Something to look forward to when you hit Elite in exploration

[Krunchie]

Missions that require Elite status in exploration ask you to travel to a system 2 ly away, and reward you with 16k cr for the effort.
Not a joke, although it looks like one.
Well, only Elite and most hardcore explorers are able to make a 2 ly jump into a fully explored system, surely all the others are not equipped to deal with it.

(Trading and combat Elite missions reward with +400k cr.)

Not to mention how traveling from station to station is so boring. And time consuming. I would rather travel thousands of ls to scan a planet then to crawl towards a station 100 ls away. When you get to a 6s point, you put throttle to 75% and wait 50(!) seconds to disengage supercruise. Those 50 seconds are always and every time the longest 50 seconds of my life.

In other words: I can't wait to go exploring again. Screw the rest.

 

[dannywhac]

Agreed. The missions are nicely worded, but have nack-all content and an outcome that despite what it says, doesn't lead anywhere....

Spoiler

 

[goemon]

don't you take on that get ancient artifact/blackbox/experimental chemicals missions? i mean, they don't have to do anything with exploration (besides a one-jumper to an system 6 ly away), but they get you into smuggling - which requires heat management! (they are very well paid off, if you stack them)

 

[b0rg9]

When you get to a 6s point, you put throttle to 75% and wait 50(!) seconds to disengage supercruise. Those 50 seconds are always and every time the longest 50 seconds of my life.

At which point there's a good chance you'll get interdicted by an NPC at that point and will have to do the mini-game dance or submit and shoot at them until they run away. Yep, I'd rather fly 10,000ls out to scan an ice ball.

 

[Erimus Kamzel]

I feel that everything FD are adding lately are just more placeholders. They can't seriously think the Elite exploration missions are what explorers have worked for? They have to be placeholders, while something worthy of Elite status is still in the works.

1.4 is going to blow exploreres minds. It's going to be a great time for explorers, we've waited long enough

^^

That's what I'm trying to convince myself.

Am I being too optimistic?

 

[Krunchie]

I feel that everything FD are adding lately are just more placeholders. They can't seriously think the Elite exploration missions are what explorers have worked for? They have to be placeholders, while something worthy of Elite status is still in the works.

1.4 is going to blow exploreres minds. It's going to be a great time for explorers, we've waited long enough

^^

That's what I'm trying to convince myself.

Am I being too optimistic?

Yes, but we all are. Maybe one day we shall be rightly so.

 

[Dommarraa]

Some might say that any optimism is too much optimism.

All those nice elite exploration item fetch missions can be stacked a mile high and are great for progression.... Oh wait

 

[Ian Doncaster]

Not to mention how traveling from station to station is so boring. And time consuming. I would rather travel thousands of ls to scan a planet then to crawl towards a station 100 ls away. When you get to a 6s point, you put throttle to 75% and wait 50(!) seconds to disengage supercruise. Those 50 seconds are always and every time the longest 50 seconds of my life.

You can speed it up - and make it slightly more exciting - by coming in faster. Wait for the timer to get to 4s, and the "slow down" warning to appear, then drop your nose so the station is about at the top of the screen and throttle back just into the top of the blue zone.

Keep the station at about that relative angle as you spiral in (the timer should hang around 2-3 seconds; adjust the angle as needed), do a close pass of the planet to shed any excess speed, and drop out at close to 1Mm/s at 1Mm right in front of the station (well, that's the theory... but even if you mess it up a little it's still quicker than using the autocruise)

 

[Krunchie]

You can speed it up - and make it slightly more exciting - by coming in faster. Wait for the timer to get to 4s, and the "slow down" warning to appear, then drop your nose so the station is about at the top of the screen and throttle back just into the top of the blue zone.

Keep the station at about that relative angle as you spiral in (the timer should hang around 2-3 seconds; adjust the angle as needed), do a close pass of the planet to shed any excess speed, and drop out at close to 1Mm/s at 1Mm right in front of the station (well, that's the theory... but even if you mess it up a little it's still quicker than using the autocruise)

You can't do that with Anaconda, it turns too slowly.

 

[Mikey2305]

Ive seen those missions but im not elite yet unfortunately...