What type of explorer are you? - how you choose where to go

This is to define you as an explorer based on how you choose your expeditions.

1. The Adventurer - you don't have any criteria at all. You just pick a random coordinate on a whim and go there and hope to discover amazing unexpected things along the way.

2. The Cartographer - you are here to fulfil your dreams of seeing the stars you have always wanted to see. You go to famous locations, nebulae, stars, constellations that you've dreamed about since you were but a child staring at wonderful pictures in your astronomy book.

3. The Fortune Hunter - you go for the money. The main criteria in deciding where to go is where are the bucks? You head for neutron fields, you pick paths as best you can that will get you the most firsts, you take time to hit the Gs and Fs to get your ELWs

4. The Aspiring Star - you go for whatever has a chance to make you famous. You try your best to find and do things that no one else has attempted. You go for new sights, new goals, new records and you document them for everyone to see.

5. The Checklist Keeper - you want to see everything. See every star type, every combination, be at every unique location in the galaxy. Your desire to learn about the cosmos is your drive, and science and intruigue are your fuel. When someone comes up with a new idea, such as going to the roof of the galaxy you immediately set out to try it.

6. The Armchair Explorer- you don't fit into any of the above categories, per se, but you take a little of all of them. You start each expedition with a specific destination in mind, and you go there, hoping to see things along the way, trying to get some firsts, possibly running into something unique, but really just hoping to be there and back in a reasonable time to continue your bounty hunting and trading.

7. The Runner - Endurance! You set yourself massive goals like circling the entire galaxy, heading to the most distant world, scanning every object in an entire sector. You don't settle for the easy, and you are gone for months at a time.

8. The Role-Player - you make up your own stories and go by them. You've managed to retain your ability to use your imagination as a source of sublime entertainment where most people have lost it, and you are proud of it.

Perhaps you are none of these? Feel free to share your own motivations
 
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I find a role play reason to hunt for something. Last trip out I was 'hunting for the Borg and the Ocampa'. I Knew there would be nothing to find, but my Cmdr didn't.
This tends to make long distances just honk and scoop, with a brief ocd session at the destination.
 
I find a role play reason to hunt for something. Last trip out I was 'hunting for the Borg and the Ocampa'. I Knew there would be nothing to find, but my Cmdr didn't.
This tends to make long distances just honk and scoop, with a brief ocd session at the destination.

Good thing you're able to get to the delta quadrant in under 70 years. See any weird arrays out there?
 
i dont think you can 'pigeon hole' how players explore. Each player will explore with his/her own goals & aims in mind depending on the time they have available to play. I dont fit into any of the categories that you state in your OP.
 
I'm kinda an armchair explorer, but i do not always have a goal, often i just go in a general direction.
And i never really return to inhabited space to do other stuff, i have tried a few times but it just isn't for me anymore.

Then again i am kinda the one for getting alot of firsts, but i don't just scan every undiscovered system near inhabited space or even when there's a whole nebula to discover, i don't explore much of it.

And from time to time i do go in neutron fields, but only when they're in my general path.
But then again a big reason why i go in neutron feels is also that i want to find that odd earthlike orbiting a neutron star.

And my main reason for exploration is really to see stuff, but not real stuff.
 
For me the closest i suppose is the Adventurer.

But this probably sums up me best:

[video=youtube;aFZKlfRrGbw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFZKlfRrGbw[/video]
 
Lot of 7 [Thanks SB!] with a touch of OCD thrown in.
I am currently attempting to scan every object in every system that starts with a certain name. No particular name, just one I picked at random a reasonable distance from Sol. Once I have finished all of that, which is turning out to be a much bigger task than I originally expected, I will turn tourist and do the popular destinations including Sag. A and attempt a circumnavigation of the galaxy.
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Thanks to the increased options in the OP, I need to clarify. I am definately Surly_Badger's number 7. I explore to be as far away from the grade 4 ignorant, make two short planks look like a computer, numpties that I work with. I do get wound up over what can be the stupidest of things - the people I work with not knowing how to use safety equipment and basic torque tools, or how to store basic measuring equipment when such is the basis of the job. So when I get 'home' from work, if the internet connection is stable, then I like nothing more than to spend a few hours lazily flying round a number of systems, emptying my mind of troubles whilst scanning everything in sight. The larger the number of objects in the system, the happier I am as it means longer before I have to make another decision as to where to go next.
 
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Like Jackie, I am also motivated by science. And I am blown away by the accuracy of the model. That being said, I haven't gotten very far beyond quite literal "armchair exploring" out to 2000kly, because I am waiting for an explorer patch that makes it a bit more involved and decision oriented. The passive scanning mechanic and complete lack of drama can't hold my attention long enough for me to commit to more than a short out-and-back sojourn.
 
2 ish. Now also collecting data to add to Jackie Silver's efforts.

Science will get done, and then there will be cake.

(the cake is a lie)
 
I just do it because - for some weird reason - it seems to relax me after a hard day in work.
Occulus on - headphones in - spotify on 80s playlist and thats me for 3 hours a night - me, my ship, cheesy 80s music -no outside world to bother me.

So mostly number 1
 
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I'm a 7 I guess. Endurance appears to be my primary goal.
Gawd knows why though, I'm missing out on so many other aspects of the game but I just can't help myself.
I've been out for months, but I feel that if I came home now somehow I would have failed.

Failed how? No idea.

I need help.
 
Personally I pick a direction, plot 500ls to 1000ls route and see what's out there. Pot luck and random.
 
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