Exploration Guide - Find more Earth-Likes

[@markbooth3066]

Another tip when mapping planets if to fire the probe to the back side(s) first, since it has the longest travel time, horizon probes next, and the probe straight ahead last, as it has the shortest travel time.

[@Jenna_Talia]

A good tip is to scan gas giants first in FSS, most objects tend to orbit around gas giants, and in my experience trying to click a target area of another body just doesn't work until the parent gas giant is scanned.

[@BRBMrSoul]

Noticed, mainly in the bubble, but helps with looking for mission signals etc too, my theory is larger the body more it reveals by proxy(nearby) when scan it, whereas not even sure if a icy body will help reveal asteroids nearby etc

[@812amack]

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this but a good tip as well as moving away from the star climb or descend out of the orbital plane this will ensure that no bodies are obscured by the star.

[@ddviper8813]

Dude, you just made my playing experience 5x better with letting us know about “target next system in route” omg lol

[@Lyraine1]

Explorer here I spent hundreds of hours exploring and while I didn't learn anything new except how useful can Orrery view actually be. I used it ocasionally to look how a system looks like but I never thought of zooming in on a planet there to get an idea how big the star appears, how close is it to another moon etc. So big thanks!

[@Robert-rt9ho]

15:30 if you can’t or don’t want to bind it you can scroll to the bottom of the targets list the next stop in your route is there

[@mrexists5400]

5:38 that is a water world! you can tell by the markings, the 2 rows of 3 arrows. those markings are unique for each body, and they match to the ones that orbit around your retical when you are looking near a body and that one is without a doubt a water world. though as you can see the marking is bugged, which can be fixed by sliding far enough away for the markings to disappear then slide back

[@Jenna_Talia]

That, and gas giants are far right on the spectrum, ammonia worlds come after water worlds so...

[@spry_guy]

I'm almost to Beagle Point. I pretty much knew everything in this informative video, but all the stuff I already knew, I probably learned from other DTEA videos.

[@4englishlies875]

You had 2 or 3 tips there I did not know and I do need them . Thanks for sharing, BTW thanks for taking the time to make, edit, and the hours needed to make this and all the other videos.!!!

[@Cohen.the.Worrier]

Same here! BTW, I think that _big island_ was a frozen pole.

[@lowgizzle]

Dropping knowledge! Keep the exploration videos coming, love them!

[@siarlp3691]

Im almost finished my explorerconda build based on a previous video, with all the engineering it took a while. Thinking I'll head to beagle point finding stuff on the way so this video was quite helpful, especially the mouse usage to speed up the scanning, that's a life saver!

[@siarlp3691]

@@fastestcummins yep got all the repair gear, and enough to mine and refine if fixes needed. might see you out there, your never know, I will switch to open play the second I am out of the bubble (which wont take long).

[@DowntoEarthAstronomy]

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[@CMDR_Verm]

Many thanks for this. I was not aware of the terraforming bonus or where to look, nor was I aware of the ''trick'' with the ringed planets which was really becoming a pain. Cheers!

[@Kellett781]

I got accidentally left in Colonia by my carrier taxi that was 5000ly away by the time I realized what happened. Luckily I was in my phantom and Only had to jump 88 times to catch up. Of those 88 jumps, 12 of them were systems that no one had scanned before.

[@BRBMrSoul]

Lots of good tips here, done some light exploring towards witchhead(guess more of a road trip but still lol) think kit out conda this weekend and use some of these tips for a cool trip, find me some life on…we’ll I dunno yet lol

[@chrisstevens4760]

Really helpful and some great tips. Thank you

[@STNeish]

As a point of interest, when you're getting some distance from the star, it's best to fly UP relative to the plane of the orbits, so that there's less chance something will still be obscured by the star.

[@STNeish]

Oh, and for sending probes to the surface, I usually visualize the target points like a dice. For example, if the maximum probes is 4, I put the probes where the points on a 4 sided die would be. If it's 6, then it's a 6 sided die.

[@thebagfather4633]

great vid just had a go your way and found a lot more stuff cheers chap o7

[@chriscarr1666]

middle mouse click shows the rear of a planet in the surface scanner, go out till it says missed, then come back in till it clears and fire.

[@Jenna_Talia]

I tend to go a bit farther in, I notice that firing the moment it clears tends to overshoot and falls on the bottom side of the planet leaving the top empty.

[@chriscarr1666]

@@Jenna_Talia I watched this kzbin.info/www/bejne/boakhoWopNSgg6c and never looked back, also, unlock the enhanced surface scanner, 40% increase in scanning radius.

[@GokouZWAR]

High metal content worlds even non-terraformables will still net you 150,000 or so per planet. Def worth scanning. The terraformable ones are a def go, but the HMC worlds are worth searching as well. The only ones that are pointless are the RICE planets (Rock, rocky ice, ice planets). Skip all those. ED Scout is also a good thing to have along so you can see the true value of the planets before you go to them. I wish you had made mention of that.

[@CruelViper88]

yeah...I'm to much of a perfectionist, so I would scan & probe all planets & moons regardless of what they are...in any system I enter. Unless the system is already fully scanned/mapped...then I'd only pick the high value targets.

[@MotoNationUSA]

When out in the black mapping planets if I land on a previously undiscovered planet does the generation system have a chane for ruins or alien artifacts?

[@saffieification]

still relevant in 2024 your sorely missed Dave 🥰

[@BiGEdge]

The thumbnail sayd its about odyssey exploring and i expected an explanation how to scan for plants and lifeforms. This Video probably helps beginners in exploration. For me it was all known allready. Waiting for the next video finding Plants and lifeforms. o7

[@nedtruck]

Last trick is usefull thanks !

[@cragnamorra]

In so many of these "guides" I keep hearing the term "honk"...without ever having heard anyone explain what that means, how it's done, what does it do for you, what gear is needed, etc. Gotta be honest, despite all the plethora of guides, tutorials, etc, there's still a information gap out there for truly new players. This honk thing is just one example. I usually leave a guide video with more questions than the thing answered.

[@alasdairvfr]

Honk is to use discovery scanner. Every ship has one + FSS but you need to buy DSS. To honk, map the discovery scanner to a fire group and hold down the fire button for like 6-8 seconds, it will make a truck honking sound and tell you how many planets/stars are in the system

[@aaron_d_henderson1984]

how do i get my E:D UI to look like yours?

[@OldManPaxusYT]

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[@eve_of_the_end]

Glad your still doing Elite Content. :)) Thank you! Im tired of seeing Crap Citizen in my recommendations..

[@windows95_de]

Ty bro

[@Mark_o_Helm]

My goal is to complete the codex and scan any not yet visited system on the way. That should keep me busy for a few years.😁

[@theguylevi]

Has there been any headway in search of Raxxla, or anything lore related for that matter? The 'knowledge' is so scattered that I simply don't have the time to research. I would like an 'in your face' list of what we know so I can contribute to the search. Lore is my only real interest in ED, so I am aiming to keep that interest if possible.

[@Parable_One]

The simple answer is no.

[@theguylevi]

@@Parable_One Bummer. The lore is the only reason to play for me at this point...that and whatever trophies I have left. 😕

[@ratstar4102]

what portion of the galaxy that has lots of stars in the background?

[@DowntoEarthAstronomy]

The closer you get to the center the more stars there will be.

[@ratstar4102]

@@DowntoEarthAstronomy thanks Astro I thought it was on my graphics settings

[@kyronlacuna143]

What ship do you use?

[@TheEthanEdge]

i mean its a bit late, but thats a krait mk2

[@BritishJax]

i like to fly past the sun until i hit speeds of 2c then come to a stop and use the fss. helps to get those bodies hiding behind the sun

[@Crusina]

I despise going to places others have been.

[@Mp57navy]

No EDScout? 😁

[@Dysstopolis]

Why your skybox looks so much better, and how to get it?

[@TheEthanEdge]

very late but just in case, its because hes closer to the centre of the galaxy

[@timmurphy1250]

That doesn’t work. I flew about 1900 ly out of the bubble on my way to Colonia, I scanned a system with around 40 laudable bodies. All but one had distress signals on it which reaped occupied escape pods, picked up 18 from one planet. Also had 2 xzeno locations. Now I scan everything.

[@Mitch_o]

So how do you sell all of the data because there is nothing around you?

[@Papa_Grind]

Bring it all back to a station when you’re done. Could also sell it to a fleet carrier for a little less, you’ll find those near tourist hot spots.

[@zforczek8653]

Mapping water worlds seems almost kinda useless. I mean, it's water.

[@mrexists5400]

makes money, especially terraformables

[@Jenna_Talia]

Suppose there's a decent amount of stuff beneath the surface. You never know there might be precursor alien buildings built to contain a deadly disease.

[@shogun6705]

It's all about credits, WW, ELW, AW and terraformable high metal content planets earn tons of credits

[@jaffo7018]

@@Jenna_Talia Just don't try and land on them before disabling the automated defense system.

[@x_Irongaming]

@@jaffo7018 And don't forget to engineer your thrusters so you can dodge the shot

[@billizer]

havent played elite for 2-3 years. i mostly played exploration. nothing changed. NOTHING. Jump, dong, scan. nothing new.