Is there anything out here?

zipline

zipline
OK, firstly this is not a whine ... more of an observation.

I am 18,000ly from Sol and still heading out into the black towards the rim, and apart from all the usual bodies and geological POIs, I have seen nothing else, not seen a biological POI for a very long time or a single unusual system phenomena, space madness is starting to set in and I'm seriously thinking of heading back home.

Now I am wondering whether this is to be expected i.e. the further out we get from the centre, the more devoid of life it becomes? Or could it be that Frontier have not bothered to put anything out this far because most cmdrs won't bother venturing out here?

Just wondering what other explorer cmdrs experience is of the outer edges of the galaxy, have you found it similar to me (I may have just been unlucky) or have you found lots of interesting stuff out on the fringes?

I am wondering whether all of the interesting stuff is more towards the centre than the outer rim e.g. maybe DW2 has been "encouraged" by Frontier to head in that direction?

Would appreciate hearing your thoughts / experiences cmdrs?
 

Lightspeed

Lightspeed
There have been several other threads that have raised your concerns. Nobody is too sure about this, but it is suspected DW2 is finding stuff by "hand planting" (hush the thought), and similarly with other stuff out at Colonia.

Or it is an entirely random thing, and the statistics of many commanders make it seem that way.
 

zipline

zipline
Macros Black said:
Take a look in the Codex. Currently in the Dryman's Point galactic sector and seeing lots of Peduncle tree's. So, yeah there's something out here.
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OK, I didn't think of looking in the codex for reported discoveries in the sector I am in, I'll try that. Peduncle trees ... are they the same as brain trees?
 

Leadfoot

Leadfoot
Currently in ETA Corina Nebula and found a few ice crystals and a number of bark mounds in the area AND along the way, so yeah, there's stuffs out here.
 

Marc_Hicks

Marc_Hicks
I am out in Formadine Rift Sector, & have found Crystalline Spires...& I know there are Bark Mounds & Anemones out here too.
 

Hellakitty

Hellakitty
Lightspeed said:
but it is suspected DW2 is finding stuff by "hand planting"
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This really wouldn't surprise me, give FD's turning of a blind eye to the blatant data-mining of game files by Canonn to magically find new content back in the days of searching for Guardian sites. God knows how many other 'wonderful' discoveries they've made because of data-mining and other such activities. But they get a free pass from FD because it's one of their beloved continued marketing campai..... err sorry, I meant player groups.

FD hand-placing juicy bits of stuff in the path of DW2 as they already know the route the convoy of snoozes will take is something I wouldn't put above them at all. Gotta make it seem like there's all this amazing new content to be found and ramp up that FOMO when in reality there's naff all out there for your average explorer except copy pastes of all the stuff that was found within days or weeks of the AMAZING GAME CHANGING BEYOND CHAPTER FOUR BUY OUR PAINTJOBS AND SHIP KITS.
 
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Brrokk

Brrokk
Lightspeed said:
There have been several other threads that have raised your concerns. Nobody is too sure about this, but it is suspected DW2 is finding stuff by "hand planting" (hush the thought), and similarly with other stuff out at Colonia.

Or it is an entirely random thing, and the statistics of many commanders make it seem that way.
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I see no reason to suspect that. I found "notable stellar phenomena" myself recently when 1000s of ly from anywhere, and since the FSS I've found a good number of biological and geological sites near the bubble. I think we're just seeing the effect of a lot of explorers being collected in one locality.
 

babelfisch

babelfisch
zipline said:
Now I am wondering whether this is to be expected i.e. the further out we get from the centre, the more devoid of life it becomes? Or could it be that Frontier have not bothered to put anything out this far because most cmdrs won't bother venturing out here?
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Unlikely since most of the stuff you can encounter isn't handplaced but procedurally generated. It's more likely that you are visiting systems which aren't suitable for these phenomena.
 

JesusRocks1988

JesusRocks1988
Hellakitty said:
This really wouldn't surprise me, give FD's turning of a blind eye to the blatant data-mining of game files by Canonn to magically find new content back in the days of searching for Guardian sites. God knows how many other 'wonderful' discoveries they've made because of data-mining and other such activities. But they get a free pass from FD because it's one of their beloved continued marketing campai..... err sorry, I meant player groups.

FD hand-placing juicy bits of stuff in the path of DW2 as they already know the route the convoy of snoozes will take is something I wouldn't put above them at all. Gotta make it seem like there's all this amazing new content to be found and ramp up that FOMO when in reality there's naff all out there for your average explorer except copy pastes of all the stuff that was found within days or weeks of the AMAZING GAME CHANGING BEYOND CHAPTER FOUR BUY OUR PAINTJOBS AND SHIP KITS.
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You'd think they'd hand place more interesting stuff than the same stuff that is being found in almost every other region of the galaxy that the DW2 route isn't touching...
 
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