Out of all the systems in ED

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Arthur Shappey said:
If there really are 400 billion+ stars in the simulation of the Milky Way, I would be surprised if we've got about 1% yet. That doesn't mean it is easy to find an undiscovered star - you need patience more and more now, as further and further must be travelled.
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Quick tip, if you're travelling somewhere interesting (e.g. a nebula, black hole or distant tourist beacon) don't go in a straight line. That's what everyone else does and all the systems along that straight line will have been discovered (if you look at an ADSM map of where people have been. it's basically all straight lines connecting the "interesting" stuff. If you're gonna travel, say, 600lys somewhere, then pick a random direction (diagonally downwards for example) and go that way for about 100lys first before turning towards your final destination.

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JohnRoberts

JohnRoberts
There are apparently 400 billion systems, and also apparently 2 million copies of the game sold. And, in round figures, its 1000 days since release. Therefore to get to 1% discovery, every single one of these 2 million accounts would have needed to discover 2 systems every single day since release.

Pretty sure that hasn't happened.
 

Perjoss

Perjoss
Jools said:
your avatar... looks like speedball 2, or something else from bitmap brothers... but i don`t remember it from my amiga days.... what is it from?
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It's from Speedball 1, and to the other poster a bit further down, I played it on the Atari ST :)

Also, thanks for all the replies, we have a lot of work to do!
 

MottiKhan

MottiKhan
I just took an alt out this weekend to unlock Palin (5k ly distance). By going down, off of the galactic plane and at an angle northeast (up and to the right), I found mostly unclaimed systems. 5 had unclaimed earthlikes. You can probably do the same by going up off of the galactic plane and angle your way out.

(The data alone was enough to take Palin to grade 5 by the way).
 
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Macros Black

Macros Black
Alec Turner said:
Quick tip, if you're travelling somewhere interesting (e.g. a nebula, black hole or distant tourist beacon) don't go in a straight line. That's what everyone else does and all the systems along that straight line will have been discovered (if you look at an ADSM map of where people have been. it's basically all straight lines connecting the "interesting" stuff. If you're gonna travel, say, 600lys somewhere, then pick a random direction (diagonally downwards for example) and go that way for about 100lys first before turning towards your final destination.

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This is true. In an untagged system now, 752Ly from SOL. Found ever closer systems not tagged.
 

Bomba Luigi

Bomba Luigi
In Fact I have been in all the systems so a player has set foot in 100% of the systems. But I didn't sell the data as I tought it would be mean to not let anybody take first disvoerys anymore. I'm a very nice guy :)
 

Darth Ender

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i think that number is a bit ...misleading.

I'd like to see the percentage in terms of number of reachable systems (not individual stars, and not counting permit locked sectors). By reachable, i mean not requiring one way boosts.

I'd be willing to bet it's more than 1%.
 

Red Anders

Red Anders
straha20 said:
A month or so ago, I found an untagged catalog star around 5kly from Sol.
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Yeah I bagged one about 7k out a few months back. When the initial rush to scan catalog stars would have happened on the game's release nobody was flying ships that could jump over 200LY, so there are no doubt others out there to be found still that would have been hard or impossible to reach in the past.
 

Straha Yeagar

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Darth Ender said:
i think that number is a bit ...misleading.

I'd like to see the percentage in terms of number of reachable systems (not individual stars, and not counting permit locked sectors). By reachable, i mean not requiring one way boosts.

I'd be willing to bet it's more than 1%.
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Again...getting back to the numbers and what they actually mean...400,000,000,000 stars, so multi star systems taken into account, still quite possibly 100,000,000,000 systems. 1% of that is still a billion systems. Most unreachable systems are out on the fringe, so extremely low density areas, so likely not to many of them when speaking in terms of billions. Same with permit locked systems and sectors. Not terribly dense when compared to the core, and near core areas, so I think it is quite possible, if not likely that the number of unreachables is less than 1%.
 
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