Fast Times at Beagle Point

UTU2TM

UTU2TM
Last year (pre-fleet carrier), I went out to Beagle Point, and parked for 24 hours on a planet and just looked back towards the galaxy center. What was unique about that game experience, was the feeling of desolation (I'm on xbox, whether solo or open, it's quiet).
I've been out exploring for a few months now, since I was in the Abyss decided to pop in to Beagle Point. Discovered three fleet carriers parked out there.
I'm glad I had the opportunity to visit prior to fleet carriers, but does Beagle Point lose that desolate mystique, because of the fleet carriers? Or is this peculiar to me?

I do concede that there are the NPC tourist ships, but you know they are system generated, and don't seem to matter.
 

marx

marx
You could always move on to Oevasy SG-Y d0, Semotus Beacon, the true opposite end of the galaxy... oops, looks like there are four carriers there :D

But with so much of the general area having been tagged already, to me, it hasn't felt like a desolate place for years. I wonder why people would park carriers out there anyway, since it's not like there's much to explore.
 
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Orvidius

Orvidius
Beagle Point and Semotus Beacon have been the end-points for pilgrimages for so long now, it's all pretty well trampled anyway. I think the west/east edges feel more isolated these days, compared to the north. Or perhaps the NW and NE areas.
 

Chrystoph

Chrystoph
@UTU2TM - I'd agree with you about Beagle Point, but I think there are other aspects of old school exploration that are still valid. For me, I still enjoy the more extreme challenges, they've just redefined themselves.

An FC isn't going to provide any extra benefit in finding a "+5" world, or an ELW out on the edges of things. You still have to go there, you still have to do those things that explorers do. While -1348 is not as difficult to reach as it used to be, finding a system "down there" is still worth a brag.

As the two Legends above me point out, there are still sections that want your talents.
 

Random Player

Random Player
I know there's so much left of the galaxy to explore. I think not even 1% has been explored, something like that...? But I wonder if this game will ever open a "wormhole" or whatever, to another galaxy? Seems no matter which direction I am facing, the Andromeda galaxy is always in my view... would be cool, if one day, there was a way there!

As far as exploring our galaxy... you really need to travel out, pretty dang far, before you start to discover, undiscovered systems. When I did the "Elite" exploration, I had to travel a minimum of 5,000Lys before I started to come by undiscovered systems and got lucky, started tripping over undiscovered systems! They're all pretty much the same though. The galaxy is a pretty uninteresting place :unsure: but, finding a system that's not been found yet is pretty cool! Nothing sucks like thinking "OK, this system can't have been found yet!" Only to see "First Discovered by CMDR Joe Jackson" Man! 😥

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M_72

M_72
UTU2TM said:
Last year (pre-fleet carrier), I went out to Beagle Point, and parked for 24 hours on a planet and just looked back towards the galaxy center. What was unique about that game experience, was the feeling of desolation (I'm on xbox, whether solo or open, it's quiet).
I've been out exploring for a few months now, since I was in the Abyss decided to pop in to Beagle Point. Discovered three fleet carriers parked out there.
I'm glad I had the opportunity to visit prior to fleet carriers, but does Beagle Point lose that desolate mystique, because of the fleet carriers? Or is this peculiar to me?

I do concede that there are the NPC tourist ships, but you know they are system generated, and don't seem to matter.
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It was inevitable that the most iconic places in the galaxy would end up having FCs there. But one of the fleet carriers at Beagle is the Distant Worlds, owned by CMDR Kamzel, the commander that actually discovered and named that system in 3301, as well as being the creator of the famous Distant Worlds expeditions that went there in 3302 and 3305. Its part of the DSSA initiative too. So that one is understandable as its part of the history, and quite fitting I suppose.

I'm surprised no one has discovered their own Beagle Point since those early days tbh, as like has been mentioned there are systems in the far east and west of the galaxy that were just as difficult to get to in the early days as Beagle was. So the opportunity for others to discover some remote systems and make it a pilgrimage is still there. Though I suppose Beagle and the outer Abyss are special as thats the only place where you get the feeling of remoteness like you experienced. So far from home, there's no where like it. Maybe that's why no one bothered finding their own BPs out in the east and west. I dunno.

But it was Jumponium that ended the old exploration era imo. Engineers compounded its demise. Carriers haven't done anything worse than those two as far as making the galaxy feel paradoxically small. Someone buckyballed to BP in less than 5 hours a few weeks ago, that says it all (n). At least Carriers can't do that.
 

M_72

M_72
Chrystoph said:
A lot of the ships in DWE 3302 used Jumponium to make the crossing of the Abyss, especially memorable being the Sidewinder.
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I was one of those on the first DW event, I took an Asp on that trip. What I meant about the old era of exploration was the one before DW1. Before jumponium and when the route plotter maxed out at just 100 lys. That time when Zulu, Kamzel, and Allitnil were exploring the galaxy in stock ships that barely got above 30 ly ranges, thats the time I suspect the galaxy felt vast and remote, and places like the Abyss were an actual obstacle to find a way through. I got a taste of the tail end of that, but never got out to BP before DW1, and jumponium was in the game by then, as well as a workable route plotter.

I've been thinking of taking a stock Cobra out, no jumponium, no engineers, and doing it old school. I think with odyssey it'll be like the old times, as there'll be brand new worlds to land on along the way too .
 

Chrystoph

Chrystoph
Yeah, I missed that. I joined just as DWE started, and barely made it onto the roster.

I remember working my tail off to get the AspX loaded up, 33.73 LY and buckyballing my tail feathers off to catch up.
 

UTU2TM

UTU2TM
I think I'm going to head in to Explorer's Anchorage, turn in this batch of data (2.4 billion?), then head off to the side opposite of Colonia. I put my stank on a bunch of black holes over there, Think I might settle-in, and see if I can find an undiscovered system that has over 100 bodies.
 
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