Please sprinkle a few surprises around the Galaxy in Odyssey (E:D too please if poss!), don’t tell anybody:let us just discover them for ourselves.

[FatFreddysCoat]

The thing that stops me going out “into the black” is that I know that if it’s not in the codex there’s literally nothing out there to “explore” - just a different/same system.

Sprinkling a few hundred complete surprises - hell, a dead ship with a scannable on it, a crashed space station (which would be awesome to find), an old civilisation or outpost, some dead mystery alien ships... anything like that, would be cool.

I don’t want to go to the codex, read about it and think oh right I have to go exactly here to “discover” something, but knowing there IS stuff out there completely randomly and completely unreferenced, unmentioned, hinted at or pointed towards, would be very motivating. Every few days/weeks/months there would be a “guess what I found” post from some genuine explorer and it would be encouraging to those of us who’d love to go out there with a “maybe today...”optimism.

I know in such a huge universe the chances of finding something isn’t high, but that’s exactly the point. If I was exploring for months and came across something I’d be so stoked, and it’s the “maybe today...” that would keep me out there.

 

[Qualityoflife]

Oh you'll get yourself some surprises...they'll be in the form of bugs, absence of and late fixes and I bet Brabens biscuits the HUD is still orange!?

 

[Kenneth McGrew]

SURPRISE!

the galaxy is full of them

 

[Rat Catcher]

I'm not entirely certain if we have 'discovered' all there is to find yet, so there may be surprises already waiting to be found in the game. (Frontier have been their usual tight-lipped stance on this)

At least there are no surprises to be found on the forum...

 

[Kelster87]

I'm not entirely certain if we have 'discovered' all there is to find yet, so there may be surprises already waiting to be found in the game. (Frontier have been their usual tight-lipped stance on this)

At least there are no surprises to be found on the forum...

I'm convinced there are still things to find.. I've found one or two of them. And I don't just mean Raxxla.

 

[-VR- Max Factor]

The thing that stops me going out “into the black” is that I know that if it’s not in the codex there’s literally nothing out there to “explore” - just a different/same system.

Sprinkling a few hundred complete surprises - hell, a dead ship with a scannable on it, a crashed space station (which would be awesome to find), an old civilisation or outpost, some dead mystery alien ships... anything like that, would be cool.

I don’t want to go to the codex, read about it and think oh right I have to go exactly here to “discover” something, but knowing there IS stuff out there completely randomly and completely unreferenced, unmentioned, hinted at or pointed towards, would be very motivating. Every few days/weeks/months there would be a “guess what I found” post from some genuine explorer and it would be encouraging to those of us who’d love to go out there with a “maybe today...”optimism.

I know in such a huge universe the chances of finding something isn’t high, but that’s exactly the point. If I was exploring for months and came across something I’d be so stoked, and it’s the “maybe today...” that would keep me out there.

How would we find these fee hundred items. This is the issue with such a large galaxy to play with, the odds of us just stumbling on one of these 100 items is tiny. It's highly likely none of us would find one at all within the life span of the game. Considering we have only visited less then 0.2% of the galaxy, I can't see it as good idea. A load of work which is likely nobody will ever see.

 

[Semivivus]

How about a random rebuy screen as a surprise?

 

[Ian Doncaster]

I'm not entirely certain if we have 'discovered' all there is to find yet, so there may be surprises already waiting to be found in the game. (Frontier have been their usual tight-lipped stance on this)

CMDR Taoa discovered these for the first time just this morning, a mere 2000 LY from Colonia

I seem to have found a new type of organic structure: Globe Molluscs

I have looked at every region in the codex and couldn't find any reference to this kind of Mollusc. Is this really new? In a desperate quest to find the last entry in my codex in the Inner Scutum-Centaurus Arm region, the Proto-Lagrange Cloud, I resorted to use EDSM to list PLCs around Colonia...

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It seems highly unlikely that this was the final undiscovered thing in the game, either.

I don’t want to go to the codex, read about it and think oh right I have to go exactly here to “discover” something

...and sure, now the globe molluscs are in the codex for future visitors to find more easily... but yesterday and for the last two years they'd been hidden away with no clue to their existence waiting for an explorer to find them.

 

[Ozric]

The thing that stops me going out “into the black” is that I know that if it’s not in the codex there’s literally nothing out there to “explore” - just a different/same system.

Oh you know that do you? Interesting...

Nothing was in the Codex when it launched. It's only us discovering things that have put them in there. None of the 110 records that I have reported in the Codex, were there before I discovered them.

Also, see Ian's post

 

[Arindor]

I enjoy hunting for one needle in many haystacks.

 

[Gwyther]

The thing that stops me going out “into the black” is that I know that if it’s not in the codex there’s literally nothing out there to “explore” - just a different/same system.

Sprinkling a few hundred complete surprises - hell, a dead ship with a scannable on it, a crashed space station (which would be awesome to find), an old civilisation or outpost, some dead mystery alien ships... anything like that, would be cool.

I don’t want to go to the codex, read about it and think oh right I have to go exactly here to “discover” something, but knowing there IS stuff out there completely randomly and completely unreferenced, unmentioned, hinted at or pointed towards, would be very motivating. Every few days/weeks/months there would be a “guess what I found” post from some genuine explorer and it would be encouraging to those of us who’d love to go out there with a “maybe today...”optimism.

I know in such a huge universe the chances of finding something isn’t high, but that’s exactly the point. If I was exploring for months and came across something I’d be so stoked, and it’s the “maybe today...” that would keep me out there.

Totally agree with this. It would be nice for Cmdr's to discover new things.

I'm not entirely certain if we have 'discovered' all there is to find yet, so there may be surprises already waiting to be found in the game.

I've often wondered about that too.

How would we find these few hundred items.

Yeah true. Maybe it should be a few 10,000's.

 

[Factabulous]

News just in : Person who assumes nothing is out there doesn't get to find stuff.

 

[Stellar Shepherd]

I know that if it’s not in the codex there’s literally nothing out there to “explore”

I remember reading about a bet on this forum a while ago, where a commander said there's nothing new to discover in elite. Then ended up buying a ship livery to another commander because they lost that bet.

You willing to make it interesting?

 

[Rat Catcher]

... don't you just love it when something new pops up just as another player tells us there is nothing left to find?

Nice discovery

 

[N3rd Murd3r3r]

I still remember seeing the ‘First Contact’ Thargoid interdiction and thinking how amazing something similar would be to an explorer...

 

[Urbanski101]

How would we find these fee hundred items. This is the issue with such a large galaxy to play with, the odds of us just stumbling on one of these 100 items is tiny. It's highly likely none of us would find one at all within the life span of the game. Considering we have only visited less then 0.2% of the galaxy, I can't see it as good idea. A load of work which is likely nobody will ever see.

^^ This

I'm sure FD have hidden lots of things in ED...problem is that we have an entire galaxy to search...the odds of finding any of them aren't good.

 

[Muetdhiver]

How would we find these fee hundred items. This is the issue with such a large galaxy to play with, the odds of us just stumbling on one of these 100 items is tiny. It's highly likely none of us would find one at all within the life span of the game. Considering we have only visited less then 0.2% of the galaxy, I can't see it as good idea. A load of work which is likely nobody will ever see.

You're right, they would be impossible to find.

That is... unless FDev tie them with clues seeded in a 50-100 lyr radius around the POI. I'm fairly confident that gameplay including a combination of clues and puzzles leading to a neat POI would sit well with most explorers.

 

[Jmanis]

Yeah, sprinkle some secrets and let all the data miners find em first

(smarm aside, it would be nice)

 

[FatFreddysCoat]

Oh you know that do you? Interesting...

Nothing was in the Codex when it launched. It's only us discovering things that have put them in there. None of the 110 records that I have reported in the Codex, were there before I discovered them.

Also, see Ian's post

Weren’t they “rumoured” to be there? Ie the pointer I mentioned?

 

[FatFreddysCoat]

You're right, they would be impossible to find.

That is... unless FDev tie them with clues seeded in a 50-100 lyr radius around the POI. I'm fairly confident that gameplay including a combination of clues and puzzles leading to a neat POI would sit well with most explorers.

Yes I could live with that for sure.