Fist of the North Star? 
Way of the Exploring Fist
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This is our last dance.
This is ourselves.
or
Stop.
Collaborate and listen.
This is ourselves.
or
Stop.
Collaborate and listen.
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My exploring technique (for this trip anyway) is more slow and picky. I do a lot of what has been posted but I feel rather like a bee in a flower garden, hopping from star to star, hit T then honk then open local map to see what's worth a visit. I'm trying to stay as deep down as possible and often need to backtrack quite often just to find my way out and onward to the next scan. I have not set a time frame, I'm happy to stay out until ED have my land buggy ready to take for a spin. Hey thanks for this thread OP. This is very helpful stuff and interesting reading.
OK, I'll play...
First off, you should know that I quit playing E: D last Feb. when I built a new PC and somehow never got around to re-installing until this week...I know, I'm so ashamed.
Consequently, I'm way behind in the credit accumulating thing and am still working on building my Asp.
Anyway, I'm not an advanced explorer, I'm more of a prospector, looking for pristine metallic rings primarily, although water worlds and ELWs are always welcome.
My Asp is set up for full-on exploration of course, but is also fitted with a B3 refinery and a collector limpet controller...didn't bother with the prospector limpet controller, no bay for it.
It has 64 cargo slots and I usually carry a dozen collector limpets when I depart.
It is also fully armed with 2 gimballed L2 burst lasers, 2 L1 turreted pulse lasers, and 2 L1 mining lasers...I'm an American, you know how we are about guns.
I chose an all-laser setup because I don't like buying ammo...and with an A rated power distributor, my guns don't overheat with 3 pips in Weapons.
Fully loaded with metal, the jump range is 24.something LY...not wonderful, but acceptable.
It's kinda nice pulling into port and dumping a load of metal worth 750,000-1,000,000 credits in addition to the cartographic data...instant Friendly rep.
First off, you should know that I quit playing E: D last Feb. when I built a new PC and somehow never got around to re-installing until this week...I know, I'm so ashamed.
Consequently, I'm way behind in the credit accumulating thing and am still working on building my Asp.
Anyway, I'm not an advanced explorer, I'm more of a prospector, looking for pristine metallic rings primarily, although water worlds and ELWs are always welcome.
My Asp is set up for full-on exploration of course, but is also fitted with a B3 refinery and a collector limpet controller...didn't bother with the prospector limpet controller, no bay for it.
It has 64 cargo slots and I usually carry a dozen collector limpets when I depart.
It is also fully armed with 2 gimballed L2 burst lasers, 2 L1 turreted pulse lasers, and 2 L1 mining lasers...I'm an American, you know how we are about guns.
I chose an all-laser setup because I don't like buying ammo...and with an A rated power distributor, my guns don't overheat with 3 pips in Weapons.
Fully loaded with metal, the jump range is 24.something LY...not wonderful, but acceptable.
It's kinda nice pulling into port and dumping a load of metal worth 750,000-1,000,000 credits in addition to the cartographic data...instant Friendly rep.
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LOL. I got the reference, and believe it or not, have actually done some JKD training, but likely because of that, that clarification was a little... surprising.
(Yes, I realize this thread is a little older. I just hadn't noticed it yet.)
Mission accomplished
OK, I'll play...
First off, you should know that I quit playing E: D last Feb. when I built a new PC and somehow never got around to re-installing until this week...I know, I'm so ashamed.
Consequently, I'm way behind in the credit accumulating thing and am still working on building my Asp.
Anyway, I'm not an advanced explorer, I'm more of a prospector, looking for pristine metallic rings primarily, although water worlds and ELWs are always welcome.
My Asp is set up for full-on exploration of course, but is also fitted with a B3 refinery and a collector limpet controller...didn't bother with the prospector limpet controller, no bay for it.
It has 64 cargo slots and I usually carry a dozen collector limpets when I depart.
It is also fully armed with 2 gimballed L2 burst lasers, 2 L1 turreted pulse lasers, and 2 L1 mining lasers...I'm an American, you know how we are about guns.
I chose an all-laser setup because I don't like buying ammo...and with an A rated power distributor, my guns don't overheat with 3 pips in Weapons.
Fully loaded with metal, the jump range is 24.something LY...not wonderful, but acceptable.
It's kinda nice pulling into port and dumping a load of metal worth 750,000-1,000,000 credits in addition to the cartographic data...instant Friendly rep.
I don't believe even for a second you haul that many credits worth of ore with just 12 collectors! What is your secret? I mine with 120 and only sell them on mining missions and make about 2-3 mill
I mostly go system by system when jumping (with the star filter set to G-class or "better", with the occassional sweep for T Tauri and Herbigs), and I too have an obsession with HMCs - especially the terraformable ones It's fun to think about humans settling on some of these What would life be like on a planet with a water-heavy atmosphere around a neutron star? (sidenote: can't wait for planetary landings )
I'm not one for gas giants, with a strong exception for those with moons with atmospheres.
I have had to change tactic for my current trip to Sag A*, since I want to get there sometime this year That means plotting 1 kylie at a time and trying not to stop too many times along the way... and it's not going too well, to be honest
It's fun to think about humans settling on some of these What would life be like on a planet with a water-heavy atmosphere around a neutron star? (sidenote: can't wait for planetary landings )I'm not one for gas giants, with a strong exception for those with moons with atmospheres.
I have had to change tactic for my current trip to Sag A*, since I want to get there sometime this year
That means plotting 1 kylie at a time and trying not to stop too many times along the way... and it's not going too well, to be honest Well, like I said I don't use prospector drones, only collectors.
Basically, I get into a dense area of asteroids and just shoot everything nearby...don't let the drones sit idle while your searching for a new rock with only good stuff in it, you'll waste a lot of drone up-time.
After the drone expires, I'll high-grade my ores, dumping all the berty and indite and stuff, then move to another area and start again. If you have lots of cargo space, might as well keep all the 'ites', it all sells.
Pristine metallic rings only, I don't bother with Belts at all.
Also, never release a drone with a fragment targeted and never release one with just one target in sight...for some reason they often expire after only one pickup under those conditions.
Go check out Bokomu C2 inner rings, I pulled a LOT of painite out of there. It's not hard to make a million-credit load when your coming back in with 6 or 8 tons of painite per trip.
And happily, there's a station right there that pays top dollar for metals...have fun.