Shiny! I’ll hop in the Explorabee later and take a look around, then I think maybe scout some nearby systems too.
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It’s early days but this looks hopeful:
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Saw there was a patch. I’m scouting surrounding systems right now, but I’m in all-day webinars tomorrow and Wednesday, so I’ll have time to get explore some more while pretending to pay attention.
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S171 9 contains 3 black holes and a number of moons with biological signals
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Yep, jumped through there yesterday, but haven’t checked the moons out yet, as they were 88k light seconds out.
BTW, what kind of ring is best for harvesting tritium? I would guess icy, but I don’t know?
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Yeah, I think so. I think even a single tritium hotspot contains an abundance of tritium so if we find one it shouldn’t take long to fill up the carriers tank. Speaking of which, the tritium depot was full when I docked this afternoon so either someone has been very generous or Mondays patch included another refill care of FDev.
This is my understanding of what happened.
Found a couple of spots with single hotspots, but nothing overlapping yet. I’ll send you guys my route map on EDSM of systems I’ve already scanned.
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Waaaaay more organised than me 
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Worth the time for initial setup.
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So I jumped out and just scanned some planets around the carrier. I noticed I could sell the data to the ship. They were going to give me like 250k. Should I hold on to it all and resell back closer to civilization for more money, or does the price not go up? I was under the assumption the further out you went the more they paid for it.
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I just cleared over 3 mil for my own data. Honestly, unless you’re looking to build rank and reputation with a local faction in a specific system, or working on unlocking Sirius, I wouldn’t bother holding on to it.
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Cool. I just quickly honked and then surface scanned a planet near the carrier. You seem to have the experience exploring. Whats the best method? Jump to a system and detail surface scan everything?
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Definitely not. @Navynuke99 might have a different technique but once I give the system a honk, I’m only going to identify the more valuable planets, IE Earth-like worlds, some of the metal ones, etc.
Once I’ve pinpointed those, I’ll surface map them and move on.
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My usual method is honk, scoop, move away from the star, shift to FSS, scan all the bodies, and if there’s anything that’s worthwhile, I’ll go in for mapping. These are typically anything that comes up with geological or biological POI’s, rings that have potential for metallic, or Earth-likes, water worlds, maybe ammonia worlds, and if they’re close to the star/ my position, terraformable HMC’s.
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I forgot about the FSS, been a while since i did the 10,000ly engineering quest. Every ship has one of those right? Its not a module you have to install is it?
forgot about that as well.
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Correct. The Detailed Surface Scanner for mapping planets with probes, however, is required for installation. And that’s required for looking at rings and finding hotspots as well.
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Yeah I kitted the Anaconda for pretty much everything. Has a fighter, an SRV, DSS, Interdiction equipment, etc. Should be good to go. Kind of a giant swiss army knife. Not real good at anything, but can do everything but mine I believe.
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Man you guys move fast, I mined some tritium last night to help fill the tanks and it was already full when I got back lol
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I’ve set up some buy orders for worthwhile minerals and also tritium, so you can now sell to the carrier if the tank is full. The prices are not quite as good as before I’m afraid - the effect of patch 3 on the markets.
EDIT: Re: patch 4 and tritium, OA is not impressed. I’m not sure I agree with him on the scale of the problem with reduced overlap multipliers - his tone seems a little out of character as he usually keeps a level head about changes even when others are crying NERF HAMMER at full volume.
EDIT EDIT: Here’s some food for thought from D2EA:
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