I've heard people say that exploration is dull because there's never anything in these unexplored systems except stars, moons and planets and the planets are never inhabited with any kind of intelligent beings.
People seem to take fictional shows like Star Trek and such to heart and think that they should find something in every other or every third system. What you see on the screen is the high points of their explorations. They spend thousands upon thousands of hours finding lifeless (intelligence wise) solar systems. But this is never depicted in the show because it's dull and doesn't boost ratings. Exploration is, for the most part, dull and boring.
But here's something that might surprise you. How do you know the developers haven't put something or a few somethings in a few of the remote unexplored systems? And I don't mean in our local neighborhood, but thousands or tens of thousands of light years out. Has everyone of these 400 billion stars been visited? And before you say that if this had been done, it would have leaked, consider this.
If this has been done, only a select few of the team would know about it simply to reduce the possibility of a leak. And I'm not saying that the dev team has done this. To be real honest, I don't know and even if they come out and say they haven't, I still don't know. They wouldn't admit it if they had until a player reported it.
People seem to take fictional shows like Star Trek and such to heart and think that they should find something in every other or every third system. What you see on the screen is the high points of their explorations. They spend thousands upon thousands of hours finding lifeless (intelligence wise) solar systems. But this is never depicted in the show because it's dull and doesn't boost ratings. Exploration is, for the most part, dull and boring.
But here's something that might surprise you. How do you know the developers haven't put something or a few somethings in a few of the remote unexplored systems? And I don't mean in our local neighborhood, but thousands or tens of thousands of light years out. Has everyone of these 400 billion stars been visited? And before you say that if this had been done, it would have leaked, consider this.
If this has been done, only a select few of the team would know about it simply to reduce the possibility of a leak. And I'm not saying that the dev team has done this. To be real honest, I don't know and even if they come out and say they haven't, I still don't know. They wouldn't admit it if they had until a player reported it.
