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Heavy Johnson

Heavy Johnson
Anyone who thinks we've seen all there is to see should go watch this thread...

Show us your interesting discoveries!

We have some great screenshot threads already, but I figured it was about time we had a thread for sharing interesting finds of all kinds. One of the things that made me want a thread like this, is this recent discussion about a hazy "atmospheric" world. Please feel free to share anything you...
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Vanquish383

Vanquish383
I don't know, but even if you find something to cool to see, after a while, I find the exploration activity too boring. For me, what is really missing is any kind of real interaction with anything.

The only thing you can eventually do is just to land on a planet e farm some materials. That's it. After a few hours for me, it is enough.

Let's hope that the "New era" will actually bring some more planet interactions, some more land vehicles, and some activities to do on plane grounds. Something to do when I want to settle for some time before re-start again the exploration of new systems.
 

Mengy

Mengy
I do wish there was more procedural variety in the Elite galaxy. All of the surface life forms and POI's should very in height procedurally. Imagine finding water geysers which shot thousands of feet into the sky? Or magma fumeroles the size of mountains? Or brain trees so huge you could fly your ship in and around its branches.

Even planet terrain could physically use much more variety. I'd like to see geological biomes on planets with a wide variety of sizes and extremes.

There is a lot of potential in the Stellar Forge, I just wish the game used more of that potential.
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
Particularly unusual combinations are definitely an area for undiscovered potential - so far there is exactly one known body which passes through the jet cone of a white dwarf (and none for neutron stars). But it's a big galaxy, so there are likely more out there, and possibly stranger things still.

Sapyx said:
Clouds that move relative to each other, cyclones that form over warm oceans, spin around for a while and eventually hit land and dissipate (on planets that have land for them to dissipate over), would be next-level order of difficulty.
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With the added challenge, because of multiplayer and realistic scale, that the weather has to be synchronised across all visitors to the planet and precisely replicable at any time and place at any detail scale, with smooth changes on time advancing, but also really quick to generate ideally without iteration (you can't start from a seed and then spin the weather forwards six months when someone new enters the system)

I can just about think of a way that might do it for the upper atmospheres of gas giants, which are probably the simplest ones to handle, and if that worked maybe you could generalise something that wasn't too unrealistic for planets where land starts to mess up the circulation.
 

Cold Tallinn

Cold Tallinn
After an eighteen month pause I have resumed my exploration travels. Currently heading "west" and "down" heading out towards for a system I first noticed in 2016.

My hatred of the FSS has been tempered by a new mouse-based approach to its operation (twiddling knobs and turning dials to get it to work was never my idea of fun) and I am once again genuinely enjoying my exploration time.

Is there anything new to discover? No, for explorers...probably not, sadly. I am enjoying the procedural nature of the exploration journey, the collection of stats. and data (I look for planets with an axial tilt of exactly 0 or 90 degrees) and just being amazed at some of the sights served up by the Stellar Forge. I am driving around some of the planets with a big grin on my face...yes, the scenery is a bit repetitive at times but it is still great fun.

Agree with the interesting idea that nothing really links exploration to the rest of the game. I need to give that some thought.

Anyway, I'm loving a bit of "finding out", during lock down.

Stay home. Fly safe, Cmdrs.

Jon
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marx

marx
Chrismasterski said:
Some new guardian ruins were discovered near one of the Hen permit locks a couple months ago, so no, there's still stuff to find out there.
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You mean the one site found back in November, Col 173 sector rf-d c13-12, in a known Guardian area? Because while that is a nice find, the fact that it was newsworthy shows now little news there have been. Or was there something else discovered later?

Although "one of the Hen permit locks" sounds like the IC 4673 permit lock area around said planetary nebula, with the system named Hen 2-333. That's a known area for brain trees (750 ly sphere centered on the nebula, except the parts which are in the neighbouring region), but AFAIK no Guardian sites have been found around there, especially since the 100 ly subsector around the nebula is locked.
 

Chrismasterski

Chrismasterski
marx said:
You mean the one site found back in November, Col 173 sector rf-d c13-12, in a known Guardian area? Because while that is a nice find, the fact that it was newsworthy shows now little news there have been. Or was there something else discovered later?

Although "one of the Hen permit locks" sounds like the IC 4673 permit lock area around said planetary nebula, with the system named Hen 2-333. That's a known area for brain trees (750 ly sphere centered on the nebula, except the parts which are in the neighbouring region), but AFAIK no Guardian sites have been found around there, especially since the 100 ly subsector around the nebula is locked.
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There were 2 systems found around Hen 2-333 that have guardian ruins and both systems have 6 sites each. The first one was found by cmdr Namix and the second was found by cmdr Niam Leeson
 

marx

marx
Chrismasterski said:
There were 2 systems found around Hen 2-333 that have guardian ruins and both systems have 6 sites each. The first one was found by cmdr Namix and the second was found by cmdr Niam Leeson
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Citation needed. Which systems are those? Google got me nothing, even with the CMDR names, neither here on the forums, nor elsewhere.
 

marx

marx
Chrismasterski said:
Systems are Graea Hypue QL-V B19-15 and Graea Hypue LS-S d4-81, both were posted in the Canonn discord. I've also visited them so I can confirm their existence.
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Thanks! I'll have to look them up, seems like they weren't posted in public anywhere yet. Not in the Canonn database either.

Edit: seems like they were mentioned on a Russian site, see here.
 
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GroG79

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Don't want to spoil it. But I assume you will soon find it here:

Glowing Green Giants - The Definitive List

While passing through the Newton's Vault region, I found a Green Gas Giant orbiting the third star of this system last night, details as follows: System: Flyue Bloae QN-Y c2-0 Orbiting star type: K8 Va Planet ID: C 1 Planet type: Class II Mass: 593.7786 E-ms Temperature: 213 K Rings: No...
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Both systems have posted discoveries in the IGAU discovery catalog:


2020-03-14T20:09:26Z,2100201,codex_ent_seed,Roseum Brain Tree,Graea Hypue QL-V b19-15,33645295450793
2020-03-15T00:28:09Z,3200200,codex_ent_guardian_data_logs,Guardian Codex,Graea Hypue LS-S d4-81,2793465056939

Interestingly enough, these were discovered about a month after we did a survey around HEN 2-333


Chrismasterski said:
Systems are Graea Hypue QL-V B19-15 and Graea Hypue LS-S d4-81, both were posted in the Canonn discord. I've also visited them so I can confirm their existence.
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Chrismasterski

Chrismasterski
CMDR Urania Minora said:
Both systems have posted discoveries in the IGAU discovery catalog:


2020-03-14T20:09:26Z,2100201,codex_ent_seed,Roseum Brain Tree,Graea Hypue QL-V b19-15,33645295450793
2020-03-15T00:28:09Z,3200200,codex_ent_guardian_data_logs,Guardian Codex,Graea Hypue LS-S d4-81,2793465056939

Interestingly enough, these were discovered about a month after we did a survey around HEN 2-333
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Lol, think those entries are from me. Was running elite observatory and visited those systems on the same dates
 
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