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Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
I must be in a bad place then. It's almost a void where I am.

Right. See this picture:

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That's me, that is.

You see, a long, long time ago, in a sector far, far away (yesterday, Inner Orion Spur), I had a filter set to seek out industrial economies. Can you guess my next sentence?

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Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
Hmm...

Even though I cocked up my map filter, there's still very few stars here. Colour me puzzled. Maybe it's just getting late and the beer cocoa is kicking in.
 
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CMDRQuainMarln

CMDRQuainMarln
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
I must be in a bad place then. It's almost a void where I am.

Right. See this picture:

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That's me, that is.

You see, a long, long time ago, in a sector far, far away (yesterday, Inner Orion Spur), I had a filter set to seek out industrial economies. Can you guess my next sentence?

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So... err, how many industrial economies are you finding out there in the formadine rift ?
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Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
CMDRQuainMarln said:
So... err, how many industrial economies are you finding out there in the formadine rift ?
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You may scoff, but I found erm... no, wait, I got it... I think... er... strangely, very few. Actually just one.

There was a planet inhabited by Guardians who welcomed me with open arms and gave me all sorts of useful ship upgrades. My carrier can now fly and land like a ship and has 150 AX Destrtucto lasers, a hull that caustic substances just dont touch and scanners that detect Thargoid frame shft wakes twenty Kessel runs away.

The Guardians said it was their home world (Usul - the mouse shadow in the second moon) and they called it "Raxxla". *

* It really is time for bed. Goodly byeload. **

** I'm embracing my inner Stanley Unwin.
 

Fnord Velkor

Fnord Velkor
aRJay said:
Well a rift sort of implies the gap between two arms for me so I would be expecting a lower density of stars.
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Well yes and no - the sector called The Formidine Rift actually includes part of the Outer Arm of the galaxy. Of course this is at the virtual tail-end of that arm and so is a rather tenuous collection of stars in what is already a tenuous arm. As I said above, the galaxy map makes it look more sparsely populated than it really is, compare what I posted above with this for example:

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Tyres O'Flaherty said:
Hmm...

Even though I cocked up my map filter, there's still very few stars here. Colour me puzzled. Maybe it's just getting late and the beer cocoa is kicking in.
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Check the Star Type route filter also - it’s an all-too-ez mistake to make too - have left it on and wondered what happened to all the stars before, especially after an FC jump to a sector with differing distribution… ;]
 

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Fnord Velkor said:
Well yes and no - the sector called The Formidine Rift actually includes part of the Outer Arm of the galaxy. Of course this is at the virtual tail-end of that arm and so is a rather tenuous collection of stars in what is already a tenuous arm. As I said above, the galxy map makes it look more sparsely populated than it really is, compare what I posted above with this for example:

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That arm doesn’t end there either - it carries on into Kepler’s Crest and actually tapers off in the unreachable region…
 

Fnord Velkor

Fnord Velkor
]M[ said:
That arm doesn’t end there either - it carries on into Kepler’s Crest and actually tapers off in the unreachable region…
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Hence my use if the wording " the virtual tail-end of that arm " - yes it does continue into Kepler's Crest where it is labelled as "The Outer Arm Vacuus", in other words the empty part of the Outer Arm. I have never bothered to try to wander into Xibalba since that is "a place of fear". ;)

vacuus - Wiktionary

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aRJay

aRJay
]M[ said:
Just wondering if this is a known bug... a ringed icy planet ...with no ring?

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Codger said:
I've occasionally had a bug where the rings did not draw. Restarting fixed it. This may or may not be something like that. :)
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Also some rings are very tenuous and dark people have found them by colliding with them before seeing them.

]M[ said:
Ahh thankyou - might also have something to do with an RX 6xxx GPU too...?
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Possibly that card series and it’s drivers have from what I have read caused many issues.
 
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