Questions (or poll) for explorers

[Lethargus]

1) How often do you stop on your long trips to actually survey?

2) When you stop to survey do you survey everything, or just the planets that look to be valuable (water, metal rich, etc)?

3) Have you noticed if you get rank increases while out in the wilderness, or only once you get back and sell what you've found?

 

[elayeth]

1) How often do you stop on your long trips to actually survey?

2) When you stop to survey do you survey everything, or just the planets that look to be valuable (water, metal rich, etc)?

3) Have you noticed if you get rank increases while out in the wilderness, or only once you get back and sell what you've found?

1. Almost always
2. Interesting bodies that look valuable or just interesting
3. Yes

I also stop to make screenshots or enjoy the view.

 

[SvennoJ]

1) Less than 10% of the time on long trips, and only for likely terra form candidates or earth likes if not at a far away binary star.
2) Never survey everything, no moons or asteroid belts, no far out stray ice planets or binary star system 200k ls or more away.
3) No rank ups in the wild, it goes by profit, you have to sell the data to rank up.

 

[Myspace Kaitsu80]

I just go through F, G and K stars until I find terraforming candidate planet(s).

Then I explore every single body in that system, dont know why, have hoped it will improve changes Fed´s will settle it (alone!), now after what Michael said i hope i get my name somewhere too as first to find and fully explore some systems.

I dont "cherry pick" in exploring because, well, if I wanna do something for credits, I just trade.

 

[Deleted member 38366]

-- Deleted --

 

[BrewerGeorge]

I just go through F, G and K stars until I find terraforming candidate planet(s).

Then I explore every single body in that system, dont know why, have hoped it will improve changes Fed´s will settle it (alone!), now after what Michael said i hope i get my name somewhere too as first to find and fully explore some systems.

I dont "cherry pick" in exploring because, well, if I wanna do something for credits, I just trade.

I know what you mean. Exploring can be rough on the OCD side of the personality.

I'm trying to force myself only only visit the yellow stars and only scan the blue planets.

 

[Monk]

I stop at every Unknown system along my path...honk the adv. disco horn and then look to see if there are any high metal content, water or earth-like planets and go scan those. If the gas giants are close in enough, I'll can those as some of them have water based life or, if they have a ring, a nice place to enjoy the view for a few minutes.

 

[Myspace Kaitsu80]

When I explore, I want everything. Fill the blank space in my System Map - completely.

Since the payout is so low it's nearly irrelevant, turning in complete Systems at least gives some satisfaction.

Exactly my point too, I somehow feel I contribute for expansion of habitable space through exploration, and I get satisfaction from expanding human space, thus improving our changes when thargoids invade (I would just hope that none of data I sell in allied Fed station, does not end up for Empire).

 

[EMarkM]

As I'm now going on a long range trip, I have had to make some rules.

I will not scan objects that look like clusters, rockies or ice balls in the system map or target imager.

I will not Supercruise more than 5,000Ls to scan something unless I firmly believe it to be of extraordinary (read "most extraordinary") value or interest.

 

[Kalpa]

1) Doing my first really long trip now (tens of thousands of light years is kinda the plan), I stop every now and then, quite randomly really. I've had to learn away from my habit to scan everything and just ping&go, otherwise I wouldn't ever be able to reach these long distance destinations. The way I'm going right now I think I'm doing a full scan roughly every 10-20 systems or so.

2) I survey everything except asteroid belts basicly (and sometimes even those). I try to restrain myself, but usually when I'm near a gas giant (for example) I just start scanning the moons, and when I've done that for one giant, I need to do the rest as well. And when i'm done with the primary star, of course i must go to the rest of the stars 400k ls away as well...

3) No rank increase in wilderness. Only when you get back and cash in. It is unknown if the rank is solely based on the amount of credits made from the data sales, or if there's other factors included (such as # of objects scanned, % of objects in system scanned, or other such things) - however since these things (quality of data) are (supposedly) represented in the credits received for turn-in, one could assume the rank is solely based on the credits received.

 

[remosito]

- never done the friendship honking bunnyhopping exploration so far. might change if I need to get back to civilised space quickly for whatever reason.
- scan metal, water, earthlikes dwarfs and gas giants. only head out to secondary stars that are more than 30k away if they have enough planets of value. Religiously scan neutron and herbig stars and black holes. no matter the distance.
- rank up is on cash in. though rank up can take a while sometimes it seems to me...