Yes! It would probably say something like "Glad you aren't here....because of the excess of Gamma rays!".
Sagittarius A* ["supermassive" spoilers]
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Awesome work! I'm only 22kly away, so if you set up a station there I'll be happy to be amongst the first customers to dock and repair.
Actually ya'll now make the way back and tell us what the system scan is worth. From that trip alone you should become a multi millionaire.
If you get that much for all that data, I have some good news and some bad news - good news is now that you know it can be done so quickly, that will be the first thing you do when the game is released and the not so good news is that since you have done it once, you will just be retracing your steps which not be that interesting, the bad news is that once you get back, either you find that they didn't wipe the map data so that all those rediscoveries are not new and you don't get a lot or someone else has beaten you to it.
We're still going that way. I missed out a LOT of things to get there, and there are a LOT of things to see and do. More detailed exploring, mining, and other things - all of which will become even more significant once planetary landings and foot explorations are introduced - with the intention of hopefully encouraging the NPCs to set up stations and bases along the way. The advantage now is that we now have a better idea of the sort of thing to expect, although it is possible that new threats might emerge come formal Release, now that FD know that people can visit the centre at will.I did say to several members of the Great Ex that it could be done in around about a week. And Its been proved, I suppose its the getting back now with the data. but it does leave one question what do the Great Ex do now? I love the idea of the group play and finding new systems ect, but they are now like scott in the Antarctic, beaten to the goal by a single member of their own group which I find ironic. Great achievement though
Besides, this is only Gamma, a wipe is coming, so it doesn't really count. Release might introduce wear and tear mechanics into the gameplay, making it harder. Hopefully FD will see what has happened and act accordingly and appropriately.
All I wanted to do was have a look at it, as chances are we might not get another chance like this. I wasn't expecting to survive the trip, let alone succeed, and I actually hoped someone would beat me to it. I'm sorry if my actions in setting off on this trip has hurt anybody's feelings.
"The prize is the pleasure of finding a thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it — those are the real things. The honors are unreal to me. I don’t believe in honors." -- Richard P Feynman
I'm not in any hurry to go home just yet. I want to do a few other things first.
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So how many jumps and how long did it take you, ingame time, to reach the galactic center?
its about 27000LY from Sol to the centre
So assuming he started there or near there and he is using the Explorer Cobra MkII it was about ~1350 jumps @ 20LY per jump which he says took about a week. No idea on how many hours played per day though....
So assuming he started there or near there and he is using the Explorer Cobra MkII it was about ~1350 jumps @ 20LY per jump which he says took about a week. No idea on how many hours played per day though....
Great to finally see what the center looks like. I'm also amazed you survived the journey, great piloting especially without a repair module. Did anything catch your eye along the way that you want to go back and explore?
It's a Kickstarter perk, at the £70 mark.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous
It was a kickstarter perk, those that pledge enough money get to start in a cobra with a sooped up discovery scanner and better frame-shift drive.
From the kickstarter page:
[h=5]Pledge £70 or more[/h] 159 backers
Explorer: Have the option to start on the edge of explored space with a long range version of the Cobra Mk III and 3,000 CR (randomised system choice for multiplayer reasons)** plus all rewards above.
Does anyone know what ship decal you get for the 5 pound backer?
A lot of things, including several ringed giants and a number of possible Earth-like planets in the Core region, although I never had a good look at them. It must be a strange sight on those planets to have a night time almost as bright as day. There were also one or two contact binaries which looked beautiful.
I think just the entire scenery of the Milky Way, especially around the halfway point by the outer edge of the Scutum-Crux Arm, is wonderful enough for people to look at. Corewards, the Galaxy is as bright and brilliant as the system's primary, while edgewards all you see are stars with a discrete dark void-like cloud right across the middle.
Now the real question.... what is it worth.. hopefully..... [video=youtube;cf7uJDhVZIE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf7uJDhVZIE[/video]
Oh, I have no idea. To be honest, between continuing to explore the Core and the trip home, the fading chances of survival out there, and the data selling crash bug, I'm just happy that the Reptile is still working right now.
Grats, nice work. Actually flying there mnyself, unfortunately i did not have the luxury of an explorer cobra start, which turned out quite valuable a starting feat. So i still have some 10k ly to go but am keeping a log of milestones along the way. Unfortunately no acretion disk is just one more little dissapointment on the list, when it comes to stellar wonders.
I feel one could have done more to make the galaxy feel alive and actually breathtaking by not going less realism but more realism. Maybe this is deemed unworthy development time, since it doesn't add much gameplay for the vast masses and only peaks the interest of those deep space explorers.
The gravitational lensing is nice...but since the rest is missing, it doesn't quite rock. Visiting a black hole at the outskirts like the one in Mintaka actually is more fun.
Things i noticed.
- Numbers are off, way to few solar masses. should be 4.1 *10^6 or 4.1 Million or at least 1.2 Million. Estimates vary. 10K is a joke.
- Size way to small. The Number 100 AU or several Lighthours pop up a lot if you look for info on it.
- no acretion disk for any BH is quite a downer.
- gravitational lensing is nice, i had hoped for some more dramatic gravitational effects though.
- Gravitation in ED is only rudimentary implemented...it doesn't affect your ship much..unless in SC and when it does (if you are close enough you are in the gravitational reference of the object i guess..so you do not move relative to that object anymore but rather with it) it does so in non realistic ways. You should be dragged into the object or into a rotational orbit around it...neither happens.
I feel one could have done more to make the galaxy feel alive and actually breathtaking by not going less realism but more realism. Maybe this is deemed unworthy development time, since it doesn't add much gameplay for the vast masses and only peaks the interest of those deep space explorers.
The gravitational lensing is nice...but since the rest is missing, it doesn't quite rock. Visiting a black hole at the outskirts like the one in Mintaka actually is more fun.
Things i noticed.
- Numbers are off, way to few solar masses. should be 4.1 *10^6 or 4.1 Million or at least 1.2 Million. Estimates vary. 10K is a joke.
- Size way to small. The Number 100 AU or several Lighthours pop up a lot if you look for info on it.
- no acretion disk for any BH is quite a downer.
- gravitational lensing is nice, i had hoped for some more dramatic gravitational effects though.
- Gravitation in ED is only rudimentary implemented...it doesn't affect your ship much..unless in SC and when it does (if you are close enough you are in the gravitational reference of the object i guess..so you do not move relative to that object anymore but rather with it) it does so in non realistic ways. You should be dragged into the object or into a rotational orbit around it...neither happens.
Wonder if there are a couple of people at Frontier boggling at this thread, having not expected anyone to actually get there for months, if not years? Kudos.
(Now doesn't this say that that exploration does need a bit of an overhaul if this can be done so quickly? What happened to ship maintenance and the necessity for temporary bases?)
(Now doesn't this say that that exploration does need a bit of an overhaul if this can be done so quickly? What happened to ship maintenance and the necessity for temporary bases?)
i think i remember one interview with DB and/or MB, saying they would be quite impressed if anybody even makes it to the center
that sounded like a real challenge
and wasn't the initial plan from FGE to make it within months, maybe a year?
two weeks after opening the bubble and it's done. i'm quite dissapointed tbh.
still kudos Zion.
that sounded like a real challenge
and wasn't the initial plan from FGE to make it within months, maybe a year?
two weeks after opening the bubble and it's done. i'm quite dissapointed tbh.
still kudos Zion.
I agree about the missing accretion disks, but Sagittarius A* isn't actually that huge of a SMBH: current measurements put it around 40 million km in diameter maximum. The roughly 20 million km diameter (15.5 solar radii) given by ED are in the same order of magnitude. The mass is definitely too small, though.