400 billion star systems of what?
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Viajero
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That depends on who you ask:
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I'm still searching for C'thulhu's home world. Still no luck.
This ^ and more this ^ Never know whats around the next jump, could be the same ole M4 star, or WHAM in your face emergency stop neutron star which gets the blood pumping. But it all really boils down to your imagination and just enjoy the scenery. Not everything is as it seems... out there....
There are some truly beautiful things in the game, in fact I'd say that I can't think of a game that I've taken more screenshots of than ED.
However, think about this.
A little while ago a planet collided with the Earth, the smooshing* together of these 2 worlds made a bit of a mess and the resultant debris formed the moon.
Is there, in any one of these 400 billion systems, anything like that happening? Either the collision itself or one that happened only a few thousand years ago and the planets and moon are still molten. I suspect not, and whilst I wouldn't expect it to be common, I'd like to think that one day we would be able to see something like this in game.
* Technical term
Lego. They're all made of Lego.
You clearly have the soul of a poet.
... Stuck on the sole of your shoe, from when you stepped on it.
Sadly no. But space anomalies and environmental phenomena and hazards are the other kind of content I'd like to see added at some point too. I'm not sure if planetary collisions or seeing more dynamic protoplanetary creation will ever be in Elite, but it would be nice to know that at least a little dynamic evolution is occurring somewhere amongst those 400 billion systems at some point. Even a supernova would be a cool event and create a lot of excitement in the community.. it would also be big news on GalNet and could lead to some interesting scientific-based missions popping up on bulletin boards. 400 billions stars is awesome, but not so much if its just a forever physically static and never changing backdrop.
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This is an immensely beautiful game, but you only get to see most of the sights by exploring. Go to a nearby nebulae and tell me its not really pretty 
To my mind this is the best thing about ED... because the art is, well, as real as any other art.
Then there is the interest in finding really unusual and rare things amongst all the chaff. But if this doesn't float your boat then fine, go and doing the other stuff in ED that you do find interesting and fun.
To my mind this is the best thing about ED... because the art is, well, as real as any other art. Then there is the interest in finding really unusual and rare things amongst all the chaff. But if this doesn't float your boat then fine, go and doing the other stuff in ED that you do find interesting and fun.
Like this?
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=145848
If we check back in 150,000 years, who knows what we will find?
I'm helping!
A supernova or similar would be awesome. I seem to remember that the original game had a mission where you had to rescue civilians from a station because the star was about to go bang. Now that would be an awesome community goal. The market for the Orca would go through the roof (both as a rescue ship and viewing platform)
This is an immensely beautiful game, but you only get to see most of the sights by exploring. Go to a nearby nebulae and tell me its not really pretty
Then there is the interest in finding really unusual and rare things amongst all the chaff. But if this doesn't float your boat then fine, go and doing the other stuff in ED that you do find interesting and fun.
Those videoa do look really great... but I've never seen anything like that...
And funny thing is everyone I know that's played has never seen anything like that either...
Just same old boring purple and brown and earth like planets.
That was the post that made me think of the moons formation. The other thing it made me think was that it looks quite calm and serine given whats happening. I'm no astrophysicist and I find it difficult to conceive of the energies and stresses at play when a planet is consumed by a star, but my sci-fi addled mind wants it to be a bit more "explodey"
That's fair enough, but I think OPs point is that it's all static.
In terms of Fermis paradox, what is there to discover ?
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The cynic in me says we've already seen all the individual bits that make up the galaxy as a whole and there isn't anything left out there but interesting combinations of it all.
But the explorer in me can't just pass the idea that maybe it's not just hype to keep us playing and there is actually interesting stuff to see that isn't just more of the same.
Some more things would be quite nice though, that we know aren't in game yet. Better contact binaries, protoplanetary discs, that kind of things.
But the explorer in me can't just pass the idea that maybe it's not just hype to keep us playing and there is actually interesting stuff to see that isn't just more of the same.
Some more things would be quite nice though, that we know aren't in game yet. Better contact binaries, protoplanetary discs, that kind of things.
When I was younger, I spent a great deal of time hiking in various wilderness areas around the US. The trees along those trails all looked pretty much the same, and the rocks were all very rock-like, but I still wanted to see what was around the next bend in the trail. I find exploration in Elite Dangerous to be much the same. Every jump leads to something new, and I absolutely love it.