Introduction

The AGT has one simple recommended process for quickly surveying a system, jumping to a next system, and repeat. This process gives you the chance to quickly claim systems, name them, capture all the necessary info in screenshots for documenting them and moving on.

This process is not focused on planet exploration, although it will allow you to capture the basic information related to planet claiming and documentation.

The workflow is focused heavily on collecting screenshots (SS) in a proper and highly efficient sequence using a freighter/capital ship. You want to avoid triggering constant time consuming freighter battles, and they wont happen if you use a freighter instead of a starship to warp into systems.

What This Process Does NOT Cover

You will note that I do not normally:

• land on or visit planets
• use my starship to warp from system to system
• visit a space station

These are all nice to do if you want to log the upgrades modules for sale in a space station or see planets. Those are nice to have, and its great some of you do it, but generally I want to cover 20 systems in an hour, flying in and out of the freighter is time consuming. This process described below takes me 2-3 mins per system, generates about 20 screenshots or more depending on how many planets there are in the system. You only need to stop for a short delay every so often to make more warp fuel but otherwise its just a rip through the systems.

Preparing Your Freighter

This process requires you to have a freighter with a planetary scanner room. You should organize your freighter like so:

1. Planetary scanner room immediately to the left or right of the first side hall after you leave the bridge.
2. Behind the planetary scanner room, make a hallway that extends out 3 sections, and place a bulkhead door there so you can step outside the ship and see space from a small balcony.

Before You Start

1. A key thing before you start exploring, naming, claiming and documentation is to verify Hello Games DISCOVERY SERVICES are stable. Discovery services may be unreliable or offline if you have a bad internet connection. Also, Hello Games have limited bandwidth to process and record discovery services from their millions of players. Do NOT do this process during these time periods: (i) a weekend of a major expedition (not the normal weekly community ones), (ii) within two weeks of a major release update Do NOT do any discovery claiming cause names may not stick. Too many players and the HG servers get overloaded and it will NOT apply your names sometimes. Go play another game or do something else.
2. Make sure you have plenty of warp fuel to refuel your freighters warp engines. You will burn through a lot of fuel in this process.