Best star to find earthlikes?

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I'm out by Colonia and need a bit more money to afford a Fer De Lance. Since the new patch, scanning EL, WW and Ammonia worlds is great for money. I'm currently going by F G and K type stars. Which of these three is the best?

[Hobo Misanthropus]

K, but trust me when I say literally THOUSANDS of people have already had your same idea, even before the buff, because there's a lot of pride in having your name attached to an Earthlike as an explorer, so if you're expecting that first-find 50% you might be out of luck.

In my experience, K type stars produce the most ELWs, M produce the most Water Worlds (Could just be that there's tons of M stars though), and I've only found one Ammonia World so I can't make an assessment.

Don't neglect Terraformable High metal Content worlds either, there's a lot more of them out there.

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Originally posted by Hobo Misanthropus:

K, but trust me when I say literally THOUSANDS of people have already had your same idea, even before the buff, because there's a lot of pride in having your name attached to an Earthlike as an explorer, so if you're expecting that first-find 50% you might be out of luck.

In my experience, K type stars produce the most ELWs, M produce the most Water Worlds (Could just be that there's tons of M stars though), and I've only found one Ammonia World so I can't make an assessment.

Don't neglect Terraformable High metal Content worlds either, there's a lot more of them out there.

I'm not too worried about having someone else find one before me. I've already found quite a few, I'm far enough from Colonia to not have any names except on black holes and stuff.

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Yeah, then it's K stars, though tbh, G, K and F all have high probability of high-value planets anyway, so there's probably no "Preferred" one. It's just that most of the ELW's I've seen have been K's, or G's.

I have found an ELW around an M star, but this is almost certainly just economy of scale at play. M stars are so damn common, and at the end of the day ELW generation is mostly tied to Semi-major Distance and star age.

Hell, I've even found a Water World around an F quad-star system orbiting at like 4,322 LS off of the system's center-of mass. So unusual was this find I guess, that almost the entire system had been first-scanned EXCEPT this water world (Which was gigantic too, so bonus mass credits) and a couple of rocks around it. I think I got a picture of it, if I do I'll put it in this post as an edit.

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Originally posted by Hobo Misanthropus:

Yeah, then it's K stars, though tbh, G, K and F all have high probability of high-value planets anyway, so there's probably no "Preferred" one. It's just that most of the ELW's I've seen have been K's, or G's.

I have found an ELW around an M star, but this is almost certainly just economy of scale at play. M stars are so damn common, and at the end of the day ELW generation is mostly tied to Semi-major Distance and star age.

Yeah, I was just seeing if any stars had a higher likelihood. They're dense enough out here that I can pick which I want to see.

BTW, do you know how exploration multicrew works? I was considering trying it.

[Ottomic]

FGKs.

[Dave1029]

M and K will provide the highest "rate" of Ammonia Worlds. G and F of WW's, ELW's, and THMC. I would personally filter out K and focus on G and F that close to the core.

[Dave1029]

K stars can be quick scans though cause the bodies are close in ls to the star.