0.055, initial = 500
# GG Class I
# Good fit: adjustment = 150
# power = 2, root = 1/2
# linear = 0.2, initial = 1000
# WW
# Reasonable: adjustment = 1
# power = 2, root = 1/3
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I meant 0.7, can you point me at a system with lower please?
Edited a screeny into my previous post, showing a 0.07 earth masses CFT, 5 other CFT's in the system as well all below 0.2 earth masses and a 0.1 earth like.
...and that will teach me not to post drunk. Sorry, yes, 0.07. Doh.
A week ago I finally decided to push off into the unknown. I really couldn't stand any more trading. I bought the Asp, used Nutter's video guide to fit it properly (thank you!), then after getting interdicted and loosing some hull I slightly panicked and installed one missile launcher, just in case. 
I headed first for the Lagoon Nebula, then Little Ghost, Cat's Paw (I was not traveling in a straight line), NGC 6357 where I discovered my first black holes. I scanned them, even though I had to supercruise 300k ls away.
At the moment I'm on my way to the Clookuia Nebula, 5000 LY away from NGC 6357, much lower and to the right - the coordinates are ???, -1200, 12000. I'm 10k LY away from Sol and I'm happy. The journey has just begun. I intend to travel at least 50k LY away.
But I'm also scared. If I loose my ship, I loose EVERYTHING. I loose the credits, the rank...the time.
Imagine a trader getting killed by a pirate and loosing not only his ship and cargo, but also all the profits he made in the last two months and all the rank, too. That would be too harsh and no one would stand for it, right?
But it will happen to me if I loose my ship, either to a nasty binary system or an NPC interdiction on my way back.
I'm mostly aimless now, and I would be mostly aimless then, even after traveling 100k LY and visiting and scanning more then 3000 systems.
I'm really scared.
Since we can travel faster then light, why can't the information travel faster, too? You scan the system and after some delay you receive your credits and the rank increase. The further away from Sol you are, the longer the delay. 500 LY away maybe 15 minutes (that is the duration of an average trade route), and for example, 50k LY away you would wait for several hours.
Safe travels everyone, and avoid those nasty tourist traps like binary systems, extreme close ups of neutron stars etc...
Have fun!
I headed first for the Lagoon Nebula, then Little Ghost, Cat's Paw (I was not traveling in a straight line), NGC 6357 where I discovered my first black holes. I scanned them, even though I had to supercruise 300k ls away.
At the moment I'm on my way to the Clookuia Nebula, 5000 LY away from NGC 6357, much lower and to the right - the coordinates are ???, -1200, 12000. I'm 10k LY away from Sol and I'm happy. The journey has just begun. I intend to travel at least 50k LY away.
But I'm also scared. If I loose my ship, I loose EVERYTHING. I loose the credits, the rank...the time.
Imagine a trader getting killed by a pirate and loosing not only his ship and cargo, but also all the profits he made in the last two months and all the rank, too. That would be too harsh and no one would stand for it, right?
But it will happen to me if I loose my ship, either to a nasty binary system or an NPC interdiction on my way back.
I'm mostly aimless now, and I would be mostly aimless then, even after traveling 100k LY and visiting and scanning more then 3000 systems.
I'm really scared.
Since we can travel faster then light, why can't the information travel faster, too? You scan the system and after some delay you receive your credits and the rank increase. The further away from Sol you are, the longer the delay. 500 LY away maybe 15 minutes (that is the duration of an average trade route), and for example, 50k LY away you would wait for several hours.
Safe travels everyone, and avoid those nasty tourist traps like binary systems, extreme close ups of neutron stars etc...
Have fun!
A week ago I finally decided to push off into the unknown. I really couldn't stand any more trading. I bought the Asp, used Nutter's video guide to fit it properly (thank you!), then after getting interdicted and loosing some hull I slightly panicked and installed one missile launcher, just in case.
I headed first for the Lagoon Nebula, then Little Ghost, Cat's Paw (I was not traveling in a straight line), NGC 6357 where I discovered my first black holes. I scanned them, even though I had to supercruise 300k ls away.
At the moment I'm on my way to the Clookuia Nebula, 5000 LY away from NGC 6357, much lower and to the right - the coordinates are ???, -1200, 12000. I'm 10k LY away from Sol and I'm happy. The journey has just begun. I intend to travel at least 50k LY away.
But I'm also scared. If I loose my ship, I loose EVERYTHING. I loose the credits, the rank...the time.
Imagine a trader getting killed by a pirate and loosing not only his ship and cargo, but also all the profits he made in the last two months and all the rank, too. That would be too harsh and no one would stand for it, right?
But it will happen to me if I loose my ship, either to a nasty binary system or an NPC interdiction on my way back.
I'm mostly aimless now, and I would be mostly aimless then, even after traveling 100k LY and visiting and scanning more then 3000 systems.
I'm really scared.
Since we can travel faster then light, why can't the information travel faster, too? You scan the system and after some delay you receive your credits and the rank increase. The further away from Sol you are, the longer the delay. 500 LY away maybe 15 minutes (that is the duration of an average trade route), and for example, 50k LY away you would wait for several hours.
Safe travels everyone, and avoid those nasty tourist traps like binary systems, extreme close ups of neutron stars etc...
Have fun!
Enjoy the sites - take video and pictures - don't worry about the last 500ly coming home there are plenty of explorers here that would be happy to become a wing to protect your last 15 jumps and flight to station
Just post up a support request here
Don't worry too much about the data - I lost about 3 mil and 700,000 insurance when I had a accident with another player in a Gas Giant ring in the bubble nebula - I went pop! Saved me selling the data and the trip back. Traded for a day and made 26 Million.
Exploring is NOT about the Money - You do Need money to explore though, hence my day spend grinding - awful
I still have all my pictures and Video so.. it's a win - In fact - I'm starting to think it's not worth bringing back the data! (Currently)
Except for a better explorer ranking.
Yeah, not to worried about rank, it does not effect the game currently or me, Ranger I shall be - I'm OK with that
Yeah, not to worried about rank, it does not effect the game currently or me, Ranger I shall be - I'm OK with that
It might not affect a fat lot, but I've just flogged 2 Mil worth of carto data to a little outpost on the edge of the bubble, and lo, I'm now 'Friendly' with them (I'd never been there before)
I might make this my permanent place to off-load discovery's in future to see what other effects it might have.
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I've been thinking a lot about this issue over the past few days whilst cruising around various nebulae and amassing 2000+ systems of data. Ultimately, I've come to the conclusion that getting back home is a key aspect of being an explorer. Travelling a long distance and getting safely back is more than twice the challenge of just making the outward trip.
Even playing in solo & knowing that NPC interdictions are easily dealt with, the feeling of approaching inhabited space is like nothing else you can experience in ED. I would hate that to be lost.
I agree with this.
I get a strange feeling returning home after a week or two of exploring.
When I encounter my first NPC contact about 400LY out from civilization I feel like my personal space has been violated!.
I suddenly feel like a very small & vulnerable fish in a very dangerous pond again.
The race to sell my data before being interdicted and blown up is all I can think about.
It's brilliant!
I like that. Would you like to share the name of the system? I'm about to head out on my first real exploration and could aim to return there to sell my data, perhaps we can make them rich. A hub of wealth on the frontier
That's the Advanced training mission System! Awesome
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Well, balls, that's an awfully unfortunate coincidence. I edited my post, my apologies, Nutter, I had no idea. Also, kudos on using that spectacular system as a simple training exercise.
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