So I got really excited as I found my first ringed water world, it was the first thing I scanned FSS then immediately went and mapped it. Then I started to scan the rest of the system and its full of ringed stuff including ringed landable planets which Ive not seen or heard of before, but maybe they are common?
Ringed Worlds
- Thread starter He$$eeTant
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Ringed landable plants aren't very rare but also not super common, somewhere in the middle; but it's new to you so hey, excellent find! I'm still trying to find me a ringed ELW. I have found several ringed WW's and AW's but those ringed ELW's are elusive little buggers.
I found a system a long time ago, if memory serves it was fairly large, and every body including moons had rings. I should try to dig up the screenshot when I get home. It's probably not as impressive and I remember though, my brain like to mess with me that way.
I found a system a long time ago, if memory serves it was fairly large, and every body including moons had rings. I should try to dig up the screenshot when I get home. It's probably not as impressive and I remember though, my brain like to mess with me that way.
Thanks for the level set.
I do feel like a pretty crappy explorer. I am Elite and whilst I’ve been to sag A and back and then back again my exploration has pretty much been driven by the auto plot route planner. There is so much i have not yet seen and yet I’ve visited and scanned numerous planets.
I am trying to get a bit better eduacated about what I aim for whilst on route to Beagle Point. I expect if you ask a real explorer to name their top 10 I would doubt I’ve seen any of the experiences on the list.
however I remain hopeful I will stumble on something someday.
cheers all
I do feel like a pretty crappy explorer. I am Elite and whilst I’ve been to sag A and back and then back again my exploration has pretty much been driven by the auto plot route planner. There is so much i have not yet seen and yet I’ve visited and scanned numerous planets.
I am trying to get a bit better eduacated about what I aim for whilst on route to Beagle Point. I expect if you ask a real explorer to name their top 10 I would doubt I’ve seen any of the experiences on the list.
however I remain hopeful I will stumble on something someday.
cheers all
Drink!
Don't give up! It took me several years, but then I found a couple.
And quite recently I found a 3-ring gas giant with ELW moon that has rings too.
There's no right or wrong way to explore. The fact that you're out there looking for new things makes you an explorer.
Auto plotting without filtering any star classes out of your route is a good way to find a wide range of things. You will start to notice that certain classes of stars are more likely to generate certain things and you will start filtering out what you are not interested in. Then you might decide to switch your focus to something else. That is how things went for me and I'm sure I'm not alone.
My first ever attempt at a long trip was in an Anaconda with a 3A scoop and 35ish Ly range. This was in the days before the big update to exploration (pre FSS) when the route plotter didn't plot refueling stars for you so you would sometimes have to manually find one if you were given several non-scoopables in a row. I somehow made it 17K Ly from the bubble before I decided to turn around. It was painful but I learned about filtering stars classes and using the biggest scoop possible so it was valuable that way. I wouldn't call myself an advanced explorer by any means nowadays but I am definitely less dumb about it now.
Auto plotting without filtering any star classes out of your route is a good way to find a wide range of things. You will start to notice that certain classes of stars are more likely to generate certain things and you will start filtering out what you are not interested in. Then you might decide to switch your focus to something else. That is how things went for me and I'm sure I'm not alone.
My first ever attempt at a long trip was in an Anaconda with a 3A scoop and 35ish Ly range. This was in the days before the big update to exploration (pre FSS) when the route plotter didn't plot refueling stars for you so you would sometimes have to manually find one if you were given several non-scoopables in a row. I somehow made it 17K Ly from the bubble before I decided to turn around. It was painful but I learned about filtering stars classes and using the biggest scoop possible so it was valuable that way. I wouldn't call myself an advanced explorer by any means nowadays but I am definitely less dumb about it now.
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That's actually a lot more rare than I thought. I feel like I find them much more frequently than that. Although finding 200 landable planets probably doesn't take too long nowadays... thanks for the data, always good to see the real numbers!
You're not a real explorer until you've:
any more for any more ?
- crashed into a planet and blown up
- jumped thousands of light years, and left your SRV at home
- forgotten your DSS
- took a punt at charging off a white dwarf only to have things go badly wrong
- hit a black hole cos you weren't sure which direction you were facing when you throttled up
any more for any more ?
You're not a real explorer until you've:
any more for any more ?
- crashed into a planet and blown up
- jumped thousands of light years, and left your SRV at home
- forgotten your DSS
- took a punt at charging off a white dwarf only to have things go badly wrong
- hit a black hole cos you weren't sure which direction you were facing when you throttled up
Darn, I've only done two of those. Back to the drawing board sigh
...Forgotten your AFMU on the Neutron Highway.You're not a real explorer until you've:
any more for any more ?
- crashed into a planet and blown up
- jumped thousands of light years, and left your SRV at home
- forgotten your DSS
- took a punt at charging off a white dwarf only to have things go badly wrong
- hit a black hole cos you weren't sure which direction you were facing when you throttled up
Heh, my FSD's giving me grief at 76% right now - found a lovely little mini-highway that got me out to the Rim in double-quick time. The machinery don't like it though.
You're not a real explorer until you've:
- crashed into a planet and blown up
- jumped thousands of light years, and left your SRV at home
- forgotten your DSS
- took a punt at charging off a white dwarf only to have things go badly wrong
- hit a black hole cos you weren't sure which direction you were facing when you throttled up
- any more for any more ?
- started repairing your FSD/thrusters while flying at least 10c
Ha, I'm SOOO much more careful when doing repairs since then
...and don't forget to reactivate your Life Support after repairing it. Especially if you're checking out the Galaxy Map during that time.... BOOM.
You're not a real explorer until you've:
any more for any more ?
- crashed into a planet and blown up
- jumped thousands of light years, and left your SRV at home
- forgotten your DSS
- took a punt at charging off a white dwarf only to have things go badly wrong
- hit a black hole cos you weren't sure which direction you were facing when you throttled up
- Self destructed by boosting into lagrange creatures, losing thousands of lightyears of data.
- Lost 50% or more hull due to overheating by going AFK with the FSD charging next to a star.
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