A general "talking shop" Exploration thread?

Jon474

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Jon474
Is there a possibility that we can we have an open thread where people can just post their random, or otherwise, thoughts on Exploration?

There are many, many threads opened to deal with specific topics, specific and general questions and, of course, for the Great Expeditions. I certainly don't want these threads changed in anyway, but increasingly I find I have a non-specific observation or thought and I cannot find anywhere suitable to post.

For example, I cannot find a thread where I can just post a couple of pictures of planet BC 1 in the Syriae Thaa SS-U d2-2 system (one of the many systems along the, increasingly, well-trodden Route 33) and say how great I think is the achievement of the Elite: Dangerous programmers. The lighting and textures displayed on this planet are just out of this world.

I would not want to start a new thread just to say that...but I would like it if there was a perpetually open thread where relevant items like this could be posted.

Thoughts? Don't worry if it is a resounding "No"...I'll just start random threads (although my OCD tendancies would suggest that to be inappropriate).

Anyway, here are some (to me) beautiful views on the this remote planet (277K LS from the jump-in point).

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Lovely, just lovely. Well done to those who made this game. You have produced something wonderful.

Flying very happy (with a slightly maudlin mindset)
Jon
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Cmdr Frawd Digger

Cmdr Frawd Digger
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Jon474

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Jon474
GTX 970 running pre-set Ultra, I think? I am just planning a GTX 1080 purchase so it will be interesting to see how that performs.

Kind regards
Jon
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Macedonica

Macedonica
I am running a GTX 1080 but using it in the Vive HMD so I am missing the ultra settings displayed in the pics above.

I think a thread for exploration 'musings', as it were, is a good idea. It's a place where more informal discussion can happen - a sort of drop-in bar, as it were!
 

Jon474

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Jon474
Please can someone remind me what the "little hats" over stars mean? I suppose that I really mean, "How do I make use of what they are telling me?"

It's probably an age thing but I am ashamed to say that I cannot fathom it out. I feel diminished as an Explorer now but it is bothering me. There was thread with the detail in a post...but I cannot find that either!

I am looking a system in the middle of the Abyss with a "little hat"...does this mean I can reach it...somehow? Surely not, since it is many LYs beyond my ship's range from its nearest neighbour.

Sorry for stupidity.

Flying happy
Jon
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iain666

iain666
When you have a system in focus in the galmap the systems with the little hats are the ones you could jump to from there.

So here:
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If I was in HACHO R-Ys E3-0 I could jump to IX-L D7-2 and the F or G star beside it with the hat, but not to the stars beyond that.

Unlike the route planner the hats do appear to take account of your current fuel levels so you can use them to scout out routes you need to plot manually on low fuel.
 

Jon474

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Jon474
Thank you, Cmdr.

Follow-up question:

So, if I am in system A and, using the magic that is the Galmap, I zoom across to system B, some 4,500 LY away...and I see a little hat in the vicinity of system B...does this mean that I can fly there from system B, or that somehow there is a route from system A to that system near B?

Thank you, again, for your patience
Jon
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