Wich Star types to exclude?

[Arnoldo]

As others have said, don't deselect anything if you want to live in hope of finding that rare or unusual object and use Eco plotting.

If seeking ELW, select A and F.
If seeking ELW and plotting long range, A, F and NS
If you want to maximise ELW, A and F using Eco.

I know that some fellow Cmdrs will say that Eco versus fast plotting makes no difference in probability of finding ELW in A & F but my experience is that you're much more likely to find an ELW in Eco. If I weren't so lazy, I'd analyse EDDiscovery logs to test the theory..

Oh, and as Cmdr Orvidius notes, filter visited if exploring a defined area (e.g. inside a nebula) to save repeating visits...

 

[iain666]

I know that some fellow Cmdrs will say that Eco versus fast plotting makes no difference in probability of finding ELW in A & F but my experience is that you're much more likely to find an ELW in Eco. If I weren't so lazy, I'd analyse EDDiscovery logs to test the theory..

Dunno if anyone's done any rigorous analysis or if it's just a gut feeling but Chiggy's always maintained that ELW distribution is a bit clumpy and subsectors have none or many, so eco plotting within an area that has lots would likely find you more than an equivalent number of longer jumps across a wider area but eco-plotting around an ELW free sector won't be as good.

 

[Arnoldo]

Aye, I'm with Chiggy here - clumpiness is a thing

 

[CMDR CHIGGY VONRICTOFEN]

Eco slow troll A and F systems...whenever you hit several in a row ...strip mine all local D mass. In the core with D mass cubes (anywhere from 8K to 14K systems) I can slow troll 500 systems in a single D cube and just about predict the total number of ELWs with just a 5% sample...had a high of 1 in 42 and the worst was one in 74 (about average)
Core hunting kinda took a shot in the foot with the import star function disabled though.