May have been mentioned before, but assuming that FD know all the discovered systems, presumably they could say that "All systems within X LY of Sol" have been discovered and fully scanned.
Seems to me that a nice ongoing challenge would be activated when a certain number of "undiscovered systems" was reached within a certain range.
Perhaps a significant prize is issued by Universal Cartographics for the "last five systems" in the next 100 LY radius, maybe even with the last one getting some naming rights for a planet in that system.
The nice thing is that almost anyone could participate - as no one would actually know which of those star systems wasn't fully scanned - and you don't need a special ship to do it - just an Adv. Scanner and Surface Scanner.
Also, as the volume increases with the cube of the radius the challenge just gets harder every time... a 100LY radius ~4 million cubic LY, 150LY radius ~ 14 million!
I'd love to know just how big the "fully scanned bubble" is at the moment...
Seems to me that a nice ongoing challenge would be activated when a certain number of "undiscovered systems" was reached within a certain range.
Perhaps a significant prize is issued by Universal Cartographics for the "last five systems" in the next 100 LY radius, maybe even with the last one getting some naming rights for a planet in that system.
The nice thing is that almost anyone could participate - as no one would actually know which of those star systems wasn't fully scanned - and you don't need a special ship to do it - just an Adv. Scanner and Surface Scanner.
Also, as the volume increases with the cube of the radius the challenge just gets harder every time... a 100LY radius ~4 million cubic LY, 150LY radius ~ 14 million!
I'd love to know just how big the "fully scanned bubble" is at the moment...
