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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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RattyUK
Trustee

Digikid1 said:

Holy crap what an over complicated game....I spent 20 minutes just trying to dock in the base in the training mission.....then another 15 minutes bouncing around in the hanger just trying to get it landed.

Said screw it and went for a trainer on mining....which I was actually good at....so went to mine in the solo mode and only guns were popping out on my hardpoints.....never figured that one out.

LOL!!!!!!!!!


If you would like a 'mentor' for a hand-hold give me a PM, be glad to help as much as I can 🙂
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JohnnyDioxin
Expert Trustee
Have they changed the mining one? I tried it a week ago and it was still doing the old system (which obviously won't work).

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RattyUK
Trustee

Brixmis said:

Have they changed the mining one? I tried it a week ago and it was still doing the old system (which obviously won't work).


Seismic Charges, Abrasion Blasters, Sub-Surface Displacement missiles, Wave Scanner....

No, no change 🙂   (except you can't do the new way in a T6/T7 any more)

I'll team up with you with my new commander if you want to give it a go.  The new-fangled Void Opals can be found at Arthur C Clarke station's planet but they are only paying 330k credits per unit - some markets will pay as much as 1.6 Mill...

Blowing up an ice chunk is surprisingly theraputic...
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JohnnyDioxin
Expert Trustee
I meant the tutorials. @Digikid1 said he did the tutes before playing. When I started this second profile, I did the tutorials to ensure all my assignments were okay - but only got as far as the mining tutorial, because it used the old system and therefore wouldn't work.

I was asking if it had since been updated to the new method 😉

Thanks for the invite, though. I might take you up on that (using the old profile, which we're befriended via in any case).

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RattyUK
Trustee
Sorry for the misunderstanding @Brixmis  - original CMDR is in the Eagle Sector chasing A class stars (Bio research) and the new near Arthur C CLarke having tried out the new mining 'properly'.  He is my 'bubble' CMDR currently and is having some fun doing various tasks.
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JohnnyDioxin
Expert Trustee
No worries 🙂

I've ended up going back to my little profit triangle in the Python, carrying 256t of potential cargo load after a visit to Felicity to say 'hi' and found that all the systems that were in boom are now at war 😞

Never mind, some of the neighbouring systems are in boom - but all my allied factions are busy killing each other.

Got myself a DBX from Deciat, too, so that I can go and do those Guardian structures yet again (oh wasn't it such fun!) and get myself a Guardian FSD booster for the Python to take me to Colonia (by the scenic route, of course). I reckon, with the new FSS way of doing things, it's going to take several months to get there.

Can't remember offhand, where those areas are that your commanders are loitering. I'm deep in imperial territory with my new profile and I'm leaving Brixmis based at Gamow in Chaxiraxi (it's quite new to me, so not much local rep as yet). Got all my fleet there and can set one up for mining in a jiffy. I've been reading the very opposed views on the pulse wave analyzer (sic) and not made up my mind if having one is actually worthwhile. Perhaps you can sway my thinking...

*just comparing my two Pythons:

1st - value = 231,301,951cr

2nd - value = 105,050,483

that's a big difference! Considering both are fully A-rated (for combat), both carrying maximum cargo. The difference being Python 1 has a military grade hull, the Guardian FSD booster and two turreted Guardian shard cannon for double the price!

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Anonymous
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Digikid1 said:

Holy crap what an over complicated game....I spent 20 minutes just trying to dock in the base in the training mission.....then another 15 minutes bouncing around in the hanger just trying to get it landed.

Said screw it and went for a trainer on mining....which I was actually good at....so went to mine in the solo mode and only guns were popping out on my hardpoints.....never figured that one out.

LOL!!!!!!!!!



Yup, there's a steep learning curve but I was helped out by playing the first game religiously in the 80s, 90s and 00s so I already knew the flight model.

Your best bet is to work through the tutorials a few times and watch a load of YouTube videos before jumping into the game.

Once you do have it all worked out you'll spend HOURS at a time in the game.

JohnnyDioxin
Expert Trustee
Wasn't like that on release - it was pretty straightforward.

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Chazmeister
Rising Star
I suppose it depends how used you are to playing sims, as ED is a sim at heart, along with all the usual features of a sim such as a steep learning curve, lots and lots of buttons to spend time configuring etc etc, basic tutorials, no hand holding or graduated quest line of any sort to follow and ease you in. It's the kind of game where you're going to spend the first few hours of play just figuring out the basics and getting used to the controls and doing a bit of remapping.

For me personally I would kind of call it a sim lite, as it is quite accessible as far as these things go, but for others not used to these types of games, I can see how complicated it might seem at first, especially if you're not used to flying games.

JohnnyDioxin
Expert Trustee
The official version:

https://youtu.be/zSLqDINgciw


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