Pawing at the Planetary Bell

Katejina · Oct 28, 2015

Covered almost 5kly today. Pretty good. Was a very dull and dry run until the last 1kly or so. Found all of 2 water worlds and an ammonia world until I finally stumbled upon on ELW. Large land masses and what a beauty she is. Very unique. Large swaths of what I can only guess are swamp/marsh-lands. You be the judge:

Then I found this guy, with hardly any land at all...

Katejina · Oct 28, 2015

Forgot to mention I hit 13k systems visited last night.

And what is the closest neutron field to the bubble? Thinking of making a stop, pick up a few hundred specimens...

newman1702 · Oct 28, 2015

Katejina said:
Forgot to mention I hit 13k systems visited last night.

And what is the closest neutron field to the bubble? Thinking of making a stop, pick up a few hundred specimens...

As far as I can tell, the neutron fields seem to go around the rim of the core in a sort of a 5kly radius. I could be wrong and it could be intermittent with me just running into them by luck, but I'm passing through one right now. Thought it could easily be called a black hole field too

So I'd say anything that's a above or below the mid galactic plane south of the core and about 5kly from Sag A would work. Let me know if you need help finding them, I can link you a screenshot with my position on your stream so you'll get an idea.

Congrats on 13k systems!

Katejina · Oct 28, 2015

newman1702 said:
As far as I can tell, the neutron fields seem to go around the rim of the core in a sort of a 5kly radius. I could be wrong and it could be intermittent with me just running into them by luck, but I'm passing through one right now. Thought it could easily be called a black hole field too So I'd say anything that's a above or below the mid galactic plane south of the core and about 5kly from Sag A would work. Let me know if you need help finding them, I can link you a screenshot with my position on your stream so you'll get an idea.

Congrats on 13k systems!

I'm going to be busy the next few days so probably come Saturday when I get on, I'll take a look around there and see if I can find anything. If I manage not to take any more damage, I might head in that way to buff out the profits.

Anchous · Oct 28, 2015

If talking about profit, then it makes sense to jump on systems with A/F/G as the main star. Field NS far from the "outer sleeve" (more 15kly). Moreover, the profitability of floating systems. Within the region the same stars and asteroid clusters only with gas giants and with rare planets, in another region in similar systems many water worlds, and candidates for terraforming.

P.S.: Sorry for google translator

Katejina · Oct 28, 2015

I think I'll have scanned over a thousand water worlds and 100 earthlikes by my return. I'm nearing 70, with something like 2k systems left to go until home. With 3k more systems to visit (to hit my goal of 15k this trip), I should find at least 20 more. If I can manage to hit some NS systems, I should have a good chance of breaking 100.

But yes, I always hit systems with A/F/G types, and O/B when they are near, like the AA-A systems and all the other fun ones (YE-A, HH-O, etc).

Anchous · Oct 28, 2015

Ok. 15 kly - is a not problem. Custom or/and econom route plotting. But 100 ELW... Every ELW is a lucky - not predictable. You can go 10kly and not to find a single, or a few jumps to cruso stumble on several.

Katejina · Oct 28, 2015

Anchous said:
Ok. 15 kly - is a not problem. Custom or/and econom route plotting. But 100 ELW... Every ELW is a lucky - not predictable. You can go 10kly and not to find a single, or a few jumps to cruso stumble on several.

Going off the average find... With how many I've found, I average about one every 185 systems. >_>

Arnoldo · Oct 28, 2015

Save some for the rest of us poor schmucks!!

Anchous · Oct 28, 2015

Katejina said:
Going off the average find... With how many I've found, I average about one every 185 systems. >_>

Approximately every 2kly I paused and scanned a couple of dozen systems with A/F/G. Thus more likely to find ELW. In this embodiment, and the movement continues on the route and found a few interesting systems.

Fly safe.

Katejina · Oct 29, 2015

Updated my spreadsheet yesterday. Found a water world in a system with a fun name. Might return there later on to fully map the sector, make it my home. As long as I find a comfy system to settle in.

I've got almost 1100 entries now, though it's getting hard to organize the screenshot because FD simply names them "Screenshot_0000" and doesn't maintain any kind of additive property. So if I have 0001-0100 and move them out of the screenshot folder, the file names will start over and create duplicate names.

CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI · Oct 29, 2015

Neutron Fields are 2 donut shaped or O shaped rings. One is around 1500 ly above the ecliptical, the other below. The outer part of the ring is about 15000LY from Sag A*, but this far NS density is not that high, altough you can jump from NS to NS with 30LY. Going corewise they get denser, and at about 3000LY from Sag A* they stop.
They are filled with other objects too. White Dwarves come in the same number of NS, and they are worth little less credits. Black Holes are distributed in clusters inside the neutron fields, or scattered here and there with way less frequency than NS. A lot of carbon stars, supergiants and other strange things are found in the neutron fields with way higher frequency than outside. It's the ELW heaven, you'll find several especially if you don't just jump from NS to NS but plot a random route through the fields. Frequency of F/G/K is maximum there.

In my opinion after your lenghty expedition you'll get lost in there, If I were you I'd wait for the next one, especially if you want to dock before Horizon.

Stulli · Oct 29, 2015

Katejina said:
I've got almost 1100 entries now, though it's getting hard to organize the screenshot because FD simply names them "Screenshot_0000" and doesn't maintain any kind of additive property. So if I have 0001-0100 and move them out of the screenshot folder, the file names will start over and create duplicate names.

If you use EDDiscovery you not only have a log of the systems, you also can choose to auto convert screenshots and rename them including name of the system. It also offers an option to save as png, jpg, tiff or original bmp-format.

That works fine for me

Katejina · Oct 29, 2015

Stulli said:
If you use EDDiscovery you not only have a log of the systems, you also can choose to auto convert screenshots and rename them including name of the system. It also offers an option to save as png, jpg, tiff or original bmp-format.

That works fine for me

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Does it cover past discoveries or only what I've discovered after running it? Been curious about the third party tools for a while but didn't want to chance ruining anything just in case.

Stulli · Oct 29, 2015

Old screenshots are not affected, as it only converts "live" when pressing F10.

And it can't ruin anything else as it only reads the name of the system out of the AppConfig.xml. To this file you have to add VerboseLogging="1" as described in the thread. Always remember to do it after every update as this file is reseted then.

I use this tool for about 18 weeks and have not lost any data. It's very time-saving as you can easily copy all or parts of data direct from the program to Excel or something similar.

Katejina · Oct 29, 2015

Stulli said:
Old screenshots are not affected, as it only converts "live" when pressing F10.

And it can't ruin anything else as it only reads the name of the system out of the AppConfig.xml. To this file you have to add VerboseLogging="1" as described in the thread. Always remember to do it after every update as this file is reseted then.

I use this tool for about 18 weeks and have not lost any data. It's very time-saving as you can easily copy all or parts of data direct from the program to Excel or something similar.

Sorry, I meant the actual system data. It will only log my discoveries, say if I downloaded it today, and onward, correct? Or does that xml contain all of my exploration data?

Stulli · Oct 29, 2015

Sorry, too, I made a little mistake: it does not read the name of the systems out of AppConfig.xml. It reads it from the netlog-file that is created in every game-session, when VerboseLogging="1" is added to AppConfig.xml

So, it will log discoveries beginning from the moment at that VerboseLogging="1" is added to AppConfig.xml and the game (launcher) has been started new.

No chance for access to old data, as the older netlog-files does not contain any data.

I hope you understand me, as learning english in school is about 20 years ago for me

Katejina · Oct 29, 2015

Stulli said:
Sorry, too, I made a little mistake: it does not read the name of the systems out of AppConfig.xml. It reads it from the netlog-file that is created in every game-session, when VerboseLogging="1" is added to AppConfig.xml

So, it will log discoveries beginning from the moment at that VerboseLogging="1" is added to AppConfig.xml and the game (launcher) has been started new.

No chance for access to old data, as the older netlog-files does not contain any data.

I hope you understand me, as learning english in school is about 20 years ago for me

Yes, that makes sense, thank you.

I think I'll still wait until I finish this run, though.

Katejina · Oct 31, 2015

Alright, projects are over. Back to ED!

Aaaaand, stream's up for all you late-nighters like me!
(for like 2 hours)

Katejina · Oct 31, 2015

Fairly good night.

Had a nice chat, found 2 earthlikes, a few water worlds and an ammonia world. Made about 1.5kly progress. Will pick back up for, hopefully another 5kly on Monday.

Here are the interesting shots.