I'm about to embark on a project that involves quite a bit of sightseeing and (I'm hoping) a lot of exploration. It's easier to explain with an image, I think.
This is a plot of a list of waypoints I've been collecting for about a month now. The list itself is something I've been collecting for the past month or so. The vast majority of it comes from EDSM and these forums, in threads like the "Glowing Green Giants" and "Show us your interesting discoveries". The red faded dots are known systems I want to visit. The green ones, known systems I already visited. The blue cross is my current position and the yellow star is an interesting system I discovered.
I've been doing some coding on top of that list. I have functions that gather data from EDSM, calculate distances between systems, return the next system to visit and make plots, like the one above. The reason why I'm presenting this project is that I just finished the functions I wanted to write. The code is not stale though. I still want to add more functionality to it, like clustering, adding info to plots, calculating routes between unvisited waypoints and whatever comes to mind.
The data and the code allow me to do the three main things of this project:
1. Systematically visit known waypoints;
2. Explore undiscovered systems between waypoints;
3. Document in video both the waypoints and the undiscovered systems.
I'm posting this here, specifically in the Exploration sub-forum because none of this would be possible without it. With the exception of EDSM, that I knew before participating here, everything else is only possible because of the information shared here, from threads to software like Elite Observatory and individuals like @Orvidius (recognise anything, mate?) that gave a helping hand. I'm having a great time with Elite Dangerous and that would not have happened it wasn't for a lot you that participate here and for that, I'm grateful and would love to share this adventure with you all.
As far as the project goes, this is it, I'll keep you update as it moves forward. If you want to know about where all of this came from, open the spoilers.
This is a plot of a list of waypoints I've been collecting for about a month now. The list itself is something I've been collecting for the past month or so. The vast majority of it comes from EDSM and these forums, in threads like the "Glowing Green Giants" and "Show us your interesting discoveries". The red faded dots are known systems I want to visit. The green ones, known systems I already visited. The blue cross is my current position and the yellow star is an interesting system I discovered.
I've been doing some coding on top of that list. I have functions that gather data from EDSM, calculate distances between systems, return the next system to visit and make plots, like the one above. The reason why I'm presenting this project is that I just finished the functions I wanted to write. The code is not stale though. I still want to add more functionality to it, like clustering, adding info to plots, calculating routes between unvisited waypoints and whatever comes to mind.
The data and the code allow me to do the three main things of this project:
1. Systematically visit known waypoints;
2. Explore undiscovered systems between waypoints;
3. Document in video both the waypoints and the undiscovered systems.
I'm posting this here, specifically in the Exploration sub-forum because none of this would be possible without it. With the exception of EDSM, that I knew before participating here, everything else is only possible because of the information shared here, from threads to software like Elite Observatory and individuals like @Orvidius (recognise anything, mate?) that gave a helping hand. I'm having a great time with Elite Dangerous and that would not have happened it wasn't for a lot you that participate here and for that, I'm grateful and would love to share this adventure with you all.
As far as the project goes, this is it, I'll keep you update as it moves forward. If you want to know about where all of this came from, open the spoilers.
I'm actually kinda new to Elite Dangerous, flying for less than 4 months at the time of this post.
About a month ago I decided to start exploring the galaxy and create a Youtube channel to serve as a logbook of the commander's travels. The channel quickly gained a life of its own with a strong roleplay feel into it that revolved around an AI learning philosophy with the commander. While doing it I discovered I absolutely love to just fly and discover new systems and found myself in the difficult position of telling the story of the AI learning philosophy and documenting an actual exploration journal. The two are mostly incompatible for time reasons. Sometimes I had to fly back to record new videos for roleplaying reasons. When I arrived at Sagitarius A* and found I couldn't use the video I had on Hades Edge and need to go back or improvise, I felt that the roleplay channel wouldn't be what I wanted it to be and, to make it worse, it would "steal" exploration time which I was really enjoying.
So I decided to stop the roleplaying channel and do what I really love to do in Elite Dangerous: visit and discover "stuff". But I still want to edit videos! IT'S FUN!
And that's how I got here. There are almost 300 places I want to visit and while travelling between the bubble and Sagitarius A* I found almost 80 new systems, some of them really awesome. This is what I want to do: visit the known awesomeness, discover new awesomeness and do videos of it all. It's going to be great.
Thank you for reading.
About a month ago I decided to start exploring the galaxy and create a Youtube channel to serve as a logbook of the commander's travels. The channel quickly gained a life of its own with a strong roleplay feel into it that revolved around an AI learning philosophy with the commander. While doing it I discovered I absolutely love to just fly and discover new systems and found myself in the difficult position of telling the story of the AI learning philosophy and documenting an actual exploration journal. The two are mostly incompatible for time reasons. Sometimes I had to fly back to record new videos for roleplaying reasons. When I arrived at Sagitarius A* and found I couldn't use the video I had on Hades Edge and need to go back or improvise, I felt that the roleplay channel wouldn't be what I wanted it to be and, to make it worse, it would "steal" exploration time which I was really enjoying.
So I decided to stop the roleplaying channel and do what I really love to do in Elite Dangerous: visit and discover "stuff". But I still want to edit videos! IT'S FUN!
And that's how I got here. There are almost 300 places I want to visit and while travelling between the bubble and Sagitarius A* I found almost 80 new systems, some of them really awesome. This is what I want to do: visit the known awesomeness, discover new awesomeness and do videos of it all. It's going to be great.
Thank you for reading.
