I am no stranger to exploration having gained Elite a long time ago after three voyages to the outer edge of the galaxy the last one after I bought my fleet carrier. After a few months back in the bubble I got itchy feet again and decided to set off on a really long voyage to Sagitarius X. I am not in a race or anything I started off with a couple of thousand tons of tritium left over from selling the proceeds of my last voyage and will mine it and other rares as I make my way along. I normally jump into a system via FC and then go out and scan at least every system in the system map there for a couple of days before jumping again.
Now I never had a problem plotting a course on the outer edges of the galaxy, when the stars became distant I would just bend inwards again. This time I decided to use the Fleet Carrier Router Route Planner after finding my first few attempts at plotting a straight line course to the centre going nearly round in a circle. On the course plotted on the planner I have now jumped 6 times, around 3000ly of the 28000ly and am finding everywhere scanned previously.
After reading a post on the forums here stating that only 8% or so of the galaxy has been explored in ED so farI thought it strange that 3000ly towards the centre on my course everything so far is mapped. Then I thought that maybe by using the planner I was obviously just going over a treaded path. So I thought I would post this here to you explorers asking whether things get better a bit further in or would I get better results by learning to plot a straight course of my own choosing?.
Now I never had a problem plotting a course on the outer edges of the galaxy, when the stars became distant I would just bend inwards again. This time I decided to use the Fleet Carrier Router Route Planner after finding my first few attempts at plotting a straight line course to the centre going nearly round in a circle. On the course plotted on the planner I have now jumped 6 times, around 3000ly of the 28000ly and am finding everywhere scanned previously.
After reading a post on the forums here stating that only 8% or so of the galaxy has been explored in ED so farI thought it strange that 3000ly towards the centre on my course everything so far is mapped. Then I thought that maybe by using the planner I was obviously just going over a treaded path. So I thought I would post this here to you explorers asking whether things get better a bit further in or would I get better results by learning to plot a straight course of my own choosing?.
