I'm on an epic journey to the galactic centre! Foollow my adventures!

[Kayweg]

I'm on a trip in the opposite direction, towards the fringe.

There isn't really much "adventure" to report on, it's an exercise in patience, persistence and determination....people need to be aware of that before going, it's no joyride.

After a few days (real time) travelling in one direction, you begin to remember those mundane mission and trade runs as exhilarating gameplay experience.

Occasionally i post a few screenshots from landmark locations and found oddities, that does indeed compensate for the effort put into it.

Good luck on your travels.

And greetings to all fellow commanders, out there in the vastness all by themselves.

 

[R3tCrick3t]

Fascinating finds! I Hope you come back alive so you can profit from all your hard work! And please tell us how much you make out of your endeavor, I'm very interested to know!

my trip to t tauri and the peiades nubula was worth about 1. 8 mil scanning both nebula's and about 20 interesting systems along teh way, roundtrip was 1400 ly and 1.8 mil profit

 

[della Trezzi]

The fact you cannot see the neutron star, they are so tiny and emit so little light that they look like a distant star yet have a huge emergency drop out boundry around them. So you emergency exit and take damage. This is why I always try to hit X as soon as i enter one of those systems. Neutron stars scare the crap out of me. Black holes can at least be seen against a luminous background due to the gravitational lensing effect.

Btw, you can safely throttle down to zero one the FSD begins its countdown - you'll never speed into a star again .

 

[Andovar]

Black holes can at least be seen against a luminous background due to the gravitational lensing effect.

Apparently that effect doesn't exist anymore. From what I've read, it existed in gamma, but was removed since release (maybe a bug).
I've visited a few stellar black holes since release, and there was no visual effect whatsoever. They're basically invisible.

 

[Wurz]

Yeah talk to Zulu Romeo about just how borked the galactic core is. .

 

[Unpleasant]

Neutron stars are purely theoretical.
There's is no evidence at all to support their existence.
People saw highly energetic points of energy in space and decided to invent a Neutron star to explain them.

A better way to explain these highly energetic points of energy in space, and one that doesn't break other established laws of physics, like Neutron stars do, would be to attribute them to a relaxation oscillation effect in a stars atmosphere.

 

[BrewerGeorge]

That must be a bug then as Neutron stars are amazing sources of light. After all they are used as standard beacons in cosmology to determine distances. Also, yes they have massive gravities but their gravity well is the same as their equivalent mass stars so shouldn't affect you any differently. FD needs to fix this.

What they would affect is the amount of radiation (solar wind if you like) that comes from them but since ED doesn't have radiation effects then you'd be fine.

As for the size, yes they are small (typically about 10-15km in diameter but weigh over 1.4 solar masses) but they would likely have massive accretion disks too thus making them easy to spot.

No, neutron stars are dead black to visible light. They do pour out tons of X-ray and gamma ray radiation, but no visible light. They are used as beacons because they are great radio emitters and most of our far astronomy is radio astronomy.

 

[Cosmo Bozo]

Apparently that effect doesn't exist anymore. From what I've read, it existed in gamma, but was removed since release (maybe a bug).
I've visited a few stellar black holes since release, and there was no visual effect whatsoever. They're basically invisible.

I visited one two days ago, it had the lensing effect, how close did you get?

 

[Asp Explorer]

Neutron stars are purely theoretical.
There's is no evidence at all to support their existence.
People saw highly energetic points of energy in space and decided to invent a Neutron star to explain them.

That is so wrong - it's laughable!

Everyone knows neutron stars are spare meatballs dropped by the noodly one on his travels. There is no other possible explanation, and to suggest otherwise is heresy

 

[Scarmax]

http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/solar-system/neutron-stars/

 

[Connor Caple]

I'm travelling towards the centre too, with the ultimate aim of reaching the far side of the galaxy, because that's my idea of what this game is for

 

[Andovar]

I visited one two days ago, it had the lensing effect, how close did you get?

0.13 ls, and nothing.
I'm not the only one who's experienced this either.(or lack thereof) I posted another thread about black holes, and there were a few who also posted about not seeing any effect.
So it would seem that either only some of them are borked, or maybe they're using some kind of weird graphical effect that isn't fully supported on some systems/setups. But I doubt it's the latter, as I've got a pretty high end rig.

 

[Thermidor]

wondered if anyone was doing this yet, good luck!

I think i remember reading somewhere that theoretically it might be possible for you to move inside the event horizon of a large or super massive black hole like sagittarius a and feel no effects at all (at first), you just wouldnt be able to move away from it.

Saw somone post the other day about their ship overheating when they tried to FSD away from a backhole they had got close to, that would make sense maybe.

 

[Erimus Kamzel]

Could you please elaborate on that?

I reached the core on December 19th. Take it from me, the core sectors are broken. I was stuck there for 3 days before game support had to physically move my ship to a new sector, which turned out to be broken too. I was then advised to be removed from the core sectors because there would be no one in game support over Christmas to physically move my character if it got stuck again and that the devs are aware of the issues but a fix was slow going. They eventually moved my character back to the home systems and completely wiped all its stats in the process (another bug).

If you get stuck in the bugged systems you will not be able to log into the game. I would seriously reconsider this journey until after the next major patch and we have had the all clear from a dev that the issue has been resolved.

Sorry to the bearer of bad news but the fact that there is no one around to offer an official warning about this means lots of players are now getting disconnected when entering the bugged systems and sectors and finding they can no longer log back into the game. Some have been stuck over a week.


Here's the warning that was posted last week : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=85123&highlight=