Exploration - Is it over?

[Controlledpress]

Just a bit of a rant.... I am 5k+ ly out from Sol, NOT on a direct path to the core or in a flat horizontal plane from sol.

And I can't find almost ANY non sequence stars or black holes that haven't been discovered.

I'm starting to feel like the "discovered by" tag was a mistake, it's really eating away at my enjoyment to arrive in some nice little nook of nowhere and see another explorer has peed in the corner already. I can only imagine that it won't be any more fun around the core.

And of course, it seems like every explorer out there is named something like bummuncher or worse.

/rant off

 

[Asp Explorer]

Just go a bit further and have a closer look at systems that others have just found the main "juicy" and moved on. I've found a couple of ignored EL's.

 

[oddreal]

I'm about 4k ly out and currently almost every system I jump in at the moment doesn't have any "discovered by" tags. But most had them under 2500 - 3000 ly from sol. Where are you? Sounds to me there has to be something around there that is making the area so popular.

 

[Viajero]

There really should be a tag in the galaxy map for those systems that have already been "discovered".

Maybe 2 tags:
- Fully scanned and
- partially scanned.

The rest would mean no scan at all.

 

[Fenris Wolf]

Agree with the follow-up replies... I'm currently 4k out and probably seen about 6 systems that people have already visited.

And none of the CMDRs have had 'stupid' names (thankfully)

 

[Midian27]

Stop going for hotspots? I haven't hit a single discovered by system in days and I'm about the same distance out. I dived down a thousand ly's before I started my journey.

If you set out from populated space to one of the many "tourist spots" then you're gonna have a bad time.

 

[Aeropilot]

On the other hand, I've found undiscovered systems only 100ly from populated space.

 

[grahamatome]

Well Mr Scott how does it feel discovering the south pole? "that swine edmundson got here first"

ED mirrors real life in that respect. go look elsewhere.

 

[Eloy]

Of course you do find more discovered systems when going on direct lines connecting popular spots.

 

[AnnuverScotinExile]

I am about 450 systems into my current journey, and have not found a discovered by tag in the last 400 or so systems. I did find a few early on, especially when I went out of my way to visit a neutro star: they do just about stand out if you look for them, and are a natural target because you know they are valuable. That G2 VAB you are considering instead might have an E-L and a couple of WWs, but equally may be just a lone star: you don't know until you look. With the Neutron star you do know.

 

[vjek]

Given there are cheats (thanks Uncle Google!) that let you teleport to arbitrary points in the galaxy, of course all the high-value targets will be taken first. Gotta get Triple Elite, yo! (bleh)

It was far more important to FDEV to incorrectly punish all the early backers who *gasp!* bought a ship at the Founder's World than it is to punish all the cheaters cherrypicking all the non-sequence stars.

Priorities, man, c'mon now!

 

[Jorlin]

OP is talking about black holes and neutron stars.

5k out those are rare... and surely taken by now.

10k out... no problem

 

[Jon474]

Just a bit of a rant....And of course, it seems like every explorer out there is named something like bummuncher or worse.

Oh, this made me laugh out loud. How childish of me! I know what you mean, though.

There are some directions of travel which appear to be high-traffic routes out of the Bubble and nothing is left to be First Discovered. When it happens to me I go up or down the Y-axis a random value and pretty soon I am off the beaten track and into clean air once again. Stay away from routes where a nebula is in the line of travel.

Flying happy
Jon

 

[Mikey2305]

i doubt if the combined efforts of every explorer in this game has discovered a fraction of 1% of everything that is out there to be discovered. i think there would be enough for my children and my childrens children. just stay away from the touristy bits. i am currentlt about 500 ly from civilisation and most is still unexplored

 

[Parmo]

There really should be a tag in the galaxy map for those systems that have already been "discovered". Maybe 2 tags: Fully scanned and partially scanned. The rest would mean no scan at all.

Good idea.
To the OP: I just recently I found a black hole within 400LY of Lave that I bagged for the 'discovered by' tag. It was in a system not looked at by anybody; I was the first 'bummuncher' to explore it! And I explore in a Viper. I did this just by picking a system to go to and use the economical route and filtering on fuel scoopable stars to get to it. I haven't bagged a non-sequence star though. Don't give up. Persistent stubbornness is your ally.

 

[vjek]

... and use the economical route and filtering on fuel scoopable stars to get to it.

Just an FYI, the route planner does not respect the star filter. It should, but it doesn't.

 

[Controlledpress]

Stop going for hotspots? I haven't hit a single discovered by system in days and I'm about the same distance out. I dived down a thousand ly's before I started my journey.

If you set out from populated space to one of the many "tourist spots" then you're gonna have a bad time.

Not on a usual tourist trek as far as I can tell, no large nebulas or anything else of consequence here.

And the regular systems are more often than not empties, it's all the goodies that have been scooped already, Neutron stars, Black holes, O class, Haven't stumbled on a white dwarf in ages...

 

[Jorlin]

Not on a usual tourist trek as far as I can tell, no large nebulas or anything else of consequence here.

And the regular systems are more often than not empties, it's all the goodies that have been scooped already, Neutron stars, Black holes, O class, Haven't stumbled on a white dwarf in ages...

like i said: 5k out these things are rare. 10k out they are not. i could hop from neutron star to neutron star with only taking a refuel station every now and then.
made 80 neutrons (first discoveries) on a single day.

 

[dognosh]

Just a bit of a rant.... I am 5k+ ly out from Sol, NOT on a direct path to the core or in a flat horizontal plane from sol.

And I can't find almost ANY non sequence stars or black holes that haven't been discovered.

I'm starting to feel like the "discovered by" tag was a mistake, it's really eating away at my enjoyment to arrive in some nice little nook of nowhere and see another explorer has peed in the corner already. I can only imagine that it won't be any more fun around the core.

And of course, it seems like every explorer out there is named something like bummuncher or worse.

/rant off

The Neutron Field has over a billion of them, and many 1000s of black holes, location is in my sig.

 

[Jon474]

The other thing that works for me is this.

Everyone is obsessed with a 30-35LY jump range. So, if you find yourself coming across a load of previously discovered systems get out of sync with the 30LY-at-a-time jump fiends and take a jump with a length of a random number of LY between 8 and 17. You will likely get into free air.

Flying happy
Jon