5 bodies in barycentric orbits
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Allitnil, I'm pretty sure that is a record. Could you post details on it to the GMP thread so we can add it as a POI?
I've seen one 5-body example before, posted here - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ird-systems!?p=2310735&viewfull=1#post2310735
I think these are super rare, though.
I think these are super rare, though.
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Only beaten by 2 years then, and just shows that there's nothing new outside of the Sun
I hadn't seen (or maybe just didn't remember) your example and like Matt had thought that 4 was the limit. But if there isn't a hard-coded limit then I see no reason the forge couldn't throw up a 6 or even more. Only another 399 billion or so systems to check [haha]
Nice, it looks like the kind of ceiling mobile you hang above a babies cot!
That little landable moon right in the middle really tops it off.
Nice. As was Allitnil's. I think I must have discovered the galaxy's most boring example.
Can you remember where?
I've seen considerably more ringed ELWs than 4s, and never seen anything above a 4, so my impression is that 5s and 6s would be much rarer.
Given that the CMDRs who have seen this thread have several million systems between them and only three examples of 5 bodies have been reported, I would guestimate that there are only a few thousand examples in the whole galaxy. 6 bodies would perhaps be a few dozen, so hate to say, but if you're claiming to see 6 then "pics or it didn't happen"
As for ringed ELWs, those are going to be measured in the low tens of millions. They make up 1.8% of those in the List of Earth Like Worlds so if we assume that the true measure is more like 1.5% (since people are more likely to report ringed examples) and 1 in 200 systems contains an ELW (guestimate but probably not far off for totally random systems) then we are looking at 400 billion / 200 * 0.015 = 30 million ringed ELWs.
I think they're probably more common than that just because most people don't look out for them. Even into the hundreds of thousands for 5s would still lead to not many being found and reported, and most commanders never even seeing one even as an unreported honk-past.Given that the CMDRs who have seen this thread have several million systems between them and only three examples of 5 bodies have been reported, I would guestimate that there are only a few thousand examples in the whole galaxy. 6 bodies would perhaps be a few dozen, so hate to say, but if you're claiming to see 6 then "pics or it didn't happen"
Given that the CMDRs who have seen this thread have several million systems between them and only three examples of 5 bodies have been reported, I would guestimate that there are only a few thousand examples in the whole galaxy. 6 bodies would perhaps be a few dozen, so hate to say, but if you're claiming to see 6 then "pics or it didn't happen"
As for ringed ELWs, those are going to be measured in the low tens of millions. They make up 1.8% of those in the List of Earth Like Worlds so if we assume that the true measure is more like 1.5% (since people are more likely to report ringed examples) and 1 in 200 systems contains an ELW (guestimate but probably not far off for totally random systems) then we are looking at 400 billion / 200 * 0.015 = 30 million ringed ELWs.
EDSM reports that there are 17 mill systems discovered for now. If only 3 examples have been reported then there is a 1:5,6x10^6 chance of finding one. Elite has 400 billion systems so in the whole galaxy we should see round about
400 bill/5,6 mill=71 thousend aprox. I wouldn't say that's a few thousends but it's still a very small number relatively speaking.
Given that the CMDRs who have seen this thread have several million systems between them and only three examples of 5 bodies have been reported, I would guestimate that there are only a few thousand examples in the whole galaxy. 6 bodies would perhaps be a few dozen, so hate to say, but if you're claiming to see 6 then "pics or it didn't happen"
As for ringed ELWs, those are going to be measured in the low tens of millions. They make up 1.8% of those in the List of Earth Like Worlds so if we assume that the true measure is more like 1.5% (since people are more likely to report ringed examples) and 1 in 200 systems contains an ELW (guestimate but probably not far off for totally random systems) then we are looking at 400 billion / 200 * 0.015 = 30 million ringed ELWs.
I'm going to disagree on the first part and agree on the second. We have much better data on ELWs (with and without rings). I strongly suspect that examples of 5+ orbit groups have been under-reported; is anyone keeping a list? Not to my knowledge.
*pedantic mode on* 1.6 million of those are locked systems, so we have no idea about the body information on them. *pedantic mode off*