Loads of nice finds and new minor discoveries. I need to take the time to go through all this after the CGStill waiting for the new big perception changing find, but it's early days
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Waypoint 2 to Waypoint 3: Distant Worlds 2 - Sagittarii Conflux POI Mapping Event
The local region between the Omega Nebula and the Conflux Settlements has seldom few charted POIs. The Galactic Mapping Project would therefore like explorers to look for candidate POIs around Waypoint 3, extending out to around a 2,500 LY radius.
Candidate entries should be submitted to this thread.
This mapping event begins on January 27th and ends on February 3rd.
To avoid data overload, the GMP team will choose the best 5 candidates to be added to EDSM as POIs.
Submissions can come in a variety of POIs:
- Nebula
- Planetary Nebula
- Star Cluster
- Pulsar
- Black Hole
- Stellar POI
- Planetary POI
- Surface (Geological Feature) POI
- Interesting Codex Dicoveries
Guidelines to submitting POIs:
- Candidate entries should be something unique or rare. This can be anything from statistical record breakers or visually spectacular locations to places of historical interest or with interesting stories behind them.
- A good rule of thumb is this: “Would another explorer be willing to travel thousands of LYs to visit this place?”
- Your entry should be something you've visited personally and haven't just found by simply playing with the map whilst sat in a station somewhere (proof via screenshots or video would be appreciated).
- Name your POI, but only choose names that fit within the spirit of the game. Please no silly phrases or POIs named after your commander. For ideas you can check out the real life astronomical naming conventions, or choose something completely different if you prefer - as long as it is sensible and not like this. The GMP team reserve the right to suggest amendments.
- No renaming of real life places or FD named places. We are only replacing procedural names. However it is acceptable to submit an entry for a real-life astronomical object under its real name.
- All submissions should be considered as player created fiction only. If FD rename any in-game POIs for whatever reason, the GMP will follow suit and rename entries to whatever FD do.
It seems like I am the only person not to know of the next waypoint, I tried my binoculars on to read the system name on the picture of the map that I was supposed to head to, but the name would not be accepted in the galaxy map.
Reads: Pru Aeacs HW-S b31-2 ?
For the route, waypoint, and itinerary... bookmark this thread : Link
It contains all the information needed for the next part of the trip to WP3, WP3 system details, and galmap references and links to information about each POI to visit along the way.
Suggested Name: The Carousel
Game map search ref: Traikaae VI-T d3-15 D 1
Description: An elongated High Metal World that's tidally locked to it's parent star. At a surface velocity of approx. 6,244 km/s, it's fast rotation elongates it to an egg-like form roughly along it's orbital plane. A Class M/ Class L binary only 27 ls away tilts the planets rotational axis slightly (6.79 °) and maybe also causes the faint eccentricity of it's orbit. Through tidal heating, the planet's surface temperature is over 1,000 K higher than that of it's L-Dwarf parent star.