Mapping an entire sector method?

Caelum Incola

Caelum Incola
o7 CMDRs.

I'm going to be heading out on another little trip in a week or two and was wondering what the best method of mapping an entire sector is? How do those that undertake this, list, prioritise and check off each system in a sector?

I feel another spreadsheet coming on...
 

Caelum Incola

Caelum Incola
goemon said:
  • read up on boxxels
  • create spreadsheet with all generated system names by that
  • choose a way to visited all those systems (in rows, in spiral per plane, ...)

i'm not sure how to fit non-proc-gen-named systems into that.
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Boxxels... got it. Okeedokee, I shall.
I knew there would be a spreadsheet or two involved. ;)
Once I have the above, I can figure out a strategy I'd guess.
goemon said:
basic source for all potential proc gen system names: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/rv-sonnenkreis-decoding-universal-cartographics.196297/
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Thanks for this! I'm beginning to understand how each sector is generated after reading this. I'll need to digest it a little more at home though (at work at the mo and can't access half the links on the forum...)

Much obliged CMDR, certainly something to get my teeth into.

o7
 

Zieman

Zieman
If you're planning to do that alone, better choose a sparse sector and/or one at the very edge of the 3D shape of the Galaxy, as otherwise you'll be looking at visiting* tens of thousands of systems.

*how long one system needs, depends a great deal on what you do in each system:
-just honk?
-use FSS, partially or scan each body?
-use DSS on some or all bodies?
 

Caelum Incola

Caelum Incola
Zieman said:
If you're planning to do that alone, better choose a sparse sector and/or one at the very edge of the 3D shape of the Galaxy, as otherwise you'll be looking at visiting* tens of thousands of systems.

*how long one system needs, depends a great deal on what you do in each system:
-just honk?
-use FSS, partially or scan each body?
-use DSS on some or all bodies?
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Yeah, I realised the enormity of the task when reading the link goemon posted above. :oops:

I'll be honking and FSS'ing everything in each system, then picking anything interesting to go and DSS and/or land on. I may have bitten off rather more than I can chew.

I'm heading out towards the 'southern' edge, revisiting the Zurara and onto Point Decision with a friend , then I'll decide which way to potter along and choose an area to concentrate on, so not too far from home if I get fed up.
 

Sapyx

Sapyx
"Sectors" are giant cubes of space 1280 LY on a side. Even out near the galactic fringe, they can contain a billion stars. A sector with a small enough population of stars for one person to reasonably "complete" would have stars so sparsely scattered that you'd be spending all your time trying to figure out routes to plot between them. "Mapping an entire sector" is an unrealistic goal.

I did a survey project a few years ago: 200 stars of each major star class (7 classes), in 5 different galactic sectors. 7000 stars total. It took me a year and a half (with a few breaks). There was no way I could even come close to a "complete sector survey" of any of the five sectors I visited. I did my survey by running transects: pick a spot at random somewhere on the cubic boundary of the sector to begin the survey. Pick another spot on another face of the cube, and fly there. Repeat, until all 1400 stars for the sector were done. Transects are a standard statistical technique for subsampling a large population of immovable objects.
 

Caelum Incola

Caelum Incola
Sapyx said:
"Sectors" are giant cubes of space 1280 LY on a side. Even out near the galactic fringe, they can contain a billion stars. A sector with a small enough population of stars for one person to reasonably "complete" would have stars so sparsely scattered that you'd be spending all your time trying to figure out routes to plot between them. "Mapping an entire sector" is an unrealistic goal.

I did a survey project a few years ago: 200 stars of each major star class (7 classes), in 5 different galactic sectors. 7000 stars total. It took me a year and a half (with a few breaks). There was no way I could even come close to a "complete sector survey" of any of the five sectors I visited. I did my survey by running transects: pick a spot at random somewhere on the cubic boundary of the sector to begin the survey. Pick another spot on another face of the cube, and fly there. Repeat, until all 1400 stars for the sector were done. Transects are a standard statistical technique for subsampling a large population of immovable objects.
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Thanks for the reality check CMDR. I'll maybe narrow my expectations of what I can achieve then, otherwise I'll be returning to the Bubble at some point in the next decade looking like this...
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Orvidius

Orvidius
To have any chance of "completing" a sector, it's best to team up with other people and divide up the boxels. Even then, it's an enormous task, so it's still worth deciding on what exactly you want to survey, rather than surveying 100% of everything there. ;)
 

Zieman

Zieman
Caelum Incola said:
I'll be honking and FSS'ing everything in each system, then picking anything interesting to go and DSS and/or land on. I may have bitten off rather more than I can chew.
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I've been doing it like this (not many landings though) for almost a couple of years now, have about 18000 systems under my belt in the sector I am. Oh, I take the jaunt to Explorers Anchorage about every 1000 systems to sell the data.
 

Caelum Incola

Caelum Incola
CMDR CHIGGY VONRICTOFEN said:
Definitely don't pick a sector in the core if you wanna finish in 100 lifetimes...lol I have 80,000+ systems in a corner of the ZUNOU sector (over a period of nearly 6 years off and on)
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Haha, yeah, the core would most definitely not be my go to area for mapping. You, sir, are a bonafide legend though, and an inspiration for this idea in the first place. Thanks for the help!
Orvidius said:
To have any chance of "completing" a sector, it's best to team up with other people and divide up the boxels. Even then, it's an enormous task, so it's still worth deciding on what exactly you want to survey, rather than surveying 100% of everything there. ;)
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Another inspiration CMDR. Your edastro site has helped me enormously and educated me on many occasions. Previously helping me plot a circumnavigation on my original account, and observing those little bright boxes (boxels) where others like Chiggy have gone before (as well as one or two 'questionable' drawings by others ;) ).

Thanks all for your guidance.

o7
 
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