plotting a course to sag A
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Since its more than likely over 1000LY from your current position the best thing to do is simply point your way there and find a system to use as a way point close to 1000LY away. Make sure you pay attention to which stars are scoopable and which ones aren't. You don't want to get stuck in a system out of gas.
Also get experienced at using a fuel scoop. There is a sweet spot where you can continue to scoop fuel but your heat doesn't increase at all. Get in that and reduce speed. It's perfect for grabbing a snack, using the bathroom, checking on your course, ect.
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If you not done any exploring before, you might not make to Sag A* by first attempt... try visit nearby nebulas to gain some basic explorer experience. You need to be able to make thousands of jumps, each time avoid bodies without crashing on them. My advice here? Just keep throttle at 0 every single high jump, thats all. If you do that, you might even be able to make around galaxy with 100% hull.
Ok, how to do it? Route plans up to 1000ly, Sag A* is about 24k ly away.... on Gal map just type "Sagit" each 1000ly part, and you will be know right direction where to plan next moves. Also its good to know, that final part of getting there is bit tricky... due to very high dense of stars around core. Last 1000ly is basicly doing each jump "manualy", as route planner refuses to work like usualy it do, it takes ages to plan more than single jump.
Good luck.
Ok, how to do it? Route plans up to 1000ly, Sag A* is about 24k ly away.... on Gal map just type "Sagit" each 1000ly part, and you will be know right direction where to plan next moves. Also its good to know, that final part of getting there is bit tricky... due to very high dense of stars around core. Last 1000ly is basicly doing each jump "manualy", as route planner refuses to work like usualy it do, it takes ages to plan more than single jump.
Good luck.
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Well... course plotting corewards is simple until you reach the core, well there, the navigation system gets messed up by the extreme star density and you have to start using much shorter plots than the standard 1000 LYs..
So if your plan is to go and see the Big Black, and do some light exploring on the way, just head straight for it.
If you want to see more nebulas and stuff, spend time looking around the map for good looking ones that are vaugely on the way.
If you want to maximize the number of first discoveries it might be useful to not go in a straight line, that path is well-travelled.. But back in march when I made the trip I saw very few discovered by tags between 500LY from Sol to next door to Sagittarius A*
In short, plot as you like, corewards travel is easy.
So if your plan is to go and see the Big Black, and do some light exploring on the way, just head straight for it.
If you want to see more nebulas and stuff, spend time looking around the map for good looking ones that are vaugely on the way.
If you want to maximize the number of first discoveries it might be useful to not go in a straight line, that path is well-travelled.. But back in march when I made the trip I saw very few discovered by tags between 500LY from Sol to next door to Sagittarius A*
In short, plot as you like, corewards travel is easy.
My first and only piece of advice would be to never ask an exploration question on the main forum, since very few people here have been more than 1500LY away from Sol.
Your question has been answered hundreds of times here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=117
and by people who have travelled hundreds of thousands of light years and survived for months outside human space.
Your question has been answered hundreds of times here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=117
and by people who have travelled hundreds of thousands of light years and survived for months outside human space.
This. Lots of good advice in a dedicated section for newbie explorers.
Thank you.....Repped
All of this advice is dead wrong, except the part about seeing the nebulas first. Go to the explorers forum.
For plotting advice to get to Sag A*, or secondary on how to get there really fast you can have a look in the BuckyBall A* Run thread:https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=138772
They've pretty much fixed route plotting in the core. So the old tricks aren't as necessary. As for how to get there stay well above 50LY above (or 100LY below) the zero plane to avoid the unscoopables. Other than that, staying along the zero line is fine.
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Change the galaxy map to show star types this will allow you to locate scoopables on your trip making it much easier, the generator Stellar Forge seems prone to red stars so scooping can be hell.
Also the a advanced discovery scanner etc as these will help when in systems, more credits on return to human space.
Also the a advanced discovery scanner etc as these will help when in systems, more credits on return to human space.
There's still work to be done by FD getting us from "pretty much" to "yep, it works, I can now have all my plots finished in under 10 seconds.". Some tricks are still needed...
My, my... mr. smartboy, back in my times of that visit, there was no such thing as "Best guide to goto Sag A*" by "Cmdr someone" or even explorers subforums... Anyway, I dont see where my "advice" is wrong... Its how I did made to Sag A*, all based on my own "bit" explorer experience. Long time ago. Im not an "pro" Explorer. My advice is not perfect. Old? so what? Still works for me anywayz.