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[CMDRQuainMarln]

I've been having

Thanks for that.
Before I reply, can I suggest to those who are not interested in this topic, and they know who I mean, don't follow it ! Stop telling me I'm wasting my time !

RJ, I've been looking at the Grid. I've worked out that each small square is 1LY x 1LY. That makes the 10 x 10 larger squares 10LY x 10LY.
I've been comparing the coordinates for LS 2265 (X a horizontal location = 70 : Z vertical location = 68 : Y the 'other' horizontal direction = -30)
and those of Ratraii (-9540 : -919 :19800).
That means the distance, purely in the Y horizontal direction is 70 + 9540 = 9610LY
When I mark each location as 'Current Location' and 'Selected Location' I get a feel of how far they are apart and a feel for what distance means. 10,000LY .... Wow !
I was going to try and visit Quain (he's in Ratraii)in my HaulerI can now move the Grid itself up and down which is something new for me.

Quite right you cannot plot a course between LHS 2265 and Ratraii, but the galaxy map will still tell you how far apart they are.
It is 22,052.71ly and there are passenger missions on boards both in the bubble and in the Colonia region that tell you it's around 22,000ly between them.
The grid and coordinates is of academic interest, but I don't use them for anything.... yet.
I am planning a trip to the centre of the galaxy (having been on one already this week with a passenger in the Orca) on October 11th to join a group for as long as I feel like hunting Earth Like Worlds. I give it two weeks before I want to shoot a pirate or something. But if you really did make it to Colonia, it's around 100 to 110 jumps for me to get back there from the core which I can do during the course of a day while doing other things.
There are Fleet Carriers that go between the bubble and Colonia on a weekly basis. Not sure how you find them without searching.
Colonia has the advantage of everything being close together, so not much travelling to do passenger missions (Diggidiggi system seems best and you don't have to handle illegal passengers). Generally I would advise against coming to Colonia until you have dealt with engineers in the bubble and been given introductions to the Colonia engineers first. There are also many materials for ship engineering which are harder to acquire out here, and the galaxies best place to get a high stock of raw materials fast is about 1,200ly outside the bubble. But if you were not bothered about engineering, not bothered about owning Imperial, Federation or Alliance ships (no one ever needs any of these ships), you can still explore and do various missions to gain credits and even get into combat out in Colonia no trouble.
I recon it will be late this year when I come back to the bubble, or maybe I'll return to Earth Like World hunting. Who knows. I had no idea I would be doing passenger runs and deep core asteroid mining in a bronze orange Orca until the day I bought the ship on an impulse
I don't think Saud Kruger had this use in mind for an Orca, but it works rather well aside from needing to engineer the ship to make it work, and the back of this long ship does catch on rocks quite often.

 

[Wombat1940]

Wombat1940 said:
Thank goodness I'm running my computer as an ....... Android ....... is that what they call ....... ?View attachment 267233

RJ said:
This is an example of what we warn about here of finding old and outdated advice, while this example won’t lead to making mistakes in the game it is around 3 years old or more.

Damn ! I've lost where got it from, I normally quote where a thing is from and a date, otherwise people can claim I've just made it up !
But I think it is still recent. Maybe it was the 20 days that threw me. 20 days from when !
I have a mate in the UK who has an apple, and he found the same thing I found: They don't do ED for apple software.
Anyway ...... what's your understanding so I tell my mate in the UK ? Thanks

 

[Wombat1940]

Quite right you cannot plot a course between LHS 2265 and Ratraii, but the galaxy map will still tell you how far apart they are.

It is 22,052.71ly and there are passenger missions on boards both in the bubble and in the Colonia region that tell you it's around 22,000ly between them.
The grid and coordinates is of academic interest, but I don't use them for anything.... yet.

Obvious you've never been a sailor. Didn't you read my sailor bit ?

I am planning a trip to the centre of the galaxy (having been on one already this week with a passenger in the Orca) on October 11th to join a group for as long as I feel like hunting Earth Like Worlds. I give it two weeks before I want to shoot a pirate or something. But if you really did make it to Colonia, it's around 100 to 110 jumps for me to get back there from the core which I can do during the course of a day while doing other things.

There are Fleet Carriers that go between the bubble and Colonia on a weekly basis. Not sure how you find them without searching.

You mean I hitch a ride ?

Colonia has the advantage of everything being close together, so not much travelling to do passenger missions (Diggidiggi system seems best and you don't have to handle illegal passengers). Generally I would advise against coming to Colonia until you have dealt with engineers in the bubble and been given introductions to the Colonia engineers first. There are also many materials for ship engineering which are harder to acquire out here, and the galaxies best place to get a high stock of raw materials fast is about 1,200ly outside the bubble. But if you were not bothered about engineering, not bothered about owning Imperial, Federation or Alliance ships (no one ever needs any of these ships), you can still explore and do various missions to gain credits and even get into combat out in Colonia no trouble.

Ye ..... now I'm not coming to Colonia, unless I hitch a ride on a FC, I'm happy in my say 20 x 20 x 20 cube around LHS 2265. Particularly now that I can move the Grid up and down which means I can clearly determine what's inside my Cube (my "bubble") using the coordinates that you have no use for. Sorry, that was mean of me ......

I recon it will be late this year when I come back to the bubble, or maybe I'll return to Earth Like World hunting. Who knows. I had no idea I would be doing passenger runs and deep core asteroid mining in a bronze orange Orca until the day I bought the ship on an impulse

Lucky B****d.

 

[CMDRQuainMarln]

The penny has dropped.
There are people who use the grid coordinates in Elite Dangerous. Explorers and Earth Like World hunters.
What they do is identify a cube in space and visit every star system in that cube looking for ELWs by economy jumping from star to star. When they have "fished out" the cube for ELWs, they move on to the next cube. One guy I know who does this is irrefutably Elite Dangerous' most prolific explorer. Of his 67 billion credit ED assets, 63 billion was made in exploration data sales, mostly flying a DBX.

 

[CMDRQuainMarln]

Obvious you've never been a sailor. Didn't you read my sailor bit ?



You mean I hitch a ride ?

Never been a sailor, did read that bit.

Yes you can hitch a ride on a Fleet Carrier to Colonia, except I don't know how to find out about departures. It's around somewhere on this forum and discord - or it used to be.

 

[Codger]

I think this is the discord for Fleet Carriers. I've not tried, I have my own.

Join the Fleet Carrier Owners Club Discord Server!

Check out the Fleet Carrier Owners Club community on Discord – hang out with 24577 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

discord.gg

 

[aRJay]

RJ said:
This is an example of what we warn about here of finding old and outdated advice, while this example won’t lead to making mistakes in the game it is around 3 years old or more.

Damn ! I've lost where got it from, I normally quote where a thing is from and a date, otherwise people can claim I've just made it up !
But I think it is still recent. Maybe it was the 20 days that threw me. 20 days from when !
I have a mate in the UK who has an apple, and he found the same thing I found: They don't do ED for apple software.
Anyway ...... what's your understanding so I tell my mate in the UK ? Thanks

No idea, of course, where you found that but here is the forum thread about the end of the Mac from 2018.

News - Important Mac announcement

Hello Commanders, It is with great sadness that we must announce the upcoming end of Elite Dangerous on Mac. Firstly, we want to reassure you that this decision did not come lightly and is something that we have been investigating for some time. As many of you will know, despite our best...

forums.frontier.co.uk

 

[Wombat1940]

The penny has dropped.
There are people who use the grid coordinates in Elite Dangerous. Explorers and Earth Like World hunters.
What they do is identify a cube in space and visit every star system in that cube looking for ELWs by economy jumping from star to star. When they have "fished out" the cube for ELWs, they move on to the next cube. One guy I know who does this is irrefutably Elite Dangerous' most prolific explorer. Of his 67 billion credit ED assets, 63 billion was made in exploration data sales, mostly flying a DBX.

Yes, that will be me. But only a single cube. A cube with my Home System in it. Think I'll call it "MyCube" rather than "My Bubble". It's not a bubble. At the moment the size has been revised to "30 cubed" (30 x 30 x30). 27,000 cubic LY. Just depends on how many bodies are in the cube. Don't want too many.

 

[Wombat1940]

No idea, of course, where you found that but here is the forum thread about the end of the Mac from 2018.

News - Important Mac announcement

Hello Commanders, It is with great sadness that we must announce the upcoming end of Elite Dangerous on Mac. Firstly, we want to reassure you that this decision did not come lightly and is something that we have been investigating for some time. As many of you will know, despite our best...

forums.frontier.co.uk

Hmmm ..... we need to find out the current situation. Not necessarily for me, but for others.

 

[Codger]

Hmmm ..... we need to find out the current situation. Not necessarily for me, but for others.

That is the current situation. There is no support for the Macintosh.

 

[Wombat1940]

That is the current situation. There is no support for the Macintosh.

But we need that in some form from an appropriate authority saying that.
I believe you, and I'll tell my mate in the UK, but your word, as it was for mine, isn't good enough for others.
And that's what aRJay is saying. See his Post #1190.

 

[Wombat1940]

No idea, of course, where you found that but here is the forum thread about the end of the Mac from 2018.

News - Important Mac announcement

Hello Commanders, It is with great sadness that we must announce the upcoming end of Elite Dangerous on Mac. Firstly, we want to reassure you that this decision did not come lightly and is something that we have been investigating for some time. As many of you will know, despite our best...

forums.frontier.co.uk

aRJay ? See my post #1194.

 

[Faded Glory]

Seriously... It took one minute to find this.

News - Important Mac announcement

Hello Commanders, It is with great sadness that we must announce the upcoming end of Elite Dangerous on Mac. Firstly, we want to reassure you that this decision did not come lightly and is something that we have been investigating for some time. As many of you will know, despite our best...

forums.frontier.co.uk

 

[Codger]

But we need that in some form from an appropriate authority saying that.

Well if you look at the frontier store website, it says nothing whatsoever about a Macintosh version. There is only a PC version. I'm not sure what else you want. They don't talk about the Macintosh anymore, because they discontinued supporting it in 2018.

Elite Dangerous - Frontier Store

Elite Dangerous is the definitive massively multiplayer space epic, bringing gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a connected galaxy, evolving narrative and the entirety of the Milky Way re-created at its full galactic p

www.frontierstore.net

 

[Codger]

I even found this 3 year old post by Frontier Support.

"Frontier Support
Unfortunately it's not possible to run the game using Mac OS natively as of the Beyond chapter 4 update. If we can be of any help getting you up and running on Bootcamp, please do let us know.
-CMDR Vulcan"

It was posted on Reddit, so I can't link to the post directly (but you can read the whole thread at

https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/arxd23

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/arxd23/macos_unable_to_install_elite_dangerous/
)

 

[Wombat1940]

Sorry,

Seriously... It took one minute to find this.

News - Important Mac announcement

Hello Commanders, It is with great sadness that we must announce the upcoming end of Elite Dangerous on Mac. Firstly, we want to reassure you that this decision did not come lightly and is something that we have been investigating for some time. As many of you will know, despite our best...

forums.frontier.co.uk

I know that !
An April 2018 Thread !
And it's not me who you should be worrying about it !
aRJay is the one drawing my attention to the problem.
See his Post #1180.
Chr!st ! I'm getting sucked in again !
My fault !
I never should have posted the Mac advice in the first place !
You won't learn Wombat !
WOMBAT OUT !!!!!!

 

[Wombat1940]

Well if you look at the frontier store website, it says nothing whatsoever about a Macintosh version. There is only a PC version. I'm not sure what else you want. They don't talk about the Macintosh anymore, because they discontinued supporting it in 2018.

Elite Dangerous - Frontier Store

Elite Dangerous is the definitive massively multiplayer space epic, bringing gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a connected galaxy, evolving narrative and the entirety of the Milky Way re-created at its full galactic p

www.frontierstore.net

WOMBAT OUT !!!!

 

[Wombat1940]

I even found this 3 year old post by Frontier Support.

"Frontier Support
Unfortunately it's not possible to run the game using Mac OS natively as of the Beyond chapter 4 update. If we can be of any help getting you up and running on Bootcamp, please do let us know.
-CMDR Vulcan"

It was posted on Reddit, so I can't link to the post directly (but you can read the whole thread at

https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/arxd23

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/arxd23/macos_unable_to_install_elite_dangerous/
)

WOMBAT OUT !!!!

 

[Wombat1940]

That is the current situation. There is no support for the Macintosh.

WOMBAT OUT !!!!!

 

[Gwyther]

People are trying to help you. Why are you getting upset? You did that with me earlier.