I hope you are right, but yet again it is something that may put me off from exploration. I love being away from the civilization, but when you see that civilization has reached even there, especially someone with name "drop table...". I find this rather dissapointing.Makes space feel smaller doesn't it.
It's less of an issue the further out you travel though.
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Guide / Tutorial Nutter’s explorers guide to the Galaxy
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Trust me, you will NEVER run out of places to discover. It's just a question of how far you're willing to travel. I travelled out about 300LY or so and by the time I got back only discovered 2 new systems, but that was still a rush (because I know all that close by stuff is going to be heavily travelled by those wanting to explore but get back home quick to make use of the money.)
I think they said it would take thousands of years for the Elite community to visit all 400 Billion systems.
Think of it this way. Erimus has made it to the far end of the galaxy (took him 5 weeks!). That's like Christopher Columbus has just found the New World... but he sure as heck didn't explore a significant part of the New World. There is still endless room for the Champlains and Mason/Dixons and various "courier de bois" to go out and leave their mark.
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Just a thought,
are there any exploratory-"wings" covering areas on different "paths" and sharing the info of paying systems along the members?
Would increase fun for me, exploring alone is making me to want to go back
to blasting stuff out of the sky every 3 days.
are there any exploratory-"wings" covering areas on different "paths" and sharing the info of paying systems along the members?
Would increase fun for me, exploring alone is making me to want to go back
to blasting stuff out of the sky every 3 days.
While it's true that we'll never run out of unexplored stars, the number of nebula in the galaxy map is limited, and I'm pretty sure that all the interesting destinations within a few 1000ly have been explored already. There will still be plenty stars left in a system like Orion where there is a ton of stars on top of each other, yet you can be sure that all the big ones have been tagged already. Too bad you don't know if it's already explored until you get there.
It ruined Mirrormoon EP for me. It was worse there though, each planet was a little puzzle to be solved. Everything was solved already when I got to the game.
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Anyway yeah, seeing graffiti everywhere weakens immersion a bit. I wonder what Columbus would have thought if he found signs everywhere, explored by Leif Erikson
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http://www.edshipyard.com/#/L=30W,,2-3I6u6Q3m3m3m6k,50ympW2US2UI
32.12ly max on low fuel
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We could always arrange something. I'm just building up some moolah to kit out my Lakon 6 and plan on going back out. Maybe to one of the places Erimus suggested to me.
While it's true that we'll never run out of unexplored stars, the number of nebula in the galaxy map is limited, and I'm pretty sure that all the interesting destinations within a few 1000ly have been explored already. There will still be plenty stars left in a system like Orion where there is a ton of stars on top of each other, yet you can be sure that all the big ones have been tagged already. Too bad you don't know if it's already explored until you get there.
It ruined Mirrormoon EP for me. It was worse there though, each planet was a little puzzle to be solved. Everything was solved already when I got to the game.
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Anyway yeah, seeing graffiti everywhere weakens immersion a bit. I wonder what Columbus would have thought if he found signs everywhere, explored by Leif Erikson
As time goes on, some of those marks might be an oddity in themselves (wow, Erimus was there? That journey was YEARS ago.)
But as I said, I found stars unexplored even 300 LY away, let alone 1000. Yeah, the popular sites have all been visited, but you never know what you'll find inbetween. I'm still surprised.
And they'll end up adding new nebula later on in the farther reaches. Right now they only have the ones we know about, which doesn't cover the flip side of the Milky Way.
Thanks
I'll settle something over 25, but I won't go on low fuel (never know what you might end up, could be a bunch of non-fuel stars to go through!)This seems like a good setup:
http://www.edshipyard.com/#/L=30W,mpU0Wg,2-4s6u6Q3I3m3m6k,50y08c0727Q40KU2jw2UI
Once under half-fuel it can still break the 30LY mark.
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dude, those are exactly my thoughts. that 'discovered by' tag is absolutely killing me. i saw some really interesting and profitable systems, but if someone already discovered i only scanned main star didn't even bother with other profitable bodies in that system. however it is also awesome feeeling when you see interesting system, and nobody ever discovered it.
Interesting observation: I've gone across a few regions of space now searching for very interesting systems and I've noticed a pattern while doing it .. most areas have some of the most intersting systems with a predictable name:
*Area Name* AA-A H## where:
*Area Name* is the local area (ex: NYEAJEAU )
## goes from 10-60
... some will be empty but others seem to contain the rarest stars in that area. Give it a try in your area and let me know what you find
*Area Name* AA-A H## where:
*Area Name* is the local area (ex: NYEAJEAU )
## goes from 10-60
... some will be empty but others seem to contain the rarest stars in that area. Give it a try in your area and let me know what you find
Thank you guys for the warm words! I really appreciate it.
I am currently going to Rosette Nebula, still far away from it but i haven't playing for a few days (i managed to injure my back and spine a little and now i am keeping the bed till the next week).
My plan is to get there as i a saw a cluster of interesting stars just behind the nebula. Now i know that everything there is probably already explored but i am still going.
I hope that once i am back will have the cash to convert my current ships to Asp Explorer and start my longest journey which i am planning.
I can get the cache by trading and rare trading quicker, but i am kind-a bored of it.
I am currently going to Rosette Nebula, still far away from it but i haven't playing for a few days (i managed to injure my back and spine a little and now i am keeping the bed till the next week).
My plan is to get there as i a saw a cluster of interesting stars just behind the nebula. Now i know that everything there is probably already explored but i am still going.
I hope that once i am back will have the cash to convert my current ships to Asp Explorer and start my longest journey which i am planning.
I can get the cache by trading and rare trading quicker, but i am kind-a bored of it.
Not quite as ambitious as you Erimus,, but I'm planning a trip out to Eta Carinae, about 7,000 ly from Sol.
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard...look-into-superstar-eta-carinae/#.VNyIkNhHO_4
However, should I ever find you somewhere out there, I'll be sure to say "CMDR Nutter, I presume." )
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard...look-into-superstar-eta-carinae/#.VNyIkNhHO_4
However, should I ever find you somewhere out there, I'll be sure to say "CMDR Nutter, I presume."
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Not quite as ambitious as you Erimus,, but I'm planning a trip out to Eta Carinae, about 7,000 ly from Sol.
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard...look-into-superstar-eta-carinae/#.VNyIkNhHO_4
However, should I ever find you somewhere out there, I'll be sure to say "CMDR Nutter, I presume."
Do you recon their orbits will be realistic, or will you just find a binary pair in a more regular orbit pattern? Guess you could go there and time elapse screenshot them for 5 years and see?
Was at Lagoon nebula. Going to Trifid nebula and then Orion Nebula. Looks great out there.
Let me just say, that total snoozefest of a travel to Lagoon Nebula was worth it, even if it's all (99%) discovered by someone else
Now, getting back I'm gonna be a worried wreck though, the headache of the explorer.
Let me just say, that total snoozefest of a travel to Lagoon Nebula was worth it, even if it's all (99%) discovered by someone else
Now, getting back I'm gonna be a worried wreck though, the headache of the explorer.
Do you recon their orbits will be realistic, or will you just find a binary pair in a more regular orbit pattern? Guess you could go there and time elapse screenshot them for 5 years and see?
I hope not to be staying out there for 5 years!
I would imagine that at least one CMDR has already been there, but as to what I will find, who knows? From that NASA article though, it sounds like it might be a bit of a challenge to stay healthy once I get there ...
If only stellar bodies in ED could interact and affect each other (besides the gravity). I hope that the Cobra engine will be updated in future so we can start seeing feeding black holes, cataclysmic variables, fast spinners in shape of oblate spheroid, thick protoplanetary discs, etc.
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Ooooh all of that! Some of the close binarys i've found should look like merging frisbys
On another note Cartograpphics should be fixed on the 1.1.0.3 patch... if anyone could give us the thumbs up that would be awesome.... I'm 10k out at the moment...
Erm ... this is not my screenshot of Eta Carinae.
It was taken by CMDR Hubble Space Telescope.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta_Carinae
It was taken by CMDR Hubble Space Telescope.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta_Carinae
Just sold about 10 pages of data and seems to be working OK.
First discovered tags look like they are in place too, but I haven't checked them all.
And a reason to scan belts now, I was getting about 1000-1700cr bonus for first discoverer of each belt cluster.
I just got interrupted with a transaction server error right after jump started on two stars, is this common in certain areas? Only affected those two stars, retried a few times after reloading the game, but could be others there of course, just moved on. Ticketed it, at least nothing bad happened.
i found out that in some systems that i fully scanned, some objects have my tag, and some don't.