Give Explorers a clue

[IPFreely]

An interesting aspect would be more hazardous SRV exploration - Rockfalls, volcanoes, lava fields, ammonia lakes, - Large and giant rock fields the SRV would have to navigate to get to the target, - Veins of materials instead of \ or, in addition to materials in rocks, Comets and \ or meteor strikes to planets, Deorbiting rocks from rings of gas giants, Gas exchanges between binary stars within a certain distance.
You get the idea.
The Stellar Forge used in the game needs updating to accomplish this, so I doubt this will happen.

 

[askavir]

Check the Rumors section of the CODEX. That's what is there for

The rumours section of the codex ended up being just a rumor.

 

[Vasious]

New stuff has been found in the last couple of months, you just need to explore harder

Still would be nice if the Rumours section got some use

 

[Rick6549]

An interesting aspect would be more hazardous SRV exploration - Rockfalls, volcanoes, lava fields, ammonia lakes, - Large and giant rock fields the SRV would have to navigate to get to the target, - Veins of materials instead of \ or, in addition to materials in rocks, Comets and \ or meteor strikes to planets, Deorbiting rocks from rings of gas giants, Gas exchanges between binary stars within a certain distance.
You get the idea.
The Stellar Forge used in the game needs updating to accomplish this, so I doubt this will happen.

But not too common, im circumnavigating the biggest planet discovered so i really dont need constant dangers.

 

[Bryan K]

I still remember the old days of having to hunt for Barnacles and Guardian Ruins visually. Flying 1.5 km up for hour after hour, squinting at the ground. Making note of your coordinates so you didn’t re-check the same area.

The old days sucked. Long live the new days.

 

[Cmdr Aeries Hunter]

I’d love to hear from FD if there is still any supercool undiscovered stuff out there in the galaxy.

So far we know of the Guardians and Thargoids. Is there evidence of any other space faring races?

I’d love to come across a planet whose atmosphere has been stripped away by a violent solar event but you might still see structures half buried. Unfamiliar alien craft crash landed.

Just more unique stuff you know?

We where supposed to have "rumours" in the codex....yet I have never seen one since its introduction. Guess another underutilized, half finished feature.

 

[MickyG1982]

I’d love to hear from FD if there is still any supercool undiscovered stuff out there in the galaxy.

So far we know of the Guardians and Thargoids. Is there evidence of any other space faring races?

I’d love to come across a planet whose atmosphere has been stripped away by a violent solar event but you might still see structures half buried. Unfamiliar alien craft crash landed.

Just more unique stuff you know?

Surely that's the point in exploring? You are supposed to go out, find it & tell the rest of us?

 

[Nasc]

I believe I discovered a new type of alien plant last night. Might give out more details when I've sold my data but it was just my name on the codex. Actually have 100k on my mission panel for two codex discoveries at the moment so there is still new stuff.

 

[Cmdr Aeries Hunter]

Surely that's the point in exploring? You are supposed to go out, find it & tell the rest of us?

However I am not interested what other people find or discovered. I am only interested in what I have discovered. That is where the codex in its current form fails. If all I can find is what other people have found, then what is the point of exploration? One of the reasons why I don't explore anymore.
To be clear everyone has found geysers and bark mounds by now. Its not fun if you spend 6 months in the black and have little to nothing to show for it.

 

[[VR] Goooost]

I have exploration dreams. Last night I had one where I found a white dwarf (original model, now gone from the game)

except it was surrounded by a stellar nebula, small enough that you could see it in the game and not just the skybox. And it had a ring made of liquid water. In the distance, there was a station, right up next to the white dwarf, and it was called Raxxla.

In other dreams I'd found donut planets, wormholes, secret earthlike world that the devs were testing atmospheric landings with.

 

[Ian Skippy]

So, you mean, like one of the Guardian ruins systems?

The use of dramatic language in your suggestion doesn't correlate with something you'd be likely to actually see in the game. It makes it sound like something that's not in the game at the moment, when all of those things are, in fact, in the game.
atmosphere stripped = airless (and therefore landable) world
violent solar event = fairly close to its parent star, could be any main sequence star. All of them have the potential to have a massive CME at some point in their long lives that could strip an atmosphere. Could even be a White Dwarf or Neutron Star system within a planetary nebula.
structures half buried = exactly what the Guardian ruins are

So what you're asking for is to find some ruins on an airless world that's close enough to its parent star for a CME to have stripped the atmosphere billions of years before you found it. The only evidence of such an event you would find on the planet are the ruins themselves, which could either suggest the aliens set up on an airless world, or they set up on an atmospheric world that subsequently lost its atmosphere.

Either way, what those things would actually look like in the game, is exactly what the Guardian ruins look like. Which means that whatever other alien race you'd find would pretty much be hailed as a copy/paste of the Guardian content.

How about instead we find some atmospheric HMC, Water or Ammonia worlds that display lights on the surface on the night side, and find some strange looking space stations in orbit. Maybe signal sources that point us to strange looking satellites or orbital weapons platforms that turn hostile if shot at. Maybe finding a parallel species utilising supercruise. Imagine dropping into a system on the other side of the galaxy and seeing unfamiliar, odd looking ships pootling about in supercruise. Then they try to interdict you and the mini-game is inescapable, but you have the option of negotiating your way out of combat (rather than the current binary Thargoid interaction of either leaving you alone or attacking you). Possibly even negotiate access to one of their space stations and find... something there.

A suggestion that uses the game as it is currently but adds twists that we've not seen before.

Yeah, having multiple visually distinct extinct civilisations can't be done in sci-fi. No sir, totally impossible. What a silly thought even.

 

[Bob McBobblehead]

There is a an experimental research lab in Alliance space that sell a unique ship called the Glaive.

 

[JesusRocks1988]

Yeah, having multiple visually distinct extinct civilisations can't be done in sci-fi. No sir, totally impossible. What a silly thought even.

I'm not saying it can't be done. But unless it's done right - visually distinctly as you say - it runs the risk of having the community call it lazy, uninspired copy/paste Guardian content.

And given FD's track record wth the Guardian content itself, do you really trust them to not reuse the assets? Or even create something distinct so as to not be confused with the Guardians?

I'm not so sure.

 

[Ian Skippy]

I'm not saying it can't be done. But unless it's done right - visually distinctly as you say - it runs the risk of having the community call it lazy, uninspired copy/paste Guardian content.

And given FD's track record wth the Guardian content itself, do you really trust them to not reuse the assets? Or even create something distinct so as to not be confused with the Guardians?

I'm not so sure.

So when you say OP already has what he wants and anything more would always look identical you really mean to say OP has a great idea but you doubt FD can do it?

Could have phrased that a bit clearer.

 

[Factabulous]

I believe I discovered a new type of alien plant last night. Might give out more details when I've sold my data but it was just my name on the codex. Actually have 100k on my mission panel for two codex discoveries at the moment so there is still new stuff.

So you're making us look through the codex to find it? Assuming it's not one of the ones that vanishes on a relog...

 

[Nasc]

So you're making us look through the codex to find it? Assuming it's not one of the ones that vanishes on a relog...

Happy hunting!

 

[JesusRocks1988]

So when you say OP already has what he wants and anything more would always look identical you really mean to say OP has a great idea but you doubt FD can do it?

Could have phrased that a bit clearer.

It's something I have clarified in a subsequent post on this thread. However, the answer to your question, generally is no, that's not really what I'm getting at.
Although you are making me consider whether my meaning came across properly or not.

I end up reading suggestions on this forum a lot, and there's a pattern I've noticed: along with "I wish we could do X in game", where X tends to be something that's already in the game, dressed up with overly dramatic language so as to make it seem like it's not in the game (because the game's implementation invariably fails to match the OP's perception of the content).

Ultimately, I'd like for people to think about what their idea would look like in the game. But at the same time I don't want to be so unhelpful as to just post "lol that's already in the game gtfo".

Another idea I've seen posted a lot is "When I drop out of hyperspace, I'd like to see that the system I've jumped to is different to the system I came from"
Like, okay, great suggestion... but how? What do you see when you drop out of hyperspace? A big ol' star right in your face, followed by a bunch of planets in the nav panel. How can the liveliness of a star system be improved upon from there?
"More different NPCs"
Okay, but do you take the time to look at the different types of NPC that are flying around in supercruise? If not, then would you actually notice if they were different?

Probing right into the suggestion to find out what the OP actually wants, and what they envision it to look like when it's in the game.

Like how I said that a planet that's had its atmosphere stripped by a violent stellar event is, by the time we as players go and find it, that planet will pretty much look like any of the other billions of airless worlds in the galaxy. At a glance you're probably not going to be able to tell whether it used to have an atmosphere, or that a violent stellar event happened in the system. So... what would that look like? What's the suggestion for how that could look? Would there be blast marks on one side of the planet? Depending on how long ago it happened, could there be a dangerous cloud of ejected coronal mass still moving further out in the system? etc...