I thought you could track your own discoveries if you uploaded to EDSM? I did upload for a bit, but don't usually. I liked the fact that I could track where I'd been. It doesn't help you find other people's first discoveries though.
Earth-like worlds are like buses.
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I thought you could track your own discoveries if you uploaded to EDSM? I did upload for a bit, but don't usually. I liked the fact that I could track where I'd been. It doesn't help you find other people's first discoveries though.
True only submitted to EDSM is not same as in the galmap- we need a new tool lol- from fdev.
I just bookmark interesting finds now. And to be honest, having claimed literally thousands of systems, I rarely bookmark. Most systems aren't interesting (that isn't a complaint, just an observation).
Nope. If you're the first to discover somewhere, but you're not using EDSM, and then I go there a week later using EDSM, you'll get the in-game tag and I'll be logged as first to discover on EDSM.
There's currently no way of tracking your own official in-game discoveries, short of writing it down.
Depends where you've been, I guess. Most of the data I hand in after an exploration trip will be first discoveries, as I try to avoid popular routes (which is very easy, until you get close to POIs).
Except you can use that to track your own, assuming you are the person using EDSM. You can look up your own discoveries in the Galmap to double-check if EDSM is correct.
Thanks. To be honest, those nuances escaped me. It feels even more special now.
Are you not familiar with the old adage that “you wait forever for a bus, and then two come along at once”? It’s a British thing.
Yes, but you quickly run out of bookmarks once you start down that road. I found an orange planetary nebula via the galaxy map a few weeks ago, one in a region of space that was likely unexplored. Went to bookmark it, discovered that I had run out and stupidly went straight to my bookmarks to delete a few. Of course, that sent me zooming across to the opposite side of the galaxy map, and I be damned if I could find the system again.I just bookmark interesting finds now. And to be honest, having claimed literally thousands of systems, I rarely bookmark. Most systems aren't interesting (that isn't a complaint, just an observation).
I wasn't laughing at the time.We need significantly more bookmarks.
It depends how high you set the bar for "interesting".
I have around 15 interesting bookmarks. I haven't created a new one for months, I only recently arrived at BP, so it isn't for a lack of exploring - though I did Buckyball the journey from the Colonia to BP (via Explorer's Anchorage). I'm taking the slow journey home. I don't like hyperspace buckyballing too much.Though I'm not objecting to bookmark improvements. More, with grouping, would be good.
It depends how high you set the bar for "interesting".
Though I'm not objecting to bookmark improvements. More, with grouping, would be good.
True... clearly I set the bar pretty low.
We did kind of nail Trappist-1 before NASA, so it’s certainly not impossible. Given the sheer volume of the visible universe, odds favor it, especially considering the visible universe is just the smallest speck of the full volume of the entire universe. And for sanity sake I’ll leave string theory out of this.
You never heard of that saying? Edit - ....hmmm maybe people don't wait for buses any more
Edit - ....hmmm maybe people don't wait for buses any more
In my experience, buses are where homeless people go to drink special brew and huff glue.
If they have wifi, I might give it a go.
"The old joke that you wait ages for one bus, then three come along at once, is bordering on cliché. But it's also, as it turns out, true – not just because of bad planning, but also because of maths.
The phenomenon is so common, in fact, that it has a choice of names. Bus bunching, clumping, convoying, platooning – all relate to the depressing reality that, over any length of time, buses serving a single route are likely to end up tootling along directly behind each other."
From "why do three buses come along at once?"
The phenomenon is so common, in fact, that it has a choice of names. Bus bunching, clumping, convoying, platooning – all relate to the depressing reality that, over any length of time, buses serving a single route are likely to end up tootling along directly behind each other."
From "why do three buses come along at once?"
“Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.” -E.B. White