GEC - The Galactic Exploration Catalog
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I did. Anyway, just wanted to ask whether a cold near-black Rayet is worth an entry, but have since seen that it's not a novelty. o7
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Nothing to do with the forums.
Fair enough. Guess I still have Twitter.
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Ask questions relating to projects by all means, but conversations that happen on other platforms are not up for discussion on these forums.
Far too many cans of worms.
GEC Advisory for April 1, 2023. 12:00 AM UTC
Perhaps you have heard by now that Elon Musk has decided to call out the GEC in a recent tweet, as seen here:
Source: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1622739987031552002
"The worst offender in US government censorship & media manipulation is an obscure agency called GEC"
While it's unclear what our involvement has been with censorship, Elon Musk has decided to address his concerns by buying out the GEC project. Effective immediately, the existing GEC staff (myself included) have been fired/sacked. However we have been assured that the GEC will continue to exist, and after the initial transition period, Mr. Musk will bring in his talented team of extremely hardcore professionals, to make GEC 2.0 the absolute best everything app.
Fear not, for I have strong suspicions that everything will return to normal by the end of the day, with all staff members reinstated. That is, as long as the calendar date advances forward as expected.
Thanks go to CMDR Marx for initially bringing this to my attention.
Stay tuned, and be sure to have a good start to this month.
Perhaps you have heard by now that Elon Musk has decided to call out the GEC in a recent tweet, as seen here:
Source: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1622739987031552002
"The worst offender in US government censorship & media manipulation is an obscure agency called GEC"
While it's unclear what our involvement has been with censorship, Elon Musk has decided to address his concerns by buying out the GEC project. Effective immediately, the existing GEC staff (myself included) have been fired/sacked. However we have been assured that the GEC will continue to exist, and after the initial transition period, Mr. Musk will bring in his talented team of extremely hardcore professionals, to make GEC 2.0 the absolute best everything app.
Fear not, for I have strong suspicions that everything will return to normal by the end of the day, with all staff members reinstated. That is, as long as the calendar date advances forward as expected.
Thanks go to CMDR Marx for initially bringing this to my attention.
Stay tuned, and be sure to have a good start to this month.
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Hello everyone!
It has come to my attention that there has been some misunderstanding regarding POI naming, moderation activity, and voting scores, so I wanted to take a moment to talk about some changes that are being implemented in the GEC site.
First, we've added some clarification to the naming guidelines. Please understand that our moderation staff aren't trying to be gatekeepers for your discoveries, but rather are tasked with maintaining the standards defined by these rules and guidelines. With this in mind, the text has been changed to be more clear about what we're looking for, and the staff will make more of an effort to discuss POI names with you in the future, rather than just saying "no" if it appears to step outside of expectations.
The updated rule reads:
Secondly, we have started to feel that the Staff Ratings on POIs can appear to be more discouraging than intended. Since we currently have six staff members, the staff scoring could appear less reliable than expected, despite the staff members attempting to vote based on our voting guidelines pretty closely. For this reason, we are no longer displaying a staff score on POIs. From now on, the staff scoring is only used internally to determine the "Top Staff Picks" list, and nothing more. POI scoring will be based only on the larger general voter rating from all explorers.
Thirdly, the color coding on the POI scores had an appearance of punishing new POIs. While the score does grow over time as more votes are registered, as intended, the relative "quality" that was implied by the color coding was not giving the right impression. For this reason, it is now colored only Green or Red, which shows whether the current score will place the POI on the interactive map. If the overall score is too low to be included, it will be Red. Otherwise it will always be Green.
It was always the intent that the voting system would naturally rank POIs, so that players may more easily search for the POIs that interest them, and to set a threshold where really low-quality / low-effort POIs will automatically be excluded from the map. Everything in between should be treated much more equally, and so hopefully a combination of flattening the color coding, as well as removing the staff rating will help to remove some of the confusion around this.
The GEC is an on-going project, and can always be modified to meet the needs of the exploration community, so we welcome any further feedback you have. It's not possible to please everyone 100%, but we want the GEC to be your way of sharing discoveries in an egalitarian, freely accessible way. You are always encouraged to give feedback.
Thanks,
-CMDR Orvidius, and the GEC Staff
It has come to my attention that there has been some misunderstanding regarding POI naming, moderation activity, and voting scores, so I wanted to take a moment to talk about some changes that are being implemented in the GEC site.
First, we've added some clarification to the naming guidelines. Please understand that our moderation staff aren't trying to be gatekeepers for your discoveries, but rather are tasked with maintaining the standards defined by these rules and guidelines. With this in mind, the text has been changed to be more clear about what we're looking for, and the staff will make more of an effort to discuss POI names with you in the future, rather than just saying "no" if it appears to step outside of expectations.
The updated rule reads:
Secondly, we have started to feel that the Staff Ratings on POIs can appear to be more discouraging than intended. Since we currently have six staff members, the staff scoring could appear less reliable than expected, despite the staff members attempting to vote based on our voting guidelines pretty closely. For this reason, we are no longer displaying a staff score on POIs. From now on, the staff scoring is only used internally to determine the "Top Staff Picks" list, and nothing more. POI scoring will be based only on the larger general voter rating from all explorers.
Thirdly, the color coding on the POI scores had an appearance of punishing new POIs. While the score does grow over time as more votes are registered, as intended, the relative "quality" that was implied by the color coding was not giving the right impression. For this reason, it is now colored only Green or Red, which shows whether the current score will place the POI on the interactive map. If the overall score is too low to be included, it will be Red. Otherwise it will always be Green.
It was always the intent that the voting system would naturally rank POIs, so that players may more easily search for the POIs that interest them, and to set a threshold where really low-quality / low-effort POIs will automatically be excluded from the map. Everything in between should be treated much more equally, and so hopefully a combination of flattening the color coding, as well as removing the staff rating will help to remove some of the confusion around this.
The GEC is an on-going project, and can always be modified to meet the needs of the exploration community, so we welcome any further feedback you have. It's not possible to please everyone 100%, but we want the GEC to be your way of sharing discoveries in an egalitarian, freely accessible way. You are always encouraged to give feedback.
Thanks,
-CMDR Orvidius, and the GEC Staff
The one in the first post? Looks fine to me.
I just have a quick question. As I'm back after three years, I just discovered the GEC yesterday and am really hyped because I think ti's a slightly better choice that all people can submit their own POIs.
I browsed your site and asked myself if it is possible to see the POIs on a galaxy map like on EDSM. Am I missing something and it's already there or isn't it possible at the moment to see all POIs on a galaxy map?
I browsed your site and asked myself if it is possible to see the POIs on a galaxy map like on EDSM. Am I missing something and it's already there or isn't it possible at the moment to see all POIs on a galaxy map?
EDDiscovery can do that.
Can you explain this?
There is this map. https://edastro.com/galmap/ if you look in the top left corner there is a control for adding POI markers of varions types
Using the 3D Map
Captains log and 3d star map for Elite Dangerous. Contribute to EDDiscovery/EDDiscovery development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
That one doesn't show all of them. Afaik there's a minimum rating requirement.
Using the 3D Map
Captains log and 3d star map for Elite Dangerous. Contribute to EDDiscovery/EDDiscovery development by creating an account on GitHub.
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That one doesn't show all of them. Afaik there's a minimum rating requirement.
What ED Discovery calls "POI" are the GEC POIs or how do have to understand that?
I only seem to find GMP POIs in there.
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Okay, now I understand. I think I'll have to use a new version of ED Discovery
Thank you very much.
After all these years it's still impressing what ED Discovery is able to do what you didn't know anything about before