Bright Permanent Dots on the Galmap - what are they supposed to mean?

drkaii

drkaii
There are all these permanent dots on the map, which are fuzzy balls when you zoom in. They are easier to find if you go to Map view and disable all.

When you are near one, you can clearly see a fuzzy ball in the skybox

So I've been to loads of them now. Some of them are genuinely bright stars - O-types, supergiants etc.

But a heck of a lot of them are TTs. And nothing special about them. Usually 2 or 3 TTs 100,000s of ls apart.

Perhaps those TTs are supposed to be extremely bright, and they will be changed in a future update, but as of now, they are just boring.

Does anyone know what's up with them? What rules they follow? Why they are there? etc.
 

Zenith

Zenith
On the one hand, the very brightest objects tend to have a glow around them.
On the other hand, it's something to provide a reference for motion when you're panning and zooming around the galaxy map.
 
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drkaii

drkaii
Zenith said:
On the one hand, the very brightest objects tend to have a glow around them.
On the other hand, it's something to provide a reference for motion when you're panning and zooming around the galaxy map.
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I suspected as much. The dots even come in different sizes (see the V1292 Scorpii trail), but a lot of them are protostars. I assume that one day they are going to be great areas of accreting mass, but for now they are just normal stars that have some specific stats and are unscoopable...
 
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