Why is my Map View Configuration a different colour to yours ?
EDIT: And with you map everything is portrayed on a single plane, or appears to be ?
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Newcomer / Intro Galaxy Map Question ....
- Thread starter Wombat1940
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EDIT: And with you map everything is portrayed on a single plane, or appears to be ?
Gees!!! The more I look at these maps (Galaxy and Systems) the more I realize how comprehensive they are !!!! Must be great to get your name(s) on a System after discovering it. 
I can feel a new objective coming on
......... maybe something like this: "Discovered by Wombat1940 just before his 81st birthday". 
...... better get out of this noob-zone first though ...... nothing new to find here ..... 
I can feel a new objective coming on
......... maybe something like this: "Discovered by Wombat1940 just before his 81st birthday". ...... better get out of this noob-zone first though ...... nothing new to find here ..... Looks as though it doesn't ......
What if I Bookmarked
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1. If I am to be excluded from returning to the noob-zone once I achieved a higher ranking, one questions the value of visiting and recording details about systems I have visited. True/False ?
2. Is there a finite number of systems to visit in the noob-zone ?
3. If there is a finite number of systems in the noob-zone, do we know what that number is ?
4. If you visit and record all the systems you visit in the noob-zone, are these records retained and retrievable once you move out of the noob-zone ?
5. Can you stay indefinitely in the noob-zone or you are eventually forced to move out ?
6. If the ED Galaxy represents our Galaxy (ie. the Milky Way), is the noob-zone real or make-believe ?
7. I'm assuming ship insurance is only necessary once you move out of the noob-zone . True/False ?
Thank you.
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You have not selected "visited stars" from the drop down menu, so the map shows system allegiance.
Also, you have "trade routes" enabled and the route plotting visible.
EDIT: hehe, looks like I too have the "trade routes" enabled, but I'm several thousand lightyears away from where any trade takes place...
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You will run out ot bookmarks very fast.Looks as though it doesn't ......
What if I Bookmarkedthingsplaces as I visited them ? eg. Planets, Stations, Moons, etc .....
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So me telling you that you had not been there so couldn't view the system map was not directly answering you?
1. You are learning about the game, that is the value of those things.
2. yes (post #8)
3. 10 (post #8)
4. I answered this in post #3
5. Stay as long as you like
6. real (as real as anything else in the game)
7. false
Bookmarks are limited in number so it is best to use them for the things you find most important however if you are doing something like buying Power Generators at station X to deliver to megaship Y then putting a bookmark on each one and then editing the bookmark text so they appear at the top of the list and mean something to you is a good idea you can always delete them when you don’t want to do that anymore.Looks as though it doesn't ......
What if I Bookmarkedthingsplaces as I visited them ? eg. Planets, Stations, Moons, etc .....
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Ooooops!
Thanks.Yes it was. But my comment was more about my poor way of putting the question ...... and more generally any of my questions. Sorry, but offense not mean ......
I can see my short-term memory, or in truth the loss of it, is going to be my undoing here. Or has that been forgotten by some?
Got here all on my own .......
Back in hanger .....
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Being truthful, as always, planetary exploration with my SRV does nothing for me....... but that's just a personal thing .....Got here all on my own .......
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There are about 400 billion star systems in both the real-world galaxy and the ED gaalxy, which is why ED is marketed as having a 1:1 full scale galactic model.
But it is "only a model", for the most part. There are about 100,000 "real-universe stars" whose data has been copied across into the ED galaxy, most of which are the big, bright stars in the vicinity of Sol, the superbig, superbright stars a bit further away, and a few star catalogues for which reasonable estimates of distance are available. Real world astronomers have great difficulty in accurately calculating the distance to a distant star because we are sitting here in this one solar system, we do not have "binocular vision" to get a good measurement of parallax beyond a few hundred light-years.
Most of the ED galaxy is procedurally generated - these are not real-world stars, but "fake stars" which only exist in the ED galaxy. These stars "fill in the gaps" where the imported star database contains few stars, or none.
So, for the specific stars in Newbie Space. Newbie Space was a "late addition" to the game (it did not exist when I started playing in 2015). Now, you need to know that the way that ED's star-creating algorithms, the Stellar Forge, work, it was virtually impossible for them to simply create brand new star systems. So for Newbies to get their playground, they had to find available real estate in systems that were already in-game. Rather than lock-out pre-existing star systems, they took a cluster of uninhabited stars and put new colonies and space stations inside those systems.
Of the ten systems under Newbie Space permit-lock, six had Stellar Forge procedural names (names like "Col 285 Sector XB-M a37-1", which was formerly the name for the Orna system), so they have no real-world existence. Three of the others had "star catalogue" names, so they do have real-world existence. The last system, Dromi, was formerly named "Manu" (I don't know why they thought it needed changing); "Manu" is the name of an ancient Babylonian god and is not currently the name of a real-world star (though there is an asteroid named after him). I don't know if the original "Manu" system in ED was a procedurally-generated star or a real-world star that got renamed. But the three remaining stars that definitely have real-world counterparts are:
There are places worth of visit in SRV (or on foot once Odyssey is released), like the Guardian Ruins, Guardian Structures, Thargoid Structures and INRA Bases for example.
And surface prospecting with SRV gets you materials for FSD INJECTION synthesis, which can help you out of a tricky situation (low fuel and/or dead end on your route).
Sorry Sapyx, I missed this post previously and I have just found !
Very informative ! Thanks. Likewise .... I missed this post for which I apologize. Funny. The direction Frontier has taken (Carriers, SRV, Odyssey ..... ) have been of least interest to me. However, I will put it on my list to go and mine for "FSD INJECTION synthesis" manufacturing materials. Thanks.
Unless FD changed something, a player's history of Visited systems in the game is not infinite. At some point, the game will not remember you've been to places. The game has Alzheimer's.
The list of stars you have visited is stored in the "visited stars" cache, this is stored locally like the journals, if you re-install or play from another computer this list will not be available unless you back it up and bring it with you. Since it's just a list it is effectively infinite up to the file size allowed by windows.
By "stored locally" I assume you mean on your computer running ED .......
If that is the case then, when I was killed visiting Sagan Terminal +, my "visiting stars" cache also appears to have been lost as well.
[I've still yet to completely satisfy myself that this is the cause ..... still checking ...... ]
The way to check is to go into the galaxy map and in the fourth tab set the filter to visited stars, the only stars on the map should show in blue and are the ones you have visited.