A hypothetical upgrade to the Stellar Forge - what would you think?

[Jackie Silver]

You can find a few white dwarfs throughout much of the galaxy at about 1,000 Ly below the galactic plane.

Interesting... I don't get out of the plane much. 500ly up at the moment so I'll try 1000ly up instead. In any case, they should be everywhere, there's dozens of the little buggers within 50ly of Sol... ^^

 

[CMDR DoubleSkulls]

They're almost completely absent outside inhabited space, whereas they should be everywhere. If you know an area outside civilisation that isn't hand-placed and which has White Dwarfs, I'd like to know where it is!

Some sectors of the neutron fields have loads. Otherwise I've not seen many.

 

[iain666]

I wouldn't object if it was going to be a lot better. There'd need to be a *long* lead time between announcement and implementation. Anyone out in the black who cares should have more than enough time to come home and get the credits and rank for what they've already done.

 

[Dommarraa]

They have copyrighted 'elite : deadly' so hopefully we will get a new game with all the great functionality but without the bad design choices like this. Just hope we don't have to wait another 30 years

 

[Jackie Silver]

I wouldn't object if it was going to be a lot better. There'd need to be a *long* lead time between announcement and implementation. Anyone out in the black who cares should have more than enough time to come home and get the credits and rank for what they've already done.

I imagine that the allocation of credits for the value of discovered objects could be done without requiring the pilot to return by automatically selling all unsold UC data for all pilots during a move - but that wouldn't give people the choice of where to sell it for reputation gain and ways around that would be finicky. But yes, a month or three's lead time would be ideal.

It's all an interesting conundrum for the developers and I can sympathise with them if they're in a state where they know there are fairly simple changes which could be made that would make the galaxy a better place but are precluded from doing so by the 'live' nature of the game (this is not a criticism of ED being online, I hastily add... )