Hi all,
after recently returning from an extended break (Left just before horizons landed - pardon the pun) I decided to take a serious look at exploration.
I've read the Epic tales of Eramus and read the mission reports from the various expeditions, so I thought I'd give it a try myself.
Before i left for my break, I had a Clipper and a 60+ million creds in the bank, so upon return I sold the ship and picked up a trader Python.
Spent a week relearning the ropes and run fed missions at the fashionable to be seen in locations.
As exploration was a field i was seriously interested in I purchased an Anaconda and proceeded to kit her out to head into the (hopefully) unknown.
Anaconda Build
I specced this initially as a homage to the Fuel rats, figuring that as I'm only taking a short trip around the stars the extra space on board might come in useful to help somebody when i'm out there.
Returning to the game is quite a new learning curve with all the Horizons stuff (especially engineers) so before heading off on my voyage I thought id give a test run to Maia to pickup the Alloys for Felicity to mod my drives.
my god the python seemed big at first, but getting behind the controls of this really gives you that epic ship feeling... i'd watched videos of Anacondas using the mailslot, but the first couple of times you do it yourself its a bit scary...
the journey to Maia was uneventful - apart from the planetary landing part... how could i forget to research that...
after a couple of attempts i'd mastered the orbital cruise and glide parts, so i wasn't arriving hundreds of Km from the destination.
picked up the 1t of cargo required and headed off to Farseer Inc..
arrived at the system.. no sign of the base, so docked at the station (chance to test the mailshot delivery skills)
found the planet details after googling them.. so had to scan the planet to get the base to show (rather than the loads of unknowns on my navigation panel)
quick test of my debug camera skills when leaving the station.
Found Felicity's base with no dramas and made quite a good landing approach (dropped out 30Km from the base). proceeded to land and start on this engineering stuff.
had enough mats to roll a level 1 FSD upgrade and a level 2 Dirty Drive Thruster upgrade.
so my conda sits a a 27ly jump range for the trip.
decided on the chevron paint, as this is basically an AA truck in space...
time to test the camera again..
before leaving Deciat i thought id better try the SRV, so had a quick drive around the planet and worked out how to find the rocks...
simple enough really - target, shoot scoop...
so quick trip back to Rays Gateway to plan the main event..
after recently returning from an extended break (Left just before horizons landed - pardon the pun) I decided to take a serious look at exploration.
I've read the Epic tales of Eramus and read the mission reports from the various expeditions, so I thought I'd give it a try myself.
Before i left for my break, I had a Clipper and a 60+ million creds in the bank, so upon return I sold the ship and picked up a trader Python.
Spent a week relearning the ropes and run fed missions at the fashionable to be seen in locations.
As exploration was a field i was seriously interested in I purchased an Anaconda and proceeded to kit her out to head into the (hopefully) unknown.
Anaconda Build
I specced this initially as a homage to the Fuel rats, figuring that as I'm only taking a short trip around the stars the extra space on board might come in useful to help somebody when i'm out there.
Returning to the game is quite a new learning curve with all the Horizons stuff (especially engineers) so before heading off on my voyage I thought id give a test run to Maia to pickup the Alloys for Felicity to mod my drives.
my god the python seemed big at first, but getting behind the controls of this really gives you that epic ship feeling... i'd watched videos of Anacondas using the mailslot, but the first couple of times you do it yourself its a bit scary...
the journey to Maia was uneventful - apart from the planetary landing part... how could i forget to research that...
after a couple of attempts i'd mastered the orbital cruise and glide parts, so i wasn't arriving hundreds of Km from the destination.
picked up the 1t of cargo required and headed off to Farseer Inc..
arrived at the system.. no sign of the base, so docked at the station (chance to test the mailshot delivery skills)
found the planet details after googling them.. so had to scan the planet to get the base to show (rather than the loads of unknowns on my navigation panel)
quick test of my debug camera skills when leaving the station.
Found Felicity's base with no dramas and made quite a good landing approach (dropped out 30Km from the base). proceeded to land and start on this engineering stuff.
had enough mats to roll a level 1 FSD upgrade and a level 2 Dirty Drive Thruster upgrade.
so my conda sits a a 27ly jump range for the trip.
decided on the chevron paint, as this is basically an AA truck in space...
time to test the camera again..
before leaving Deciat i thought id better try the SRV, so had a quick drive around the planet and worked out how to find the rocks...
simple enough really - target, shoot scoop...
so quick trip back to Rays Gateway to plan the main event..
