Oh man. I took a little break sometime in March, went back to work and next thing I know I haven’t fired up E:D in months and months.
It also looks like a lot of what I learned in my stint back in Feb was committed to short term memory - I’m a complete newbie again!
I think the last thing I was doing was fitting out my new ship, so I think I’ll get onto that and go re-learn the void opal thing for a bit after that.
Edit:
Oh hello beautiful!
I took a break from raking in billions on asteroids in the spring also, I’ll be back when the player carriers are a reality.
It’s interesting - the top prices are the same but last night the closest station to buy at that range was 88 LYs away, a bit of jumping to do. Maybe it always was like that but they may have tweaked the number of top buying stations. I could be imagining things.
Branglal 3 has an ice ring. I can make ~50,000,000 per trip in my Python.
Crap, that’s one of my bases of operation when I’m in the bubble.
At my current rate of progress I’ll be back there by… November.
Are you still out on that Distant Worlds trip? Surely you’ll make trillions in exploration data.
Finished the trip, slowly coming back counterclockwise as close to the rim as I can stand (and successfully plan jumps for). Only mapping if there are planets worth lots of money, so likely not making as much as I could be, but I’d like to be able to afford a Cutter or something like that when I get back. Or finish outfitting my Conda. After I figure out what I want to do with the thing.
Nice! I’m thinking of an exploration-fitted little boat at some point. It’s nice to farm a little now that I’m all set up (375m or so after the weekend and a farming-kit Python) but I don’t think I’m really making the most of E:D if I’m just farming around in the bubble. Maybe I’ll do a @Gunnyhighway and farm up to $1b and then head off 
While we’re on the topic of exploration…
Decided I needed to break up the routine of jump-honk-scoop-scan-jump and decided to set down on a nearby planet with some geyser activity.
The paint is looking a little rough. Might stop in at Colonia for a quick wash and wax.
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I love the chipped paint, that’s awesome.
I have started watching some exploring guides to get at least an inkling of what ship to set up and so forth…I don’t know if I want to go away quite for months and months, but we will see.
Looks like the consensus is that the Diamondback Explorer, Asp Explorer and the Krait Phantom are the preferred exploration ships…plus the Anaconda but apparently the Anaconda is a slug in supercruise.
Here’s my build for my Krait Phantom:
Only thing I’d change is to remove the clean drives- they actually run hotter in supercruise.
And here’s my AspX:
I was running her with the Guardian FSD booster before I transferred it to the Krait for DW2.
I was planning to write a series of mini AAR posts for the second half of the DW2 expedition, however Real Life ™ got in the way and I barely had time to finish the trip. I’m still on my way back to the right side of the galaxy at the moment (currently about 9 KLy’s from Sag A* and Explorer’s Anchorage) and I feel like it’s a good time to share some highlights of the trip. There’s quite a few pictures so I’ve hidden them to avoid spam for those with limited bandwidth. Enjoy …
Hello all. I am toying with ED to check out how things look with my new Rift S. Answer: pretty darn good. In keeping with my “Cut the Cords, Man!” spirit, I would like to fly with the controllers. Not the thumbsticks on the controllers, but flying by grabbing the in-game stick as one does in VTOL VR. I thought I saw that this ability had come with a recent update. But a search has come of flat. So maybe I dreamed that up.
I would very much like to know if this has been implemented as well
I;ve seen mentions here and there in the Reddit or forums, but I have no clue how one goes about operating the various subcontrols, etc. Maybe something with one of the Voiceattack profile packs?
Just after my last post I managed to cover another few KLY’s. Here are some more pictures for those who are interested.
Making use of the high density of Neutron stars:
I found this rather large 2.5G world and I decided to head down to check out some of the volcanic activity:
The little foothills I was heading for turned out to be not so little - nearly 6km high! - with some silicate fumeroles at the base:
A bit of surface mining - the high G and steep terrain made for quite a rewarding challenge:
One last look at the spectacular view, then it’s time to move on:
A few jumps later I come across this rather pretty ringed Water World:
And a little later I found an Earth Like World (only maybe the 5th or 6th one I’ve seen on the whole trip):
Another pretty ringed world:
I had to use a heatsink when I flew between these two stars just for the hell of it:
I am now only 3000 LYs from Explorer’s Anchorage and the end of a 6 month, 80000 LY round trip to the end of nowhere and back. I’m looking forward to repairing my power plant (which is at less than 60% health) and getting rid of the power failures that have been getting more common over the last few weeks.
This is one of those things I need to figure out before heading out…how much can you repair ‘out there’ and how and so forth.
If you take an Auto Field Maintainence Unit, you can repair everything except your Hull, the power plant, and the AFMU itself. If you take two AFMUs they can each repair the other. If you take a Repair Limpet Controller you can repair your Hull. So basically, with two AFMUs and a Repair Limpet Controller your endurance is basically determined by the power plant. I think this will only take damage if you emergency drop from supercruise (e.g… because you got too close to a star), overheat, or do something truly stupid like hit the ground on a high G world at speed (I’m guilty of multiple counts of this on this trip 
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how is E:D?
I bought it a while ago, played the tutorial missions then life got in the way…
I hate it when that happens.
