Question from an explorer out in the black.

[Hazara]

I have my carrier parked 6kly from the bubble, and use it as a base for exploration.

How do I gear up my suit for scanning biologicals or am I missing something - I dont seem to have the right scanner? Dont tell me I have to head back to civilization to re-equip.

The systems I'm in arent in eddb so I cant even find the nearest settled system.

 

[CMDR HollowPointPC]

Sadly yes, if you want to buy suits and weapons, you'll need to head to an official station. It would have been nice if Frontier did carrier social hubs and sold suits and weapons on them, but then I guess you'd probably have to go to a carrier system and enable them on your carrier anyway...

 

[Hazara]

Wow, thanks for that @CMDR HollowPointPC - but thats also really disappointing. I've been stuck with an unusable carrier, cant plot neutrons properly, the map is pants and to have to travel back to the bubble to kit up to explore.

 

[Riverside]

At least 6k isn't that far, and it's a one-off trip to get the gear

I was 28k from Colonia out in the void


You'll want both the Armetis (explorer with bio-scanner) and Maverick (scavenger with ark-cutter) suits, and some energy cells and med packs (I bought 100 each, the max).

If you get out of your ship/srv you'll have a good 10 mins or so at least before energy runs low in the suit, and if you get back into the SRV or ship that will be replenished so you'll only need the consumables if you get caught out (stuck in a canyon, ship won't land near enough etc but better to have it & not need it...

 

[CMDR HollowPointPC]

At least 6k isn't that far, and it's a one-off trip to get the gear

I was 28k from Colonia out in the void


You'll want both the Armetis (explorer with bio-scanner) and Maverick (scavenger with ark-cutter) suits, and some energy cells and med packs (I bought 100 each, the max).

If you get out of your ship/srv you'll have a good 10 mins or so at least before energy runs low in the suit, and if you get back into the SRV or ship that will be replenished so you'll only need the consumables if you get caught out (stuck in a canyon, ship won't land near enough etc but better to have it & not need it...

Yeah, this right here is very good advice, if you like being all the way out there, definitely sensible to keep the energy packs and med packs topped up. I do quite a bit of ground combat and settlement missions, so I tend to buy 20 or 30 and let them whittle down as I use them. I was 1500LY outside the bubble on release day on my carrier doing some core mining and had to find my way back to the bubble in my phantom because of the carrier freeze, but in case you hadn't realised, the carrier freeze is now over, you can move the carrier again.

 

[Hazara]

Yeah, I really feel for the poor souls really out there. I cant even "hop in a cheap ship and teleport back" - all my ships are heavily engineered and I dont want to lose them.. Suppose I could send a marker sidewinder back for the purpose, but even them I didnt leave any high range capacity ships in the bubble, so would have to wait another day for my asp to get back into the bubble.

Oh well, a good chance for more exploring I guess, I'll keep jumping the carrier towards my destination anyway until it runs low in fuel.

I see there is an update incoming in less than an hour - will wait to see what that brings.

 

[Riverside]

wrt suiciding back from an exploration carrier, I have considered (but not used) this contingency. I was travelling on a friend's carrier and I considered storing all modules on a mining ship I had stored on the same carrier, if I store all modules that will effectively give me a vanilla ship hull with all the e-rated default modules that I can afford to lose without losing any engineered modules, then take the freewinder option, get another of my already built ships that are still in the bubble (or build one) and fly it back out.

It's not how I play, and I certainly wouldn't recommend all that for 6kLy but it's an option if a suitable spare (but engineered) ship is on the carrier.

The only mining I've done is tritium to fuel the carrier, it's a good way to break up the monotony of long distance travel.

 

[Hazara]

Yeah, its not really an option for me either... I prefer to work the problem.

 

[LoneTech]

Considering the immense time investment that is the trip back to find the suits, it may also be worth it to hop around a few ports to see if you find an upgraded suit. I have a Maverick suit with an upgraded battery capacity mod, making the recharge you get from an energy cell or boarding ship or SRV that much more valuable. Perhaps we'll know something of where to find them later on; my experience, so far, is that upgraded items occur (or maybe remain) more easily in the out of the way ports.

 

[PontifusRex]

My carrier is out in the Trojan Belt. My alt (PC) is tagging along. I blew him up yesterday just for this reason.

Good on FDev to have the foresight to think about all of those carrier owners (like DSSA) who are deep in the black with no Odyssey equipment.

 

[CMDR HollowPointPC]

Always keep a bog standard sidewinder (or two) on your carrier for suicide purposes CMDR's and an engineered DBX/Phantom/Dolphin/Insert favourite explorer ship here at your starter station, so that you can suicide from anywhere in the galaxy and get under way again in a decent ship. It's not often you need it, but situations like this would make the 6k journey a lot less painful that's for sure, suicide back, grab your suits, head straight back to your carrier and do a little exploring along the way.

 

[Rat Catcher]

Always keep a bog standard sidewinder (or two) on your carrier for suicide purposes CMDR's and an engineered DBX/Phantom/Dolphin/Insert favourite explorer ship here at your starter station, so that you can suicide from anywhere in the galaxy and get under way again in a decent ship. It's not often you need it, but situations like this would make the 6k journey a lot less painful that's for sure, suicide back, grab your suits, head straight back to your carrier and do a little exploring along the way.

Good advice - I have 2 engineered DBX which one is normally kept in the bubble and when picked up to go back to Colonia I'll normally ship the other as I'm preparing to leave.

...wish I'd remembered to do so last trip back