Is there anything "different" out there?

[marx]

Actually, there is a system with 4 ELW's...

Z...

Two such systems have been found so far. Check the list of Earth-like worlds: from 2920 systems to date, 88 have two ELW-s, 6 have three and just the two have four. Those are BLU THUA JS-J D9-1 and SPEAMOEA WU-E D12-543. You can find other kinds of rarities in there too, although I'm not sure if there are any within planetary nebulae that have landable moon(s). I think that while rare, that might entirely be possible too.

There's also the one solitary brown dwarf that has an Earth-like world orbiting it.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

Mike Brookes also mentioned something tantalizing in a stream not long ago about how there were things to find by flying away from certain systems (off the solar plane) in SC, but as far as he is aware, nobody has found them yet... whatever they are.

This one is going to be a needle in a galaxy sized haystack though without more clues. Even if all explorers started flying off the plane for thousands of LS in every system they came to, chances of finding what he was referring to are terribly small.

 

[domaq]

Mike Brookes also mentioned something tantalizing in a stream not long ago about how there were things to find by flying away from certain systems (off the solar plane) in SC, but as far as he is aware, nobody has found them yet... whatever they are.

This one is going to be a needle in a galaxy sized haystack though without more clues. Even if all explorers started flying off the plane for thousands of LS in every system they came to, chances of finding what he was referring to are terribly small.

If you're going to do this en-mass, could you let the Fuel Rats know ahead of time so we can be better prepared than we were for the influx of new players trying to fly between systems after the Horizons release?

OP, there are many "unique" things out there, mostly science, but still beautiful. You do have to search carefully to find them. I believe even the "Veger" probe is in the Sol system if you look in the right place.

 

[CMDR Argent Steel]

There are things to find out there but they are astronomical things rather than science fiction things.

For example,there are very few ringed earth like worlds out there but you can find them, if you are lucky. I have found one but I haven't found a single black hole yet apart from Sagittarius A*. An earth like orbiting a black hole has been found and a gas giant so close to it's star that it was pulled out of shape. Nobody has ever found more than two earth likes in the same system. Nobody has ever found more than six water worlds in the same system. You might find a water world in close orbit around a gas giant or my personal goal, if it is possible at all, an earth like world in a planetary nebula with a landable moon.

It's true. There are very few.

But here is one:

 

[Silvershadow]

I believe even the "Veger" probe is in the Sol system if you look in the right place.

The problem is to find the right place.
I've searched for them, for hours, have even looked for progress tables on the internet and have tried to anticipate them to the year 3302.
I found nothing more than nothing...

 

[Jackie Silver]

Mike Brookes also mentioned something tantalizing in a stream not long ago about how there were things to find by flying away from certain systems (off the solar plane) in SC, but as far as he is aware, nobody has found them yet... whatever they are.

Does anyone remember Black Angel? Finding objects just like that was a huge (...ly annoying) part of the game - but at least it gave you some kind of cryptic clue to point you in the right direction flying around and out of the system. It didn't simulate stars and planets moving IIRR so the clues tended to be "line up between planet A and star B and fly outwards"; I'm wondering what similar clues would give us any chance of finding something in Elite, where everything in-system moves.

First things to mind;

1) From the primary star, line up on a particular nebula (or galaxy).
2) From the primary star, fly directly up or down from one of the poles.
3) From the primary star, target another (distant, not local) star and fly towards it in supercruise.

What else would give a fixed direction?

 

[marx]

Mike Brookes also mentioned something tantalizing in a stream not long ago about how there were things to find by flying away from certain systems (off the solar plane) in SC, but as far as he is aware, nobody has found them yet... whatever they are.

This one is going to be a needle in a galaxy sized haystack though without more clues. Even if all explorers started flying off the plane for thousands of LS in every system they came to, chances of finding what he was referring to are terribly small.

Really? Interesting, but mostly useless. We generally have little need to fly off the solar plane in any system, and without any clue which these certain systems might be, there'd be simply too many candidates. Even among unique systems. So the chances of anyone actually finding these by accident is astronomically small, I believe.

 

[crushdepth]

Mike Brookes also mentioned something tantalizing in a stream not long ago about how there were things to find by flying away from certain systems (off the solar plane) in SC, but as far as he is aware, nobody has found them yet... whatever they are.

This one is going to be a needle in a galaxy sized haystack though without more clues. Even if all explorers started flying off the plane for thousands of LS in every system they came to, chances of finding what he was referring to are terribly small.

Now that is interesting. Merope might be a good contender for this - presumably UAs are transmitting ship sightings to some kind of receiving station in the system that we haven't found yet.

 

[Hanekura Shizuka]

My sanity is out there somewhere.

Maybe YOUR sanity is out there somewhere. Mine flew out a cracked windshield while in witchspace.

 

[Ouberos]

Mike Brookes also mentioned something tantalizing in a stream not long ago about how there were things to find by flying away from certain systems (off the solar plane) in SC, but as far as he is aware, nobody has found them yet... whatever they are.

This one is going to be a needle in a galaxy sized haystack though without more clues. Even if all explorers started flying off the plane for thousands of LS in every system they came to, chances of finding what he was referring to are terribly small.

Agree there is little chance of them being found unless there is some clue to identifying the correct system from the Galaxy map maybe.

I'm sure the stars make different, more distinct noises since the last update.

I've been wondering if a skilled listener could identify binaries or other unusual things in the same way we can pick out Earth likes or water worlds from the system map.

 

[gonzoid]

Yeah, theres something out there

Does anyone know what this is? If I pan the map around so that I'm looking FROM the bubble, it disappears. I can only see it if I'm looking TOWARD the bubble or in that general direction.
Obviously, some sort of nebula, what's odd to me is that it disappears at different angles, (could this be glitch of my vid card?)
Oh, and it looks like all the ways into it are "unknown permit required" but i haven't tried very hard to get there yet. Don't wanna get trapped with no way back.

 

[NorMonsta]

My sanity is out there somewhere.

OOOOOOOOOOOOH.......that was that weird thing I shot while doing science to it

 

[Histarium]

Iv been looking, no ones found anything other than The Guardians, Thargoids, Barnacles, and UA/UP's. Well, besides the recent discovery of "Brain Trees". Im sure there is SOMETHING out there, We've yet to find The Raxxla Planet which could be a gateway to get to Andromeda and other galaxies in our skybox. Like the Large Magellanic Clouds