As the title suggests. I want to do a tiny expedition to put my name on systems, but is everything already explored in the center?
Is most of the galactic center already explored?
- Thread starter Trowa Deathwind
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Not by a long shot and won't be for many years.
Last I read, much less than 1% of the galaxy was explored.
By number of stars, the core is one of the best-explored regions.
By percentage of stars, it's the least explored region by a clear margin.
By percentage of stars, it's the least explored region by a clear margin.
Try this, this is the percentage of stars visited compared to the number of stars in the region, notice the core is all black, that's because the density of stars decreases the percentage visited to, well, almost nothing, whereas as the edge is all red, because the density of stars is so low the number visited make up substantial proportion of the visited stars;
0.07% was the last report I saw.
One trick to finding unexplored systems is this: when commanders make a long distance trip, i.e. bubble to Colonia, bubble to Sag. A*, bubble to Beagle's Point, I think the majority of them travel fairly close to the plane of the galaxy. Look at the coordinates on the galaxy map, three numbers representing X, Y and Z. The middle one, Y is the "altitude" and y=0 is the galactic plane. If you also travel "close" to the galactic plane, your odds of hitting previously examined systems is surprisingly high! After all, we all use the same route plotting algorithm. Start your exploration by getting that middle coordinate to +100 or -100 (or more), then travel across the galaxy. Pretty much every system you hit will be undiscovered. Be careful though, the higher the number on the Y axis, the thinner the stars get, especially away from the core. Look at depictions of the Milky Way; it's really thick in the middle, but thin in the disk. I find that +/- 200 light years on the Y axis gets me into untravelled, uncharted space as a rule.
Of course, if you're getting your name on systems in dense regions like the core, it's unlikely anyone else will ever see it. If you want to get noticed, you could try systems near well-known attractions, or way above or below them. Be careful with fuel and star density, though. Another thing you can try to do is get first footfall, which is quite often achievable in some popular places. I've done quite a few hot planets like this, landing on the night side.
Equip a fuel scoop, Target any system long way away using economical, and you should start hitting first discovered/first map systems after a bit.
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No worries. There are just so many stars clustered in the center, that you need only need one or two jumps to get into uncharted territory again.
I sense that there will be a lot of type M stars nobody has visited, and an ongoing struggle to find fresh Fs and Gs
I think the issue is a lot of new explorers take a generic route and just head in a single direction thats probably been replicated by hundreds of commanders before them. Think about exploring in zig zags and doing up and down the plain. Remember the route planner will probably plot a simple route the same as it would for multiple players. My experience you need to get around 2000-3000 ly out from the last populated systems before you have any chance of finding things untagged. At that distance a lot of things untagged are normally 500,000 or move LS out as people couldn't be bothered to fly there.
Do you mean the "center" or the "bubble"?
I did the 5k ly adventure recently to unlock Engineer Palin, and I completely agree with this. I felt like the direction I went was very generic and most of the systems I came across were explored. A few weren't, but a majority were. Buuuut, I planned a route back to the bubble going higher in the galactic plane and I could not believe the amount of systems near the bubble that have never been visited. Damn near every system on the way back until I got closer to the bubble hadn't been touched. I was shocked.
One thing to remember is that a disproportionate amount of "exploration" (myself included) went after the less common, and more exotic, stars.
If all you want to do is inject yourself into the lore of the game, then the advice above is all good.
If you want something "special", you need to use the star map filter system and get down into about 30 to 100 LY and scan for things. There are still black holes to be found, but you need to go hunting.
Good luck!
If all you want to do is inject yourself into the lore of the game, then the advice above is all good.
If you want something "special", you need to use the star map filter system and get down into about 30 to 100 LY and scan for things. There are still black holes to be found, but you need to go hunting.
Good luck!
Yep. Essentially, if you visit say a nebula or something interesting and see something else interesting in the distance, just remember that every single person before you who visited that nebula also saw that interesting thing and 99.9% of them flew straight towards it, so if you choose to fly straight towards it everything in your path will be discovered. This is why some players complain that everything has been discovered for 5kly around the bubble but the other day I found a completely unvisited system 800ly from Sol.