Scanning/exploration question

TheAntsAreBack

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Hi, I'm just finding my way in this game so apologies if this has been asked much before.

As I understand it, I use the Discovery Scanner on arrival at a system in order to discover suns, planets and moons. However, is this used only for distant uncharted parts of the galaxy or do I use it in previously discovered areas? Likewise the FSS and the composition scanner - should I be using them as I make my way about? Cheers.
 

Cmdr_Ajay31091

Cmdr_Ajay31091
Yeah, use it each time, if anything it helps when you are starting out.

Every system you visit, have a honk and then when you next dock, sell the data at universal cartographic 's.

Gotta get cred's ? Get that Data lol

(Also, you must be at least 20ly from the data's retrieval point to sell it, the further you go, the more its worth. And go one better an get a surface scanner and map those bodies! )
o7 Cmdr
 

Dragotha

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If you need money, use the detailed surface scanner on all earthlikes and terraforming candidates as you fly around, you'll make a ton selling data. There's an old route map called the Road to Riches that is actually a fabulous way of making your first couple hundred million credits if you want, just go to all those systems and surface scan the listed bodies, and any other terraforming candidates there too, as they're not all listed.

Otherwise the FSS is most useful for finding signal sources for missions or farming engineering materials.

Outside of inhabited space, in previously unexplored systems (which you need to go a fair ways out, like thousands of light years, to find any) the FSS is necessary for finding bodies at all. However you get paid more for being the first one to scan a body and sell the data, and you'll get your name on them too.
 

Red Anders

Red Anders
Para Handy said:
That is not actually so - only last week I was tagging virgin systems less than a kylie from Sol. You just have to think in 3D and avoid the well-travelled routes to the eyecandy.
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True that, my closest was about 650 LY from Sol, so what about 300 LY outside the human bubble at the most. As you say it's a question of not heading directly towards any obvious landmark and not heading out along the galactic plane, or straight up or down come to that. Plenty of systems still to be discovered within 1,000 LY as long as you stay off the beaten path.
 
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