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

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.
 
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.
 
when you can put the dot on that Neutron Star before the HUD identifies it no matter how dense the background field is.
 
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....
 
... the "First Discovered By" tag makes a system feel so crowded that you have to jump away immediately without scanning that ELW-looking planet.
 
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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.
 
...you enter a system that shows more than just a star on the radar, and your first thought is, "Oh crap, where am I?"
 
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).

:rolleyes:
 
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.
 
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.
 
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