Exploration - Is it over?

[Beardless]

The other thing that works for me is this.

Everyone is obsessed with a 30-35LY jump range. So, if you find yourself coming across a load of previously discovered systems get out of sync with the 30LY-at-a-time jump fiends and take a jump with a length of a random number of LY between 8 and 17. You will likely get into free air.

Flying happy
Jon

I will have to remember this.... after jumping 600 times I find my self perfectly synced with a past explorer with an identical jump range who just so happened to have targeted the same star 1000ly's away ;-p

And for non-noobs. Like me; exploring in a Viper.

You Sir, sound more like a masochist than a noob.

 

[Orange Sheets]

There really should be a tag in the galaxy map for those systems that have already been "discovered".

Maybe 2 tags:
- Fully scanned and
- partially scanned.

The rest would mean no scan at all.

That would just slow the galaxy map loading so badly. At peak hours even opening one system map is slow enough.

 

[Crank Larson]

lol, 5KLy is like hoing out of your back door into your garden. You need to be at least 20KLy away to find undiscovered's.

Of course you don't, you just need to look properly. There are still undiscovered quite close to inhabited space. I'm only 1000Ly out now (having come back from the core), and the last time I found a discovered system was days ago (while passing through nebulae, funnily enough... Tourist traps that they are).

 

[Azernak]

I have been exploring for a bit now. One of my first trips out was cut super short just due to not being prepared, I made it about 1.4k ly from hip 103138.

My next trip out was about 2 weeks long, made it about 10k ly west of hip 103138, flew around between there and 6k away. Found systems with 4 black holes, neutron stars, all kinds of crazy stuff undiscovered.

My current trip out (apparently some changes to the galaxy map have been made) may be a touch more difficult to find rare items. There was a neat trick I used before not sure if it works now. But I just started out, so haven't made it to a location i believe will hold some good systems.

Also once you do this long enough there are some tricks to finding good systems. Just pay attention.

 

[Bidermann]

5000Ly is not exploring, its a day out. If you want to find undiscovered and interesting things you need to go past the sight seers and day trippers.

lol I think if you go that far and beyond you should get more finding things just for shear perseverance . I am 1000lts yrs out and cabin fever is setting in !

 

[jpaulwilson1982]

Just a bit of a rant.... I am 5k+ ly out from Sol, NOT on a direct path to the core or in a flat horizontal plane from sol.

And I can't find almost ANY non sequence stars or black holes that haven't been discovered.

I'm starting to feel like the "discovered by" tag was a mistake, it's really eating away at my enjoyment to arrive in some nice little nook of nowhere and see another explorer has peed in the corner already. I can only imagine that it won't be any more fun around the core.

And of course, it seems like every explorer out there is named something like bummuncher or worse.

/rant off

400 billion stars isn't enough? But I know what you mean. I haven't been much further out than 1,000 ly from colonized space, it seems like every black hole I find has been tagged. You may need to go in another direction, and most stuff around most nebulas tend to be tagged.

I hope you have better luck in the future.

 

[edgar]

I was in Musca Dark Region just a few weeks ago and found many many completely unexplored systems before I came home. It was less than 500LYs out from the populated regions.

 

[iRAGE]

I discovered a planet in a system near alioth. Most of the system was explored but I chanced flying into deep space in search of a warzone and stumbled on the planet. Still waiting for my name to appear as "first discovered by" and its been 3 or 4 days since I sold the exploration data.

So how long does it usually take for your name to appear when you make a discovery ?

 

[Leper Messiah]

Is that all you want though, non sequence stuff? Plenty of other things to discover and get your name on 'em. I went 10k ly out and still havn't seen a black hole or neutron star (sounds like I stopped just as they'd start appearing though!)

My CMDR Robbo6 is on a lot of stuff.

 

[TriumphANT]

I've only been about 400Ly out and found hundreds of undiscovered and have made over 6MCr from three exploration trips around 150Ly, 250Ly and 400Ly respectively. My first Earthlike was only about 120Ly away, and it was paired with a Terraformable. If you move in a straight line, you'll probably find you're on a path with other explorers who have set a course for a commonly visited star 1000Ly away. Move around in all dimensions. If you find two or three explored systems in a row, move about 20-40Ly sideways. Above all, DON'T plot long routes. Typically I only plot about 6 jumps at a time maximum. Most times I just do it one jump at a time. That way I'm moving in general towards a goal, but not moving in a perfect line. Route planning is for rares traders. )

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I discovered a planet in a system near alioth. Most of the system was explored but I chanced flying into deep space in search of a warzone and stumbled on the planet. Still waiting for my name to appear as "first discovered by" and its been 3 or 4 days since I sold the exploration data.

So how long does it usually take for your name to appear when you make a discovery ?

It should appear immediately. I checked my first Earthlike immediately, in case someone else had been there and back whilst I was out zoning out in the zone. Did you get the "Congratulations on being the first person to discover: " screen appear when you sold the data?

 

[Galten75]

Just came back from a short trip, just 1000Ly out, to get the last few millions for an Asp. Just 250 system scanned about 70-75% Undiscovered including one undiscovered ELW, two undiscoed Ammonia worlds and 3-4 Water worlds.

So there are plenty out there. I think like this "Right now, instinctively, which direction should I go?" then I do the opposite. Peoples reasoning are very alike, and doing the opposite of reason is the way to go as an explorer.

// G

 

[nicomak]

It's probably true that anything famous or spectacular, easy to find... will have a greater chance of having been visited. Though many players seems to be more interested in what i would rather call "tourism" than actual exploration, going in straight lines towards nebulaes or some super massive black hole.
But there are still 400 billions systems around here. Even a tenth of that will take a long time to be explored fully.
Last time we had a number it was around 0.0002% of the whole thing having been explored. It's quite safe to say that reaching even 1% or 0.1% will take a while.
Also the further you go, the more there are systems to survey.

 

[Allitnil]

I discovered a planet in a system near alioth. Most of the system was explored but I chanced flying into deep space in search of a warzone and stumbled on the planet. Still waiting for my name to appear as "first discovered by" and its been 3 or 4 days since I sold the exploration data.

So how long does it usually take for your name to appear when you make a discovery ?

Sounds like that's one of the systems where a bug occurred when the true first discoverer sold the data. It appears that in some circumstances, the first discoverer sells the data but his/her name doesn't appear on it. But the body is still tagged as discovered so no one else can get their name on it either.

Usually first discovered tags appear almost immediately on selling the data.

 

[Inhumierer]

I traveled from Te Kaha to New Yembo yesterday, for cartographing. So I was maybe 200 or 300 Ly from Sol. Had 12 undiscovered systems.

 

[CmdrPSB]

Agree with the follow-up replies... I'm currently 4k out and probably seen about 6 systems that people have already visited.

And none of the CMDRs have had 'stupid' names (thankfully)

They all sound stupid when they've beaten you to the first discovery

 

[Nelina]

Just a bit of a rant.... I am 5k+ ly out from Sol, NOT on a direct path to the core or in a flat horizontal plane from sol.

And I can't find almost ANY non sequence stars or black holes that haven't been discovered.

I'm starting to feel like the "discovered by" tag was a mistake, it's really eating away at my enjoyment to arrive in some nice little nook of nowhere and see another explorer has peed in the corner already. I can only imagine that it won't be any more fun around the core.

And of course, it seems like every explorer out there is named something like bummuncher or worse.

/rant off

Even at 500LY from Sol you'll find a lot of unexplored systems.
Maybe you should have choosen a route that is not common.
If you went from Sol straith to the galaxy-center i bet that many ppl has taken exactly the same route

 

[Allitnil]

Even at 500LY from Sol you'll find a lot of unexplored systems.
Maybe you should have choosen a route that is not common.
If you went from Sol straith to the galaxy-center i bet that many ppl has taken exactly the same route

The OP specifically refers to non-sequence stars.

 

[dognosh]

It was a huge mistake to allow these non-sequence objects to be simply filtered on the Galaxy map. I took a quick spin about 2000LY outward from Sol and every neutron star I had "found" had already been discovered, but none of the adjacent systems had been!

It's far too easy to simply make some notes on the galaxy map and jump between them. If you want a challenge, make a point of looking for Earth Like or terraformable worlds, those are truly rare, but they are disgustingly "under-priced" compared to other objects.

Earthlike & Ammonia are hugely underpriced, agreed. I have visited 3500 systems and have 15 EL and 5 Amm only !

Regards to Non-Seq filtering, it wouldn't make a difference. You just go to the dense neutron field region, and pick your next system 1 at a time, like we do now(as we don't have multi-waypoint system yet)

The neutron field I talked about(the dense part , in my sig thread) , needs a journey of 18000 LY just to get to it. I doubt more than 1000 or 2000 have ever been that far(I have twice). As I said in my thread, there must be 1 billion just there, then there is the region above the galactic center plane, the sides(above and below) and 2 regions just behind the core. All in all we are talking billions of neutron stars. I doubt we have even discovered 0.01% of them.

I just went to my last system in the fields(from the last trip) and none of my new system scans were previously discovered !

 

[wiblflibl]

Well I'm currently 6,339.81ly out from SOL and there isn't a single non-sequence star anywhere in the vicinity. It's a disgrace and it's all FD's fault. Rubbish design decision/procedural generation routines. Exploration is broken. Waaaaaahhhhh! Where's my cake?

Of course, on the up side there are a vast number of gas giants with life, high metal worlds that are terraforming candidates, quite a few water worlds and some WWs that are TCs. But I'm not trying to cherry-pick NSSs (that's a job for the neutron star fields). I'm "cherry-picking" OBAFG systems by doing single jumps to the next nearest star in that list of classes.

But I haven't found any ELWs on this trip and that also is obviously FD's fault (see above) and makes exploration broken beyond belief. Waaaaaahhhhh! (again).

Ooh look, shiny:

Spoiler

To make amends for my somewhat mocking tone you are welcome to claim that system OP if you are anywhere in the neighbourhood - it will probably be a couple of weeks or more before I get back to the bubble. The high metal worlds on either side of the WW are also TCs, so it will be a reasonably valuable system.

Mmm, cake!

 

[Pate]

I am only a bit over 1000ly out on my third trip, and a couple of days ago I ran into a system that was previously discovered. Well, the main star and two closest high-metal content planets were, at least. I felt bad for the first discoverer, as he had not bothered to check out the third planet, which was an Ammonia World, nor the gas giants further out.

Anyways, before that and after it I explored for days without encountering a system that had been previously explored. But then again, I am currently just heading "right" with no actual target in mind, so that may explain something.