About Earth-like planets

[Duckfather]

Well, I'm ~17,000LY out now and have managed to find 5 in total. In a real rare find, I've found two in the same system, with one next door to a waterworld. All 3 planets have life! Could be an interesting place when the local life forms evolve and find out about each other

 

[Allitnil]

What I mean is that the density of the possible stars with ELP is different according to sectors, which directly correlates with the chances of finding ELP's. That's the hypothesis I had and the reason why I stayed along the Orion Arm instead of heading center.

Well, not sure if 5 out of 1,200 systems represents any success or enhanced the chances -if you ask me, "Hell, No! It took forever to find those 5!" lol- but hope that once I'm done studying the data I brought, that my results shed lights on where to go find them next...and also anything else that might be juicy!!

Your ratio roughly matches my success rate which is based on 22 or so ELWs found in about 5,100 systems on a trip to the furthest reaches of the far side of the galaxy so it encompasses a good representation of the Milky Way regions. It's hard to be sure whether differing sectors really have that different a ratio of ELWs in them because you would need to visit a statistically significant sample of each sector and that would mean several thousand systems for just one typical sector! A key nature of random events is that they appear non-random to the human mind which has evolved to see patterns. So getting 3 ELWs in one sector & none in the next looks to us like it is down to the sectors, but with the very small amount of data we actually have it is at least as likely to be pure randomness.

FWIW, there are several ELWs within just 10LY of Sag A* so there are ELWs very close to the core. There again there are literally thousands of systems within 10 LY of it!