The Artifacts on Galactic Heat Map
- Thread starter Greasetrap42
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Squares are probably pretty easy, since you just have to make sure to stay on specific coordinate lines. For everything else? I'd probably work it out on graph paper first, and then try to find stars with the needed coordinates. Not sure how people have done each project specifically, though.
cubes are artifacts if so called boxel-surveys - basically visiting every star of a proc gen masscode cube of 1280x1280x1280 ly for statistical analysis (you'll find some of those on these forums).
circle might simply be a radius around x for reason unknown (i know people have used such radii surveys to check out spawn regions)?
circle might simply be a radius around x for reason unknown (i know people have used such radii surveys to check out spawn regions)?
Wondering if the Perseus Arm is one of the areas where people were feeling out the extents of a permit locked area.
It wasn't very long after release that someone had emblazoned the galaxy with a large "f" word.
The graphic with words on the north end of Acadian Stream seems like a crazy amount of effort for so little gain. I mean I did chuckle, but it must have taken an insane amount of time.
Did the map get edited? The route to Beagle Point looks unnatural.
Nope, no editing there. The bright green paths were mostly from Distant Worlds 2, but lots of random traffic has filled in that area quite a lot too. The spheres there are permit locked areas, so traffic diverts around them. People have explored the edges a little bit, so you can see some lines from that. Then the green paths disappear into the abyss, due to the sparse availability of stars there. They've been almost completely (if not entirely) explored.
I guess it's not getting to beagle point and going back ...
I found travelling between DSSA Eleanor and Beagle Point straight fwd, lots of stars. I would have thought exploration ships with reasonable jump range would make a big bold path by now. Clearly I am wrong!
In the arm there are so many systems and so many possible paths that people take many, many routes so the number of systems visited per column through the galaxy (which is what makes the heat map brighter or not) is high. In the Abyss there just aren't enough stars, even if every single one is visited, to get the brightest colours.
The colour indicates the number of systems explored, not how many people visited them so one person taking a path across an area and 50,000 people taking the exact same path will look identical on these maps.
(Also, yay, the seeker of dirty pics has finished their graffiti)
Yes, the circles - or spheres, rather - are permit-locked regions. People have probed all the way around the spherical permit-lokced regions, hoping to find some clue or key that might give them a permit. Thus, most permit-locked regions appear on the map as a "shell" surrounding a spherical empty void. That cluster of spheres blocking the direct route to Beagle Point is one of the most visible.