exploration

Question to all, but Frontier's comments would be especially appreciated: do players still have a chance of making a discovery, meaning, a small chance of discovering something that was never ever discovered by any other player before? This is obviously not about new worlds, but rather about...

Hi everyone, I love exploration and I love to find systems through the names displayed on the Galxy map. It does bug me a little that the map doesn't display alot of names tho. Is there any way to increase the radius that shows these system names? it would make the process of zooming...

The ingame lore describes TDW as some mystical/unknown association noone knows where to find and gives a hint regarding a certain system which I haven't figured out yet. But I did find TDW as a faction So my question is, how does that fit into the picture? Should I get friendly with those guys...

This is an updated version of my earlier thread on the subject, with the data revisited after two years. Enough things have changed by now that I'd rather not necro it. First off, here's the updated version with data from 2021/07/19...

Hi all, I wanted to extend an invitation here for a short survey of Monkey Head Nebula and the surrounding nebula's that I've tried my hand at organizing, and am hosting over on Discord through a group I coordinate for. The trip centers around a carrier that will be supporting our survey out at...

Glad to hear the effort is going to be put in on Odyssey PC woes before thinking of pushing it onto consoles. Here's my ten cents worth for what needs to be fixed for Odyssey explorers and how to ensure more that one dimension of gameplay to every feature (this will be a recurring theme...

TL,DR Create new stations/settlements at a slow rate based on emergent local properties, and collective CMDR engagement in logistical and survey activities (existing mechanisms). The systems built in, and how they are populated, emerge from properties of each of eight construction companies and...

I am mainly focussing on exploration gameplay here to help actually live up to the definition of the name "Odyssey" Live up to the name dammit, especially given the extreme disappointment from the hype that we thought exploration gameplay was finally going to get some long overdue work (the...

I made this video that shows an entire loop of me starting on one planet, travelling to its neighbour and then finding and scanning the bio signals. The entire video is 17m long but the action in terms of locating the bacterial colonies starts at 8m31. All in all, it takes about 9 minutes for me...

Hello CMDRs, I've been very excited about the addition of Odyssey's exobiology, and while I've figured out most of the basics I've been encountering a problem that no one else seems to be talking about. When I scan a planet with FSS or DSS I of course am told the number of biological signals...

Not sure if this has been suggested before but here I go A new feature called Disc Boost, which is similar to jet-cone boost How to perform a Disc Boost Step 1: Outfit your FSD with the experimental effect “Drive Shielding”. This effect eliminates damage from jet-cone boost and allows for...

Most of the bio signals are sticky uppy things, sometimes easy to spot glowing sticky uppy things, however bacterial aren't, so they they are harder to spot. This means gameplay wise I'm currently: Try and scan using the hand held scanner thing The scan is really close range, so nothing is...

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Hello everyone, I really hope that someone from Frontier will actually read this. I´ve spent many hours in Odyssey already, so I consider my feedback valuable. I also have multiple questions that could be considered feedback as well (since its not clear to me). Note that I like Odyssey even if...

There was an interesting post by @Ian Doncaster in the Distant Worlds 3 expedition is postponed indefinitely thread, and I would like to touch on the subject: however, I'm banned from posting in that thread, and the subject would be off-topic anyway, so I'll do a new thread on it here. The...

I'm in the black, thousands of light years from the nearest station and almost as far from the nearest fleet carrier. I have no way of doing the exobiology thing (scanning plants) since I don't have an Artemis suit, and it will take weeks or more of play time to get to where I could purchase...

Information about the expedition Where: Jirani -> Colonia -> Sagittarius A* -> Colonia -> Chakaia. Objective: To study new biological species and planets in places remote from the main halo of human habitation Criteria for joining the expedition: none Description of the expedition: Greetings...

1) exploration: first of all I want to say that in my opinion exploration is undervalued, I think the community should be encouraged to explore more, greatly increasing its value, I say it because a person who was going to explore It had been a long time, but now that the odyssey is here, the...

There was an error with the image, this is meant to house a Class 6 FSD to achieve the numbers found within the calculations Above is something I drew up because it was Sunday, I was bored, and I want a Gutamaya exploration vessel. You may find a full res version of the image here. I was using...

Any consensus on what equipment / suits will be needed for explorers outside the bubble? I know the Artemis suit is a must have for exploring footfall enabled planets outside the bubble, but will there be any need for the Maverick suit to salvage wrecks of crashed explorers that were outside...

I haven't played much since the Odyssey beta, but today I decided to go exploring. (Currently in Colonia) I went to Los to get an Artemis suit, then to Magellan to get a neutron boost. The star was a big white blob with jets coming out. After scooping, I tried to plot a route down to the Neutron...

Hi all, I am on an exploration mission doing some exobiology and plan to stay for a long time, going around the galaxy to beagle point then colonia and then back to the bubble. I found an crashed ship in an unexplored system around 2000ly from the bubble, opened the maglock but can't loot the...

I have a planet that lists 4 biological. In the DSS the options are Bacterium, Tubus, Tussock and Shrubs. I have easily found the first three bur the 'Shrubs' are eluding me. Perhaps it's me being dense or perhaps it's a bug, both are equally possible. Any assistance would be appreciated.

The new DSS contact filters are a good addition to exploration, and they need to be added to the SRV wave scanner. The current scanner tries to fit too much information into a few visual and sound effects cues; the ability to filter for a particular signature is a realistic solution to the...

Any time i try to use a neutron jump to go beyond my normal jump range i get a plotting error saying the route is unavailable... Am I just using the new UI wrong or have they somehow managed to break this?

We have no ties to any power, faction, or system. There is no mission statement you're required to follow, no leadership ranks to climb. Nothing but your ship, the stars, and a community to help build. I plan on creating a website and maybe even an in-game squadron but my focus currently is the...

Founded in 3305, the Alliance Exploration Corps is the exploration arm of the Alliance and a joined collaboration of Elite Commanders trusted with the exploration of the unknown regions of the galaxy. As a secondary mission, the AEC also engages in mining and security details as means of funding...

I wanted to make a collection of the various threads I've made over time, with the guides, research, data, and so on, but it wouldn't fit in my forum signature, so I decided I'd make a thread summing them up instead. All of these are under the Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. Here they...

I've known a couple players, and seen the threads for countless others, who have given up on Elite after dying during a long exploration session. My idea is that after collecting more than 500k in exploration data, any ship death will leave behind a signal source with all that data in the form...

In exploring during the Odyssey Expedition, I found near waypoint 8 that the systems in the Hypou Briae sector are unusually low-mass for their mass class. I was informed that the mass classes in a sector are scaled based on the heaviest system in said sector, so this means that the whole sector...

Anaconda, Asp Explorer, Diamondback Explorer, Python. Wich one is better for exploring? ( I have seen this types of tread, but they were form 2018-2017, too old)

I don't know who else loves a good canyon run but I've spent the last half hour running this track in my fighter. Amazing place if you like canyon running and quite close to the bubble! It's too good not to share with ya'll! Outopps JI-B d13-26 C 2 a

Hi Cmdrs, It was a little tiring, but very good. I hope it has been a useful content. I will publish a new version, if there is something you want to add, you can comment. Thank you o7.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQYiqK66lFE

Hello, fellow comanders. Right now I am outside of the bubble, coming back from traveling to Beagle Point. My question is, will I be able to land and explore planets on foot without returning to some station, to buy the gear, or it will be similar to Horizons DLC, and my ship will automaticly...

I'm a bit upset. I've got two months of exploration data, now possibly lost due to the fact that I can't get my ship to land on the surface. Because my Planetary Vehicle Hangar is active, the power limit is exeeded, so it just crashes to the ground whenever i recall the ship. I don't know what...

Ender Development [EDEV] Squadron looking for new members! The main responsibility is to maintain peace and security in our systems, the well-being of our pilots, and the development of our company. We also providing support for new pilots, such as defense and carrier services, performing...

[FCOC #131-blodeuwedd’s-branch_junagu-jhz-6tz] will be heading to SagA* and Explorers Anchorage, but taking a curved route up and across the Sagittarius-Carina Arm and the Scutum-Centaurus Arm taking in the Circinus Transit and parts of the Norma Expanse and Arcadian Stream before heading into...

F.C.O.C. Jörmungandr is looking for willing and able explorers both experienced and new to join for an Odyssey to Beagle Point! With the next expansion, we will be able to experience all the galaxy has to offer like never before. Jörmungandr, of the Fleet Carrier Owner's Club (Discord Invite)...

"I see you're heading out into the black - can you help us CMDR?" One thing that's missing (passenger and Colonia courier missions aside) from the smorgasbord of BGS mission types, is exploration. I'd like to see missions giving relatively high rewards (increasing with distance to objective)...