Opinions on Sol

This morning I hit Petty Officer which granted me a permit to visit Sol. Now that I have access to the cradle of humanity, I'm not sure what to expect.

What makes Sol special? Are there any benefits to setting up your home base there?
 
This morning I hit Petty Officer which granted me a permit to visit Sol. Now that I have access to the cradle of humanity, I'm not sure what to expect.

What makes Sol special? Are there any benefits to setting up your home base there?

Definitely pay Arial a visit, one of the most stunning moons in Elite dangerous. I moved straight to Sol back when I started in Gamma, had very good trade routes back then, now it is good for safe in system trading between surface ports and the orbitals.

There are way better systems out there to make money, best thing to do is crank up the graphics to ultra, user the 4k/8k planet texture mod, then tour the Solar system.
 
Definitely pay Arial a visit, one of the most stunning moons in Elite dangerous. I moved straight to Sol back when I started in Gamma, had very good trade routes back then, now it is good for safe in system trading between surface ports and the orbitals.

There are way better systems out there to make money, best thing to do is crank up the graphics to ultra, user the 4k/8k planet texture mod, then tour the Solar system.


wait what? There is a texture mod??? Seriously, I must find this... lol
 
wait what? There is a texture mod??? Seriously, I must find this... lol

Just changing some config files to increase the texture resolution of the star field and planet textures. Thinking about it, you can't up the resolution on landable planets, you'll just have to crank up super sampling with a beast card.

For all the other non landable planets like Earth/Jupiter etc..

Here's an old link - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/129065-Higher-Resolution512-Planet-textures
 
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everyone should try to visit the birth world of humanity once. i did feel something i did not expect when i flew by earth. i couldnt see my house but i wanted to. it may or may not trigger an emotional response. other than that, its just another system.
 
I want to say that you can buy just about every ship and module somewhere in the sol system. I don't think all of them are located at any one station though.

I could be wrong.
 
The system is mostly a curiosity. You can see terraformed Mars and the exoplanets. Saturn is pretty and some of the moons are nice to watch.
But other than that, no so much to do there.
 
I want to say that you can buy just about every ship and module somewhere in the sol system. I don't think all of them are located at any one station though.

I could be wrong.

nope, sol is a cool place nothing special there other than an earth like world :) it's better to hit elite and gain access to Jameson Memorial it has all modules and ships at a 10% discounts
 
I camped out in Sol for a while after making CPO - it was a good place to find Federation Missions for making rank, and at the time the Brown Highway ran deep and wide there (Biowaste Hauling).

Other than that... with 2 Earth-like worlds (one of them being Earth), it's a decent place to look for Encoded Emissions (USS).
 
Thanks for all the responses!

How about the other systems eventually unlocked via Empire or Federation rank? Are any of those particularly noteworthy?
 
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