Be prepared? Nah.


Be prepared? Nah.

So on the spur of the moment, I sat down this evening and thought I should do some exploring. I've never done a dedicated trip before so I headed out in my stripped out Anaconda with a 30+ ly jump range but taking along some SRV's as well.

After 3 hours I ended up about 1230LY from LTT 4961. I'm finding stars & worlds with nobody else's name on them and I am starting to scan the bigger objects. Not sure how much use it is to scan the worlds that are < 2000 km in diameter.

I landed on a system near Shapley 1 in my Anaconda. Very rugged ice world where I picked up some materials (nothing valuable).

I had wondered off so far from my Anaconda that I realised that it would be easier to have it fetch me. The bloody thing parked on top of a nearby cliff and I spent the next 30 minutes driving up and sliding down trying to find a 4x4 route to the top. I'm pretty sure my Annie was punishing me for this sudden unplanned trip, but I was determined to "Run up that hill" without giving it the satisfaction of thwarting me.

On my way to Shapley 1, I managed to lose 3% hull with a careless mistake during fuel scooping. I guess it was a knock to the pride I needed. I will try and preserve the hull strength more carefully in future...

Not sure if I am going to go as far as Sag A. Who knows. In the attached image you can see the hill I had to climb. It was steeper than it looked, I promise...

Comments

Andy Lewis said…
Haha, on ice too, I bet that was murder. I'd have gone somewhere else to re-recall it.

Don't worry, I lost 5% hull at the 2kLy mark and then another 6% at 14kLy, both from landing mistakes; make sure you scan and observe the gravity before choosing your planets especially if you have lower class thrusters.

Fly safe CMDR
January 5, 2016 at 1:39 PM
Dennis Wronka said…
Have a good trip! Fly safe, Commander!
January 5, 2016 at 1:40 PM
Michael Birke said…
Seems you got bitten by the exploration & discovery bug. A common disease that affects people beyond the bubble. ;)
January 5, 2016 at 1:46 PM
ollie clark said…
All the best exploration trips are unplanned. :-)
January 5, 2016 at 1:47 PM
Ian Stoffberg said…
I'm still in shock after last night. I had fired up the game with a view to kicking some pirate asp in a HazRes. I had G+ open on this community and was reading about other people's trips. While loading the game I googled an exploration build for the Anaconda and idly considered it. 5 minutes later I was amending the build to accomodate the SRV's and extra fuel tanks. I googled a system to jump to and off I went. First mistake was my power build didn't take the SRV's into account so I ended up on 103% systems usage. I have worked around it by disabling the SRV system totally while jumping. Saves 7% I think. This is my ExploraKonda build (more or less). http://coriolis.io/outfit/anaconda/04A5D6A5D5A8D5C--------0202------3j1414f5f5v4f448242i2f.Iw18gDBU8Q==.Aw18ZlA=?bn=Explorer
January 6, 2016 at 1:47 AM
Ian Stoffberg said…
Michael Birke you remember the lack of planning ? I should have tweaked things a bit more. Would have been nice to hit the 40 mark.
January 6, 2016 at 8:51 AM
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