Just a quick question before I get toooo in-depth with my journey to Sgt A; Will just scanning with the advanced discovery scanner get me the credits when selling the cartographics data, or do I need to go up close and scan them as well? I'm aware that going up close and using the detailed surface scanner gets me a lot more credits, but I'm not overly keen on scanning a large portion of the planets over this monstrous journey. Thanks in advance!
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Guide / Tutorial Nutter’s explorers guide to the Galaxy
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If you just drop in and honk, you'll get "some" cr, but no recognition. Scanning the main star will give you a bit more cr, and some recognition (if the star is unexplored).
Basically, on my journey in, I scanned only Earth-like planets, water/ammonia worlds, and high content metal planet and jovials that wer epretty much within scanning range on drop in. there's almost no reason to not scan the main star, it takes about as long as the FSD takes to be online again.
Once I started getting close to Sag A, though, I found things were very interesting, with solar systems with water worlds and 4 terraforming candidate planets orbiting around black holes (or in the same system at least, anyway), usually it's a 50000ls+ trip, but hey, that's what you're here for. The payout from that sort of system is not too bad either, especially if you are the one that sells the data first.
If you just want to "get to" Sag A, though, then don't worry, just scoop and jump, it'll take about an hour/1000ly...
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My trip to the Lagoon Nebula, captured via judder cam 
[video=youtube_share;IQ5dbbeViNk]http://youtu.be/IQ5dbbeViNk[/video]
[video=youtube_share;IQ5dbbeViNk]http://youtu.be/IQ5dbbeViNk[/video]
Don't think so, but I am working on trying to set a bit of a record myself.
Seems fine to me.
Remember the orbit lines are at that instance.
Remember the orbit lines are at that instance.
Regarding mysterios level 2 & 3 scans we were all (more or less) hoping that they are some sort of teaser for some future exploration expansion, Michael Brooks said today:
"a level 1 is the ping, level 2 is a normal scan of the surface and level 3 is a detailed scan of the surface."
What the hell? That's all? Why are these numbers always zero anyway?
"a level 1 is the ping, level 2 is a normal scan of the surface and level 3 is a detailed scan of the surface."
What the hell? That's all? Why are these numbers always zero anyway?
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They have been zero up until today's patch because it has not been implemented before. Now they are not zero anymore (at least for me and many others). But they still don't seem to be correct. When I sold a detailed surface scan it was added to my level 2 number, not level 3 number. So I suspect there is a bug somewhere regarding the level 2 and level 3 statistics.
Yep, I logged in later and saw that there are no zeroes any more. Meh. There goes mine (and many others) hope that those numbers were placeholders for more advanced scan types; it was only a bug -.-
Back to topic: I don't remember that I've seen terrestrial planet deformed like this before. Obviously effect of strong tidal force (it is extremely close to the star), or very fast spin, or both.
Back to topic: I don't remember that I've seen terrestrial planet deformed like this before. Obviously effect of strong tidal force (it is extremely close to the star), or very fast spin, or both.
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I took the liberty to post a link to this thread in my own illustrated thread about exploration in the Newcomer forum. I hope that's okay... feel free to take a look:
To Scan or not to Scan - An illustrated guide
To Scan or not to Scan - An illustrated guide
Then I shall add your report of an "ammonia world / candidate for terraforming" to the one of a "rocky ice world / candidate for terraforming" that's sitting in the "dubious" pile.
I would be interested and grateful (if necessary I can arrange a Transporter full of Gold or whatever the cool kids pay with these days) for some solid pictures and details of either of the above. Or indeed a metal rich / CFT or icy / CFT.
I have my suspicions about the circumstances which could lead to them appearing in the game but I'm starved for solid information.
Then I shall add your report of an "ammonia world / candidate for terraforming" to the one of a "rocky ice world / candidate for terraforming" that's sitting in the "dubious" pile.
I would be interested and grateful (if necessary I can arrange a Transporter full of Gold or whatever the cool kids pay with these days) for some solid pictures and details of either of the above. Or indeed a metal rich / CFT or icy / CFT.
I have my suspicions about the circumstances which could lead to them appearing in the game but I'm starved for solid information.
It's actually not the money - it's the ridiculous amount of time it takes to plot a course through the core. Even a 32Ly jump (just 0.3 more than my range) takes as much as 5 minutes. The best thing they could do for exploration right now - galaxy map wise, is to allow manual plotting of courses - say, up to 500 navpoints, or something..
I'm going to be out here a while, it seems, so if I do find another, I'll be taking a snap.
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Cheers, happy hunting.
AMW / CFT, RICE / CFT, ICE / CFT, MRW / CFT are all "impossible" - I use the term loosely! - with my current understanding of the habitable zones so it would be great to see them.
A long time before 1.1 I did some "sub-basic" exploring*. Since I had no idea what to do, all I did at first was target the stars and wait for the scan to finish. I scanned maybe 20-30 stars that way. I had no idea what a "ping" is.
Then I bought ADS and DSS and really used them the way they are supposed to be used in just this one system, M type star and 9 ice planets, and then I sold the data. The result is that I have 0 Level 2 scans and 10 Level 3 scans.
But all I got was 4.5k cr so I sold all the scanners and traded in a Python a week or two longer until I really got bored of it and bought the Asp and disappeared in space 83 days ago. Still lost out there.
*"sub-basic" exploring is basic exploring when you have no idea what exploring is and how to do it.
I don't have a statistically significant sampling, but when I was in human space and switched to Solo for some high-res screenshots, it seemed like NPC pirates came out of the woodwork.
Is it the case that the risk of NPC pirates gets lowered in Open Play to offset the added risk of Player pirates?
If so, Open Play might be the safer way to bring data home? (outlier systems have far more NPC interdictions than players.)
Is it the case that the risk of NPC pirates gets lowered in Open Play to offset the added risk of Player pirates?
If so, Open Play might be the safer way to bring data home? (outlier systems have far more NPC interdictions than players.)
Cheers, happy hunting.
AMW / CFT, RICE / CFT, ICE / CFT, MRW / CFT are all "impossible" - I use the term loosely! - with my current understanding of the habitable zones so it would be great to see them.
Do we have proof of "rocky" being terraformable? I got one orbiting a water world, also terraformable - which is, in turn, orbiting a neutron. Both the other two planets are high content metal, and both are also terraformable... Very interesting chemistry and physics going on in that system!
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Hehe, the only time I suffered any damage on a recent trip to the core was for the exact same mistake. Congrats on the nice payoff.
Docked after 6 weeks in the void - my third expedition is finally over. I've covered somewhere between 55.000 and 60.000 LYs and ~2000 systems, cherry-pick DSS'ing all the way. Profit: 85 million Cr.
I had no problems or accidents whatsoever: returned with 99% hull, and that 1% I've lost when I cleverly decided to bind left Alt key for 75% throttle. Of course, it was then just a matter of time before I alt-tabbed to desktop while hovering in front of the star
I am almost at Elite rank now, but I will have to take a break before going out again: last third of this voyage was really exhausting.
Congrats... Elite exploration is the hardest to get from what I've heard...
I must admit though, I'm waiting till they add more to the game until I "explore" again. Just seems a tad too safe and worse still, predictable at the moment.