...you wait for ages then 2 come along at once! Twice!
Hi all - some spoilers below in terms of system details...
Just got back to the bubble after a 5kly trip to unlock professor Palin. I visited some lovely nebula, namely Witch head, orion and barnards loop, then out to the rosette nebula, where i came across an asteriod base, 'New Begining' 5kly out. I came back via California nebula, then stopped at HIP 17403 to pick up the necessary Sensor fragments.
This was my first exploration trip and i must say i thoroughly enjoyed it, especially after making the questionable decision to do back to back rank grinding - boy did that suck all the fun out of the game, a nice exploration trip was just the ticket to restore my enthusiasm!
I knew earth likes were rare, so i wasn't holding out high hopes of finding any. I made it out around 3kLy before coming across one, then to my surprise found another in the next jump - two back to back earth likes, both first discoveries! Didn't find any others on the way out, but the same thing happened on the way back; i only found 2 earth likes on the whole return journey and again they were back to back - anyone else have this experience?
I found the first two in the Pyurks region, if anyone wants to know its Pyurks IB-F c27-1 and Pyurks TQ-B d14-0. Thinking maybe it was a haven for earth likes, on my way back from Rosette, i did a bit of exploration of that region, visiting maybe another 50 systems there - not one more earth like to be found!
I stopped looking after that and headed to the California nebula, and on the way came across two back to back earth likes, i think it was in the Flyooe Eohn region, one of which had been discovered by someone already - i didn't note the system details for those ones as by then the excitement of exploring had subsided a little and i wasn't making notes/screenshots of most jumps!
Anyway, here's to all you intrepid explorers, i now know what i've been missing! Going to start planning a trip out to Sag A at some point soon.
I might even be brave enough to leave all the weapons behind so i can jump longer distances!
Fly safe commanders!