Unreachable System?

JesusOnEez

JesusOnEez
I'm not the most experienced explorer so forgive me if this is a known 'thing'.

I was plotting my route for the evening through the PRAEA sector, when I noticed a star out of place to what should have been rendered.

I clicked on it and it scooted off pretty much straight up and about 1,000Ly away from my current position.

System: USHOTT MS-J D9-0

I think it's unreachable. Can anyone confirm?
 

Sir DragonKing

Banned
Sir DragonKing
JesusOnEez said:
I'm not the most experienced explorer so forgive me if this is a known 'thing'.

I was plotting my route for the evening through the PRAEA sector, when I noticed a star out of place to what should have been rendered.

I clicked on it and it scooted off pretty much straight up and about 1,000Ly away from my current position.

System: USHOTT MS-J D9-0

I think it's unreachable. Can anyone confirm?
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it might be in an area players cant yet go, because of the thargoid update


edit-or your crappy sidewinder cant jump more than 5 lightyears
 
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newman1702

newman1702
Firstly, you can't plot over 1000ly. So try closing below 1000ly and re-plot; if you still can't, the system is above your maximum jump range from all of it's neighboring stars.
 

iain666

iain666
Seriously, look that one up on the galmap. It is properly in the middle of nowhere (~ 950:1843:1085). About 70ly from the nearest other system I could spot. Not permit locked either.

OP - there are indeed some currently unreachable systems with the maximum jump range currently available.
 

Zeeman

Zeeman
Plenty of unreachable systems. You just need to go to the rim with a max jump range Anaconda to see that there are systems we'll probably never reach.

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who?

who?
When you get to very dense, or very, very sparse areas of the Galaxy, the route plotter gets worse and worse; to the point that it often can't plot routes to systems which are very reachable.

Judging by iain666's comment above though, it's well out of jump range.
 

Kalpa

Kalpa
Sure, there are plenty of unreachable systems. Some are catalogue stars (Rho Leonis), others just procedural at the outer edge of the galaxy, where star density just gets sparser and sparser.
 

Zenith

Zenith
There's loads of unreachable stars in the galaxy. I added a number of these unreachable stars to EDSC to trilaterate other systems against them.
Examples include:
  • KV Ursae Majoris
  • MM Velorum
  • V2107 Ophiuchii
  • V518 Persei
  • HL Lupis
  • Cygni X-3

I'm not sure about GU Muscae, because it's borderline depending on an almost empty Exploraconda to get there.
The main thing is these are stellar catalogue entries, not procedurally generated. They were PUT there by Frontier.
 

Varrag

Varrag
I can't remember where did I read, nor is it true, but -allegedly- 15% of stars in ED are unreachable because of the distances involved.
 

Kalpa

Kalpa
Varrag said:
I can't remember where did I read, nor is it true, but -allegedly- 15% of stars in ED are unreachable because of the distances involved.
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Considering the star density difference between core regions and outer regions, that sounds a bit excessive. Maybe they had a decimal error, and meant 1.5% instead?
 

Varrag

Varrag
Kalpa said:
Considering the star density difference between core regions and outer regions, that sounds a bit excessive. Maybe they had a decimal error, and meant 1.5% instead?
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Maybe. 1.5% is still pretty big number, though. In this case, we're looking at what... 1.5 billion systems out of our reach - possibly forever? :eek:
 
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newman1702

newman1702
Varrag said:
Maybe. 1.5% is still pretty big number, though. In this case, we're looking at what... 1.5 billion systems out of our reach - possibly forever? :eek:
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That's a lot, and it gets me thinking.. see, if I was the developer, I'd probably have an urge to stuff some easter eggs in those impossible to reach systems. TARDIS docked to a Star Destroyer's bridge the way the Falcon did it in ESB? USS Enterprise? Galactica? Sure, stuff them all in there :)
 
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goemon

goemon
and you know, we have information that several of these unreachable systems have a ringed ELW as a mainstar, with a blackhole orbiting it, and a herbig AE moon! the galaxy is not fair.
 

JesusOnEez

JesusOnEez
Thanks all. Question answered...it's a 'thing'. :)

Oh, and I'm in a DBE with a range ~33Ly so I'm pretty good for reaching most stuff!
 
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docam

D
Outotch SA-U-D4-0 : passenger mission - Orca 61 ly jump capable, can craft some level 1 & 2 boost (having materials, but no for Premium) - no way to go back (stucked) - cancelled mission and autodestruction. It's a shame the board gives these impossible missions, like this!
 

Babellon

Babellon
there are places at the outer rim that while you can look up the star in edsm you cannot actually see it on the galmap. like the highest star in the system. I tried to locate it on galmap and its blips, appears for a second then disappears entirely. there are a lot of seemingly invisible stars out there that cannot be plotted to so I assume that is why they do not render. I wish they did. it would be good to be able to see them.

on a side note the stars become very hard to see on galmap the further out you go, they fade out and are tiny little pixel dots that vanish if you scroll out on the map a certain distance. Not really sure why this is.
just realized how old this thread is. lol necrothreads ftw.
 
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