How is it that on every planet in every solar system in the entire galaxy has human space junk on it? I hate to be a downer but it's just so unreal. I could understand it if maybe the place had been discovered or something but in an undiscovered solar system it's just so unreal. Especially when you're 2000 light years or further from the bubble. Now I'm not asking for any changes I'm just asking a question and it really doesn't bother me that much it's just been itching my brain as I'm out here exploring the depths.
Human junk everywhere
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The spawn rate for POI's on planets has been adjusted. Got done several months ago. As I'm 20 Kylies out I would give my back teeth right now to see a blue circle on a planet. I land after each play session but never see any POI's since the change was made. It used to be terrible, every planet had more crash sites than there are ships in the game!
We've been to Beatle point and back.
2000LY is no distance whatsoever.
That said, if we have all been out there, obviously there are others that have too. Amongst those others are those that navigated whilst drunk, ergo wreckage.
Makes perfect sense.
2000LY is no distance whatsoever.
That said, if we have all been out there, obviously there are others that have too. Amongst those others are those that navigated whilst drunk, ergo wreckage.
Makes perfect sense.
sorry I thought this thread was about naughty selfies... carry on
I like to imagine that some poor souls on an expedition found their hyperdrives acting up, destroyed their ships in hyperspace and the debris exited hyperspace at every point in the galaxy simultaneously, creating all the wreckage on all the planets across the Milky Way.
Shotgunned across the galaxy.
Shotgunned across the galaxy.
I presume you mean Beagles point as opposed to Beatle point which sounds like a new tourist destination over the river in Liverpool. Yes 20 K is no real distance until you take into account most of it has been done with Eco jumps but I used it only as an example of how the POI's drop off rapidly once you leave the bubble.
I haven't been out 10K in a long time. That's nice to hear though because the last time I was out 10K there was stuff everywhere it's nice to know that there has been changes made. The thing that was bugging me the most is 400 billion star systems and a good portion of those have multiple planets. To think that I would find a piece of space junk from humans on every one of those planets was killing the immersion for me.
I've been as far as Colonia and have never once seen a POI on any planet anywhere lol. Wish I had they sound kinda cool. Only thing, other than some really interesting systems, that I've seen out of the ordinary while out deep was 'Hot Jupiter' on the system list. I didn't bother to stop because I figured it was just some tourist beacon. Now I wish I had because it sounds pretty cool.
Last time I went to Beatle Point, I found the wreck of a Yellow Submarine
Edit: Damn! Arrived at the Bring Your Own Beatles Joke party and found everyone had been and gone
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https://www.businessinsider.com.au/even-australias-most-remote-beaches-have-plastic-rubbish-2014-9
"Even Australia's most remote beaches have plastic rubbish"
I think the same applies in Elite
"Even Australia's most remote beaches have plastic rubbish"
I think the same applies in Elite
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Looks like my wifes dressing table.
I hope it doesn't also have the prerequisite selection of killer animals per square cm.
Australian beaches are clean, that picture looks like it was taken in Asia somewhere.
A better real world comparison would be central Australia. You could legitimately fly hundreds of kilometres and not see a POI, and this is on the most populated planet in the solar system. So seeing junk on every moon in the game every 5km or so is drastically overstating things. Realistically, we should detect 3-10 POI from orbit, and that would be all there is with no respawn.
I've found a Deep Space Probe POI out in Xorthuia AA-A H34 and that's around 30,000 LY from the Bubble. Scanned it and got some data. So those do exist from time to time out there in the far reaches. Not common, but not impossible.
Here's the link describing it:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ed-Deep-Space-Probe-Discovered-Drojeae-Sector
Was that 10,000+Ly from a populated system? Or just 10,000Ly from the bubble?
I would guess the POI generator uses a probability scale based on distance from the nearest populated system. IIRC on my way out from around 7-10kLys out it was just escape pods, after that nothing but rocks, fumeroles & geysers. I've seen the tiny POIs further out.
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Hmmm not sure the distance it was from Colonia at all (don't have access to ED until next week as I'm out of town). But maybe that's something there, is that the distance from Colonia to Xorthuia AA-A H34 was under 10,000. Forgot about that. Though some in that link seems to say there is still possibilities in any system. I've only found that one and that was it, but then again I'm not doing a lot of planetary landings either...
Yes, I'm only a sample of one & can only speak from my own experience, but there is room for both our experiences to fit the theory. It could just be that the probability is extremely low.