Bubble center system
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I thought Sol was center-ish. I was using Barnard's Star (right outside of Sol) as my home system before I unlocked the Sol permit.
One way to check is to go there and then switch the galaxy map to PowerPlay view, as it lets you visualize the bubble.
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If one thinks about it, though our sun SOL was the center, it no longer can be. In the eons gone by, some areas have increased in population while other's haven't. I mean at one time, Plymouth Rock was for all general purpose the center of the pre United States. But now it somewhere near Kansas City. Rome was once considered the center of the world, it no longer is either. So it stands to reasoning that SOL's position is realationship to human expansion has changed it central positioning. Though still used because of it is the one place known by all humans regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin. Though I concur that none of us were actual born there. We all still have a fondness for our human origin, thus call it home. It's the birth place of humans in general, not individuals anymore.
It's an interesting general question but i don't think it will get you the result you desire. 'Everything in range'?
In range of what? I suspect you are trying to say that 'everything' will be equidistant from this point within the bubble? HOWEVER, there are many factors governing how you travel across the galaxy - you ships jump range for one, then there is star classes, permit locked sectors and so forth. In short - the fastest route between two points for any given ship may not be anything approaching a straight line and therefore geographical 'centre' provides no benefit. The 'centre' system could be a permit locked system that is 90ly from any other star system. Anyways good luck.
If i were to choose a 'home system' i'd look for one that gave me the best money making opportunities and highest classed outfitting opportunities coupled with cheap ships - Yuri Grom does ship discounts in all his controlled systems - i recently saved about 8 million on a ship purchase out there.
Basic the same thing in NMS, which confused the majority of players. They couldn't figure how or why one could go a couple of thousand light years and sometimes be farther from the center than when the left where they were at. The only straight line is from ponit a to point b and based on one range. If you and I are in the same station and you have a better range than I do, you can go straight, I'll have to detour a bit to make it in two jumps rather than your one. Thus you make more money per hour of play because you detour less following a course not trip (jump), from the same a to b as I would.
Sol is basically the center of the bubble. You'll find everything is relatively a similar distance from each other. Personally I would pick a home base that benefits your needs. Being at Sol or a place near Sol is best for engineering since all engineers will be a reasonable distance away (Professor Palin excluded). If you're like me and want ease of ships and mods make your home base Jamerson Memorial once you're Elite. If you want to D around with Aliens base yourself at one of the Planetary bases down in the Maia region (almost all of the space stations don't have Shipyards down there). I recommend Blackmount Habitation since all 3 superpowers have a faction there that gives good missions and the shipyard has a Corvette for sale.
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Fact or fiction? Source?
Oops, I meant to put this on the one you responded to, my bad.
I beg to differ on this, where as SOL used to be the center of human existence. Once we started expanding out ward in one direction or another, the center of human existance moved. When factoring the placement of the center. One has to take into consideration everywhere humans now exist. Such as Colonia, Pleiades, etc. Humans did not expand in all directions equally. Thus SOL can no longer be the center.
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I've read somewhere that Sol is the center(ish) of the bubble. I can't remember if it was one of Drew Wagner's books (which are approved by FDev as official lore) or a wiki article. If I ever encounter that reference again, I'll provide a quote.
Nemo, you think too much. Sometimes a cake is just a cake (and the bubble is just the bubble, not Colonia).
Ill probably work for that sol permit just for the equalish distance of all the other worlds but the vette shop is good to know :0.
You can set the galaxy map filter to show famine.
I'm just saying, today we measure and list everything in space from Earth, EVERYTHING. Once humans actully start expanding into space and traveling between stars, that will have to change to something, and to humans the best reference point will be SOL. Eventualy as we inhabit more of the area all around the center of galaxy, the center of the galaxy will become more conducive for measurements. I can't imagine the Thargoids use sol as a reference point in their navigational system. Not knowing exactly what part of total space they orginated from. But they would use one conducive to them.
Suppose for a moment ED eventually includes another galaxy such as Andromina. Would SOL be used in navigating one ways around Andromina, NO. Would they just pick some random star from the gazillon available there to use as we have here in the Milky Way, NO. Once we get to Andromina, measuring from the center of galaxies becomes more conducive. Thus using SOL here will no longer be a viaable option.
FDev utilizes know distance based on our way of measuring to day. Only becasue of our expansion into space isn't from Earth any more, it's became SOL. As the game progress's and humans expand even farther, staying in our galaxy, Sagitarious will be come the reference point.
Case in point, today humans use the distance from Earth to Andromina. And becasue the Earth is not a staionary object such as our star (SOL) the measurement is only an estimate. Once we have expanded into space as we have with ED, the distance is much more acurate useing SOL, because it's for the most part, a stationary object.
Why when we measure everything today from Earth, does FDev use SOL? The same reason will be the cause of SOL not being utilized when we start expanding farther thus closer to the center of galaxy.
Sol is a reference point and subject to being changed just as it was changed from Earth. But like the changing of pluto to it's new catorgory from it old one as a planet. Is still messing with people minds. So will measuring from SOL instead of Earth when humans start expanding into space.
Lore is important to this game, and keeping it up to par with reality is a real issue. That ED should be proud of.
When a mission milage is stated as a 10,000 ly's for instants which size and configuration of fsd are they utilizing. It makes a big difference. A ship with a 11,000 range make only one jump, a ship with a 900 range will have to do two jumps. Which means additonal ly's. So how does one figure the correct distance? A trip to colonia is about 22,000 ly's, ok, using which ship configured with what fsd and was it engineered or not. Does it include scoopable stars which one may Thusnot need and if so, why? Thus utilizing SOL as the main reference point is fast becoming a thing of the past, just like using Earth did, when we left it.
One wants and like lore, but it has to be blended with reality, and just like the reality of Pluto no longer being a planet. Reality is sometimes hard to swallow.
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Have tried that , no planets show up. Have checked galnet, inara and zip. No one is starving
stormyuk
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I think something is wrong with your filters there, I was in famine systems last night at distribution centres. Nogambe I think. So the filter definitely works. It can be fiddly and sometimes you have to zoom in and out to get the purple dots to show.
stormyuk
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Unfortunately since 2.4 that site is broken and not updating.
Does this apply to everything (ships, modules, commodities, etc)?
To answer the original question.
If you take the bubble as being all systems within 2000ly of sol, then the system closest to the centroid of those systems is Bento.
The system closest to the centroid of all systems, including Colonia systems, is Derrim.
Original data courtesy of https://eddb.io/archive/v5/systems_populated.jsonl
If you take the bubble as being all systems within 2000ly of sol, then the system closest to the centroid of those systems is Bento.
The system closest to the centroid of all systems, including Colonia systems, is Derrim.
Original data courtesy of https://eddb.io/archive/v5/systems_populated.jsonl