As far as I know, no (nothing really out there) but who knows if they may have seeded some here and there with the 3.3 drop. Would be nice to hear of some. Perhaps we will start to stumble upon them.
Long Range Exploring: Am I doing something wrong?
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As far as I know, no (nothing really out there) but who knows if they may have seeded some here and there with the 3.3 drop. Would be nice to hear of some. Perhaps we will start to stumble upon them.
It is weird when you think you're in the middle of nowhere and you've just scanned dozens of pristine systems in a row then you run into a block of previously discovered systems. Even with thousands of Commanders out exploring it still feels strange, especially when you haven't seen any trace of people for ages.
EDDB does, INARA does, but the best visual representation for the locations of known starports is on EDSM's Galactic Map. Just click on the overlays button and check "deep space outpost".
There are a couple of remote ones put out for 3.3, but oddly, they're not dockable. Shrogea MH-V e2-1763, the "Tranquility's Stop" tourist station in a green planetary nebula near the Core, is an extreme example.
For dockable stations, there are a couple out in the Perseus Arm in the "famous nebulae" like the Crab Nebula; there's a whole string of them on the Colonia Road. But apart from that, there's nothing out there that's further than 5000 LYs from Sol. That we know about, anyway, and that should be a fairly complete list. Especially now, with the new death mechanism where you respawn at the "nearest space station" - enough explorers die way out in the middle of nowhere, that we'd hear about any new respawning locations pretty quick.
I also added the deep space outposts to the interactive map on EDastro.com.
Good call on that. Let's hope that Fdev has folks that get bored once in a while and just randomly pick systems out in the middle of nowhere and plop an "unknown" mining colony or the like out there (by the random dozens I would hope). Now that would be fun.
What are the "bubble" looking things dotted around? Permit locked areas perhaps? [EDIT: Yes that's exactly what they are, I just clicked "poi markers"
.]EDIT: Looking at the map I'm pleased to see that I appear to be one of very few people that's even managed to jump into Aquila's Halo.
Quite pleased with that one.
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A little over a day later...
I was surprised I was able to plot a course in, but Orvidius linked me to a map that suggested that the region wasn't as hard to get into as the name suggested.
Nevertheless, I'm here now. 18 days since I set out and I'm now 47,830Ly from home. Far enough away that going to Colonia is an inconvenient backtrack. I've gotten into a rhythm. A few days without flying, then a day of 170/240 jumps at a time. That'll change when the new semester starts of course, which is why I've given myself 12 months to circumnavigate the galaxy, with additional time set aside for investigating awesome things.
But so far it's working pretty well.
Aurora Dawn's paintwork is suffering a little though.
The pace has started slowing down. I'm cutting back on speed for speed sake and now I'm more interested in finding cool things.
I touched down on some nondescript ice world the name that I don't even remember, and harvested a variety of materials, some of which I've never harvested before. What do I do with Antimony? I've got 30 units of it now?
I'm settling into the "It's not the destination, it's the journey" mode now, so I'm slowing down a lot. FSSing every other system before moving on, scanning interesting things, the breakneck place has slowed. Now I'm out here (and I'm out here, farther from Earth than Earth is from the center of the galaxy), it's time to see what's out here.
So now it's time to slow down and look around and see what's happening, I feel.
I was surprised I was able to plot a course in, but Orvidius linked me to a map that suggested that the region wasn't as hard to get into as the name suggested.
Nevertheless, I'm here now. 18 days since I set out and I'm now 47,830Ly from home. Far enough away that going to Colonia is an inconvenient backtrack. I've gotten into a rhythm. A few days without flying, then a day of 170/240 jumps at a time. That'll change when the new semester starts of course, which is why I've given myself 12 months to circumnavigate the galaxy, with additional time set aside for investigating awesome things.
But so far it's working pretty well.
Aurora Dawn's paintwork is suffering a little though.
The pace has started slowing down. I'm cutting back on speed for speed sake and now I'm more interested in finding cool things.
I touched down on some nondescript ice world the name that I don't even remember, and harvested a variety of materials, some of which I've never harvested before. What do I do with Antimony? I've got 30 units of it now?
I'm settling into the "It's not the destination, it's the journey" mode now, so I'm slowing down a lot. FSSing every other system before moving on, scanning interesting things, the breakneck place has slowed. Now I'm out here (and I'm out here, farther from Earth than Earth is from the center of the galaxy), it's time to see what's out here.
So now it's time to slow down and look around and see what's happening, I feel.
I did a rimwards "left turn" once I got into The Void, and I've just crossed the big Five-Oh. I am now 50,352 Ly from home.
I'm going to try and continue rimwards, ideally I want to make it to Erikson's Star. The stars in The Void aren't nearly as sparse (particularly a few hundred light years below the disk) as I originally thought. So Erikson's Star is this week's new goal.
As a side note, should I move my "expedition launch" post into this thread? should I turn it into a blog-style thread? how would folks find that?
I'm going to try and continue rimwards, ideally I want to make it to Erikson's Star. The stars in The Void aren't nearly as sparse (particularly a few hundred light years below the disk) as I originally thought. So Erikson's Star is this week's new goal.
As a side note, should I move my "expedition launch" post into this thread? should I turn it into a blog-style thread? how would folks find that?
ridiculous amount of unclaimed systems slap bang in the galactic centre, just need to stay away neutron stars and tbh I can go 3 jumps from a NS and find plenty of unclaimed systems.
The Tether has broken.
Enjoy!
Now crossed from The Void into the Outer Scutum-Centaurus Arm.
57,668Ly from home, 5,691Ly since I last reported in, and there's still not a whole lot to see out here.
I've scanned and surveyed so many systems and found nothing of note. It's not that others got there before me, it's that there is no "there" out here.
No neutron stars, black holes, lagrange clouds, anomalies, even asteroid belts are few and far between.
I'm lost in a daze, nothing but empty system after empty system. The star I passed just now is the same as the star I passed fifty jumps ago.
Or maybe not. I don't mind too much, not too much at all.
See there's a tiny but awesome occasion to mark.
I just passed 1500 hours in ED. And I wouldn't keep coming back if it didn't hold my interest. Somehow it's always worth it.
There's always something out there - eventually. I always find something to hold my interest and make me want to see more.
So I guess I'd better stop complaining, and go find it! I'm between 500 and 1000Ly above the plane, so if there's something to put my name on out here, some new awesome sight to see, I'll find it.
On I go!
57,668Ly from home, 5,691Ly since I last reported in, and there's still not a whole lot to see out here.
I've scanned and surveyed so many systems and found nothing of note. It's not that others got there before me, it's that there is no "there" out here.
No neutron stars, black holes, lagrange clouds, anomalies, even asteroid belts are few and far between.
I'm lost in a daze, nothing but empty system after empty system. The star I passed just now is the same as the star I passed fifty jumps ago.
Or maybe not. I don't mind too much, not too much at all.
See there's a tiny but awesome occasion to mark.
I just passed 1500 hours in ED. And I wouldn't keep coming back if it didn't hold my interest. Somehow it's always worth it.
There's always something out there - eventually. I always find something to hold my interest and make me want to see more.
So I guess I'd better stop complaining, and go find it! I'm between 500 and 1000Ly above the plane, so if there's something to put my name on out here, some new awesome sight to see, I'll find it.
On I go!
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EDSM has been mentioned. But I'll say it anyway!
If you actively use EDSM to track your route you can see the routes that other explorers (using EDSM) have taken. Of course if they have to be using EDSM for their route to appear but you can use this to steer away from another explorers track.
If you actively use EDSM to track your route you can see the routes that other explorers (using EDSM) have taken. Of course if they have to be using EDSM for their route to appear but you can use this to steer away from another explorers track.