*** The Official Elite: Dangerous Thread ***
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Where are you heading by the way, on an exploration trip?Indeed! So happy! I can now continue on my journey
I just checked and I'm 30,172 ly from Sol at the moment, so I'd better not run out of fuel or we'll see how dedicated the Fuel Rats really are!
That's hardcore!They have people at Sag A from what I read so pretty dedicated
Good to know though, just in case I forget to top up.
edit: weren't you recently in this part of the galaxy yourself? How's the trip home going, or have you decided to stay in the core for a bit longer?
I've not really been out that direction, I like visiting exotic stars so always end up gravitating towards the core; have been to the NGC 7822 nebula, but no farther.I came back due to peer pressureHave literally just started heading out to the rim tonight though, took a trip to the California nebula to have a look and headed out from there, currently a little over 1500LY out
Scanning Wolf-Rayets at the moment, hopping from neutron stars and black hole systems on the way; only have to refuel once every ~30 jumps or so, so picked a G type star to do so since they have a higher chance of harbouring an Earth-like and what do you know but Bam!, second planet from the star is an ELP
Ouch, my commiserationsNice! I had a system with three in earlier, first system in about a dozen jumps that had been scanned at all
Still a great find though!But yeah it really sucks when you jump from undiscovered to undiscovered system only to find an Earth-like which has already been claimed; guess that goes triple when you find a rare system with three in it.
Folks, whats the ..... point for a want of a better word.... in jumping out so far? 30kly? that must take ages to get out there?
Also what exactly do you scan? Do you just enter the system, scan and move to the next one? Or do you scan each planet individually?
Also what exactly do you scan? Do you just enter the system, scan and move to the next one? Or do you scan each planet individually?
Exploring new systems, seeing cool sights etc, missions and alike.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=64720 Scanning tut here.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=64720 Scanning tut here.
When I travelled out to the core I didn't even stop to scan undiscovered stars, would only scan them if the system had some interesting finds like a water world/earth likes etc. This way you can travel about 2000ly an hour. Little tip how I do it for people who might want to cover ground quick:
1) Arrive at system, keep your throttle at 100% (unless its a neutron star). Ping it with discovery scanner as soon as you arrive and at the same time swoop passed the main star to scoop your fuel and orient towards next jump on compass.
2) Once the scan is done and you have some speed up flying away from the star towards next jump, engage the FSD to start jump count down.
3) While it is charging check the system view to see if there is anything worth scanning. If there are some goodies come back out of system view and cancel jump. Scan the main star and then go to whatever you want to scan.
Couple of useful keys to bind are system view key, and return to route target. This method lets you do a jump about every 50 secs.
This is just for those you want to get somewhere quick, like the core or Neutron Fields. A lot of systems on the way will be junk and worth little money.
1) Arrive at system, keep your throttle at 100% (unless its a neutron star). Ping it with discovery scanner as soon as you arrive and at the same time swoop passed the main star to scoop your fuel and orient towards next jump on compass.
2) Once the scan is done and you have some speed up flying away from the star towards next jump, engage the FSD to start jump count down.
3) While it is charging check the system view to see if there is anything worth scanning. If there are some goodies come back out of system view and cancel jump. Scan the main star and then go to whatever you want to scan.
Couple of useful keys to bind are system view key, and return to route target. This method lets you do a jump about every 50 secs.
This is just for those you want to get somewhere quick, like the core or Neutron Fields. A lot of systems on the way will be junk and worth little money.For me it's the perfect exploration area: there's a vast cloud (several hundred million) of highly profitable neutron stars and black holes to scan, lots of interesting rare stars (Wolf Rayets, Herbig Ae/Be, O-type giants) & planetary nebulae/supernova remnants and it's (nearly) all untouched by other explorers (I'm 4 weeks into my current trip, and I haven't seen another "discovered by" in over a fortnight).
Folks, can anyone check something for me, can the Elite Dangerous desktop icon increase in size (if you increase icon size or does it stay the same size but just the border surrounding icon increase in size?)
If anyone could send me the .ico file from the steam\steam\games folder that would be great
If anyone could send me the .ico file from the steam\steam\games folder that would be great
