exploration- how to find undiscovered systems

Hueser

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I am about 700 LY from my starting point in LHS 3447 and am reaching the end of my jump range because the systems are so spread out. Every single system I come to has the unexplored tag but it shows that it has been discovered by some other commander. My question is, Can I jump to unexplored systems or are all the ones on the galaxy map already discovered? and if they are how do I find undiscovered ones? I can't the answer to this anywhere.

Also I notice that the systems this far out are much more spread out than the ones in populated space. Is this because the systems in between haven't been discovered yet or are they just less dense this far out?

I have the surface scanner and the basic discovery scanner along with a setup that lets me jump about 26LY if that helps to answer my question somehow.
 

Trenchfoot321

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Hueser said:
I am about 700 LY from my starting point in LHS 3447 and am reaching the end of my jump range because the systems are so spread out. Every single system I come to has the unexplored tag but it shows that it has been discovered by some other commander. My question is, Can I jump to unexplored systems or are all the ones on the galaxy map already discovered? and if they are how do I find undiscovered ones? I can't the answer to this anywhere.

Also I notice that the systems this far out are much more spread out than the ones in populated space. Is this because the systems in between haven't been discovered yet or are they just less dense this far out?

I have the surface scanner and the basic discovery scanner along with a setup that lets me jump about 26LY if that helps to answer my question somehow.
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We wouldn't be able to discover all of the systems in 300,000 years. There's plenty of unexplored out there, but most around the "core worlds" eg, civilization, have been mostly scanned up. Gotta go out further for good catches.

Edit: systems, not galaxies, sorry for confusion XD
 
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Drink!

Drink!
Undiscovered mean YOU have not done a detailed scan.
As for being the first to discover a system, no way to know until you jump in.
 

Navynuke99

Navynuke99
Unexplored just means you don't have any data on that system, personally. Best thing to do is just keep jumping, and to find out what's been discovered and what hasn't, that's where the advanced scanner really helps out. Initiate a jump, throttle zero, when you exit, honk the scanner, then target the star to start scanning it. While that's going on, go to the system view and see what you find. If any of the planetary bodies in the system have no tag indicating who discovered it, go surface scan it, and take the data back to inhabited space. Boom, your name is on the books for discovering something. :)

In terms of finding systems that are unexplored, best way to go is to stay away from the systems that have been heavily traveled, I.e. ones that have scoopable stars and are on the way to popular nebulae (I've been wanting to use that word!) or say Sag A*. Head the opposite direction and switch back to economical jump calculations. Lots of systems in the in between that get bypassed because it's easy to jump around them in a long range prepped Asp, Hauler, or T6.

Hope this helps!
 

Trenchfoot321

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Also, instead of going wide, go deep. I've found plenty of unexplored areas right near the 400 LY civilization bubble simply by going "up" and "down" relative to the map. Look at the map, look at where people are exploring, and then go in the opposite direction. Seems hundreds are going to the core to see Sag A* but when I went to the outer ring, I found a LOT of undiscovered areas.
 

Haggis McMoose

Haggis McMoose
Ok, I give it a try...

When you look at the Galaxy Map, you will notice that star density naturally is significantly higher when you follow a spiral arm of the Milkyway... so, as long as you stay within an arm, jump range should not be that much of an issue... (You brought a fuel scoop, right?).

...and NO, the player community is far from having discovered every single system in the galaxy, no worries :)

A little piece of advice when searching for undiscovered systems:

-Do not travel in a straight line between civilisation and one of the nearest nebulae, for every tourist does that and scans the systems in-between. Go 100-200 ly up or down from the trodden paths and you will find your desired "virgin systems"!
-In case you don't already know, a quick reminder about the stars you can refuel at : (OBAFGKM - Oh, Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me)... so you don't run out of fuel :)
-700 ly is not really far from civilisation, get out to 2000 ly and the probability of discovered objects will be drastically reduced, believe me.

There is no way that I know of to see if anyone has already visited a system without visiting the system yourself, so you've missed nothing here.

Feel free to ask again, we'll get you on the way :)

Haggis McMoose,
Ex-explorer
 

Chris M Fortune

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Once you have a capable enough ship head out to New Yembo, there is no outfitting there as station is still under construction.. Using that as a starting point moves you well outside the bubble but still retains the base to work from. I have found plenty of vigin systems out that way withing 5 to 7 hundred light years.
 
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Trenchfoot321

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I'm also a fan of the Coal Sack nebula, merely because it's incredible jumping to a dwarf star and just being surrounded by pitch black on all sides, not a star or light in sight.
 

Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
Keep an eye on the stars ahead of your route as well. You can run into large patches of unscoopable stars, not only in the areas between arms but sometimes you get dark regions. Sometimes they are hundreds of LY across. You can find scoopables within them, but if your jump range is limited you need to plan carefully.
 

cptdavep

cptdavep
For all the systems you visit to be undiscovered you need to head 2000ish LY away. Also avoid points of interest like nebulas, neutron stars, black holes etc...
 

bigtaff

bigtaff
If you change all your cargo racks for fuel tanks it will increase your range to 352Ly, with a jump range of 28.69 Ly, add an 6A fuel scoop and you should never have fuel problems, of course that leaves you no way to trade, so make sure you have plenty of spare cash before exploring.
 
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