Hi Cmdr's
Just me, (except the last bit).
I've been lucky enough to have enjoyed DW's 1 and 2. At some point last year, before DW2 started, I, and a very Elite bunch of who I now consider friends here were out on the year long DECE expedition. I myself travelled around 600,000LY on or around the rim on that trip and on one of the fortnightly live talk shows I described myself as a space tourist, because, despite the distances I've travelled, places I have been, it's exactly what I am. I'm out there just to see the sights, sit there in awe at all the incredibly impressive sights out there, that's it. The DECE was a year long trip, and as I said on the show, I still would have done it if there was no rewards from it whatsoever, I went, as I also said on the show, simply because it was there.
(Last bit) There are tags of mine left all around the rim of the Galaxy, obviously I tagged anything of value, leaving a few WW's in some ELW systems, (which up to this point only 1 of which has been tagged), but as anyone who stumbles across those systems will find, 99% of them have bodies left for anyone who see's fit to tag also.
Despite what some people may say here, there did exist an explorers etiquette to be found in the earlier generations of explorers here, which seemed to especially apply when you were at some far flung places. Out on the rim on the DECE, it was always a joy to come across systems tagged by Cmdr's I've met here, with the bodies left for me to tag also, we even set up a few mass tag systems for us all on the trip to drop by and tag a body there, and even some that were not on the trip that asked if they could come and tag there, and were always welcome to do so.
Now the FSS has greatly changed the way we all go about things, and made it no real effort at all to tag the whole system, which sucks IMHO, if you wanted to tag that AW 345k LS out, cranking your ship around and getting your boot on the floor for 15 mins was more worthy of the tag.
Anyways, the OP's comment holds water here, despite anyone's opinions one way or the other, it did exist, and he just wonders what happened to it, the FSS basically, and the ever present obsessive, compulsive scanners, OCSers, (feel free with some colourful pronunciations there)
, who I've no doubt will all enjoy the countless systems that I've left out there with only the Primary, or since the arrival of the FSS, all Stars, GG's and nearby bodies scanned, damn those space tourists.
Shades out o7.