Anyone have a personal bucket list you hope to find out in the black?

PlutonianEmpire

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I got ED in January when a friend gifted it on steam, made enough for my DBX, and went out into the black. Then Trailblazers came out and I wanted to get my hands on a system, and spent a few months on it before burning out. Now I'm out in the black again, seeking systems that my resemble my personal bucket list system.

My bucket list is a G/K binary star in a low eccentricity 10 day orbit with a circumbinary ELW around them. Pipe dream, I know. But the bucket list is based on a system I made way back in 2004 for my worldbuilding project. Originally it was at a real life star, but I eventually split it into it's own system, after realizing the real life star's secondary is likely a red dwarf (I despise red dwarfs).

How about y'all? Do you have a personal bucket list system you hope to find in ED?
 

GroG79

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I found a system with dual ELM.

Id like to find a triple ELW system. Preferably tertiary

Can not remember if I found a ringed ELW yet
 

Kira Goto

Kira Goto
Finding an Earth-like world around a primary brown dwarf (or in a system where one is the primary star, which usually results in no main-sequence stars to begin with). As unlikely as that is, there's been a few cases of procedural generation which have made it happen.

Seeing as I've had a ringed ELW, binary ELW and WW pair (no twin ELWs though), water and ammonia moons - not sure if I found any Earth-like moons of my own yet either - I think it's not too distant of a hope. As long as I'm persistent enough, and eventually go out exploring again. Currently that mood isn't there.
 

Comandante

Comandante
Sadly for me, the galaxy, though interesting from an exploration perspective, very much reminds me of the original Elite.

There was reference to Raxxla in the novel and me and my friends thought it would be hidden in the game.

After backing the game in 2013 (was it Devember '12 - January '13? I might be wrong), I was convinced that within 10 years we'd be landing on Earthlikes, finding various ruins around the galaxy (of different species), etc.

I promised my dad we'd go fishing if it happened. Obviously, it didn't.

And, I thought, we'd have found Raxxla. 10 years. Still haven't, even though it's a tiny bit obvious, to quote the late and great MB.

Some things never change.

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To be more succinct to OP's question:
  • Destroyed/inactive ruins of civilisations that aren't related;
  • Planetary species-made satellites, or solar system based 'artefacts' (ruined space stations, voyager-like probes) etc.;
  • Species-created and destroyed rubble here and there;
  • City lights on planets where they shouldn't be, e.g. thousands of miles from humanity
 
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sidereal6

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Comandante said:
I was convinced that within 10 years we'd be landing on Earthlikes, finding various ruins around the galaxy (of different species), etc.
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I think it was about 7 years ago that FDev implemented procedural clouds in Planet Coaster. I remember being really excited, and taking that as evidence that they were working on Earth-likes. Maybe they still are

They also did those Jurassic Park games - games that feature moving animals. I thought they’d parlay that into moving animals on landible planets - but no, at least not yet.

Maybe they’ve still got this code (and more) in a repo branch and they’ll surprise us one day. I guess we’ll see.

It’s really weird that there are still, what, 15? Locked regions in the galaxy. Seems like they could drop some unique content in at least one of those.

Use the Jurassic park code to make some animal and have it spawn on one and only one planet in the galaxy. Make it profitable to hunt it. Have community goals to stop poachers from hunting it. Reduce the numbers that spawn in the planet as more of the skins are sold to markets (and also keep making it more profitable)

Players will hunt it to extinction. Of course they will - anything for profit! But, especially towards the end, a lot of people with work to protect the species.

Think of the publicity this would generate for the game! Everybody would be talking about it.
 

Jinx Chrome

Jinx Chrome
Comandante said:
To be more succinct to OP's question:
  • Destroyed/inactive ruins of civilisations that aren't related;
  • Planetary species-made satellites, or solar system based 'artefacts' (ruined space stations, voyager-like probes) etc.;
  • Species-created and destroyed rubble here and there;
  • City lights on planets where they shouldn't be, e.g. thousands of miles from humanity
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That would also be my biggest wishes.
To be clear: FDev does not have to create a huge story around these artifacts (yet) but just some breadcrumbs and fluff to speculate about and expand the lore a bit.
Just a tiny bit of 'sense of wonder'.
 

BL1P

BL1P
Ancient Artefact
Anomaly Particles
Fossil Remnants
Gene Bank
Space Pioneer Relics
Time Capsule
Rockforth Fertiliser
Telemetry Suite
 

Joe Cool

Joe Cool
First disco on a Wolf Rayet star for my
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badge. Too much to ask?
 

Comandante

Comandante
Leadfoot said:
On a planet that used to have an atmosphere...
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That's most people's/aliens futures... Prior to be scorched/sucked into oblivion...
Jinx Chrome said:
That would also be my biggest wishes.
To be clear: FDev does not have to create a huge story around these artifacts (yet) but just some breadcrumbs and fluff to speculate about and expand the lore a bit.
Just a tiny bit of 'sense of wonder'.
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^ This. There's so much space out there, it doesn't need a story-hook.

Imagine the payout!

(Solicitor writing to FDev right now, joking)
 

Vasco Sapien

Vasco Sapien
imski said:
A dead non human city
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We have the Guardian ruins. but... i agree with you.

Imagine a dead world, a tomb world, was once a living thriving planet, destroyed somehow, war, natural disaster.

Each world is unique, scatter very RARELY around the galaxy. (have to be rare).

Each world is a puzzle, the player must explore multiple cities and do some form of investigation.

Discover the name of the race, what they looked like, aspects of their culture and what ultimately killed them, etc.

Now i know we technically got all this with the guardians, but i really enjoyed it. If this was done just a dozen more times scattered across the galaxy, all unique in design, presentation and back story.

Like the Generation ships, all with different stories. but galaxy wide, Tomb worlds, with planet sized puzzles. if the puzzles where deep enough that others would need to be drafted in to help solve. it could spark huge community engagement.

Id explore, just to find at least one of these.

Exploration in ED was once about the wonder, but now after years of play its really just the same ol same ol, every time i go out.
The chance of finding something like this would be exciting and filled with wonder.

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Also destroyed alien ships and hulks floating about.
 
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Brieus

Brieus
Kira Goto said:
Seeing as I've had a ringed ELW, binary ELW and WW pair (no twin ELWs though), water and ammonia moons - not sure if I found any Earth-like moons of my own yet either - I think it's not too distant of a hope. As long as I'm persistent enough, and eventually go out exploring again. Currently that mood isn't there.
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I found a triple WW. Close binary pair, and a further 3rd one orbiting both.

I'd like to find an ELW moon of a gas giant. Well, I did spot one once, but somebody else got first discovery.

What would be cool if there was a twinsie Sol system out there. Maybe not the whole system, but out to Neptune at least. The odds might be a billion to one, but that means there could be 400 of them out there.
 

Elpapo

Elpapo
GGG with ringed ELW as moon. Now this would be preety much ultimate "procedural" find, from what stellar forge can do.
More extreme version of that, would if found such within planetary nebula, but far as I am aware, 99.9% of planetary nebulas are already discovered by this day, preety much as anything else that can be spoted via galaxy map - same story about yet undiscovered wolf-rayet systems. I am sure there is none left, apart of permit locked regions.



Tetra Trash said:
undiscovered black hole, and undiscovered neutron star.
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Apart of nearby permit regions, every neutron or black hole (not as main star) within 3k ly from bubble in every direction, have been already discovered & tagged, years ago.

There are entire regions, where is tons of systems with main star as either black hole or neutron, and can be easly spoted by using realistic galaxy map view, or right filters... but those regions are like 20k ly in average to get in. But once reached, you can find more undiscovered black holes and neturons, than you could spend entire lifetime to "tag" those.
 
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