The Neutron Fields - A Definitive Guide

[explorer23]

Using numbers from Wiki and your info, I calculated that you'd need to scan approximately 3000 neutron stars. Or 2000 if you get first discovery bonus on all of them.
Probably a bit less in total as you'll get some money from other bodies.
But yeah, it'll take a while

 

[Maro-Val]

Using numbers from Wiki and your info, I calculated that you'd need to scan approximately 3000 neutron stars. Or 2000 if you get first discovery bonus on all of them.
Probably a bit less in total as you'll get some money from other bodies.
But yeah, it'll take a while

Wooow that much? Thanks for the reply my friend. I don't think that i want this exploration trip to last more than 3 weeks and the reason is that i have spent too much time in AspX. Conda is slow in SC not the best for neutron farming and DBX doesnt have the internals to take everything that i want including one SRV. So AspX is still the best overall option.

 

[Mysturji]

Bumped. For the bumpiness. And all the returning Distant Worlders.

 

[deathcoy]

I'm new to exploration and doing it purely to gain rep with engineers.
So i have questions, on the way to neutron field do you guys just do a normal scan sweep of the system and move to the next system or do you scan individual planets too?
From the reading the guide, neutron stars/black holes are the main source of income instead of the planets and other celestial bodies right?

I don't care about explorer ranks and exploration itself as i just need exactly 20 million exploration credits for engineer rep and the fastest route and shortest time. If scanning primarily neutron stars are the more efficient route then i'll skip all the planets.

 

[Jaiotu]

I'm new to exploration and doing it purely to gain rep with engineers.
So i have questions, on the way to neutron field do you guys just do a normal scan sweep of the system and move to the next system or do you scan individual planets too?
From the reading the guide, neutron stars/black holes are the main source of income instead of the planets and other celestial bodies right?

I don't care about explorer ranks as i just need 20 million credits and the fastest route and shortest time. If scanning primarily neutron stars are the more efficient route then i'll skip all the planets.

I did the 'Honk, Scoop, Jump' routine on my way to the Neutron Fields on my last trip. Scanned about 50 Neutron Stars and then 'Honk, Scoop, Jumped' all the way to Maia where I picked up Meta Alloys and delivered to Felicity Farseer. I delivered the alloys, waited for Universal Cartographics to become available (takes about 10 minutes or you can log out and back in) and then sold what amounted to nearly 30 million credits worth of data. Instantly unlocked her to grade 5.

 

[deathcoy]

I did the 'Honk, Scoop, Jump' routine on my way to the Neutron Fields on my last trip. Scanned about 50 Neutron Stars and then 'Honk, Scoop, Jumped' all the way to Maia where I picked up Meta Alloys and delivered to Felicity Farseer. I delivered the alloys, waited for Universal Cartographics to become available (takes about 10 minutes or you can log out and back in) and then sold what amounted to nearly 30 million credits worth of data. Instantly unlocked her to grade 5.

Thank you so much!
I'll honk and jump then.

 

[Corbin Moran]

Based on Kancro´s description in the OP, I have tried to render the neutron fields onto the galactic map (click images to enlarge):


In this top-down view the borders are deliberately made fuzzy, to indicate that there are no clear lines marking the outer perimeter of the neutron fields.


In this side view, I have tried to illustrate that the fields are more clearly defined when approached from the galactic plane.

 

[Arnoldo]

Thanks Cmdr, a very usual visual!

Cmdr A

 

[nullgenome]

I found a smallish cluster of neutrons only 2500ly from Jaques on my way to Sag A*. I didn't really note down too much but came across it by accident. There were enough enurton systems for me to run out of bookmarks and I didn't get them all.

Once finished came straight back to Jaques. About 450 systems round trip, nearly 10 black holes, two of which were already explored so not sure why so much else wasn't, couple of ELW and a few WW. All in all it got me 20 million as nearly all were 1st discoveries:

Spoiler

Spoiler

Went from 96% ranger to 18% pioneer

 

[Manticore]

In my travels I'm always coming across neutron stars and just found a whole chain of them coming back to Eol Prou from Dryooe Prou while exploring around Colonia.

From this week's Travelogue if anyone is interested:

The Dryooe Prou/Eol Prou Neutron Starfield

Coming back to Colonia from the Dryooe Prou "Lower" Nebula Amazon's navigation computer hit on a whole chain of neutron stars.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...Interstellar-Travelogue?p=5070113#post5070113

o7!

 

[Rimsey]

I'm in my 2nd run out to the Neutron fields. I've scanned about 400 so far but i'm seriously loosing co-ordination lol. How do people keep track of what theyre scanning and what direction they are floating in.
At the moment I am just going star to star but I usually end up drifting off in whatever direction the stars take me.
Is there a way of keeping track of what you've scanned. I've thought of just setting a favorite at every star but seems a bit extreme.

 

[iain666]

Is there a way of keeping track of what you've scanned. I've thought of just setting a favorite at every star but seems a bit extreme.

There's the visited stars filter on the galmap.

You can also use ED Discovery, because I'll never miss a chance to plug that, for tracking your travels and other useful features.

 

[mikelowndes]

There's the visited stars filter on the galmap.

You can also use ED Discovery, because I'll never miss a chance to plug that, for tracking your travels and other useful features.

+1 eddiscovery, which also syncs with EDSM. I don't use it to plot routes but for recording its great. There are so many neutrons out there that you can go slightly mad. So just scan for creds then supercharge home.

 

[Cometborne]

How do people keep track of what theyre scanning and what direction they are floating in.

If you are in the neutron fields, switch your galmap to show non-sequence stars only, apply that as a filter to your route, select a neutron star almost 1000 LY away, plot, and let rip.

 

[Rimsey]

If you are in the neutron fields, switch your galmap to show non-sequence stars only, apply that as a filter to your route, select a neutron star almost 1000 LY away, plot, and let rip.

Never thought of doing that, I just selected non sequenced stars and hand picked from the GM every time. this is much faster. cheers

 

[thadius856]

If you are in the neutron fields, switch your galmap to show non-sequence stars only, apply that as a filter to your route, select a neutron star almost 1000 LY away, plot, and let rip.

Plot economical if you want to go nowhere fast. Depending on density though, might want to make the destination well under a kylie. From 100 ly below Jaques, I plotted 980 ly towards SagA* neutron-only and my route was 118j. Took 23 minutes to compute though. A 500 ly economical plot took about 3 minutes.

- - - Updated - - -

In my travels I'm always coming across neutron stars and just found a whole chain of them coming back to Eol Prou from Dryooe Prou while exploring around Colonia.

From this week's Travelogue if anyone is interested:



https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...Interstellar-Travelogue?p=5070113#post5070113

o7!

You can plot neutron-only basically all the way to Sagitarrius A* from Colonia.

http://www.spansh.co.uk/?from=Colon...778-E8DB-11E6-B19F-C48C2A4035C8&efficiency=80

 

[Manticore]

New N star field survey published in Galnet/Colonia today:

N-Star Superhighway Interchange For Colonia Discovered

Surveying around EOL PROU Sector in support of the Colonia Expansion has revealed a significant star field of Neutron and White Dwarfs stars.

Situated approximately 450LY’s from the Expansion colonies in a volume of space bordering EOL PROU and SPOIHAAE Sectors, the surveyed star field has already yielded fifty mapped systems containing Class N and D high energy emitters. Preliminary data on the scanned systems has been logged with Universal Cartographics.

With the Colonia Expansion Initiative gaining momentum the EOL PROU/SPOIHAAE Sectors neutron star field provides a valuable resource for migrating Commanders wishing to commute to The Bubble and for explorers wishing to use Colonia as a base of operations.

Further exploration into the SPOIHAAE sector neutron star field is already underway.


Display name: Cmdr Pingmonster

I will be posting a more comprehensive report on this survey to my Travelogue by week's end:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/248418-Cmdr-Pingmonster-s-Interstellar-Travelogue

There is, however, too much map data to be posted to the Travelogue (probably over 50 Class N and more than that Class D systems!)

Unfortunately I'm not much of a cartographer (it's all about exploring!) so I keep system map screenshots but I don't do spreadsheets etc.

I will just post some map data and some nice happy snaps but the N-star field is immense.

 

[Greyza Badger]

Currently pottering around the Western Alpha field.

Found some really nice double NS systems and NS with two close regular stars orbiting etc.
The nicest surprise was the number of NS systems that contain HMC, GG, WW and ELWs.
I was heading back to Colonia, but I might do a bit more farming whilst here.

Also, the gravitational lensing around the distant NS when zipping around the system was a nice touch.

 

[Fyrd Judge]

One thing i noticed when travelling -800ly > -1100ly below the Horizontal, across one end of the Galaxy to the other end (for the last 4 months), is that Neutron stars are everywhere with distances averaging from each other at 50ly-60ly, unless you hit dense fields. So get a ship average jump distance of 80ly, you then can reach 80% of all neutron stars in single jumps from one end of the galaxy to the other at -900ly > -1100ly below the horizontal. I have yet to find any area on the map, except near the edges of the map, where i can't use just Neutron stars.

I have yet to explore in depth at +900ly > +1100ly above the horizontal, but it is safe to say it is nothing like what i found in the depths of the galaxy map.

I tend to use them now as a subway to move rapidly from one area to another, across the map.

 

[Bam]

If you are in the neutron fields, switch your galmap to show non-sequence stars only, apply that as a filter to your route, select a neutron star almost 1000 LY away, plot, and let rip.

If you are in real dense areas set it to economical too, but I would limit it to 1-200ly at a time