Stat update: 0.028% of the galaxy has been visited

[marx]

According to FD's Twitter account (source), to date "Commanders have discovered 112,863,791 individual star systems, which is only 0.028% of the systems in the galaxy".
Right now, EDSM has 22,663,603 systems stored. In my opinion, that's a pretty good ratio; personally, I expected it to be lower.
Makes me wonder though whether one of those 90 million systems have an ELW+ELM combo in them.

Another fun fact: "Over 20,262,978,541 light-years have been hyperspaced since Elite Dangerous released" (source)

 

[Qohen Leth]

And that gives us a total number of systems in the galaxy.

 

[Redfox]

Thanks for the heads-up and the sources, marx!

Amazing to see that we've got 20% of that data in our applications - I'd never have speculated that number to be so high!

 

[Orvidius]

Yeah, when I saw that on the subreddit yesterday, I had to immediately do the math on it to confirm that they estimate about 400 billion systems in the game. I'm using that as the basis for percentage discovered in my maps. What I also find interesting, is that this gives us a ballpark of how much EDSM knows about, compared to total player activity. It looks like EDSM has maybe 18% of the player discoveries, if you go by visited systems.

 

[Shinji Ikari]

Yeah, they also posted this information yesterday in their official facebook page.

 

[marx]

Hey, that's true. Let's see... That'd be around 400 billion systems. That's a bit curious: AFAIK we estimate the real Milky Way to have 250 +/- 150 billion stars. I guess Frontier decided to go with more, not less.

 

[Shinji Ikari]

Hey, that's true. Let's see... That'd be around 400 billion systems. That's a bit curious: AFAIK we estimate the real Milky Way to have 250 +/- 150 billion stars. I guess Frontier decided to go with more, not less.

They did go for a high end estimation but it is still precise:

"There are different models for estimating the number of stars in the Milky Way and the answers they give differ depending on what is used as the average mass of a star. The most common answer seems to be that there are 100 billion stars in the Milky Way on the low-end and 400 billion on the high end. But I’ve seen even higher numbers thrown around."

Source: https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/blueshift/index.php/2015/07/22/how-many-stars-in-the-milky-way/

 

[Mengy]

We are getting so close to discovering everything!!!

 

[Valije]

Closer and closer everyday

 

[Allitnil]

Another way of looking at this: I've been to 0.14% of all discovered systems and done 0.032% of the total distance travelled....

One thing that irks me a little about the total number of systems is that where FDev have put in real life systems, the density is a lot higher than the surrounding proc-gen galaxy, eg those very distinct corridors of stars from detailed scans of a specific direction. Something just doesn't add up

 

[Pirin]

Did they mention the % Nebulae, AA-A and handmade systems visited? The numbers will be very different. I have the feeling that most of the interesting stuff is already explored to death.
Plus, with our jump ranges going up and up...that effectively means the Galaxy is getting smaller and smaller. In terms of number of jumps - and this is all that matters when it comes to distances - a trip to Beagle Point now is equal to a trip to Sag A before engineers.

I am worried.

 

[[VR] optimal_909]

I guess all systems visited count as discovered, which makes it even more of a tiny number - considering the number of systems I alone jonked by.

Mengy: repped for the new avatar.

Did they mention the % Nebulae, AA-A and handmade systems visited? The numbers will be very different. I have the feeling that most of the interesting stuff is already explored to death.
Plus, with our jump ranges going up and up...that effectively means the Galaxy is getting smaller and smaller. In terms of number of jumps - and this is all that matters when it comes to distances - a trip to Beagle Point now is equal to a trip to Sag A before engineers.

I am worried.

It is all your experience. I'm out exploring in 23.7 ly ship, and currently in a large nabula full of unscanned systems. If the stats are anything to go by, the truly interesting stuff are still out there, but probably remain undiscovered forever.

 

[marx]

Did they mention the % Nebulae, AA-A and handmade systems visited?

In my experience, all of the catalogue data system groups have already been tagged by one CMDR Jackie Silver.

The numbers will be very different. I have the feeling that most of the interesting stuff is already explored to death.

On a more serious note, they didn't mention those anywhere, no. I take it you meant mass code h systems with that AA-A? Even with those, there still ought to be plenty around. (Then there are plenty of code g systems.) As for nebulae, those have all been visited by now, although you might still come across unexplored planetary nebulae. Whatever's easily visible from the galaxy map has been visited already, since quite a while ago. This isn't a new game.

But.

Whatever's visited does not at all mean whatever's explored. There is the fact that optimal_909 mentioned, namely that most systems will just be jumped through and honked. Personally, I've seen good stuff left unscanned, even when the main star itself was tagged. (And I don't mean "camouflaged" ammonia worlds, but Earth-likes.) Then there's also that plenty of nebulae still have unvisited systems - little wonder, considering how high the stellar density can go around the procedurally generated ones.

 

[Pirin]

In my experience, all of the catalogue data system groups have already been tagged by one CMDR Jackie Silver.


On a more serious note, they didn't mention those anywhere, no. I take it you meant mass code h systems with that AA-A? Even with those, there still ought to be plenty around. (Then there are plenty of code g systems.) As for nebulae, those have all been visited by now, although you might still come across unexplored planetary nebulae. Whatever's easily visible from the galaxy map has been visited already, since quite a while ago. This isn't a new game.

But.

Whatever's visited does not at all mean whatever's explored. There is the fact that optimal_909 mentioned, namely that most systems will just be jumped through and honked. Personally, I've seen good stuff left unscanned, even when the main star itself was tagged. (And I don't mean "camouflaged" ammonia worlds, but Earth-likes.) Then there's also that plenty of nebulae still have unvisited systems - little wonder, considering how high the stellar density can go around the procedurally generated ones.

Yes, these are good points. There are still a lot of AA-A H still untagged. Most of them in the Core. And yes, there are some treasures left even in the visited systems. One of my best discoveries was in a such system: an ELW moon orbiting a lava world in the central system of a planetary nebula.
As for the nebulae, my last expedition (5 months) was dedicated to finding untagged planetary nebulae. Didnt keep track of exact numbers, but i think i spotted about 300 on the galaxy map. Most of them were already on EDSM so i skipped those. Visited those which werent - about 100. Less than 20 were actually untagged.

My point is, all these interesting objects are in limited numbers. No new stuff is added. What would be my motivation to go to the opposite side of the galaxy if everything noteworthy there is already explored? The prospect of finding yet another ordinary G or M star is not exactly thrilling to me.

We need the Magellanic Clouds or Andromeda galaxy added in the game asap

 

[iain666]

One thing that irks me a little about the total number of systems is that where FDev have put in real life systems, the density is a lot higher than the surrounding proc-gen galaxy, eg those very distinct corridors of stars from detailed scans of a specific direction. Something just doesn't add up

I think those are unnaturally squashed - FDev have taken a set of systems from some survey or other that are all in the same direction at distances with a large error bar and then just clustered them all in the middle of that range where in reality they are probably much more spread out along the line.

 

[Shinji Ikari]

Did they mention the % Nebulae, AA-A and handmade systems visited? The numbers will be very different. I have the feeling that most of the interesting stuff is already explored to death.
Plus, with our jump ranges going up and up...that effectively means the Galaxy is getting smaller and smaller. In terms of number of jumps - and this is all that matters when it comes to distances - a trip to Beagle Point now is equal to a trip to Sag A before engineers.

I am worried.

I'm still confident there are mnay cool places in the core.

 

[Shinji Ikari]

Yes, these are good points. There are still a lot of AA-A H still untagged. Most of them in the Core. And yes, there are some treasures left even in the visited systems. One of my best discoveries was in a such system: an ELW moon orbiting a lava world in the central system of a planetary nebula.
As for the nebulae, my last expedition (5 months) was dedicated to finding untagged planetary nebulae. Didnt keep track of exact numbers, but i think i spotted about 300 on the galaxy map. Most of them were already on EDSM so i skipped those. Visited those which werent - about 100. Less than 20 were actually untagged.

My point is, all these interesting objects are in limited numbers. No new stuff is added. What would be my motivation to go to the opposite side of the galaxy if everything noteworthy there is already explored? The prospect of finding yet another ordinary G or M star is not exactly thrilling to me.

We need the Magellanic Clouds or Andromeda galaxy added in the game asap

I doubt so, maybe we might have the right to say so when we visit at least 1% of all systems by which time we will be dead.