Why do you explore????

Cap n Smash

Cap n Smash
For me it is to go "Where No One has Gone Before" (sorry I had to). Plus I am not a big fan of crowded spaces. So what drives you to explore the deep dark recesses of space?


"Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns"
Carl Sagan
 

Alex Brentnall

Alex Brentnall
The pretty pics, the silence and the lack of human or other characters.

On a serious note It gives me time to block watch films and series with little-no panic moments :)
 

MarcusVatta

MarcusVatta
"To stand upon the surface of an unknown world, and look beyond it, to the next one."

I love the concept of seeing something that no one has ever seen before. If you are the first to enter a system, chances are you are the first person to ever see that place, including the staff at Frontier. I love visiting little-visited places in the real world, but un-visited? That's pretty much gone on this planet, short of the bottom of a cave or the ocean somewhere. Other games offer exploration, but you're visiting someone's creation. That's fun, but this is really pure "I have seen what no one else has seen" stuff.

Even the real manned "space exploration" is "journey into the known" with nothing left to chance about what astronauts will find. Pluto was probably the last good kick at the can for unknown worlds in my lifetime. Bring on the simulation until someone builds a wormhole in their garage.
 

RanbowTrout

RanbowTrout
Honestly? The best I can come up with is "Because it's there." That's always been enough so far, though.

The lack of other players to encounter can be something of a plus, too, although my thinking on that varies depending on whoever I most recently ran into.

And the view. Now that I think about it, that might actually be the best reason I have - finding more stuff like this:

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EUS

EUS
I'm exploring as I had enough trading, and combat for a while.
For me, exploring hasn't become a chore, or boring at all.
Get your name on systems all over the galaxy, what's not to like?
Fun way to get elite rank as well.

As an aside, I see people talk about netflix, movies, reading, etc., while exploring.
I must be exploring wrong, because I cannot find the time to do anything extra while exploring.
Enter system, scan main body, check out system for potential ww, etc., go to galaxy view, plot next jump, all the while looking for black holes, get back to ship view, and jump.
Maybe fuel scoop.
But each jump (if no extra bodies are interesting to me) lasts 2 minutes, tops, where I'm actually doing things.
 
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WR3ND

WR3ND
Well, at first I was curious if the black hole in the center of our galaxy was in the game, then quickly found out that it was from reading the threads here.

I knew I wanted to get into exploration at some point, but what kind of kick-started it the most was wanting to test out the DbS and not finding a space station that I wanted to call home yet. I think I'll set up my base of operations at JM once I reach Elite in exploration, but we'll see.

I had been looking for the station in the following video, and while I found a couple versions of it, it turns out that the "real" Bixby Station is no longer in the game.

[video=youtube;3IUdK_rmabI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IUdK_rmabI[/video]

Because of this video I was also introduced to Suduaya's music and now use the following YouTube playlist I made as my main go to exploration background music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SlA-_GCi7Y&list=PL7ZYyNeuWYsKVBgSZ69odO4wiDCBpatvq&index

Beyond that, I'm naturally curious and like figuring out and seeing how things work.
 
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Cdr Voorheez

Cdr Voorheez
A good question and several replies to that one:

1. I find it relaxing
2. I like to first tag a system
3. I find the exploring element very interesting
4. It's a genuine challenge
5. You are thousands of LYs away from the cerebrally challenged griefers in the bubble
6. It's financially potentially very rewarding
7. It's in my opinion the best way to get to Elite
8. It's the best way to get to know how your ship works and it's associated systems in relation to that ship.

All summed up in my exploration log: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=175407
 
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Zelos1983

Z
"to boldly go where no one has gone before.."

Personally, I don't like humans, or politics or crowded spaces. Exploring the galaxy allows me to get away from all that, at least in RPG.
 

AsukaZ

AsukaZ
I don't know really, curiosity I suppose.

I'm attracted to games that let me explore even if only a little. In on-rails shooters, I'm always thinking "What's around that corner?" or "what's down that corridor?" even if the objective is to go this way, if I see a path that goes that way I'll go down that way just to have a look. The benefit of that is that often there's good loot to be found in hidden corners, not that I'm really looking for it, it's just a bonus. My favourite games were minecraft, the elder scrolls and fallout series, and when I play them I spend most of my time exploring.

Even in real life I'll just wander off on my own and go exploring. I guess you could call me a loner. It's not that I don't care about people (I do) but a lot of what they talk about, politics, fashion, who's doing who, the latest sports results, doesn't hold much interest for me.
 
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newman1702

newman1702
I've always been fascinated by space, ever since I was a kid. I must have read Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" dozens of times. Nowadays my hobby is amateur astronomy, while I work in game dev for a living. This is the first game that I've seen where you could sit in the cockpit of your space ship and go explore a realistically sized galaxy. It would have been a wonder for me not to go explore. Plus, there's something inspiring about being the first living being in a star system since it was created..

Granted, Elite 2 and 3 also had huge explorable galaxies, but this is the first one where it looks close enough to the real thing that I can shed suspension of disbelief and for a short time, feel like I'm actually there.
 

Muzz UK

Muzz UK
I started exploring as I wanted something to do whilst waiting for 1.4... I love Elite but even missions and hunting were boring and I love exploring. I really wish I had done it sooner to get my name on the nebula systems. I've covered about 2000 systems and just finished a field of 60 neutrons and white dwarf stars.

The biggest thing for me is not the credits but the fact my name will always and forever be listed as the discoverer of many systems! I find I can knock out 4 - 8 hours exploring and watch films or surf the web on a 2nd monitor.
 
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