Col 70 Sector Lock is a PITA!

Timpraetor

Timpraetor
Is Col 70 Sector growing? I'm trying to get from Ceos to Orion Nebula Visitor's Center and I having a heck of a time finding a route that takes me around Col 70 Sector (Permit Locked). I've made this trip via Witches Nebula sector before, but I can no longer get a route plot from there to Orion/Bernard's Loop.

Is there an up to date planner tool that we can use to work this out before I give up and go back to Ceos and dump my passenger on her backside?
 

Vasious

Vasious
At that angle I think you will have issues as the route planner would plot around the permit lock

Plot to near the Witchhead Nebula, Cross the permit locked systems and then plot again from there
 

Timpraetor

Timpraetor
Vasious said:
At that angle I think you will have issues as the route planner would plot around the permit lock

Plot to near the Witchhead Nebula, Cross the permit locked systems and then plot again from there
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Ended up going Ceos to Taurus Dark Region To Witch Head to Orion Tourist Centre.

I just don't remember my prior treks out there as being so segmented.
 

[PS4 Pro - PC] earthtone99

[PS4 Pro - PC] earthtone99
Thanks for that!

I’m heading down using NGC systems. There’s some Spirograph systems that I remember passing through on my way out from the Witch Head. I’d heard how bad COL 70 region was for its scale with the permit lock. Think it’s 517ly squared. But this seems worse, it feels bigger than 517lys....
 

Dante Cortez

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What is the function of the Col 70 lock? Is there some place to get permits, or a plan to make permits available? I wandered out into the Witch Head Nebula and am finding it almost impossible to find a route back.
 

B1rdy

B1rdy
Dante Cortez said:
What is the function of the Col 70 lock? Is there some place to get permits, or a plan to make permits available? I wandered out into the Witch Head Nebula and am finding it almost impossible to find a route back.
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It became locked before Thargoids appeared. One of the Thargoid related riddles points at some system in Col 70, then FDev blocked the sector even though the particular system was scanned before by a CMDR. Is is a placeholder for future 'content' everyone is waiting for since FDev hinted at the sector.
 

Jmanis

Jmanis
Why it got locked I'll never understand... it wasn't locked, and FD had vast swaths of space already locked (like Regor sector, just to name one of the closest) for "future content".

Then they lock (most of) the sectors all round Barnard's Loop/Horsehead ... and yet no region of space has ever been unlocked. It's not like they were running out of space for "future content" in the first place... then other rando systems become locked like HIP 22460... it's just bizarre.
 

Screemonster

Screemonster
earthtone99 said:
Darned permit lock 🔐 Let us in damn it!!!!!!
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someone shop a remlok helmet onto this

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CMDR Carbo

CMDR Carbo
Jmanis said:
Why it got locked I'll never understand... it wasn't locked, and FD had vast swaths of space already locked (like Regor sector, just to name one of the closest) for "future content".

Then they lock (most of) the sectors all round Barnard's Loop/Horsehead ... and yet no region of space has ever been unlocked. It's not like they were running out of space for "future content" in the first place... then other rando systems become locked like HIP 22460... it's just bizarre.
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Doesn't some Thargoid puzzle point to Col 70? They almost had to lock it.
I just wonder, it's been years, what just happened to the whole Thargoid background story???
 
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