Newcomer / Intro Tutorial for Exploration

[Emmeric]

I have 300 hours on Elite Dangerous. I played until a year inside horizon expansion and now I wanted to come back and play again.

I like exploration. I did it a lot in my 300 hours. Now Frontier changed how exploration is done and I have no idea how to play the game.
I don't understand how it is logical not having an ingame tutorial for something so trivial. I don't want to watch a video, especially 3rd party, and I don't want to read 100 lines of FAQ , learn it like I am in school and then go try do the same in the game.

I'm very dissapointed. 2020 and the game is still missing simple things to make an easier learning curve.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Exploration changed quite a bit, but you can still do it "old skool" if you want.

Now, you use the disco scanner to honk, then the FSS to "explore" the make up of each body and the DSS if you fancy seeing what's what planetside. The best way to learn is to try it or watch a vid - which I know you don't want to do, but this is as good a place to start as any.

 

[Emmeric]

So I get the exploration data to sell by doing the old discovery scanner. But now I don't have to move close to each planet to scan it? I can use the FSS? And DSS for terrain scan when I'm on the planet. Do I get more exploration money this way? Is it worth it?

Thanks for the video, the one I found was made in 3 parts of like 20-40min video, so boring , with a player not very good in making tutorial so , i got furstrated that I had to watch
something like that to learn the game again.

 

[Para Handy]

I have 300 hours on Elite Dangerous. I played until a year inside horizon expansion and now I wanted to come back and play again.

I like exploration. I did it a lot in my 300 hours. Now Frontier changed how exploration is done and I have no idea how to play the game.
I don't understand how it is logical not having an ingame tutorial for something so trivial. I don't want to watch a video, especially 3rd party, and I don't want to read 100 lines of FAQ , learn it like I am in school and then go try do the same in the game.

I'm very dissapointed. 2020 and the game is still missing simple things to make an easier learning curve.

Why not read the codex's pilot guide exploration section in your ships right-hand UI panel?

There is an excellent up-to-date "Beginners Guide" pinned to the top of this sub-forum, the exploration section is very clear.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

So I get the exploration data to sell by doing the old discovery scanner. But now I don't have to move close to each planet to scan it? I can use the FSS? And DSS for terrain scan when I'm on the planet. Do I get more exploration money this way? Is it worth it?

That's exactly right. You can start scanning from when you enter the system.

The DSS will reveal POIs such as geo sites, or "hotspots" on ringed planets.

It is worth it, as far as I'm concerned. It won't compare with LTD mining if credits are your primary goal, but you can get quite a lot from the "road 2 riches".

 

[Emmeric]

Yeah as far as I remember exploration was never as profitable as trading or mining. Well at least there is an ingame tutorial for Mining. I think I wont have problem there.
I do need some cash fast , cause I'm standing on 2mil credits only, and I have an Imperial Clipper and a Type 9, which I dare not to use without the insurance costs.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

If you wanted some good money quick, try this one http://edtools.ddns.net/expl.php

Or, and the hotspot where CMDRs were raking it in before the FC dlc has now gone, look for a triple LTD hotspot - you may get lucky but I haven't found one yet and you need to do laser mining for that.

 

[aRJay]

When you arrive in the system and fire the discovery scanners it will get you about the same information and credits as the old ADS plus it will also get you the information and credits you would get by using the old detailed scanner on the arrival star and other very close bodies.

Coming to a ”halt” in supercruise far enough from the star that it is unlikely to block anything will let you use the FSS on the rest of the system this is the equivalent of visiting each body and getting a detailed scan before the changes.

Flying to each body and using the new DSS mapping tool on all planets moons and rings will gain you additional information and maximise your earnings from the system.

The downside to the new system is there are a lot of bindings to get set up and to get your head around.