Galaxy Reset

[VR SenseiMatty]

Yes yes I know everyone is so proud of own discoveries in the galaxy and a galaxy reset would be an insult to many... but sometimes I don't feel I'm "out in the black" anymore when exploring.
It seems incredible but even if only a tiny percentage of stars have been discovered, there are certain regions of the galaxy where every system I jump to is already discovered.
When I need to go few thousand LY away from the bubble to explore I miss the feeling of living in a bubble surrounded by the unknown.
Do you guys think we need some more small colonial bubble in the remote areas of the galaxy?
Or do you think at a certain point it would make sense for FDEV to change a couple of parameters in the Stellar Forge and reset the galaxy?
N.B. I'm not talking about resetting player accounts and BGE/Power Play. The civilized bubbles and all handcrafted contents should stay of course.

Or maybe there should be a parallel and weird galaxy that you can chose by launching a different session from the game launcher: a less realistical one with more strange phenomena, just for the mistery and the fun of it, without BGE and Power Play.

 

[EUS]

Get off the beaten path, I just made a 1st discovery of a WR star 600LY out. It's the first WR star I've even seen, too.
Resetting the galaxy is crazy. Wasn't even reset from gamma. In another 5 yrs, someone will want another reset?
Sorry, this suggestion serves no purpose.

 

[CMDR Cknarf]

If you go up or down on the galactic plane, then beeline toward a popular destination, you should still find plenty of undiscovered stuff along the way.

 

[zombieapocalypse]

So you basically want to reset all discoveries? To what end? As the above poster points out, you'd eventually end up back in exactly the same situation as you find yourself now.

 

[The Nephilim]

Under no circumstances should the Galaxy ever be reset.

I see it as a living, expanding thing.

 

[photomankc]

You want to reset all discoveries because you choose to 'explore' where everyone else has been?

Good grief.

ETA: The galaxy is largely completely unexplored if you go places that are not tourist traps. It is 'undiscovered', not mysterious or strange. It's made up of stars and planets that follow a pretty set and understood pattern. There is plenty out there to find but rare things are.... rare.

 

[Sepp]

That'd be a flat 'no' to all three. What we do need is outpost evolution (not a "oh, let's put another Colonia here", or "let's jump Jacques II to there") so when more than x Commanders have been to a given star/planet, a small outpost springs up there. When y more have visited the outpost, it grows or more outposts spring up. That would be cool - and those numbers could work from now or a date in the future, rather than taking into account any who have already been.

 

[777Driver]

Your proposal makes no sense buddy. Find your own path, don't travel along the galactic plane unless you plan to travel. For exploration, dive, or climb away from the beaten path.

 

[Linnunrata]

There is plenty out there to find but rare things are.... rare.

Dunno, is there? I mean, the stellar phenomena seem to spawn only near nebulae and AA-A systems have been charted long ago so the chances of any stellar extremes seem pretty remote.

Not that I'm endorsing a galactic reset. It was just a pretty weird decision to limit all new phenomena so strictly to very limited amount of nebulae.

 

[Demsit]

I'd be against resetting the galaxy map. But at the same moment I'd love to see something new.

Now imagine we manage to find the Thargoids stargate that lets us jump into their home galaxy. A smaller one than ours, with unique dangers. Take Eve onlines' Abyssal Deepspace, for example. 'Upside Down' from Stranger things. 'Hell' in minecraft. Some unique, dangerous environment that offers special rewards such as faster travel or certain useful materials.

I understand that frontier wants to keep things rather realistically, and it's wise not to shove more new stuff into the game when there are plenty of things that already exist in the elite universe that could be used instead. But there is still witchspace. Imagine bodies/ systems that are located there. Heck, maybe Thargoids swarm witchspace already, which would explain how they can hyperderdict commanders. "You're passing through my turf, buddy!"
In elite lore many ships that entered witchspace were lost, especially when the technology was new. They may have dropped out of withcspace somewhere between the stars, never to be found. But they could as well have never left it.

The idea to have some parallel universe or other galaxy to explore, even if they are much smaller than the milky way, would be so much more entertaining than a simple reset of the existing galaxy...

 

[Florenus]

Option to hide first discovered/mapped tags would suffice.

 

[Rat Catcher]

Dunno, is there? I mean, the stellar phenomena seem to spawn only near nebulae and AA-A systems have been charted long ago so the chances of any stellar extremes seem pretty remote.

Not that I'm endorsing a galactic reset. It was just a pretty weird decision to limit all new phenomena so strictly to very limited amount of nebulae.

There are NSP that are not in/near nebulae, but they are still very rare (there was a list being kept in a seperate topic here).
I 'found' an AA-A system that was virgin very recently, so there may be none left now... (it was the first one, after many, I found that was unnoticed by the 'seekers')
I can go out for a couple of hours each day and log 95% virgin systems - but am based in Colonia Near the bubble, not so easy...

 

[Deleted member 38366]

Have a look at this : https://edastro.com/galmap/

Then seek blank spots and fill them in.
(I just for fun did entire 100LY bubbles - without ever seeing a single or at best the oddball partly explored System)

Own position in that Map can be imported from Journal for orientation, plenty of different overlays for your choosing as well.

 

[Dagwit]

If I were a dev I'd be keen to see the cubes of stars (an unfortunate artefact of the current procedural generation routines) gone in the New Era, even if that means some current stars would vanish and others would appear. I'd save any player-discovered stars I could, but my priority would be getting rid of the cubes.

 

[Bryan K]

Humanity has been buzzing around with Hyperdrive for centuries. Frankly I’m surprised that most of the galaxy wasn’t charted from the get-go.

 

[Robert Maynard]

Do you guys think we need some more small colonial bubble in the remote areas of the galaxy?

I do.

Or do you think at a certain point it would make sense for FDEV to change a couple of parameters in the Stellar Forge and reset the galaxy?

Never.

 

[Linnunrata]

There are NSP that are not in/near nebulae, but they are still very rare (there was a list being kept in a seperate topic here).

I thought this might be the case, but seems a bit of a lost potential if they are abudant near nebulae and ultra-rare outside them, to the point where you can shift through thousands of systems and never hit one (admittedly anecdotal evidence here, maybe I'm just super unlucky). It'd do wonders against the monotony if you had like distinct types of phenomena pop up in the ordinary space.

 

[photomankc]

Dunno, is there? I mean, the stellar phenomena seem to spawn only near nebulae and AA-A systems have been charted long ago so the chances of any stellar extremes seem pretty remote.

Not that I'm endorsing a galactic reset. It was just a pretty weird decision to limit all new phenomena so strictly to very limited amount of nebulae.

I stumble on something that is really neat most trips out. Be that a canyon with a great view, or a planet that reflects the light of a nebula on the ice, or any number of really excellent vistas. It's largely why I explore, as well as my personal goal to find my own remote double-painite ring. Cool stuff is out there to see but probably not a ton of never-seen-before by player-eyes things.

I'd love to hear they are adding something new to find. I got no issue with that, but resetting the universe because you don't like that other people have been to to the places you go is a pretty brazenly self-centered view I think.

 

[Linnunrata]

I stumble on something that is really neat most trips out. Be that a canyon with a great view, or a planet that reflects the light of a nebula on the ice, or any number of really excellent vistas. It's largely why I explore, as well as my personal goal to find my own remote double-painite ring. Cool stuff is out there to see but probably not a ton of never-seen-before by player-eyes things.

Yeah, I appreciate that kind of discovery also. I'm just a bit puzzled why we were given all these neat new scanner tools and so little use for them outside a handful of targets, most of them clumps of geysirs or volcano vents. Another telling aspect IMO is that maybe 80% of "this game looks cool" screenshots feature a planetary/stellar ring. Wish the game had more features like that. Asteroids that weren't just potatoes or rings, for instance? Comets?

I got no issue with that, but resetting the universe because you don't like that other people have been to to the places you go is a pretty brazenly self-centered view I think.

Well, yeah, I agree and I think it is pretty safe to say that there will never be a galactic reset outside major data failure at FDev (with multiple backup failures).

 

[Kzak]

Better suggestion: Make a new galaxy available, but have us jump through a bunch of hoops in order to get the technology that allows us to travel to or back from it - the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds come to mind, they are dwarf-galaxies and much closer to the Milky Way than Andromeda.