Bugged ring?

PanicButton · Apr 14, 2016

Found this just now. As you can see the B ring has an inner radius of almost 600,000km...and the outer is 2.34mil km....

Here's a shot of the planet itself.

I've been searching for the B ring for almost 15 minutes....with no luck. By my calculations it should begind at around 2Ls. Anyone seen anything like this? Is that just a bug on the system map? Am I seeing two rings on this picture?

mls · Apr 14, 2016

I have seen invisible rings before, even invisible rings with RES. when you exit at those RES there's just nothing there so probably bug.

PanicButton · Apr 14, 2016

By "invisible" you mean non-existent...right?

Pirin · Apr 14, 2016

I have seen many rings which are barely visible and some were invisible at all. When i return from DW i plan a dedicated mission to study some of these.
My current theory is that those rings are really thin and dim. Here is a good example. You can see that the outer ring is MUCH bigger than the inner but barely visible

Ashnak · Apr 14, 2016

Another example - a little less extreme, perhaps:

mls · Apr 14, 2016

PanicButton said:
By "invisible" you mean non-existent...right?

no i mean like really invisible. Probably a ring generated with zero object density so there is actually nothing there but its still supposed to be a ring.
funny enough, if you exit SC at an RES in such a ring there will be no ships, neither pirate nor miners nor security no matter how long you wait for them. it's as if they know there is nothing to find there.

Greytest · Apr 14, 2016

get the sun behind the planet, will make the rings more visible

Ravenov · Apr 15, 2016

I've found that about 9 times in 10 massive rings like that will be invisible or non existent. Keep searching though, because the 1 in 10 that are visible are spectacular...

PanicButton · Apr 15, 2016

Those are some impressive screenshots!
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Checked it again yesterday. I'm 100% sure the ring wasn't there...I would have collided with it if it was.
Didn't think about using the start to "scan" the area, but it's too late now. Left the system behind, and since it was in the middle of the abyss, I'm not turning back

Greytest · Apr 15, 2016

Here i got a screenshot of what a B-Type can do for you illumination wise, but of course these rings were perfectly visible in the first place:

Cheers,
CMDR Greytest