Fabulous heatmap timelapse showing ED exploration over time

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Apologies if this has already been posted (it's from last October so it probably has) but I just saw this on facebook (all credit to Stephen Blower for sharing there) and figured this sub-forum needed to see it.

[video=youtube_share;8xzlGaqrq3M]https://youtu.be/8xzlGaqrq3M[/video]
 
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Corbin Moran

Corbin Moran
An awesome map! It is cool that you are able to see the impact of the various community expeditions :D

A pity it does not show exploration prior to 3302.
 

GreyAreaUK

GreyAreaUK
I hadn't seen that before - many thanks for posting it.

If nothing else it shows you just how much of the galaxy remains unexplored. Which is a good thing :)

+1 Rep to you.
 
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Zeeman

Zeeman
Very cool.

The EDSM map was actually awesome prior to auto logging of co-ordinates. I remember Sparneejuah spelling out his name on the map over about 7000LY, the Coriolis station someone drew... That level of awesome now lost, though...

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Alec Turner

Alec Turner
thundernuns said:
That really hits home the extent of exploring...how much is there actually left to find now?
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According to EDSM (the source of the data for that heatmap) ...

As of today 0.002104% of the galaxy has been discovered on EDSM, it will take 73,142 years, 7 months and 1 day to discover it entirely.

I think you're OK for a while longer yet! :p

P.S. don't forget the blue lines on that map are paths between the visited dots, they don't imply that everything blue has been visited.
 
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GreyAreaUK

GreyAreaUK
Roybe said:
Plenty.

What's interesting to me is that there are pathways (bright lanes) which means that people are not exploring...they are following.
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To an extent maybe, but there's so much stuff out there that even though you're only a little bit off the path you can find new stuff.

For instance, this weekend I launched from Jaques heading basically core-wards (a well travelled route I'd have thought), and a mere 118Ly later found an untagged ELW.
 
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[VR] optimal_909

[VR] optimal_909
GreyAreaUK said:
To an extent maybe, but there's so much stuff out there that even though you're only a little bit off the path you can find new stuff.

For instance, this weekend I launched from Jaques heading basically core-wards (a well travelled route I'd have thought), and a mere 118Ly later found an untagged ELW.
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Last September or so, I've found an untagged ELW about 380ly away from Sol. :)
Incredible, but these stuff do exist!
 

Corbin Moran

Corbin Moran
Roybe said:
Plenty.

What's interesting to me is that there are pathways (bright lanes) which means that people are not exploring...they are following.
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Or taking part in community expeditions... ;). That still counts as exploration in my book :D
 
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Roybe

Roybe
Corbin Moran said:
Or taking part in community expeditions... ;). That still counts as exploration in my book :D
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True...but, the idea that exploration is becoming 'limited' in some way...is not happening..as no one is truly surveying in a systematic manner. The most systematic manner is the player who wrote their name! There is still plenty out there to see and find...and will be.
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Roybe said:
The most systematic manner is the player who wrote their name!
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Or perhaps these two!

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Codger

Codger
How cool. I'm currently on my first trip to Colonia, and so I'm right in the middle of that hot spike that leads to Jacques. Yet almost all the systems I jump to are unexplored and un-tagged. There's a lot of space, in space. :)
 
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