You say that, and they forty years down the line and you are retiring and decommissioning your ship. You never did find those keys, even after decades of searching... then you find them wedged down the back of the pilots chair...
Why do you explore?
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You say that, and they forty years down the line and you are retiring and decommissioning your ship. You never did find those keys, even after decades of searching... then you find them wedged down the back of the pilots chair...
Just live in your ship. It's probably easier in the long run.
Why do I explore? I wonder that often. Exploration in this game is a little basic and very repetitive. And yet... the lure of feeling like a pioneer excites me. There's just something about being a long way from home and help on the search for something that has never been seen before.
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Most likely. Probably wedged behind the chair of a ship I haven't taken out in twenty years.
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Dudleesmuk
Banned
Why I explore?
I am new to this game on the X Box 1. I have less than 30 hours playing time at the time of this posting. I wanted a new game that I could play with my friends. I can not say why but, all I want to do is go where no one has gone before. My friends can not understand why I am out here in the depths. My plan was to leave in the Sidewinder and sell data to return in a Python or some thing else huge. My heart broke when I found out there is no where to sell the data out there. So I returned after a 600 light year trip where I found a 10 planet system that had never been seen before to sell the data to get my name on them. I made 3.5 million from the data. Pennies in this game. I used that to get a Cobra. I did a few kills with friends to make some bounties and fill some missions for pirates. I sunk every thing into my ship. It is a long haul compact explorer. Now I am out again with a new goal. go to the far side of the galaxy.
It would be great if there was a bit more explorer game play. I am not out her for the money. I am not out here to put my name on any thing else, that goal is complete. I just want to go where no one else has.
I am new to this game on the X Box 1. I have less than 30 hours playing time at the time of this posting. I wanted a new game that I could play with my friends. I can not say why but, all I want to do is go where no one has gone before. My friends can not understand why I am out here in the depths. My plan was to leave in the Sidewinder and sell data to return in a Python or some thing else huge. My heart broke when I found out there is no where to sell the data out there. So I returned after a 600 light year trip where I found a 10 planet system that had never been seen before to sell the data to get my name on them. I made 3.5 million from the data. Pennies in this game. I used that to get a Cobra. I did a few kills with friends to make some bounties and fill some missions for pirates. I sunk every thing into my ship. It is a long haul compact explorer. Now I am out again with a new goal. go to the far side of the galaxy.
It would be great if there was a bit more explorer game play. I am not out her for the money. I am not out here to put my name on any thing else, that goal is complete. I just want to go where no one else has.
Exploration has its good and bad points.
What I also like about exploration is that within the community you can discuss that without the histrionics you find elsewhere on the board.
What I also like about exploration is that within the community you can discuss that without the histrionics you find elsewhere on the board.
Mmmmh mmhhh ummmmh mmmh mmh ummhhh...
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Usually, I would say...
You never know what you can find...
But after a while, not so much
Veterans like me, we often find ourselves doing exploration paperwork after a while...
You never know what you can find...
But after a while, not so much
Veterans like me, we often find ourselves doing exploration paperwork after a while...
So is life in general, as a whole, but most people seem to enjoy it overall.
My exploring has been limited to systems that I haven't found (not to systems that no one has found). Having said that, I do enjoy searching the systems, "honking" the scanner in the face of the dark abyss, waiting for a scan to finish to see what the results are, and then eventually cashing in the information. Yes, it can have its moments of being mundane, but what's wrong with that. Not everything in Simplay/Gameplay has to be at Mach 10. Sometimes its good to be sitting back in the leather recliner, sipping a Pabst Blue Ribbon or a Jack Daniels Honey Whiskey, listening to the background soundtrack of Elite: Dangerous, and exploring the galaxy (or transporting the cargo, mining the ore, policing the skies).
Good stuff.
Good stuff.
My Co-Pilot
Jacques d'Orleans
Banned
Why I explore?
I'm the facilty manager of a kindergarten, an primary school and a secondary school.
I just need the silence and the vastness out there every evening. This and a few beers.
I'm the facilty manager of a kindergarten, an primary school and a secondary school.
I just need the silence and the vastness out there every evening. This and a few beers.
Jon474
Banned
To find planets with an axial tilt of 0 or 90 degrees.
To look at ringed ice-worlds (tilting anyway they like)
To find possible anomalies...like this Class-O star with an age of 18 million years. Normal lifespan for a Class-O star is shown to be 1-10 million years. Can we expect this to go bang, soon?
I'd better put a few LY between me and it.
Flying happily
Jon
Lakon Type-6E
To look at ringed ice-worlds (tilting anyway they like)
To find possible anomalies...like this Class-O star with an age of 18 million years. Normal lifespan for a Class-O star is shown to be 1-10 million years. Can we expect this to go bang, soon?
I'd better put a few LY between me and it.
Flying happily
Jon
Lakon Type-6E
For me its getting my tag on as many objects as I can, OCD and exploration do not necessarily go hand in hand, if I jump into a system and there is an untagged object, I can't leave until I go scan it, no matter what it is or where it is, I have gone 500 k Ls to scan a single icy rock. It sucks, but I can deal with it, at least I get something out of it, my tag will go there. I also like to find extremes as well, or odd systems. I have a system that I discovered with 94 objects in it, now I'm back out looking to find a system with more than that, will take a lot of looking. Came across a system yesterday that had 100, but unfortunately, it was already discovered so it don't count for me, I have to be the first discoverer for it to count, and I have to get all the objects. Took me an hour and half to scan the 94 objects, they were of course spread out all over the place, had 53 rocky world moons in the system. Most system are humdrum and boring, but every once in awhile you run across a neat system that makes it all worthwhile. And since my hearing aint' so good anymore, I have to go and scan an object to see what it is, I don't let my eyes deceive me cause sometimes an object might look like one thing but be something different. That water world I went to scan cause it was untagged, such a pretty blue color, turned out to be an earth like instead, that was a nice find mainly because I wasn't the first one there, someone had been there before me and tagged the main star but didn't scan anything else in the system, it was in an A star system with about 7 objects, all within 2000 Ls of the star, the ELW was the 3rd planet, so about 400 Ls away, was I surprised to get my tag on it, as well as all the other high metal contents and a terra rocky world as well.
Another extreme that I came across and tagged was a planet with the B ring was 19 mil kilometers wide. I mean, I took a screen shot while I was 194 Ls away from the planet and still could not get the entire ring into the picture, the ring began at 6 mil k from the planet and went all the way to 25.2 mil k's.
Another extreme that I came across and tagged was a planet with the B ring was 19 mil kilometers wide. I mean, I took a screen shot while I was 194 Ls away from the planet and still could not get the entire ring into the picture, the ring began at 6 mil k from the planet and went all the way to 25.2 mil k's.
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Originally, because I was in awe of the simulated galaxy Frontier had built, and I wanted to see what bits of it looked like from the viewpoint of other bits.
I think a week after buying the game I'd already made it out to NGC 1333.
Then it became a slog to Elite. By the time I made my last trip to Colonia - in a combat build Courier, just for the extra rank it would get me - I was sick of exploring. Sick of it.
I stayed in the bubble, got Elite in trade, worked on some engineers, did some pew pew. Didn't think about exploring once. Then I decided to get the Corvette, which took a good month of dedicated mission boarding and nothing else. Bought it, fitted it out, engineered it, shot stuff for a week and then it was time to go to Eagle Nebula in any un-engineered snake ship for a Deep Recon X mucking about mission.
I did it in a Sidewinder in about 7 hours total game time. Surprisingly, the trip was completely painless. Loved it. Flew back, went back to Eagle Nebula again in my DBX. Then I went on to Colonia (again), and then onto Sag A* for the 4th time. I'm still out there, 25k from home, finding some amazing things.
Not doing it for rank, just doing it for fun.
I couldn't say why I enjoy it so much, it is loading screen after loading screen after all. But I do like guesstimating the distance between binary planets, imagining what they look like in relation to each other, and then going to see if I'm right.
I love finding volcanic potatoes. I'm currently looking for tiny ice worlds, of which the smallest I've seen so far is 500km radius. I'm sure there are smaller.
I love driving the SRV. I love landing.
I just love it out there.
I think a week after buying the game I'd already made it out to NGC 1333.
Then it became a slog to Elite. By the time I made my last trip to Colonia - in a combat build Courier, just for the extra rank it would get me - I was sick of exploring. Sick of it.
I stayed in the bubble, got Elite in trade, worked on some engineers, did some pew pew. Didn't think about exploring once. Then I decided to get the Corvette, which took a good month of dedicated mission boarding and nothing else. Bought it, fitted it out, engineered it, shot stuff for a week and then it was time to go to Eagle Nebula in any un-engineered snake ship for a Deep Recon X mucking about mission.
I did it in a Sidewinder in about 7 hours total game time. Surprisingly, the trip was completely painless. Loved it. Flew back, went back to Eagle Nebula again in my DBX. Then I went on to Colonia (again), and then onto Sag A* for the 4th time. I'm still out there, 25k from home, finding some amazing things.
Not doing it for rank, just doing it for fun.
I couldn't say why I enjoy it so much, it is loading screen after loading screen after all. But I do like guesstimating the distance between binary planets, imagining what they look like in relation to each other, and then going to see if I'm right.
I love finding volcanic potatoes. I'm currently looking for tiny ice worlds, of which the smallest I've seen so far is 500km radius. I'm sure there are smaller.
I love driving the SRV. I love landing.
I just love it out there.
I like exploring and I appreciate coming back to civilisation and doing missions etc.
But I get itchy feet.
I've been hanging around The Bubble most of this year and I'm ready to go again. Off to Colonia for the second time (hitting some nebulae bookmarked last year along the way) and then the truly big one, Beagle Point.
I hope to make Beagle Point over the Xmas/New Year 3303/04.
Time in The Bubble, Pleiades and "local" exploring has been good, and fun, but I'm good to go again........ o7!
But I get itchy feet.
I've been hanging around The Bubble most of this year and I'm ready to go again. Off to Colonia for the second time (hitting some nebulae bookmarked last year along the way) and then the truly big one, Beagle Point.
I hope to make Beagle Point over the Xmas/New Year 3303/04.
Time in The Bubble, Pleiades and "local" exploring has been good, and fun, but I'm good to go again........ o7!