Don't you hate it when this happens?

[Ashnak]

Sorry, I just have to vent.

I mean, here I am, in the middle of basically nowhere. 20 kly's from basically anywhere. Not on the absolute edge. Neither on the top nor on the bottom of the disk. I mean, this area is simply boring. Ok, all of the features (like those slightly dusty stars) that are visible on the Galmap have been tagged, but even most of the Neutron stars I come across are still virgin.

And then this:

Spoiler

An unremarkable star in the middle of nowhere. With an ELW. Which has already been tagged. I feel like Robinson Crusoe finding that footprint on his island. I want a new Galaxy.


Ok, the next three TWW a couple of systems over were still untagged, so I could calm down again. But still - when will he strike again?

 

[Heavy Johnson]

People look for ELWs in particular, so it is less surprising than you'd think. If you want truly virgin worlds, go explore Y/L/T class dwarf stars.

 

[Sapyx]

Similar happened to me, about a year ago, though in not quite as remote a location. I was transiting through the Qeajo sector about 9 kLY from Sol, heading Corewards from Eta Carina. I only saw two other CMDR tags the entire time I was in Qeajo, or in the two sectors either side of it for that matter. One was a neutron star, which would be entirely explainable since Qeajo is not a neutron-star-rich sector and it was the only one for hundreds of LYs around. The second was an ELW.

I found an ELW of my own to tag shortly afterwards, so I wasn't too upset.

 

[Deluvian]

People look for ELWs in particular, so it is less surprising than you'd think. If you want truly virgin worlds, go explore Y/L/T class dwarf stars.

I concur.. folks go easy and explore scoopable systems, because it is safe.. hell, I do the same thing - but I do not care much about tagging systems with my name

 

[iain666]

If you want truly virgin worlds, go explore Y/L/T class dwarf stars.

And if you find an ELW in one... That's the one thing I want to find more than anything else. ELW orbiting a brown dwarf primary without out any hotter star in the system. It can, according to the forge, happen with the hottest L dwarfs and has been seen but one of my own is my holy grail. I've tagged them orbiting L stars that were in turn orbiting a close main sequence star, but as the primary, that's proper rare. Of the things that I know exist as pure Forge artifacts that is possibly the rarest of all.

 

[Warm Considering]

And if you find an ELW in one... That's the one thing I want to find more than anything else. ELW orbiting a brown dwarf primary without out any hotter star in the system. It can, according to the forge, happen with the hottest L dwarfs and has been seen but one of my own is my holy grail. I've tagged them orbiting L stars that were in turn orbiting a close main sequence star, but as the primary, that's proper rare. Of the things that I know exist as pure Forge artifacts that is possibly the rarest of all.

I'm actually disappointed this happens in Stellar Forge at all. My limited understanding of astrophysics is that a brown dwarf star doesn't emit anywhere enough energy to keep a planet with liquid water. An object would need to be very close to get any significant radiation, and then it would likely end up tidally locked with one side perpetually facing night. It's just not the recipe for an Earth-like planet. I could be wrong, of course, it's not like we've had the opportunity to closely scrutinize brown dwarfs,

 

[roryclague]

These boring areas are where I spend most of my time exploring. When you look at the visited systems 3D map on EDDiscovery, these boring areas tend to have less traffic. I like these areas. After all, most of the stars in the galaxy aren't at the extremes, and someone needs to explore them, too. Here is a bit of an analogy: I swim in the mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones of the ocean because that is where most of the water is, and everyone else flocks to the bottom of the trenches and the littoral zones. So I'd guess most of the Earth-like worlds I've tagged are in these areas. You can still find all kinds of interesting systems in these regions. In ten years when the galaxy has been more fully explored, these zones will still contain the great immense sea of uncharted stars, while the extremes may slowly begin to look like the Ceeckia sector, with tags everywhere.