Furthest surface POI from Sol?

[madbilly]

Hi all,

What's the furthest anyone's found a surface POI from Sol? I thought they were only supposed to appear ~1000lys from civilisation, but since I've been away from civilisation myself for >1 year I know lots of things have changed in that time, and the range of surface POIs may be one of them.

Why do I ask? Because I just found a shipwreck >16000lys north of Jaques in the Orio-Persean Conflux. It was a very old, corroded, unidentifiable wreck, with zinc in a cargo rack and something called "compound shielding", which I assume is one of these newfangled materials. To me it looked like a proc-gen POI, I haven't yet relogged to see if it's persistent but I assume that it will not be.

This wreck was found as part of the Sagittarius-Carina mission! Pics can be found here (not all science, some pretties too).

Cheers

 

[varonica]

Hi all,

What's the furthest anyone's found a surface POI from Sol? I thought they were only supposed to appear ~1000lys from civilisation, but since I've been away from civilisation myself for >1 year I know lots of things have changed in that time, and the range of surface POIs may be one of them.

Why do I ask? Because I just found a shipwreck >16000lys north of Jaques in the Orio-Persean Conflux. It was a very old, corroded, unidentifiable wreck, with zinc in a cargo rack and something called "compound shielding", which I assume is one of these newfangled materials. To me it looked like a proc-gen POI, I haven't yet relogged to see if it's persistent but I assume that it will not be.

This wreck was found as part of the Sagittarius-Carina mission! Pics can be found here (not all science, some pretties too).

Cheers

For surface resources all the way out past BP, for others I have seen them out past Colonia, 20k+ly, that was before they implemented the Colonia POI bubble.

 

[madbilly]

For surface resources all the way out past BP, for others I have seen them out past Colonia, 20k+ly, that was before they implemented the Colonia POI bubble.

Yeah I know that all kinds of rocks (outcrops/meteorites etc) appear all over the galaxy but maybe I wasn't very clear so thanks for replying.

So if you've found human-made/blue circle POIs (i.e. not rocks) 20klys past Colonia then that means what I've found is nothing special, already fits what we know about.

Thanks for the confirmation

 

[ThomasWJames]

Hi all,

What's the furthest anyone's found a surface POI from Sol? I thought they were only supposed to appear ~1000lys from civilisation, but since I've been away from civilisation myself for >1 year I know lots of things have changed in that time, and the range of surface POIs may be one of them.

Why do I ask? Because I just found a shipwreck >16000lys north of Jaques in the Orio-Persean Conflux. It was a very old, corroded, unidentifiable wreck, with zinc in a cargo rack and something called "compound shielding", which I assume is one of these newfangled materials. To me it looked like a proc-gen POI, I haven't yet relogged to see if it's persistent but I assume that it will not be.

This wreck was found as part of the Sagittarius-Carina mission! Pics can be found here (not all science, some pretties too).

Cheers

Interesting, this is nice to know. Were there skimmers guarding it?

 

[madbilly]

No, there were no skimmers - that would have been really noteworthy!

 

[ThomasWJames]

No, there were no skimmers - that would have been really noteworthy!

Either way this is still noteworthy. I will be making my trip to Beagle Point soon (in Colonia now) and it's nice to know that if I land on a planet there's a chance to find POI's even if it's just random wrecks.

Though I do wonder if these are random generated and eventually not be there or if they are static POI's...if they are static we should start cataloging any of these finds. Would love for these little far out wrecks to have little data links where you can find a "history" or "diary" of the commander who met an ill fate so far from the bubble!

 

[madbilly]

Er....

I was just about to reply and tell you if the POI was persistent or not.

It isn't, at least I can't find it.

But I just found another wreck with a bunch of occupied escape pods scattered around. This stuff just got real, my exploration trip has become a rescue mission.

 

[ThomasWJames]

Er....

I was just about to reply and tell you if the POI was persistent or not.

It isn't, at least I can't find it.

But I just found another wreck with a bunch of occupied escape pods scattered around. This stuff just got real, my exploration trip has become a rescue mission.

Dang, are you still 16,000 LY away from Colonia? I'm not going to lie if I find any goodies on my way to Beagle Point, I might just leave them as it will ruin my jump range I'll make sure to set a beacon and let someone else get them

 

[madbilly]

Yes, I'm still 16 kylies north, I found the new wreck only a few hundred metres from the first one.

Thankfully, I am on my return journey from BP, so jump range is not so much of an issue. Anyway, it only seems to have reduced it by 0.1ly, so no big problem.

 

[ThomasWJames]

Yes, I'm still 16 kylies north, I found the new wreck only a few hundred metres from the first one.

Thankfully, I am on my return journey from BP, so jump range is not so much of an issue. Anyway, it only seems to have reduced it by 0.1ly, so no big problem.

Haha, okay then, maybe I'll save one or two lucky pilots in escape pods.

 

[varonica]

Haha, okay then, maybe I'll save one or two lucky pilots in escape pods.

The first ones I found I rescued, but the escape pods came so thick and fast after that I gave up in the end. Most of the time now I barely slow down. These things should be part of the mission system, "rescue pilots from planet xyz 12kly from Colonia, big rewards available" not popping up at random all the time on every tiny planet and moon I choose to land on, that's not coincidence, that just annoying!

 

[madbilly]

I agree, if that happens to me it will also be kind of "immersion breaking", i.e. unbelievable. If this has happened to you a lot then maybe you could file a bug report, because I agree it doesn't sound right.