Struggling To Find Places To Jump To?

Harrier_1961

Harrier_1961
Hi everyone,
I'm currently sitting at Wregoe NN-A D1-2. My aim is to just travel outwards from the centre in order to seek undiscovered areas. I initially set out from Deciat and just kept going. I'm able to do 50ly jumps now and so hoped that I'd be fine. Having reached my current spot, I'm struggling to find stars to jump to to keep going outwards. I've only filtered out White Dwarf stars to give me plenty of scope and have checked the 'Apply Filter To Route' option. It appears that, looking at the galmap, I've reached an area where the stars are very few and far between which would make perfect sense I guess and so I need to travel over to a part where the stars are more densly populated. I just thought that I best check with yourselves though to make sure that I'm not missing anything obvious before I re-route and try again.

Thanks very much.
 

Lowbee

Lowbee
D-Simmo said:
Hi everyone,
I'm currently sitting at Wregoe NN-A D1-2. My aim is to just travel outwards from the centre in order to seek undiscovered areas. I initially set out from Deciat and just kept going. I'm able to do 50ly jumps now and so hoped that I'd be fine. Having reached my current spot, I'm struggling to find stars to jump to to keep going outwards. I've only filtered out White Dwarf stars to give me plenty of scope and have checked the 'Apply Filter To Route' option. It appears that, looking at the galmap, I've reached an area where the stars are very few and far between which would make perfect sense I guess and so I need to travel over to a part where the stars are more densly populated. I just thought that I best check with yourselves though to make sure that I'm not missing anything obvious before I re-route and try again.

Thanks very much.
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There are a lot of permit locked areas where you are right now. Have you tried going above or below the plane? Like, 100LY?
 

goemon

goemon
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you are basically 1000 ly above the the "Disc" in above image, what we call plane here.the disc is rather thin as you can see, so 1000 ly above or below, routeplotting can be difficult - same as at the fringes, which you are still 20+K ly away from. it's good fun to do, though - just make sure you can plot back (by using a tool logging your path, bookmarks or similar).
 

Hawk of Battle

Hawk of Battle
Can you synthesize a booster to jump anywhere else? At least that might get you out of your current predicament, but, as others have noted, you seem pretty high up, so just be sure you don't jump somewhere you can't jump back from. If there are also permit-locked systems nearby, then pan around the galmap and try to get an idea of where the "edge" of the locked sector is, then aim back down and away from it until you reach some denser star concentrations, then re-plot around them.
 

Harrier_1961

Harrier_1961
Thanks everyone, I logged back on and had a play around with the route. As you rightly point out I'm high up in relation to the Disc. My intention was to travel up and then out but I've dropped the route downwards and found a much denser grouping of stars over to one side of my current location. Obviously my 'up' bit was a little too enthusiastic. It's the first time I've done a longer route on the map and have now realised how huge it actually is! I've no doubt been zooming out when searching for stars and then scrolling thousands of light years and not even realised that I was doing it. Out of interest, are the permit locked systems visible on the Galmap?

Thanks everyone for the pointers. 👍🏼
 

goemon

goemon
D-Simmo said:
are the permit locked systems visible on the Galmap?
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yes, but only in "single view" - no way to have them shown in group. but for all permit regions (or most of them) you'll find plenty advise in threads here in the exploration subforum - like to plot from where to where to get around them.

enjoy your trip! and while you are out or when you return, have a look here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/complete-list-of-real-nebulae-and-galaxies-in-elite.178731/ .... all of them make amazing plot points on the way out and back!
 

schlowi123

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Dear fellow pilot. This tool might be of interest for you because it might be able to find a path back for you even if you are short on jumponium. And there is even a windows version available (if you trust executable files).
 

Harrier_1961

Harrier_1961
Thanks schlowi123, wasn't actually stranded, I was just struggling to travel further outwards due to a lack of stars. I've headed down and to one side to a more densly populated area and now am well on my way again. Thanks for the links though, no doubt they will come in very handy at some point 👍🏼
 
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