Exploration - Is it over?

[Orange Sheets]

Pro tip: if you want to make new claims, and maybe even find some of those rarer things, AND visit tourist spots, then don't plan your route straight towards those popular targets.

Dive or climb couple hundred light years from the horizontal level and then take a heading towards the middle of two tourist objects. Every couple hundred light years travelled check your galactic map with realistic star view on, zoom in and out, pan all around and learn to pick interesting objects. Look also for star names differing from the surrounding sector (hip, hd, etc.).

Always expect those interesting looking stars to be already discovered, but visit them still. If they are spectacular, they still grant you lots of credits.

 

[SERGI-]

Is is mountaineering over because all the eighties and many other peaks have been already conquered?

 

[Wullail]

Yes , yes it is....everyone should stay in the 'core' inhabited systems and leave all the rest of the unknown exploring to me.

 

[wiblflibl]

Yes , yes it is....everyone should stay in the 'core' inhabited systems and leave all the rest of the unknown exploring to CMDRS whose name starts with W.

Fixed that for you and I think Whiterose might agree

 

[Whiterose]

Fixed that for you and I think Whiterose might agree

Yep. Nothing to see here.

 

[rootsrat]

400 000 000 000.

It's not going to be over anytime soon™...

 

[Ulysses_W]

Fixed that for you and I think Whiterose might agree

Do surnames count?

 

[gumbie]

I don't understand the obsession with black holes and neutron stars.

They are the most boring objects in the galaxy.

 

[Bacon Sarnie]

I don't understand the obsession with black holes and neutron stars.

They are the most boring objects in the galaxy.

They're very profitable, thats the problem.
2 of the highest payers in exploration, especially if you are the first to discover and report back on it.

 

[xondk]

People need to realize, that if you look on the map in realistic mode, and go for "oh that looks big"/"that looks interesting" others will likely have thought the same, but if you go to the star a bit above or below that target, most likely no one will have discovered it.

Many big and obvious targets have been discovered close to civ space, but the moment you go deeper, you'll see much much more undiscovered.
Last time we hadn't even seen a percentage of the systems, I seriously doubt we are even there yet..people just forget to go off the beaten path.

 

[Duckfather]

The last exploration trip I made, I started seeing undiscovered systems 3 jumps away from the system I launched from, purely because I intentionally used a route dropping under the ecliptic. People tend to forget that space is 3-dimensional and will gravitate to the route that their route planner throws at them. Turn off the sat-nav and just go site seeing out of the normal well travelled routes

 

[Fen Harel]

Solo hackers can travel unlimited distances in one jump without expending any fuel, so exploration is already ruined.

Exploration is not ruined. Something like this doesn't help, obviously, and I hope they clamp down on it. Exploration in Elite is thriving.

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They're very profitable, thats the problem.
2 of the highest payers in exploration, especially if you are the first to discover and report back on it.

That and the fact that there are huge neutron fields.

But, it is what it is.

 

[Bidermann]

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

LOL yes I call a few some names as well !!

 

[Gold Member]

Solo hackers can travel unlimited distances in one jump without expending any fuel, so exploration is already ruined.

Unfortunately, there are those who seem to get joy out of gaming the game. I was just reading a script that does all sorts of things depending on what you're interested in doing.

 

[Whiterose]

Solo hackers can travel unlimited distances in one jump without expending any fuel, so exploration is already ruined.

Never seen the point in cheating. These guys will play the game for about a week and then move on, no challenge if you can cheat.

 

[Genar-Hofoen]

Yes , yes it is....everyone should stay in the 'core' inhabited systems and leave all the rest of the unknown exploring to me.

Yes , yes it is....everyone should stay in the 'core' inhabited systems and leave all the rest of the unknown exploring to CMDRS whose name starts with W.

Fixed that for you and I think Whiterose might agree

Yep. Nothing to see here.

No no no, exploration should be left to the Culture's Galactic Exploration Division.