Following in someone's footsteps

M00ka

M00ka
The cricket id on (and for a change Australia is doing well :D ) so I decided to take things easy and do a nice exploration jaunt of about 1,000ly and see what is out there. Picked a destination at random at the right distance and headed out in my Phantom for a nice relaxing evening.

After a couple of jumps, scanning each system that needed it along the way, I started to notice that a specific commander had either a First Discovery or First Map in every system I visited. Did a couple of more systems and yep, there is their name, at least once in every system. Finally realised that said Commander had headed out along the same track and evidently had a ship with a very similar jump range as mine (55ly). After a couple of more systems I decided enough is enough, did a short jump of 20ly, then replotted to my original destination figuring (as it turned out correctly) that I will now be half way between his jumps. Just thought it was interesting that I was managing to follow in the exact footsteps of someone else for at least 10 jumps.

Has anyone else experienced this?
 

insanephoton

insanephoton
It's a pretty common experience especially close to the bubble or heading towards popular spots such as nebulae. Standard advice if you want to find untouched stuff is to move a 100 ly or so in the vertical until you find a clear run
 

Kayweg

Kayweg
Bound to happen if said player has a very similar jump range to yours, similar filter settings, and possibly headed for the same area.
The route plotting would be identical and lead both of you along the same path.
And yeah, take a 90 degree turn into any direction for a few hundred ly before returning to your original course, that should fix it.
Although, when close to the bubble, you might just hit the wake of somebody else, just as others most likely have hit your's before.
 
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Number2

Number2
Also in the early days, you could not plot a route and had to do each jump individually, I think some people stopped at every system and methodically scanned them. Maybe people still do that now if the exploring is more important than the journey for them. Now that exploration pay-out is increased it may be work going 2000ly out in a random direction then up or down, and scan every system. When you get bored you can quickly come back.
 
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