Elite: Dangerous - Tutorial: Basic Exploration [ASSIST ON]
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Hey guys, I've got another tutorial for you... This one is all about exploration and the equipment you will need to make a living exploring the stars!
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lol, that sight at 1:00 with the skull painted on his ship and the "Welcome to FU CITY" in the back... so fitting. (F.U. CITY ;))
Without all the market HUD, it'd make a pretty great background image.
Hehe, Aye... I'll have to take a trip back there and see if I can turn the UI off for a screenie :)
Hey chaos glad you finally did a video on my profession!
I have a few tips for people that I have learnt with expiernce.
1. Ships I recommend for exploring: the sidewinder, eagle, cobra mk3 and asp explorer. These ships all are fast so you can get around systems fast and have good jump ranges. They also have an important feature not displayed in the shipyard, big open canopies so you can see planets moving against a backdrop more easily
2. For exploring to be a worth while profession you need to be flexible. Exploring is your main trade, moving from system to system. But look out for opportunities to make credits like hauling cargo to a neibouring system, bounty hunting, ect.
3. For number two to work you will probably need light weapons, scanner, cargo rack, warrant scanner and a upgraded FSD. It dosnt hurt to upgrade the power plant and power distributor either. As you get a bigger ship you can add more things. For example, I recently aquired a cobra mk3. On it I have 2 multi cannons, 3 pulse lasers, a point defence, warrant scanner, as well as a scanner, detailed surface scanner, shield generator, cargo wrack and shield recharger. With a B class FSD I have a jump range of 16ly which is enough to get me around fast.
4. Also when mapping systems try not to stop when scanning a planet. Instead put your speed marker just below the blue. This will give you enough time to scan and move away from the planet.
5. You get the most credits from water worlds and worlds with life on that you find, after this gas giants with rings. High metal content planets are next and rocky and icy planets are the last. If you find asteroid belts you do not need to scan them. Metal rich asteroid belts do boost your credits.
6. Last point and one that will save you a lot of time! When you jump into a system immediately charge a scan. Then come to a stop and look at the system map. The system map can tell you approximately how many planets are in the system. Drag right. When it stops dragging right the space between the star and the right hand side is the room for planets and asteroid belts. You can easily tell if a star has no planets because you cannot move right.
Hope this helps,
CMDR mythcolour,
exploring the unknown
So.. finding Kevin Costner would be very profitable.
(Water World with life, ehehheh)
Herkko Koskinen Dude, that's so bad it's awesome ;)
Commander ChaosWulff Hahah, thanks :)
I would really appreciate if someone would do one of these guides with the actual starting kit and 1k credits. So far all I can find are guides where people are spending half a million creds before they even leave the station. If I had half a million in credits I would likely already be experienced enough to know this.
Thank you!
I'll have to take a look into that... I never really thought about this so thanks for the heads up :)
OwnedByCats Ya, the gist of this guide is "How to explore: Buy the advanced discovery scanner". I find the same thing when it comes to any guides for beginners, as no one uses the Sidewinder for anything. "Bounty Hunting guide: Using my Python and 3,000,000 worth of equipment", etc.
There's only one thing I've found that works with the starting kit for exploring, and that's to actually fly around away from a star, watching carefully for points of light that move slowly against the background. Move ship direction, scan around with your free look to the sides to see if anything is actually moving, move again and repeat. I've found a good bit of planets this way, usually spotting them long before my scanner was in range.
The advanced discovery scanner will scan and find everything that is in a system. One other thing if you're chosen career is exploration then get yourself either an Asp or an Imperial Clipper. Although both ships are very expensive to buy and equip (especialy the Clipper) they have the best views especially if you want to take a screenshot or two :)
I was about to say, you forgot the fuel scope, but then you remembered it, haha.
My current record is 53,000 credits for a single system (2 stars and many gas giants). Earth-like worlds, giant stars such as VY Canis Majoris, Eta Carinae etc. and other unusual objects pays way more than the normal brown/red dwarf and high metal content/rocky/icy planet combo.
And, Basic discovery scanner has a 500 Ls range.
Intermediate discovery scanner has a 1000 Ls range.
Advanced discovery scanner has no range limit. One scan will scan everything in the system.
Hehe aye, I'm told that the only way to get worse memory than I already have I'd have to get Alzheimer's ;)
As I understand it, the advanced discovery scanner has no range limit. So using that once per system should be enough. The basic discovery scanner has a 500Ls range, and intermediate has 1000Ls (although I never used that one myself).
The range for scanning the surface of the discovered objects would depend on the size of the objects.. That's why you can scan a star from thousands of Ls away, but had to get to 100Ls for the planet.
exploration is super relaxing in elite dangerous
Generally speaking, on this really old thread, is the "D" components are the lightest, and mass works against jump range.
So have everything as a D class except you Frameshift. Max jump range possible is then yours.
Of course, if you get ambushed and can't run away, then you also die easier.....
Great Videos, Just got the game and they are helping massively. Liked and Subscribed.. Please keep them coming.
Karl Smith That's the plan! Happy you're enjoying them :)
subscribed, i like ur vids man!
Thanks! I'm glad you like my Vids! :)
Basic discovery scanner = 500 Ls range.
Intermediate discovery scanner = 1500 LS.
Advanced discovery scanner = everything in the system.
Just subbed, great videos. Very thorough. Appreciate it ChaosWulff
is thr system information only for you? or if your playing in open play and sell the information. does it update for other players aswel?
After you sell the information (either in open or solo play) it becomes available for others to purchase through the galaxy map... Or at least it should.
Wulff, could you please be clear about one thing. Are all systems of the galaxy unexplored before you visit them? Are some of them already have it's exploration data and cannot be scanned and sold? Which exactly?
No igor not all system are unexplored
There are some that you can access the system data for free. These are big population systems with star ports
Then there are ones where can buy the system data for. These are normal explored by AI so they don't have all the planets explored.
Then you have ones that have no systems data at all. These could have been explored but the data was never sold to universal cartographic
CMDR mythcolour
It's exactly as CMDR MythColour says, he is way more of an authority on Exploration that me, though how I find unexplored systems is to just look at the galaxy map and if I can't view the system view of a system then that's where I head next.
Just asking, that looks really weird for me when you "discover" a Federation system (that has a station though), then travel 20 LY and sell this information to another Federation system.. How does game lore explain such things?
Igor Loginov To be honest? I'm as much in the dark about this as you... Though I do find it highly amusing that it seems the Federation's left hand doesn't know what it's right hand is doing. Though I imagine this to be a bug more than anything else... It could be by design but I'm none the wiser as to why that would be.
i just thought, i have 2 ships a sidewinder and an eagle, so i can use my sidey as purely exploratory and my eagle as purely combat/bounty hunting! :D
Aye, sounds like the best course of action :)
only problem is, if i go exploring with the sidey and i wanna go back to my eagle, id have to travel tens, if not hundreds of lightyears all the way back lol :(
Aye, using a Sidey for exploration is only good for the local uncharted systems... If you're planning to go out that far, I would recommend waiting until you at least have a hauler as it's jump range is amazing once kitted out... But as always the best ship for exploration is the Asp... hands down!
Commander ChaosWulff yea, but its like ungodly expensive tho lol
Oh I know that... It's only something I recommend after you have the credits to fund such a thing :)
Thank you for the tips CMDR Mythcolour... With your permission I would like to make a followup video with your tips as none of them ocured to me as Exploration isn't my chosen profession and as most people don't like to read comments 28 lines long I would like to get your advice to as many people as possible.
Sure, I don't mind
I was thinking about making UA-cam videos so if you could give me some tips on how to do that that would be great! Then I can show people stuff that I can't explain. Would also link to your channel as well.
Joe G Sure I can help you out with that... I've sent you a private message with contact information as it's way easier for me to talk than type.
just got my eagle for bounty hunting any one got a good set up like wepons and stuff
Usually I would recommend 2 Lasers and 1 Multicannon... I would also recommend using gimbaled unless you are comfortable with manually aiming.
I have gone back to exploring as I keep getting killed so ill save up some money to fit out a viper or cobra the eagle was too flimsy for my likeing
Dale Russell Aye, I agree the Eagle may be maneuverable but once you get the shields down, it's armored with tin-foil!
ye I have gone back to the sidewinder and doing bounty hunting with that till I can get a viper
Good luck out there commander :)
exploring is fun but dangerous! i jumped to a system with four stars and i was in between two of them lol my heat was crazy high. i took 26% heat damage within seconds. 3500ly from sol anyone else exploring?
One day when I get bored of killing droves of pirates, traiding masses of cargo and the like I believe I'll take up the life of a wandering explorer... Hey with 400,000,000,000 star systems out there... I'm sure I'll be the first to lay eyes on at least a few ;)
I've been watching a number of these E:D videos and I have to say, it's ridiculously boring. Is this what the game is like? Scrutinizing over tiny details and poring through millions of star systems? Why are there millions? It's a video game. You'll never get through a fraction of any of that... I iike the dogfights, but come on, this is a buzz kill.
Not very good and poor prepared