Galaxy Reset
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Fine idea, I would love for more CMDR impact on the galaxy.
Make it so, that squadrons of a certain size could establish their own outposts. But they would have to put in some real team effort, e.g. buy an expensive automated orbiting factory dock, mine raw materials or haul them out from the bubble and then subsequently maintain the station with supplies (or contract supply missions to independent pilots as cargo missions)
One question, EDSM is feed only by those PC players who have their software reporting, isn't It?
If so, only Frontier has the real numbers...
We've only explored about 1% of the Elite galaxy since 2014, so there is still LOTS of undiscovered systems out there. There is no need to reset the galaxy, people hunting for new systems just need to fly off the beaten paths now and then. I go months without seeing a tag on anything sometimes.
This. I'd much rather see this implemented.
This. I'd much rather see this implemented.
The problem is that the remaining 99.988515% is just a copy-paste of what has already been discovered. Don't expect anything fancy out there...
This.
The people who found places/things are the people who found them.
End of.
People being what they are, if FDev announced that they were going to reset the galaxy, all that'd happen would be that a bunch of tossers would flock to every significant location in the galaxy in an attempt to get their name on it in place of the person who actually discovered it.
And that would be completely intolerable.
It's bad enough when FDev start a beta and people spend their time desperately hunting for new stuff so they can get their name on it when the update goes live.
In my proposal the galaxy (the procedural part, not the hand crafted content) should be reset and then generated again with a new seed so you won't find the same places again, instead you should have slightly different features in different places with everything to be rediscovered again.
TBH, if FDev were in the mood to do something like this, I'd rather they just added more stuff - even wacky stuff - to the existing galaxy.
The point is that it would be inconsistent to add something new to a system already discovered and visited (near the bubble or the big nebulae).
I already find it crazy to lock entire sectors to reserve them for future contents. The day FDEV will say that they unlocked some sector with new contents it will be like a party in there...
There is 99% of an unexplored galaxy to add stuff to if need be
How would resetting the Galaxy change the below for you?
Resetting the Seed will still give you the ability to complaint about it being a just a copy-paste of what has already been discovered
5-6 years later yes.. But with a plan to regen the galaxy every 5-6 years would assure new variety and new discovery at every cycle.
Don't have to jump real far to find something that no one discovered yet. People looking for new stars all over the galaxy and I'm still discovering new, unexplored stars right here in the bubble when flying my Courier around. There is some unexplored system might be right next door. Not too long ago I was first to discover number of systems when I took my Cutter with rather mediocre jump range (around 30 LY) on the weekend trip just south of the bubble. Also I found several rich systems within 20 LY of Explorer's Anchorage when I stopped there on my way back from BP and that region is like a Times Square, full of people. I think there is so much more stuff that waiting to be discovered, we probably set for life. No need for any resets.
I'd love to see (as others have said) a Permit Locked Region™ opened up, with lots of new 'stuff' to find (Or just more new 'stuff to find' in general)....But i wouldn't want to go much further than that seems as "As of April 2019, Frontier says that players have explored only 0.036% of the Milky Way".
....But then again, I'm not much of an Explorer so ignore me Meh
....But then again, I'm not much of an Explorer so ignore me Meh
Everything we are aware of in this game center's around SOL. Using Colonia which is only one of possible thousands of destinations available, one can and have left SOL and plotted almost the exact same path with in a few light years as almost everyone else. Change the plotting one tenth of one degree and you'll blaze a completely new trail of discoveries. Then remember a grain of sand like SOL is basically a ball and a straight line can start at any point and go outward from any spot located on the surface of the ball and go as short or far as one wishes.
I don't understand this thread at all. As a few here have stated, FD tells us we have explored roughly 1% of the galaxy - that leaves 99% that could contain ANYTHING'. Yet now we have players who want something new, so they are asking for another galaxy. Guess what, that will be basically identical in looks to this one since FD have always tried to be as realistic as they can regarding the galaxy.
Oh you say, a new galaxy might have aliens in it and it will be so exciting I will have to change my pants. Yeah, for the first couple of sessions but then all those alien stations and outposts will be as familiar as the human ones in this galaxy.
So what is the solution? Well we could go the OP's route and reset/reinvent the galaxy every few months, but giving us a blank slate knowing fully well we will populate it the same way each time is not a solution.
We could shrink the galaxy, so what is here is easier to find. Maybe post some gigantic sigh posts up too to make it really easy.
Or we could encourage more players to leave the bubble and actually explore the galaxy. We all know there are players who have never left the bubble, hell probably haven't gone further than a dozen ly's from their starter system. I have always thought that FD expected the majority to immediately head out into the black and ever never to 'civilisation' but that hasn't happened. Lets be honest we are a community of 'stay-at-homes' lol
Oh you say, a new galaxy might have aliens in it and it will be so exciting I will have to change my pants. Yeah, for the first couple of sessions but then all those alien stations and outposts will be as familiar as the human ones in this galaxy.
So what is the solution? Well we could go the OP's route and reset/reinvent the galaxy every few months, but giving us a blank slate knowing fully well we will populate it the same way each time is not a solution.
We could shrink the galaxy, so what is here is easier to find. Maybe post some gigantic sigh posts up too to make it really easy.
Or we could encourage more players to leave the bubble and actually explore the galaxy. We all know there are players who have never left the bubble, hell probably haven't gone further than a dozen ly's from their starter system. I have always thought that FD expected the majority to immediately head out into the black and ever never to 'civilisation' but that hasn't happened. Lets be honest we are a community of 'stay-at-homes' lol
I`m against a reset, for one main reason.
For commanders that have passed away irl.
For commanders that have passed away irl.
Actually I kinda get the want for another galaxy.
New extremes - new ultimate rim systems, new highest and lowest stars, new AA-A systems, new unknown voids to cross, new nebulas to see first. After several years of Elite exploration, almost all of those things were charted during the glory days and can no longer be found on the Milky Way (except of course furthest systems that change based on upper limits of FSD tech). It's pretty telling how with the new anomalies, it took like a week or two to tag all first anomaly discoveries in all sectors.