Thank you for the views!
On my way home from my first exploration mission, it was cut short due to some bad luck and some even worse flying. But I think i'm hooked on exploration after grinding a T7.
So what did I manage to see so far? More than I can remember, I found my first Earthlike, neutron stars, carbon stars, Still haven't happened on a black hole, but I'm going back out there as soon as I can.
About 2k Ly out, I jumped into a binary star with three suns less than 30ls apart. Two of which were WAY too close, and that's where i dropped in. (really? dear creator Who DOES that?)
After wrangling a less than cooperative ASP out from between a sun and a hot place, i proceeded to jump directly to a neutron star, a tiny little infinitesimal white speck in the darkness. Which I immediately figured I should get a closer look at... those of you who have been close to a neutron star knows not to try that one. So now my ASP is sparking wildly, systems failing, FSD malfunctioned, in short. Everything that could go wrong did, and did in a hurry.
This is where the experience really shines. The fear of struggling against time, physics, and an already damaged ship beats any excitement I ever got wrestling pirates at any RES. The notion of losing what little data I had compared to the real explorers out there had me almost in a cold sweat.
Once i got out of there, i realized that I have to bring the ship back for repairs. Only 2500ly out, and I'm already cutting my losses and heading home.
Of course, I had to make a detour for another Neutron star on the way, as soon as I dropped in, I yanked the ship hard away from it and throttled to a much safer distance.
That's when the Discovery scanner pointed out two nice little planets. One of which looked like just the type of Hell I should have learned to avoid by now. Should have being the operative word.
Oh the views...
I can't say enough good things about this game right now. I was getting bored of grinding, thought i was going to find nothing but already discovered systems if i tried exploring, but the galaxy is big. VERY Big... True, there's tons of systems closed to civilized space that are already marked as Discovered by "..." Sometimes you hit an area of space that some OCD explorer has been though with a fine tooth comb. (and there's a couple of you out there I'll run a torpedo up your exhaust when I see...
Then there's that time when you hit your own little sector of space, nothing but unexplored systems, and so much to see.
So to the creators of the Universe, thank you for the views. (and with the debug cam they make nice screenshots)
On my way home from my first exploration mission, it was cut short due to some bad luck and some even worse flying. But I think i'm hooked on exploration after grinding a T7.
So what did I manage to see so far? More than I can remember, I found my first Earthlike, neutron stars, carbon stars, Still haven't happened on a black hole, but I'm going back out there as soon as I can.
About 2k Ly out, I jumped into a binary star with three suns less than 30ls apart. Two of which were WAY too close, and that's where i dropped in. (really? dear creator Who DOES that?)
After wrangling a less than cooperative ASP out from between a sun and a hot place, i proceeded to jump directly to a neutron star, a tiny little infinitesimal white speck in the darkness. Which I immediately figured I should get a closer look at... those of you who have been close to a neutron star knows not to try that one. So now my ASP is sparking wildly, systems failing, FSD malfunctioned, in short. Everything that could go wrong did, and did in a hurry.
This is where the experience really shines. The fear of struggling against time, physics, and an already damaged ship beats any excitement I ever got wrestling pirates at any RES. The notion of losing what little data I had compared to the real explorers out there had me almost in a cold sweat.
Once i got out of there, i realized that I have to bring the ship back for repairs. Only 2500ly out, and I'm already cutting my losses and heading home.
Of course, I had to make a detour for another Neutron star on the way, as soon as I dropped in, I yanked the ship hard away from it and throttled to a much safer distance.
That's when the Discovery scanner pointed out two nice little planets. One of which looked like just the type of Hell I should have learned to avoid by now. Should have being the operative word.
Oh the views...
I can't say enough good things about this game right now. I was getting bored of grinding, thought i was going to find nothing but already discovered systems if i tried exploring, but the galaxy is big. VERY Big... True, there's tons of systems closed to civilized space that are already marked as Discovered by "..." Sometimes you hit an area of space that some OCD explorer has been though with a fine tooth comb. (and there's a couple of you out there I'll run a torpedo up your exhaust when I see...
Then there's that time when you hit your own little sector of space, nothing but unexplored systems, and so much to see.
So to the creators of the Universe, thank you for the views. (and with the debug cam they make nice screenshots)
