Not Going to Sag A.
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What happens in Sagittarius A*, stays in Sagittarius A*. Literally.
That's the funniest thing I've read in a while.
When I sold it last week all I got was 317k so they must have reduced the payout for it when they doubled it for everything else... Wasn't even my highest earning system (and not by a long shot once first discovered bonuses are included).
Its not the destination its the journey. Sag A was my destination and well worth seeing in person, but the journey was more fun than actually getting there. Each to their own I guess, but for me it is something I wanted to do since I heard Elite was making a come back. Actually the first thing I wanted to do! Tourist trap or not, it is unique. Great thing about a sandbox is that you don't have to feel obligated to do something - do what you want.
It was one of the first things I wanted to do, especially back when I heard that the wear and tear restrictions on FSD function had not been implemented. I thought to myself, "If I don't see it at this time, I might not be able to ever see it."
[video]https://youtu.be/W8wJIJSkjPY[/video]
I don't know if I was fortunate or unfortunate to see it in its unfinished state, though, but at least it was a unique experience. Yet now, having been able to fly up close to smaller black holes as of 1.2x, it seems some aspects of it weren't that far off.
I must visit it again some day.
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well, I just arrived at Sagittarius.
After many many hours I finally made it.
The last 5000 Ly where a disaster because my navigation system didn't work anymore. I guess it couldn't find any gps signal anymore.
My ships computer was unable to plot any course. So most of it was done plotting system after system.
But at least that gave me a chance to map the Myriesly neutron star field.
-sigh- but now to get back agan. Staring at this black hole, unable to plot my route back.
Just keep trying. Maybe just maybe it gets a grip and plot's this elusive 1000ly route back towards civilisation.
After many many hours I finally made it.
The last 5000 Ly where a disaster because my navigation system didn't work anymore. I guess it couldn't find any gps signal anymore.
My ships computer was unable to plot any course. So most of it was done plotting system after system.
But at least that gave me a chance to map the Myriesly neutron star field.
-sigh- but now to get back agan. Staring at this black hole, unable to plot my route back.
Just keep trying. Maybe just maybe it gets a grip and plot's this elusive 1000ly route back towards civilisation.
Not going to Sag A because everybody goes there is a poor excuse not to go. Specially if you are an explorer.
Is like not going to the Himalayas while being a hiker because everybody goes there; or the Tour de France, if you are a cyclist, etc.
Sure, I also can identify the hype and the "hipstery" about it. But the truth is that in such a big Galaxy, the Center was bound to be, for sure, a place to logically check out. It just makes sense, geographically speaking, to understand what sits in the center to hold off a whole Galaxy together, specially if that Galaxy is the one where you happen to live.
Flipping tables, imagine for a moment if this game was not online or there was no forum or internet. Would you have thought in going to the GC to find out by yourself or not?
A true explorer would say, "Hell yeah!! I need to see what's there with my own eyes!". By not going there because other people do, you are actually bending to peer and societal pressure way more than you think.
So get going already and do not miss it...
Is like not going to the Himalayas while being a hiker because everybody goes there; or the Tour de France, if you are a cyclist, etc.
Sure, I also can identify the hype and the "hipstery" about it. But the truth is that in such a big Galaxy, the Center was bound to be, for sure, a place to logically check out. It just makes sense, geographically speaking, to understand what sits in the center to hold off a whole Galaxy together, specially if that Galaxy is the one where you happen to live.
Flipping tables, imagine for a moment if this game was not online or there was no forum or internet. Would you have thought in going to the GC to find out by yourself or not?
A true explorer would say, "Hell yeah!! I need to see what's there with my own eyes!". By not going there because other people do, you are actually bending to peer and societal pressure way more than you think.
So get going already and do not miss it...
I am roleplaying (putting fake limits to myself) that an Anaconda is required to resist the energy in the core area. I have stopped trading after the 21 mil i wanted for my ASP. So I'm basically going everywhere but not the core. I also want to go to the core AFTER i hit Elite Explorer. I fear to ruin my progression becoming elite too fast, you know, neutron fields and all. I could avoid the neutron fields, but i want to visit them without being bothered about credits/rank progression and all.
So not that I'm criticizing the ones that goes to sag A or farm neutron stars to jump from aimless to elite in one leap, but that wouldn't be fun for me. So OP, you are not alone.
So not that I'm criticizing the ones that goes to sag A or farm neutron stars to jump from aimless to elite in one leap, but that wouldn't be fun for me. So OP, you are not alone.
Good call. I decided it would be too popular and headed out in a completely random direction. After exploring for a while, I decided to head back and sell my data, I was only 176ly from the nearest station and had made millions from interesting, unexplored space. You don't need to go far to still find unexplored space!
I've been out of dock since 16 Feb and I've only just decided to actively start heading for SagA* now I'm 4000ly from it.
Before now I was just heading in a general direction coreward, but going from interesting thing to interesting thing.
Visiting SagA* was one of my primary motivations for backing the KS. I was going to head for it as soon as I could, but I heard that someone called Zulu Romeo had already got there by the time I started gamma , so there was no urgency any more.
Before now I was just heading in a general direction coreward, but going from interesting thing to interesting thing.
Visiting SagA* was one of my primary motivations for backing the KS. I was going to head for it as soon as I could, but I heard that someone called Zulu Romeo had already got there by the time I started gamma
, so there was no urgency any more.To those who have since gone to the Core Region and Sagittarius A*: is the core region still bright? When I was there, I commented that I almost had to wear sunglasses to play the game, as the skybox of the unobscured galactic core (at about the start of the outer edge of the Norma arm inwards) was exceedingly bright.
I would have shouted it out even more when I arrived there, but I was in two minds. On one hand, I was excited to tell people about where I was and what I had seen. On the other hand, the game was still new and under heavy critical scrutiny from all sides - in fact, official launch was two and a half weeks away - and announcing that I had made it then and there would have made a mockery of DBOBE's opinion, made at a gathering about two weeks prior to my arrival, that it was "impractical" to reach the galactic core. In the end, I told people about it.
Inevitably, there were a few disappointed voices when I announced my arrival there: some because the very centre had been reached in the first place by someone and so soon, and some because the system's appearance was almost completely different to expectations, almost unfinished and raw-looking. Yet some good probably did come out from it: as the game was still in Gamma, it might have given the devs a useful look at what the players were experiencing back then, allowing them to make aesthetic and stability changes to the area, eventually making it look like what it is today, or at least that what I like to think happened. (I certainly had a lot of tickets to send to them as soon as I logged off from that session.)
I would have shouted it out even more when I arrived there, but I was in two minds. On one hand, I was excited to tell people about where I was and what I had seen. On the other hand, the game was still new and under heavy critical scrutiny from all sides - in fact, official launch was two and a half weeks away - and announcing that I had made it then and there would have made a mockery of DBOBE's opinion, made at a gathering about two weeks prior to my arrival, that it was "impractical" to reach the galactic core. In the end, I told people about it.
Inevitably, there were a few disappointed voices when I announced my arrival there: some because the very centre had been reached in the first place by someone and so soon, and some because the system's appearance was almost completely different to expectations, almost unfinished and raw-looking. Yet some good probably did come out from it: as the game was still in Gamma, it might have given the devs a useful look at what the players were experiencing back then, allowing them to make aesthetic and stability changes to the area, eventually making it look like what it is today, or at least that what I like to think happened. (I certainly had a lot of tickets to send to them as soon as I logged off from that session.)
The first sentence here makes perfect sense and I can understand it, if not agree with it. The second sentence makes no sense at all
I never thought you did anything wrong. And your rank of Elite is the most worthy I've seen in the game. What you did merited it.
The first sentence here makes perfect sense and I can understand it, if not agree with it. The second sentence makes no sense at all
Funny! The rest of my post was intended precisely to elaborate on that, as in, explorers would go to places just to understand their surroundings and the galaxy they live in, regardless of people going there in masses or not.
A trader wanting to go to the Galactic Core because that's where the good prices are, is what wouldn't make sense to me.
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Funnily enough I can agree with your analogies, but not the point. Exploration is and always has been about The Unknown. And when The Unknown becomes The Known, however amazing it is, it ceases to be a target for The Explorer.
Not to say that Explorers wouldn't want to visit something amazing that has become Known like Sag A*, but I don't think they're really exploring when they do that. (Obviously the systems between Sol and Sag A* that they visit on the way is exploration and may warrant the trip for some).
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I would like to go to Sag A* just to see it, but other than that, I want to become an explorer purely to discover my own things and put my name on the map somewhere.
when you go to Sag-A you will have countless systems to discover and to name. 99,99999% is still undiscovered.
It's not the destination that's important, it's the trip to get there which makes it worthwile.
On my way to sag A I only came across less than 10 discovered systems. The rest was still not visited, including many neutron stars, black holes, ammonia/water/earthlike world's.
I discovered a water or Earthlike moon. I'll find out on Tuesday when I got a day off from work