What to do in Colonia and SagA (and on the way to)

[Goblin949]

Sit idle for hours at each Colonia Highway outpost.

Be Colonia's big league explorer and don't explore any of the (very) close by systems.

Take a look at SagA very interesting visual effects, which aren't that different from effects of any other black hole.

Be effective, DSS only the arrival star. This will add so much value to just honking, not those metallic planets in scan reach right from arrival, and especially not those terraformables close by. And you even don't spend time for your very fast traveling.

Be known explorer, forget about those distant unexplored bodies, who needs them anyway.

Use only 3rd party plotter, it won't skip good neutron stars for you.

While traveling vast distances between stars (and planets, if you're not an effective explorer, but I'm sure you are!), watch movies, read books, play other games, just don't play this game. Then miss the time to slow/stop and do a return trip while watching movies, reading books, playing other games. Repeat as necessary.

Transfer all of your ships to Colonia, figure out that it isn't that fruitful for combat, passengers, trading, mining, etc., make a trip back to bubble, transfer all of your ships back and complain about many millions lost. On the next day read someone's saying that Colonia is all good now and transfer all of your ships - you're proficient now - ship modules - there. Repeat as above.

Do engineering stuff in Colonia, find that you have a wrong blueprint pinned.

Buy the game again for an another account - double, triple, insert-your-count the same above fun. Then get lost in your multiple personalities.

Add yours?

 

[Krash]

I'll be following this thread as I'm close to making the trip myself. The only thing missing is a "road to riches" style list of earth-likes and stations along the way. My main purpose of the trip is to hit Elite rank.

 

[Bryan K]

I'll be following this thread as I'm close to making the trip myself. The only thing missing is a "road to riches" style list of earth-likes and stations along the way. My main purpose of the trip is to hit Elite rank.

I was Ranger when I left for the trip, and after scanning about 600 neutron stars during the round-trip (a few were first discoveries) I only got to less than 20% Pioneer.

I wouldn’t bet on reaching Elite if I were you.

 

[IndigoWyrd]

Been an Elite explorer for a long time now. Don't see any real reason to ever venture to Colonia at this point.
There's the same things to do there as there are here, only less of them.

Perhaps when they finally overhaul Exploration....

 

[Goblin949]

I'll be following this thread as I'm close to making the trip myself. The only thing missing is a "road to riches" style list of earth-likes and stations along the way. My main purpose of the trip is to hit Elite rank.

Well, I forgot what rank it was when I departed, but I made to Elite somewhere amidst Colonia Highway. Scanning only good planets (metal-rich, etc.) and everything undiscovered up to Colonia provided around 30M credits. I'm soon to return to bubble, so can tell what entire trip has brought if you want.

And before just-play-the-game sectarians have arrived, the same plotter has "road to riches" tool: https://spansh.co.uk/riches. For me it's too boring compared to neutron jumping, but it lists everything of real value (but only discovered and uploaded to EDDB).

I was Ranger when I left for the trip, and after scanning about 600 neutron stars during the round-trip (a few were first discoveries) I only got to less than 20% Pioneer.

Haha, item 4!

 

[Goblin949]

Been an Elite explorer for a long time now. Don't see any real reason to ever venture to Colonia at this point.
There's the same things to do there as there are here, only less of them.

Perhaps when they finally overhaul Exploration....

Exactly, if only travel less to sell the data.

 

[XW_Ziggy]

If you want Elite exploration rank, you need to do the long-range passenger missions. It's far more effective than getting to Colonia which is barely more useful than just honking systems around the bubble as you scoop.

 

[Vasco Sapien]

Toe nails.. clip, trim, polish, paint, repeat.

 

[IndigoWyrd]

Toe nails.. clip, trim, polish, paint, repeat.

Just remember, Klingon Toenail polish is toxic to most other races.

 

[Vasco Sapien]

Just remember, Klingon Toenail polish is toxic to most other races.

I didnt know that.... could explain a few things.

 

[Goblin949]

Okay, so I'm back. From Colonia to SagA and back to bubble I've got around 56M. Here I scanned mostly just unexplored bodies.

So ya, it's no good for ranking. And way too boring if you're not prepared for just going for sightseeing. Using "road to riches" tool would be far more effective, not so sure about passenger missions, only can say that in-bubble passengers were not too boring.

Edit: Forgot about first discovery bonus, so it's 26M more. No real difference.

 

[Krash]

A friend of mine made this trip when he first started playing, so exploration rank "clueless" or whatever, he came back with 200mil and elite rank. Based on what you guys are saying here I'm guessing he did some extra detours.

 

[Sadistic Intentions]

Sarcarsm? I don't likes sarcarsm, I don'ts.

 

[Darth Ender]

The best thing to do is spread out the journey while doing chores and watching TV shows, playing other games and reading books. Like 3-4 jumps every day or so.

Otherwise the negativity will sink in and take root and you will learn to hate so much about the game and those who made it.

If you want to like playing the game, you can't let yourself experience its truth.

 

[Goblin949]

A friend of mine made this trip when he first started playing, so exploration rank "clueless" or whatever, he came back with 200mil and elite rank. Based on what you guys are saying here I'm guessing he did some extra detours.

He probably did less boosted jumps, whether it's many more jumps or main sequence stars are more frequent to have terraformables near them.

For comparison, if I went the practical way, it'd pay just a bit less credits for faaar less jumps and time:
https://spansh.co.uk/riches/results...?from=Sol&max_results=100&radius=300&range=48

Estimated 73M and 230 jumps, scanning only terraformables and earth-likes, metal-rich etc. would probably bring another 10M.

 

[Goblin949]

The best thing to do is spread out the journey while doing chores and watching TV shows, playing other games and reading books. Like 3-4 jumps every day or so.

Otherwise the negativity will sink in and take root and you will learn to hate so much about the game and those who made it.

If you want to like playing the game, you can't let yourself experience its truth.

Oh yeah, I'll add more of that to my first post!

 

[Krash]

He probably did less boosted jumps, whether it's many more jumps or main sequence stars are more frequent to have terraformables near them.

For comparison, if I went the practical way, it'd pay just a bit less credits for faaar less jumps and time:
https://spansh.co.uk/riches/results...?from=Sol&max_results=100&radius=300&range=48

Estimated 73M and 230 jumps, scanning only terraformables and earth-likes, metal-rich etc. would probably bring another 10M.

Thanks for sharing that site! That's exactly what I was looking for. I'm guessing you manually input each step of the way?

 

[Ian Doncaster]

I'll be following this thread as I'm close to making the trip myself. The only thing missing is a "road to riches" style list of earth-likes and stations along the way. My main purpose of the trip is to hit Elite rank.

Here's the highway stations between Sol and Colonia: https://www.edsm.net/en/galactic-routes/show/id/885/name/Sol+to+Colonia,+combined+highways
(Not listed but not much of a detour, there's another station in the Omega nebula)

When you get to Colonia, scanning all the inhabited systems there will get you about 37 million credits (over 10% of Elite), though being slightly more selective could as always get you about half of that in much less than half the time. There are lots of high-value uninhabited systems in the area as well.

Past Colonia to Sag A*, or from Sag A* back towards the bubble, there's basically nothing else to dock with until you get back towards the Eagle/Omega/Lagoon nebulae.

 

[Krash]

Here's the highway stations between Sol and Colonia: https://www.edsm.net/en/galactic-routes/show/id/885/name/Sol+to+Colonia,+combined+highways
(Not listed but not much of a detour, there's another station in the Omega nebula)

When you get to Colonia, scanning all the inhabited systems there will get you about 37 million credits (over 10% of Elite), though being slightly more selective could as always get you about half of that in much less than half the time. There are lots of high-value uninhabited systems in the area as well.

Past Colonia to Sag A*, or from Sag A* back towards the bubble, there's basically nothing else to dock with until you get back towards the Eagle/Omega/Lagoon nebulae.

Looks like I'll be busy with the rep btn when I get home today.

Does anyone bother with weapons on exploration ships? I might lose 2-3ly but I don't want to be defenseless around these asteroid stations with pages of data waiting to upload.

 

[Goblin949]

Thanks for sharing that site! That's exactly what I was looking for. I'm guessing you manually input each step of the way?

No, it's automatic. Just input parameters in the left panel and it generates a list of bodies to scan which meet the value criteria and are in the range you've set. Check the tooltips by hovering over "i" symbols.