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Newcomer / Intro Travelling in Nebula
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He tasks me! He tasks me and I will have him!Sauce for the goose, Lieutenant. The odds will be even.
Sorry, I have no idea about the answer to your question but the above is always appropriate when discussing traveling in a nebula.
If you can see the nebula you are still outside it, if the sky is blacker in one direction then you are just inside it, if the view is full of smoke you have overheated unless it is also full of electrical interference in which case you are in a 40 year old movie.
Note the brighter the star you have arrived at the further you need to fly away from it to see the nebula.
That, or just scroll out in the galaxy map and look if the star you're at is in the nebula.
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Thanks aRJay and Chris Simon
(not sure what Ashmak was talking about, but you two seem to have worked it out)
So, if I understand it correctly, it is necessary to depend on a visual cue, and there's nothing in the System Map or the Galaxy Map that says something like '... this star is in the XXX nebula...' ....?
(not sure what Ashmak was talking about, but you two seem to have worked it out)
So, if I understand it correctly, it is necessary to depend on a visual cue, and there's nothing in the System Map or the Galaxy Map that says something like '... this star is in the XXX nebula...' ....?
Right; there's nothing in the galaxy map that will tell you if the star is within the nebulous area of the nebula* - aside from perhaps similar naming that's only a hint that it's in the same 'neighborhood.'
When I'm trying to determine what you asked about, I just use the galaxy map to rotate around, adjust the zoom, and look at it from numerous perspectives to see if I can tell. Even this is tricky - or should I say 'nebulous?'
* Just trying not to run afoul of the definition of the borderless... thing
Esteban: Thanks for your 'non-nebulous' reply!Yes, that's exactly what I do... examine the surroundings in the Galaxy Map.... but
Consider this:
It used to be well-known (ie pre-Odyssey) that life was more prevalently found in a nebula (don't know if this is still the case)
That being so, there MUST be a flag hidden in the system somewhere that indicates to the procedural generation system 'this planet is located in a nebula, and the chances of life are adjusted accordingly'.
I accept that the current in-game system does not display this information, but nevertheless it must be there.
Anyone know of any 3rd Party tools that might burrow into the system for this info....?
and.... just as an aside..
I was talking to my grandkids when the subject of nebulae came up (girls, 10yo and 8yo)
I explained that a nebula is an area of space composed of gas and particles.
Then I stopped, as they were both giggling.
'Why are you laughing?' I asked
'Granda, you said 'gas' ' was the reply.
<sigh>
.... back to the world of dreams....
Well I can understand their laughter, describing the slightly less hard vacuum inside a nebula as a gas is sort of funny.
Yes, that's exactly what I do... examine the surroundings in the Galaxy Map.... but
Consider this:
It used to be well-known (ie pre-Odyssey) that life was more prevalently found in a nebula (don't know if this is still the case)
That being so, there MUST be a flag hidden in the system somewhere that indicates to the procedural generation system 'this planet is located in a nebula, and the chances of life are adjusted accordingly'.
I accept that the current in-game system does not display this information, but nevertheless it must be there.
Anyone know of any 3rd Party tools that might burrow into the system for this info....?
and.... just as an aside..
I was talking to my grandkids when the subject of nebulae came up (girls, 10yo and 8yo)
I explained that a nebula is an area of space composed of gas and particles.
Then I stopped, as they were both giggling.
'Why are you laughing?' I asked
'Granda, you said 'gas' ' was the reply.
<sigh>
.... back to the world of dreams....
Ermmm ... nope, it is one type of material that makes up nebulae.
Even NASA has a quick definition:
"A nebula is a giant cloud of dust and gas in space."
Just because the molecules are very dispersed doesn't stop it being the gaseous phase of something. Gravitational forces aggregating those gases is what produces stars.
I suspect the grandkids were laughing in a scatological humour mode.
.... exactly!
Actually, the guy you should ask about this is MattG. He has a plugin for Elite Observatory, called "BioInsights", that does a very good job of predicting what sorts of biologicals might be on a planet (for Odyssey, not Horizons).
His thread is over here --> https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/mattgs-observatory-plugins.589466/
Post a question there and see what he says. I gather it has something to do with the planet type, but I'm just guessing.
His thread is over here --> https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/mattgs-observatory-plugins.589466/
Post a question there and see what he says. I gather it has something to do with the planet type, but I'm just guessing.
And actually quite an accurate description as well, when you think about it.
Fart is a gaseous product of your body breaking down and creating stuff and energy which gets expelled out by overpressure within the body.
Nebula is a gaseous product of a star breaking down and creating stuff and energy which gets expelled out by overpressure within the body.
Go figure.
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