He did say that, I just posted the quote above.
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He did say that, I just posted the quote above.
You count the right section, I will count the left...
Oops.
Proof! I want proof! Start counting them now to verify exactly how many there are!!
Even better, the galaxy is 3D. In Frontier and FFE, you could count left and right. In Dangerous, you'll also need to count up and down, as not all stars are visible at once. And due to the exploration mechanic, Frontier can stealthily add new stars as they are discovered IRL and/or do educated guesses if people get far enough that we'd run out of stars.
The use of real life data did already fuel one conspiracy theory, when someone noticed a bunch of stars pointing at the Sol system. Well, turns out it happens to be actually lots of RL telescopes pointing that way (there's a nebula that has been much photographed), so there's more detected stars on that narrow cone, as viewed from the Earth...
There are 10,000 stars in those 5 systems ... all of you !!!!
The stars on the skybox don't count!
I assumed David Braben had already counted them. But maybe he miscounted somewhere?
INaeem
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New information insistently indicates 400 billion; this could be the updated amount? Old information reflects 100 billion.
Taken from the website landing page:
Head for the stars, take a ship and trade, bounty-hunt, pirate or assassinate your way across the galaxy.
It's an awe inspiring, beautiful, vast place; with 400 billion star systems, planets, moons and asteroid fields just waiting to be explored and exploited.
https://elite.frontier.co.uk/
Taken from pcgamer interview:
“There are over 100 billion star systems,” Elite creator David Braben tells me when I ask if that number could possibly be true. “In fact, it’s closer to 400 billion. It’s a very silly number anyway.”
http://www.pcgamer.com/uk/2014/05/30/david-braben-on-the-ambitious-future-of-elite-dangerous/
Taken from newsletter 21:
Alpha 4 genuinely contains over 400 billion star systems. And they are all moving correctly; spinning, orbiting each other in an incredible astronomical ballet. We are also modelling interstellar molecular clouds, and though some of the detail in these (particularly for nebulae) will come after Alpha 4, wherever you are, the ‘night sky’ is accurate. Beyond our galaxy, perhaps surprisingly we do still have a ‘skydome’ - but it is now a staggering 100,000 light years away, containing all the other galaxies, including the Magellanic Clouds. That’s one heck of a draw distance…
http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=dcbf6b86b4b0c7d1c21b73b1e&id=cfcdbae60e
Taken from the website landing page:
Head for the stars, take a ship and trade, bounty-hunt, pirate or assassinate your way across the galaxy.
It's an awe inspiring, beautiful, vast place; with 400 billion star systems, planets, moons and asteroid fields just waiting to be explored and exploited.
https://elite.frontier.co.uk/
Taken from pcgamer interview:
“There are over 100 billion star systems,” Elite creator David Braben tells me when I ask if that number could possibly be true. “In fact, it’s closer to 400 billion. It’s a very silly number anyway.”
http://www.pcgamer.com/uk/2014/05/30/david-braben-on-the-ambitious-future-of-elite-dangerous/
Taken from newsletter 21:
Alpha 4 genuinely contains over 400 billion star systems. And they are all moving correctly; spinning, orbiting each other in an incredible astronomical ballet. We are also modelling interstellar molecular clouds, and though some of the detail in these (particularly for nebulae) will come after Alpha 4, wherever you are, the ‘night sky’ is accurate. Beyond our galaxy, perhaps surprisingly we do still have a ‘skydome’ - but it is now a staggering 100,000 light years away, containing all the other galaxies, including the Magellanic Clouds. That’s one heck of a draw distance…
http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=dcbf6b86b4b0c7d1c21b73b1e&id=cfcdbae60e
I think that's the scientific term.