Found something odd. A destroyed moon / planet?

[Obsidian Ant]

I recorded a video of this with Shadowplay, but it all went wrong - so unfortunately I have nothing to show.

I was in Dahan heading to the Resource Extraction site, when suddenly I got a proximity warning - even though I wasn't near anything, and then I was forced out of supercruise.

I found myself in a massive asteroid field, and I thought at first I was in a planetary ring. However it turned out that was not the case.

The asteroid field was massive, so I set my radar to maximum view. The asteroid field was shaped like a half-sphere. I spent a bunch of time flying around inside the field and looking. I even recorded on the video it relative location to the other planets in the system. Unfortunate I don't have those details now.

Eventually I flew outside the field and looked back, and it was indeed a huge asteroid field shaped as a half-sphere. It looked a little like a destroyed moon / planet.

Has anyone else come across this?

 

[Lestat]

It like Saturn ring?

 

[Obsidian Ant]

It like Saturn ring?

No it was shaped like a sphere, not a disc.

Imagine a ball cut in half - but then made out of densely packed asteroids.

 

[Alien]

See if you can find it again, then take pics.
I'm not saying it didn't happen, but I am sure many would be interested in pictures.

 

[Nagual]

The remains of Alderaan.

 

[Obsidian Ant]

See if you can find it again, then take pics.
I'm not saying it didn't happen, but I am sure many would be interested in pictures.

I really wish I did have pictures or video to show. It's immensely frustrating. Basically Shadowplay recorded the desktop on my 2nd monitor as opposed to the game. This was because I had the Oculus Rift running...

 

[Lestat]

Did you see it in super cruise?

 

[mastershotgun]

The remains of Alderaan.

with a sign "Darth Vader was here"

 

[Alien]

I really wish I did have pictures or video to show. It's immensely frustrating. Basically Shadowplay recorded the desktop on my 2nd monitor as opposed to the game. This was because I had the Oculus Rift running...

FRAPS is your friend

 

[Sterlino]

come on come on....

we what PICTURE of it

otherwise i think is a pretty lie

 

[Nagual]

FRAPS is your friend

So is F10 (built in screenshot)

 

[Alien]

come on come on....

we what PICTURE of it

otherwise i think is a pretty lie

There is a nicer way to say that ... for example ...

See if you can find it again, then take pics.
I'm not saying it didn't happen, but I am sure many would be interested in pictures.

I'm not saying he's lying though, I will give him the benefit of doubt.

 

[Iain M Norman]

You can press F10 to take a pic, you'll find them in your Saved Games folder.

I suspect that what you were seeing was a ring, they are quite thick.

If you were near the edge, and the ring field is larger than your scanner, then when you zoom your scanner out you'll see half a sphere, the edges of the sphere are just the limit of the scanner range.

Sounds like a plausible explanation?

I'm not at my ED machine right now, perhaps someone else will test what a zoomed out radar looks like in the rings?

 

[Nagual]

Could be that you flew near a planets dark side so couldn't see it. Been there, done that too.. also the damn asteroid ring was nigh on pitch black, which meant getting out was... interesting too.

 

[Thygrrr]

There is a nicer way to say that ... for example ...


I'm not saying he's lying though, I will give him the benefit of doubt.

"Pics, or it didn't happen!"

I actually believe him, though. Might have been a bug, or a glitch showing something the procedural generator can generate, but what was not supposed ot be there (or no one knew yet).

 

[Obsidian Ant]

You can press F10 to take a pic, you'll find them in your Saved Games folder.

I suspect that what you were seeing was a ring, they are quite thick.

If you were near the edge, and the ring field is larger than your scanner, then when you zoom your scanner out you'll see half a sphere, the edges of the sphere are just the limit of the scanner range.

Sounds like a plausible explanation?

I'm not at my ED machine right now, perhaps someone else will test what a zoomed out radar looks like in the rings?

100% wasn't a ring.

Also wasn't a planet.

It was densely packed asteroids, I flew through them. They were clustered together in a sphere, not a ring.

Wish I could get back there. I would have pressed F10, but I had the Rift on and was relying on Shadowplay.

 

[Iain M Norman]

I've found a hemisphere too!

 

[Nagual]

From which direction did you head out from?

 

[Obsidian Ant]

I've found a hemisphere too!

That's exactly it!!!! Thank you!!

From which direction did you head out from?

I left from the station.

But as everything is moving and orbiting, that won't be much help - as everything will now be in a different location.

 

[Nagual]

Could it be just a really large asteroid belt, but since our scanners can't see the edges it just looks like a sphere on the scanner?