How are so many Earth-like worlds already claimed?
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Huh thats odd, every system ive been to has been discoverer by cmdr Validating. Ok not every system but like 70% lol
Yeah, I've seen that name. Curses
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lol I see his name most often all the way out on the far rim. I've never seen it within 50,000 light years of the bubble.
In fact he is an okay guy. Except for stealing my potential discoveries.
Edit; and yeah he is generally out there. Seems to get about.
He's nowhere near as prolific as Allitnil...
Oh. That's disappointing. I quite liked the idea that I might be the first to be in these systems. Now I find out thousands could have been here already, but just didn't consider it worth their time putting their name on it. That sucks.
It's unlikely that thousands would have gone through without tagging anything. If someone has been there, it was probably only one or two people. The auto-tagging honk has been around for a year and half now, so it probably hasn't been visited in at least that long. So chances are either no one has been there, or only one or two at most.
But today the FSS auto-tags stars and asteroid belts, so it's slightly different.
The new system is even more efficient for cherry picking...you don't even have to get close now to scan it.
I hate the new system with ever fiber of my being honestly. It's just a massive time gate that prevents me from finding interesting places.
Last time I went to Colonia I stopped and scanned a whole bunch of systems, including one with three water worlds in the goldilocks zone! The trip netted me well over cr100m and that was with no effort at all. Like others I don't bother scanning much till I'm a good 5kly away from the bubble
If you base yourself in Colonia you can buy ships, engineer and be well placed to begin your adventure into the void.
On the way back please sell data at Robardin Rock in Carcosa, where you can enjoy the view of the stunning lava planet gently cooking itself right outside the station.
Fly safe!
If you base yourself in Colonia you can buy ships, engineer and be well placed to begin your adventure into the void.
On the way back please sell data at Robardin Rock in Carcosa, where you can enjoy the view of the stunning lava planet gently cooking itself right outside the station.
Fly safe!
Just continue past 2000 ly. I have somewhere around 155 elw:s and way over 1000 ww now. One goal I've set up is to tag at least one elw in each region.
Sometimes you also can be really lucky. A few days ago I found three systems with elw:s in maybe six jumps. Two of them after each other.
That's going to be a pretty massive dataset to interrogate but still give you nothing useful almost every single time. Outside of the occasional case of a group expedition where a number of people plot directly from Waypoint N to Waypoint N+1 the number of identical route requests is going to be a vanishingly small fraction of all route requests and the number of those where the ship ranges are close enough to make the same route reusable isn't going to be a significant fraction of even that tiny number. Trying to find pre-plotted routes that aren't exactly what you want but cover enough of roughly the right line to be useful is going to be a lot more processing intensive than just plotting the route.
Plus you're throwing network latency at a problem which really does not require it, slowing things down for no good reason.
If FDev were really doing that then they should stop it immediately and consider firing everyone who let it get into production. They're really not though.
If two ships with similar ranges plot along a similar line they can end up on the same path by accident, where the systems are sparse on the fringes similar can diverge quite a bit and still find the rut, in the core where there is a system every ly or two in every direction similar gets very close to identical. You can plot a line through the core and hit dozens of scanned systems in a row quite easily in the (small) well travelled sections but it's rarely the same name you see for more than 3 or 4 jumps at a time.
This is very old, but it is still applicable. If you are headed to somewhere that is popular, or named, etc, flying the straight route is a problem.
During the original Distant Worlds, I would find out what my next Waypoint was, then make a course deviation of 15 - 30% to about the midpoint of the route, then target the Waypoint, so my course makes an angle.
You could also do the same thing by going high or low.
Yeah, it generates a lot more distance, but it also avoids me being on the same route as everyone else.
During the original Distant Worlds, I would find out what my next Waypoint was, then make a course deviation of 15 - 30% to about the midpoint of the route, then target the Waypoint, so my course makes an angle.
You could also do the same thing by going high or low.
Yeah, it generates a lot more distance, but it also avoids me being on the same route as everyone else.
All recommendations to the contrary, I quite recently found and scanned an undiscovered ELW well within 2KLY of the Sol bubble, my first ELW First Discovery (yay!). In fact the entire system was virgin (yahoo!). I had scouted the system in Beta2 and was hoping against odds that it remained unfound until I could get back.
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