Guide / Tutorial Nutter’s explorers guide to the Galaxy

Madd_RIP

Madd_RIP
Found an interesting nebula to visit on my way to the Elephant trunk Nebula, have already found a couple of big blue white stars, an amazing twin sun system , a few earth type worlds, lots of metallic worlds, even ammonia gas giants supporting life in their upper atmosphere.
Hoping to really find some stunning vistas, and will try to post some pics up when I remember!
Wish me luck!
 

SvennoJ

SvennoJ
I'll raise you the other extreme. I had not seen an earth-like world this close to a star yet, 0.16 AU, tidal locked.
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On the way from the Bubble to NGC 7822. Unfortunately it had the same standard textures as any other earth-like. Being tidal locked did not have any visual effect.
 

CmdrPSB

CmdrPSB
neXib said:
How do you know how close you can fly to the planets? I'm a bit afraid of screwing something up.
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When you get close to them there's a green line that shows the limit of how close you can get. All that happens if you do get too close is you get dropped out of supercruise. If you were going above 1Mm/sec then it gets treated as an emergency stop and you'll take a few % damage, but you're not going to die accidentally getting too close once or twice.
 

virosh

virosh
Hmm. So, if i fly with minimum speed approaching the planet rings i will be dropped once i am near them before the actual impact?
Damn! I was always scared of this and usually dropped out too far from the ring itself. I may also switch on the orbital lines when doing this next time.
 

SvennoJ

SvennoJ
neXib said:
How do you know how close you can fly to the planets? I'm a bit afraid of screwing something up.
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I don't have the orbit lines on so can't see the boundary either. Yet as long as you keep the countdown timer at 6 seconds or more you'll slow down more than enough to safely make the transition. I usually drift in at 100 km/s and level out as it starts to fill the screen. Flying straight at it doesn't make any difference though.

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virosh said:
Hmm. So, if i fly with minimum speed approaching the planet rings i will be dropped once i am near them before the actual impact?
Damn! I was always scared of this and usually dropped out too far from the ring itself. I may also switch on the orbital lines when doing this next time.
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Yes, same with rings. You just have to watch your speed as the further you are from the planet or gas giant the faster you'll accelerate when you touch the gas. It looks like a crash when you go into the rings, still drops you a bit away from them.
 

AnnuverScotinExile

AnnuverScotinExile
Just come across a water world orbiting an 8.8 x earth mass metal planet (one of the red and black ones).

Well, I thought it was good. And no Earth-types to celebrate.
 

neXib

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SvennoJ said:
I don't have the orbit lines on so can't see the boundary either. Yet as long as you keep the countdown timer at 6 seconds or more you'll slow down more than enough to safely make the transition. I usually drift in at 100 km/s and level out as it starts to fill the screen. Flying straight at it doesn't make any difference though.
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So you scoop without orbit lines too? I normally only spot tauri's from subtle hints instead of properly checking everything on Galaxy map, so I don't think I can go that route, sounds dangerous :)
It looks so much nicer though, especially in the rift.
 

SvennoJ

SvennoJ
neXib said:
So you scoop without orbit lines too? I normally only spot tauri's from subtle hints instead of properly checking everything on Galaxy map, so I don't think I can go that route, sounds dangerous :)
It looks so much nicer though, especially in the rift.
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Yes, I watch the heat indicator. When the fuel scoop doesn't come on when the heat gets to 75% then it's a tauri.
I don't move while fuel scooping, I go right into the star until the heat reaches 95-98%, then sit there checking the system map or plot the next part of my route on the galaxy map. There is no damage upto 150%. I usually jump to the next system with smoke in the cockpit, activating the hyper drive early.
 

Allitnil

Allitnil
Thalkran said:
Side Note: What is the most inhospitable planet that the game can claim to be terraformable? I found a High Metal Content Planet, 96% CO2 atmosphere, 182 atmospheric pressure with a surface temp of 816k. That doesn't seem a very good choice for terraforming to me. Then the next planet out also a candidate, but has .01 surface pressure ????. Then the 3rd planet a water world, isn't terraformable???????
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Just found a CFT which is 3.5 x Earth mass, 1096K surface temp and 627 atmospheres pressure. Going to take some really hardy individuals to populate that one :D
 

jgm

jgm
Are ringed Earth-likes common? This is the first one I found...

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Werppa

Werppa
Found these three planets orbiting each other, don't know how rare it is but I've not seen that kind of trio before. Oh, and all three of them are candidates for terraforming. :p

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