You Know You're A Real Explorer When...

[Jacob Marshall]

You think it'll be 'really cool' to fly up and peek beyond the edge, and experience that chill as you realise the reverse route is closed to you as you've fully re-scooped.

 

[Iridium Nova]

You happen across a passing player who sends you a friendly chat message and you spend the next 5 minutes trying to get the chat system working because you ended up rebinding those controls to more useful things a long time ago.

or

You feel more comfortable diving into a gigantic sustained nuclear explosion than you do trying to land on a pad at a convenient refueling depot.

or

You try to get Google Maps to display Star Class.

 

[hutch45069]

when your so busy reading this thread you loop 3 planets in a row.

 

[GJ51]

when you can put the dot on that Neutron Star before the HUD identifies it no matter how dense the background field is.

 

[Monomi]

When youre wife ask you " How long are you going to be on that computer"

You resond " About a couple of months".

 

[CMDR Rushmere]

Looking at the flight map on a trans-Atlantic flight yesterday, I was so happy to see that the plotted route didn't have a dotted line towards the end of it....

 

[ForeverN00b]

When you find another undiscovered ELW and think to yourself "I'll just add that to the collection".

 

[Fishy]

... the "First Discovered By" tag makes a system feel so crowded that you have to jump away immediately without scanning that ELW-looking planet.

 

[xxThe_Dice_manxx]

Greetings

When you realise you have probably spent more time scooping fuel than most people have played the game.

 

[AveMe]

when you looking at game only when you're on system map.
when you can find neutron star before hud identifies it using reflection on your ship's hull.

 

[ForeverN00b]

Greetings

When you realise you have probably spent more time scooping fuel than most people have played the game.

Along those lines, when you realize you spent more time in witchspace than most people have played the game.

 

[AveMe]

Along those lines, when you realize you spent more time in witchspace than most people have played the game.

when you realise you spent more time ploting routes in core than most people have played game.

 

[tafkabb]

When your wife or kids start speaking to you and you get spooked because you thought you were alone in space.

When you have an ex-wife and weekend access...

 

[Jhyrryl]

...you enter a system that shows more than just a star on the radar, and your first thought is, "Oh crap, where am I?"

 

[Bugman_oO]

you start spamming your discovery scanner key to create cool music.

HA I'm not the only one...

 

[Traveller_GG]

when you looking at game only when you're on system map.
when you can find neutron star before hud identifies it using reflection on your ship's hull.

I thought that was just me....

 

[Jakester13]

When you activate the FSD, and as the charge-bar fills up you say "Five" in the charging countdown.

And then you add "Dis-" before she says Engage (and zero throttle automatically).

 

[thehairymob]

When you decide to head back to the bubble and realise it may take sometime, even months. Just too much to see on the way back, hehehe

 

[shadmar]

When you run out of fuel 22kly from home, but only 1.2ly from the neareast scoopable, beacuse jumping from BH to BH was so intriguing.

 

[Kerenn]

When you run out of fuel 22kly from home, but only 1.2ly from the neareast scoopable, beacuse jumping from BH to BH was so intriguing.

Call a Fuel Rat ! I'll be there shortly.

You know you're a Real Explorer when "The Bubble" is a Nebula.