Huh. Discovering something is easier than I thought.

Slayer Jesse

Slayer Jesse
Just completed my Palin 5000ly trip to the Rosette Nebula. I thought with how long elite has been out (and with being a newer player) that it would be hard to get something with my name on it. Turns out is that not only not the case, but it was pretty easy find stars, and not just planets, to put my stamp on. And this is without me scanning anything on the way back!

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Funny story: Accidentally bumped the Fed Battlecruiser's fighter escort on the way out of Palin's camp. Cue me running from him and his 3 vulture buddies fire as I warped out XD
 
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Tarman

Tarman
It would take centuries to discover all the stellar bodies ingame even if the current population of Earth all only played Elite and only explored.
 

Riverside

Riverside
If you travel more than a couple of thousand Ly out it's mostly undiscovered.

If you go far enough it'll be a surprise to see a discovered tag ;)
 

Stealthie

Stealthie
Thing is, even if you're going to the same place other people have been already, and following the same basic route to get there, no two ships have an absolutely identical jump range so, sooner or later, you're probably going to end up "out of step" with other people who've traveled the same way before and you'll end up visiting different systems along the same route.
 

Shiro Akai

Shiro Akai
The thing is not to discover anything.
The thing is to discover and tag (leaving pee tree mark, as dogs do...) on valuable tree... I mean planets. Water worlds, Earth-like worlds. My personal goal is to find totally undiscovered system (unknown star) with Earth-like world. When encountered I stop and scan everything. The the farthest rock. Then I can say I discovered something.
 

mp4x

mp4x
I think I heard Obsidian Ant say, in a recent video, that only about 0.01% of the galaxy had been discovered
 

Kayweg

Kayweg
Tarman said:
It would take centuries to discover all the stellar bodies ingame even if the current population of Earth all only played Elite and only explored.
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Well, current population of earth is what...7 billion ?
Everyone would just need to discover and scan about 60 systems. It would be a matter of a few days or weeks.
If you meant the active player population of ED, yeah, you'd be correct.;)
 
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Lunchmoney

Lunchmoney
Shiro Akai said:
The thing is not to discover anything.
The thing is to discover and tag (leaving pee tree mark, as dogs do...) on valuable tree... I mean planets. Water worlds, Earth-like worlds. My personal goal is to find totally undiscovered system (unknown star) with Earth-like world. When encountered I stop and scan everything. The the farthest rock. Then I can say I discovered something.
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I spent 19 months doing that. A simple trip to Sag A* and back in a 20ly Clipper. I scanned everything :)
 

Dan Bender

Dan Bender
I agree, it's ludicrously easy to get to untagged systems. You've just got to be out of the direct line between two popular POI. I just got back from a loop where I did a leg straight "up" in econ routing. Nothing new (it is of course, a "obvious" direction to go, so it's not a whole lot different than heading straight to a popular POI). Then, I said "Hey, let's go 5kly for that Palin invite, I guess I'll head down this here galactic arm…"

BAM. First jump, new system. And didn't see another tag until I got 5500 out and all the way back until I was only 3 jumps from the Coal Sack. Which is only a few hundred from the bubble.

I was in a great stratum, too. Every jump alternated between K's (GREAT for finding terraformables!) and stellar remnants (worth a lot on their own).
 
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