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Elite Exploration

JohnnyDioxin
Expert Trustee
Getting well  into my second month of exploration along this route:

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If you get fed up with bugs or mundane missions in the Bubble, it's well worth heading out into the black. Taking your time, doing a sesh whenever you feel like it, with no stress, no time constraints or targets - just cruise and do what you like. I'm out here with Commander Hazardous Matt and another companion, and so far my undiscovered system count is at 134. Yes, that's 134 systems that will have my commander name on them - and an awful lot top-up for the bank, and I'm nowhere near the end of the journey yet.

First, we met up at the "bottom" of the galaxy (or top, depends which way you look at it!) and then headed towards the Lagoon Colonia Highway stop. From there we headed out towards the NGC/War & Peace Nebula. There were quite a few undiscovered systems along the way - but not much that was spectacular or particularly noteworthy - just regular systems, 65 undiscovered in all. When we got to NGC, I found that all of the systems from 20LY out had been discovered.

Whilst we sat there, wondering what to do next, I came up with the route in the picture above, and Matt was keen - so off we set. Since leaving NGC, almost every system I have come across has been undiscovered and there has been lots of nice screenshot material. Planets of all kinds of colours, werid huge gas giants and silvery, mirror-like rings, not to mention very spectacular looking nebula clouds.

Here are some screens from along the way. I'm only at stage 2 - and there are another 11 to go yet! Seey sometime around Christmas.... maybe! 😉

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See these clouds on the galaxy map?:

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Well, they are there in the galaxy, too:

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Planets are often coloured based on the clouds around them - like this one:

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A typical system, ripe for scanning and imprinting with my name:

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...and in many cases, they are just a few light years from each other, all in a nice, tight cluster:

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You can see the nebulae we are heading for - it's almost like joining the dots:

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these are a couple of the nicer ringed bodies - the second one is actually a shining Brown (Tauri) star and was very spectacular in-game:

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This is where we are now - was a little reluctant to enter this aggressive looking cloud - but no worries, apart from cutting out some of the light and actually obscuring some of the neighbouring stars, it's quite harmless:

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All of this, not even half as far away as Colonia - so you don't have to go that far to find it, and find 'fame' in the form of your name spread across astronomical bodies in the galaxy.

And it's so much more relaxing... B)

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OmegaM4N
Expert Trustee

Digikid1 said:

STILL waiting for this to go on sale.  Sounds great but I am NOT willing to shell out $69.99CDN for it.  Yikes!!!!!!!!


You just missed it again on sale, it is always on sale, it will be on sale again soon no doubt, just keep a eye on it, and remember when you buy it you get a steam and oculus code, so you can run the game straight from the Rift store and get that little bit of extra ommph of not have steamvr and oculus fighting with each other, love it....i just bought my next level up of freighter for 76 million, now i can haul 360 tons and go for some of those big contracts that require you to haul 2/3000 in total to get 9/10 million reward.  🙂
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JohnnyDioxin
Expert Trustee
I don't know if they've tweaked it since, @OmegaM4N -  but I found it really wasn't worth doing those missions. Time invested vs payout was a very poor ratio.

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Chazmeister
Rising Star
They upped the payouts for those in the Q4 update, however it's still better to find the boom time deliveries if you can. If you have a Python, I've often seen them delivering to outposts with payouts as much as 6 million plus. By the time you've shited the 3000 units of whatever, for 10-12 million, you could have done over half a dozen of those for 4-6 million a pop. So the pay is better now for wing delivery missions, but unless you're in a wing of 3-4 with other traders, you're still better off doing solo bulk delivery missions.

RattyUK
Trustee

Brixmis said:

I don't know if they've tweaked it since, @OmegaM4N -  but I found it really wasn't worth doing those missions. Time invested vs payout was a very poor ratio.


True - passenger missions used to hold the crown for payouts, now Void Opal mining apparently makes the RtR look cheap 🙂
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Chazmeister
Rising Star
I am so going to have to get on tonight and refit my mining T9 and get out there. Any particular ring types I need to look for?

RattyUK
Trustee


I am so going to have to get on tonight and refit my mining T9 and get out there. Any particular ring types I need to look for?


You really need Pristine rings - don't forget your Wave Scanner and DSS
Col 285 Sector OS-T d3-148 has a GG with pristine rings but I never took a DSS (oops) to scan the rings.  In beta - pre 3.3 it had several Painite hotspots...   I know they introduced the more valuable materials in  beta 3? when I had already done a bit of mining and had already headed out to the void.

Ideally heading out of the bubble to any of your previously discovered systems with Ringed GG's  would be a safer bet than bubble mining, and would be much more interesting getting there 🙂

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JohnnyDioxin
Expert Trustee
Anyone know if you keep your previous discoveries when you reset your profile?

When I come back I'll probably start from zilch again - it'll give me more to aim for and a purpose in the game.

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Chazmeister
Rising Star
I think your "first discovered by" tags will still exist under your old cmdr name but your actual profile will be a clean slate.

RattyUK
Trustee

Brixmis said:

Anyone know if you keep your previous discoveries when you reset your profile?

When I come back I'll probably start from zilch again - it'll give me more to aim for and a purpose in the game.


It'll be "Welcome to your new (actually 'several previous careless owners') Sidewinder CMDR - now get out there and get ganked"

I have a second account with a 'new' CMDR who'd be your friend 🙂
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bigmike20vt
Visionary

Digikid1 said:

STILL waiting for this to go on sale.  Sounds great but I am NOT willing to shell out $69.99CDN for it.  Yikes!!!!!!!!


did you not look in the steam sale?
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