First sign of life for over a week. Weird feeling

[Olmis Aremja]

About a week or so ago I headed out to investigate something interesting I saw on the galaxy map about 20k ly out. It turned out to be nothing much, so I planned to head back to pop space the next day as had planned to do other stuff initially, but come the next day evening when I got back in my ship about to head home, I couldn't help but carry on a bit further..

I'm now over 41k out and haven't seen a commanders 'discovered by' for what seems an eternity (though I have joined the lonely explorers list since). I then spotted a small nebula so headed over to take a look, thinking that perhaps a few explorers had possibly been through it and that I'd see a few tags there for sure. However, every star I hopped to inside the nebula was undiscovered that was until I was about to move on. One last jump I thought, then I'll move on, perhaps head home. Anyway, I jumped into that last system, scanned, opened the sys map and nearly jumped out my chair! it was another commanders name Maybe not a big deal for some, but was a very weird feeling after so many days without seeing any tags at all.
Also, although I'm not the chatty type, thank you to all the guys who accepted my friendship request, it's appreciated, and it's great to see where others are out there.

Cheers,
Olmis

 

[Zenith]

I had exactly the same feeling when I got to V4641 Sagittarii a few days ago. It's a B star - black hole binary system and sticks out because it's a proper name amongst all the procedurally generated systems around it.
Cmdr Diwrnach had been there first, but I didn't catch his name on any of the other stars nearby.

I keep track of that sort of data, so I know that it was almost 10 Kylies and 350 systems since the last time I came across a system that was previously discovered. That was a red nebula with a neutron star inside.

 

[Murishani]

Also, although I'm not the chatty type, thank you to all the guys who accepted my friendship request, it's appreciated, and it's great to see where others are out there.

Mutual here. Even if you know youre two days of travel away or more, nice to see other explorers out in the same situation you're in.
Fly safe and keep it gassed up CMDR.

 

[Kancro Vantas]

it's been around 16,000 ly since the last time I saw a tag on a system. It's been around 13,000 ly that I saw another CMDR on an Asp ever so briefly. In real time, it's been over three weeks now that I haven't gotten direct contact with anything human at this point.

 

[dognosh]

done 2500 systems and over 45K LY , and just 10 mins ago, on my way back to the bubble, saw my 1st tag about 3500 LY out, belonging I think to Cmdr Reverenddk (probably spelt wrong)

 

[Whiterose]

1825 systems scanned 1804 undiscovered. Havent seen a tagged one since I left the bubble (apart from Sag A of course). I thought there would be a couple near Sag A, but no, must have been because i approached NNE as opposed to the usual SE.

 

[Deepfriedmal]

I am constantly surprised how much has not got any tags... I have yet to get any real distance from life (only manage 1,500ly so far as everytime I intend to go any distance I keep finding systems with no tags.... I have just spent a couple of weeks just out of Pratchetts disc and you only have to go a couple of hundred ly to find lots of systems with no tags (a lot with mine now though)... However I DO intend to head out now....
Mal

 

[Witzo]

In real time, it's been over three weeks now that I haven't gotten direct contact with anything human at this point.

Bliss...

 

[Viking2010]

I'm currently out about 1K LY from Sol (so not very far really!!!) but still seeing heaps of things that have not got tags on too. I know there's a lot out there, but for some reason I did half expect everything to be gone by now! lol Having said that, all the interesting stuff has been taken at this distance. I've found a few ELW's and they've been tagged but I've scanned a few Water worlds that haven't been tagged yet, By the time I get back home however, they could have gone!

 

[Oopsie Daisy]

400,000,000,000 systems in the galaxy. Undiscovered objects are the rule, not the exception. I was out no more than 100ly from known space the other night in my lowly Sidewinder and was first to tag three stars.

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

About a week or so ago I headed out to investigate something interesting I saw on the galaxy map about 20k ly out. It turned out to be nothing much, so I planned to head back to pop space the next day as had planned to do other stuff initially, but come the next day evening when I got back in my ship about to head home, I couldn't help but carry on a bit further..

I'm now over 41k out and haven't seen a commanders 'discovered by' for what seems an eternity (though I have joined the lonely explorers list since). I then spotted a small nebula so headed over to take a look, thinking that perhaps a few explorers had possibly been through it and that I'd see a few tags there for sure. However, every star I hopped to inside the nebula was undiscovered that was until I was about to move on. One last jump I thought, then I'll move on, perhaps head home. Anyway, I jumped into that last system, scanned, opened the sys map and nearly jumped out my chair! it was another commanders name Maybe not a big deal for some, but was a very weird feeling after so many days without seeing any tags at all.
Also, although I'm not the chatty type, thank you to all the guys who accepted my friendship request, it's appreciated, and it's great to see where others are out there.

Cheers,
Olmis

Grats on your speed. I mean, 20kly in a week is really something for my point of wiev. Unless you have several hours to play every day, how do you make it?
Personally when i enter a new system i always want to scan the main star at least, just to mark my trail. I realize that just jumping again would be super faster. But as much i concentrate i cannot do better than 20 jumps/hour, wich in a straight line are more or less 600ly (33.01 jump range)

In last 2 weeks i made barely 18000ly. You are telling me that if i want to go farter faster i have to drop the "scan the main star" habit? Sigh.

 

[Oopsie Daisy]

Grats on your speed. I mean, 20kly in a week is really something for my point of wiev. Unless you have several hours to play every day, how do you make it?
Personally when i enter a new system i always want to scan the main star at least, just to mark my trail. I realize that just jumping again would be super faster. But as much i concentrate i cannot do better than 20 jumps/hour, wich in a straight line are more or less 600ly (33.01 jump range)

In last 2 weeks i made barely 18000ly. You are telling me that if i want to go farter faster i have to drop the "scan the main star" habit? Sigh.

And on top of that I also scan the planets. So travel is very slow (but very profitable). I think people who travel that fast are just trying to travel as far as they can. Maybe they have a particular destination in mind (a nebula, the galactic core, the galactic top/bottom).

 

[Viking2010]

And on top of that I also scan the planets. So travel is very slow (but very profitable). I think people who travel that fast are just trying to travel as far as they can. Maybe they have a particular destination in mind (a nebula, the galactic core, the galactic top/bottom).

I must admit I'm torn between getting to my destination or scanning everything en-route. But then if I did that, I'd miss out on some potential finds. Although not that exciting, I did find 2 water worlds suitable for life orbiting each other the day plus a gas giant supporting water based life, all un-tagged. If I'd gone for the fastest route and not eco drive, I'd have missed them! So although my journey is slow, it's been interesting (if interested I'm recording my journey in my blog at: http://elite.ahooks.co.uk).

 

[Oopsie Daisy]

I must admit I'm torn between getting to my destination or scanning everything en-route. But then if I did that, I'd miss out on some potential finds. Although not that exciting, I did find 2 water worlds suitable for life orbiting each other the day plus a gas giant supporting water based life, all un-tagged. If I'd gone for the fastest route and not eco drive, I'd have missed them! So although my journey is slow, it's been interesting (if interested I'm recording my journey in my blog at: http://elite.ahooks.co.uk).

I just assume that, with the exception of some obviously notable locales (e.g., the core, top and bottom of galaxy, nebulas), interesting things are pretty much evenly distributed around the galaxy. So as far as interesting is concerned, how far you travel is less important than how closely you pay attention to what is around you. It can only get better if FD starts adding more realism in their generator (accretion disks, matter sharing between massive neighbouring stars, etc.) and maybe even alien civilizations.

 

[Olmis Aremja]

Grats on your speed. I mean, 20kly in a week is really something for my point of wiev. Unless you have several hours to play every day, how do you make it?
Personally when i enter a new system i always want to scan the main star at least, just to mark my trail. I realize that just jumping again would be super faster. But as much i concentrate i cannot do better than 20 jumps/hour, wich in a straight line are more or less 600ly (33.01 jump range)

In last 2 weeks i made barely 18000ly. You are telling me that if i want to go farter faster i have to drop the "scan the main star" habit? Sigh.

It all depends on what mood I'm in, or where I'm headed I guess, and the time factor. I always at least do the discovery scanner and virtually always scoop (6c) if possible. I also like to tag most stars on my route. The only time I really travel fast is If I have limited playtime and I'm trying to get somewhere even if it's just the end of a 1000ly run before bed or something, I might then skip the tagging of every star, but I will certainly honk still to check there is nothing super interesting in the system.
On the other hand I might stay in a system for a good few hours. For instance tonight I travelled 170,000ls just to get close to a Herbig star which was awesome, as I don't think I'd ever observed one before.

I also work from home, so it becomes all too easy to nip on in the day and do a quick run now and then. (Shhhhh don't tell the wife)

.

Edit: My usual routine is - Jump into system>honk>target main star>while that is being scanned, check system map>exit map>target next system(using Voice attack), skim star for fuel>jump

Obviously different if the system holds some interest

 

[Viking2010]

Edit: My usual routine is - Jump into system>honk>target main star>while that is being scanned, check system map>exit map>target next system(using Voice attack), skim star for fuel>jump. Obviously different if the system holds some interest

Exactly the same as what I've been doing!

Never used the Voice Attack system. Is it any good? (my apologies if this is changing the topic slightly!)

 

[Olmis Aremja]

Exactly the same as what I've been doing!

Never used the Voice Attack system. Is it any good? (my apologies if this is changing the topic slightly!)

I find it very good yes, but I only use it for basic commands such as targeting my next system on route, or opening the maps etc. Some people use it to control virtually every part of their ship and all the menus. Check out the videos on Youtube relating to ED and Voice Attack, I'm sure you'll be impressed. It's even more useful if you are playing using a HMD, which I currently am. It's cheap too and also comes with a free trial I think so well worth checking out.