Serious help needed from Extreme Veteran Explorers

SpaceMonkeyz

SpaceMonkeyz
I am stuck in this cluster of Neutron stars that happens to have a whole mess of black holes. I am on the far side of the core, headed in the general direction of DWE WP 19 and for the past 2 thousand light years, its nothing but black holes. No matter what I do I can't prevent myself from plotting courses in realistic from black hole to black hole. I even find myself backtracking to get ones that I missed.

I am 465 jumps removed from Sag A(this includes a lengthy detour to map a whole bunch of Carbon stars to satisfy a completely different and far less profitable curiosity) and I am averaging one black hole every 6.2 jumps since the center of the galaxy. I feel like no matter how hard I try I just CAN'T SKIP A SINGLE ONE. My relatively brisk pace across the galaxy has now become a virtual crawl as I zig and zag my way across this never ending landscape of black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs, and red giants. I try to tell myself that someone else probably scanned all of these already, that I am just wasting my time. But it does not seem to help.

Am I succumbing now to some previously unknown form of space madness? Has anyone else suffered from this and how did you cope? My concern is that I am going to come to the end of this cluster and just drop 200 LY and go back the way I came to get even more.

Current system: Black Hole. Next Jump: Black Hole. Optimum Jump Range:31.98LY Next Jump: 15.40LY IN THE WRONG DIRECTION.

Sweet Caroline, save me!!!

Signed

A Mad Space Monkey
 

Flash_Baggins

Flash_Baggins
Dont worry, I have the same problem, just replace neutrons and black holes with fallout 4 ;)
Im 20kly behind, I just decide I want to finish what I signed up for and I plough on!
 

SpaceMonkeyz

SpaceMonkeyz
Oh no, it's not the neutrons. They are all trying to kill me. They are incidental and I do not seek them out, though I do scan them if they end up in the system I jump to. It's just the black holes. They are not trying to kill anyone they are just hungry and want to be SEEN. Who isn't hungry with a desire to be noticed? I can totally relate!
 

Erimus Kamzel

Erimus Kamzel
Yes, its the onset of space madness.

You need to get a grasp on reality pretty quickly otherwise you've had it.

You need perspective. So try and realise that there are probably 100 million black holes strewn throughout the core regions, and no matter how many you tag, it makes no difference [money]

I'm sort of like that with regular Earth Like Worlds now, ever since someone had a crack at working out that there's probably 8 billion of them in the ED galaxy and they're really not that special anymore [sad]
 
Last edited:

SpaceMonkeyz

SpaceMonkeyz
Erimus said:
Yes, its the onset of space madness.

You need to get a grasp on reality pretty quickly otherwise you've had it.

You need perspective. So try and realise that there are probably 100 million black holes strewn throughout the core regions, and no matter how many you tag, it makes no difference [money]

I'm sort of like that with Earth Like Worlds now, ever since someone had a crack at working out that there's probably 8 billion of them in the ED galaxy and they're really not that special anymore [sad]
Click to expand...


Thank you Erimus. When I come back later today I feel a 998LY plot coming on.
 

SpaceMonkeyz

SpaceMonkeyz
Or a ringed ammonia world with Lightsaber Rings!

2016-03-06_00006.jpg
 

SpaceMonkeyz

SpaceMonkeyz
MacrosTheBlack said:
Turn off Realistic view now! Plot a course directly up and don't look back! You're now saved!
Click to expand...

Erimus said:
Ringed Earth Worlds are the crème de la crème!

Only surpassed by ringed Earth Worlds that are actually moons of another world! That's what you need to seek my friend ;)
Click to expand...




Traveller_GG said:
Change Galaxy view to remove non-sequence stars, aim for a scoopable 1KLY up. Get moving.

Just remember - all black holes suck.
Click to expand...


Thanks for all the advice. My Name Is Commander Space Monkeyz and it has been 32 jumps since my last black hole AMEN. Out of realistic and chugging away again!!! At least this tinge of madness seems to have abated......for now.
 

chiefwizard

chiefwizard
I want to find a way out of the void. I've been flying in circles for 3 weeks trying to get through to beagle point.

The ability to bookmark stars can't come soon enough.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom