What is the best exploration ship and builds?

[RoboGaming321]

So i have got 500 million credits and me and my friend would like to go exploring in the galaxy. However I don't know what ship is best and what the best internals are. I am wanting a rover and both a advanced scanner and a detailed surface scanner onboard. Any suggestions?

[ZombieHunter]

Publicado originalmente por Agony_Aunt:

Publicado originalmente por ZombieHunter:

@AA: We need to go on a long excursion some time. Maybe in Orcas. No armament. Just exploration. My Orca is pure exploration, cargo or passengers. Depending on my mood.

Maybe the outer rim or out to Beagle Point since I've never been there.

Well, my next exploration trip will be Distant Worlds 2, which is going to Beagle Point. Much more fun with thousands of other players ;)

I tried exploring in a wing but with the jump range disparities it was difficult to pull off. I wish we could set waypoints and plot our course manually...if desired.

DW2 might take longer with the new exploration system. I never thought about that.

[John Titor]

Publicado originalmente por Crabbeh:

I removed M class stars from the filter, so the majority of systems I jump into have multiple planets and that number tends to rise the closer you get to the core, since larger stars are more common and larger stars tend to have more planets.

I personally prefer to do things other than watch the galaxy spin, but it's fine if you explore to watch that.

I'd prefer if you didn't talk about those things. Children are present.

[Scaryowl]

Publicado originalmente por ZombieHunter:

Publicado originalmente por Agony_Aunt:

Well, my next exploration trip will be Distant Worlds 2, which is going to Beagle Point. Much more fun with thousands of other players ;)

I tried exploring in a wing but with the jump range disparities it was difficult to pull off. I wish we could set waypoints and plot our course manually...if desired.

DW2 might take longer with the new exploration system. I never thought about that.

I doubt it will get stale, though. with the new exploration mechanics and all, it should be a blast

[Agony_Aunt]

Publicado originalmente por ZombieHunter:

Publicado originalmente por Agony_Aunt:

Well, my next exploration trip will be Distant Worlds 2, which is going to Beagle Point. Much more fun with thousands of other players ;)

I tried exploring in a wing but with the jump range disparities it was difficult to pull off. I wish we could set waypoints and plot our course manually...if desired.

DW2 might take longer with the new exploration system. I never thought about that.

You don't have to travel all the time with people and there should be plenty of time between waypoints to hang around and stuff.

[Bonytony355]

My personal favourite is the imperial clipper with a super shiney paint job.The luxury of imperially exploring a system and a 7a fuel scoop which takes 14 seconds or something to fill up. The fact if first contact is made its in a ship that looks elegant and lovely. And its imperial. Did I mention that

[RoboGaming321]

I like how the post I made like a year ago had hardly any responces but recently I now get like 81 responces. That is crazy.

[Brasilius]

Yeah same here, I made a discussion on the best multi purpose and it survived

[Val]

Publicado originalmente por Bonytony355:

My personal favourite is the imperial clipper with a super shiney paint job.The luxury of imperially exploring a system and a 7a fuel scoop which takes 14 seconds or something to fill up. The fact if first contact is made its in a ship that looks elegant and lovely. And its imperial. Did I mention that

imperial ships > all other ships

[DDRMANIAC007]

https://edshipyard.net/builds/b3

That's the current build I'm working on for Q4. The empty slot is for guardian FSD and thus the jump range is 10LY higher than it actually says.

[HairballHacker]

Publicado originalmente por RoboGaming:

So i have got 500 million credits and me and my friend would like to go exploring in the galaxy. However I don't know what ship is best and what the best internals are. I am wanting a rover and both a advanced scanner and a detailed surface scanner onboard. Any suggestions?

Depends. Are you one who thinks the most importing thing about exploration is min-maxing your jump range at the expense of your own survival? Or do you think your own survival against punks in combat ships is important?

e.g., https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/452163-Non-combat-ships-vs-Players-in-Uber-Combat-Ships

[John Titor]

Publicado originalmente por HairballHacker:

Publicado originalmente por RoboGaming:

So i have got 500 million credits and me and my friend would like to go exploring in the galaxy. However I don't know what ship is best and what the best internals are. I am wanting a rover and both a advanced scanner and a detailed surface scanner onboard. Any suggestions?

Depends. Are you one who thinks the most importing thing about exploration is min-maxing your jump range at the expense of your own survival? Or do you think your own survival against punks in combat ships is important?

e.g., https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/452163-Non-combat-ships-vs-Players-in-Uber-Combat-Ships

You're responding to a ten month old post. Also, combat punks in the black? I bet you're the kind of person who's genuinely disappointed when your lottery ticket loses every week.

[Andromalius]

Wait until the next update and kit out a Krait Phantom if it's the lightweight Krait Mk.2 that I suspect it will be.

[Iannakis]

dbx and asp the best ships for the deep exploration...In full engineering the dbx is 5-7Ly higher than asp but asp has better scoop (6a) and extra rooms cargos ..Asp is the winner for me.

[ferus]

This thread is immortal... it already had two resurrections...

[Arc]

Publicado originalmente por ferus:

This thread is immortal... it already had two resurrections...

You've seen nothing, 2019 necro of 2015 thread beats this !