I'm not saying that with an certainty but one of the things I've failed to look for in my Nav panel has been entire star systems marked as "unknown". I've always assumed that the galaxy map was ... The galaxy. I'm not operating from that point of view during the Cas A mission. I'm planning to thoroughly check the list of nearby systems with an eye toward anything out of place.
Ok, so I would completely subscribe to the theory that hiding something that's out there (and that matches with so many of Drew's clues) would be to hide stars from the galmap. Absolutely do.
What about the other way around? What if I'm seeing plenty of systems in the galmap, but not in my nav panel? Now hold on, I know what you're going to say: usually only systems up to a certain range show up in the nav panel (I suppose it's a limit to the number of systems that can be listed there), but this usually only applies in the bubble, where there are usually upwards of thirty systems below a twenty-LY distance from any given system.
HOWEVER, look at these two images, taken in the same system:
In case you're wondering, this is past H&S, but waayyy below the plane. As you can see, only two systems can be selected from the nav panel, but quite a few are within jump range in the galmap. The two I can select in the nav panel aren't even the closest ones, only CYOILZ GA-A C29-0 is. The other one is my next waypoint, 37.69LY away. There are others like CYOILZ FA-A C29-0 that are closer (32.07 LY in that instance).
Riddle me this.
Ha!
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Still 4 kylies out from H&S and I think the Heart looks different? Anyone out there already notice any changes? It looks as if there's a cluster of bright stars shining out from within it? I don't recall that from previous trips. Checking the Heart in Galmap, it seems to have much more definition and structure than I recall. I don't think I have old shots of it to compare. The Soul looks the same to me.
http://imgur.com/a/Om36L
Can't really tell from this screenshot but those stars are bright on the screen.
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still things look different this trip
Quite so. Last time I was out this way, the cluster of stars forming the arrow (the ones with S171, etc.) within NGC7822 were discernible from the galmap as well from far away, not just in the skybox or when zooming into NGC7822 in galmap. Now (and I'm assuming this has to do with 2.2), I can only see them in galmap when I get REALLY close.
What if we're not looking for a distinguishing feature? It may be something that can be seen from many different places. Otherwise we're looking for a needle in a haystack, and I think there is a comment somewhere from Drew saying he doesn't like that.
I think this fits with Drew's clues in terms of IT not being a POI and potentially having partially been discovered by CMDRs up to this point, maybe without them knowing.
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