The Missing

Cosmos

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I'm curious.. did this go into the game yet? I mean I know the missing are missing and likely elusive but we've had an explosion of exploration since Erimus kick started the distant worlds project. I was on board.. I've scoured so many places.. not seen a thing.

So, whats going on with the 'missing'? Are they in game or did this concept get kicked into the long grass?
 
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anikaiful

anikaiful
Cosmos said:
I'm curious.. did this go into the game yet? I mean I know the missing are missing and likely elusive but we've had an explosion of exploration since Erimus kick started the distant worlds project. I was on board.. I've scoured so many places.. not seen a thing.

So, whats going on with the 'missing'? Are they in game or did this concept get kicked into the long grass?
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<.< ... it's GIGANTIC galaxy out there. Let that concept sink in a while. At current rate of exploration, we, the players of the now, and our grandchildren, are long dead and pushing daisies before the whole shebang is explored...
 
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Arry

Arry
anikaiful said:
<.< ... it's GIGANTIC galaxy out there. Let that concept sink in a while. At current rate of exploration, we, the players of the now, and our grandchildren, are long dead and pushing daisies before the whole shebang is explored...
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We must be getting close to 1.5% covered by now; logically?
 

Cosmos

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Arry said:
We must be getting close to 1.5% covered by now; logically?
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Not even 0.5% bro. It will likely take a century to get to 1% at the present rate. I don't mind a challenge and some effort but a few clues here and there might go down well.

This in the game or not? I'm tired of DBs red herrings and mirages.. Tricky customer he is. :/ I do wonder if this is an excercise in smoke and mirrors. The sheeps keep lapping it up. so what gives?
 
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Arry

Arry
Cosmos said:
Not even .5% bro. It will likely take a century to get to 1% at the present rate. I don't mind a challenge and some effort but a few clues here and there might go down well.
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This is Elite, no clues, included. :D
 

anikaiful

anikaiful
Arry said:
We must be getting close to 1.5% covered by now; logically?
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No, not even close that yet.

If every single player stood online for 24/7/365(366), and spread out, without anyone visiting a system someone else had visited before... and not spending more than honk-and-go at any given system, we'd map the galaxy in about four years... that'd be, no one sleeping for a second during the four years, and going forth, system by system, never visiting a place where someone else had been.... Four years of non-stop honk-and-go, not pausing for anything, no biobreaks, no lunch breaks, no sleeping...
 
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Arry

Arry
anikaiful said:
No, not even close that yet.

If every single player stood online for 24/7/365(366), and spread out, without anyone visiting a system someone else had visited before... and not spending more than honk-and-go at any given system, we'd map the galaxy in about four years... that'd be, no one sleeping for a second during the four years, and going forth, system by system, never visiting a place where someone else had been....
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Not a lot then?

That is the secret of finding new stuff: Get off the beaten tracks.
 

anikaiful

anikaiful
Arry said:
Not a lot then?

That is the secret of finding new stuff: Get off the beaten tracks.
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Indeed. And human lifetime isn't long enough to visit all the places on your own, even if you spent only one second at each stop (assuming transition from one place to another was planck time, or instant) - from birth to death. That puts some scope to just how big the in-game galaxy actually is.
 
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Arry

Arry
anikaiful said:
Indeed. And human lifetime isn't long enough to visit all the places on your own, even if you spent only one second at each stop - from birth to death.
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I understand. I understood before this., 400 billion is a lot, bit of a round number though.

I am sure i read somewhere about 6 months ago, about players had covered about 1% so far.
 

anikaiful

anikaiful
Arry said:
I understand. I understood before this., 400 billion is a lot, bit of a round number though.

I am sure i read somewhere about 6 months ago, about players had covered about 1% so far.
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Was about the Bubble. Of space outside the bubble, a fraction of %.
 

anikaiful

anikaiful
How someone said it somewhere....

"I think the calculation might be a little off in other ways too, 5 minutes per system is way too optimistic. Even if all you wanted to do was get the names of each star rather than all the planets and their satellites then with an average of 5 stars per system (your 500B split into 100B systems) it'll take longer in supercruise and merely finding the stars.

Just doubling it would still be optimism (for the stars case) since you also need to refuel (and this still dismisses the requirement for maintenance).
So, with doubling it's close to 3000 days, 8 years minimum with 200,000 or so players doing it.

Given we all start in the same small segment of space it means we need to spread out. This means that there's going to be overlap until we're sufficiently distributed. Then we have the problem of algorithmically avoiding systems that others have explored (that we won't know about since we and they would need to return to human space to sell and buy the system data).

And that's just for the stars.

Add to that just finding the planets, then detail scanning them,the number becomes VERY large."
 

Arry

Arry
anikaiful said:
How someone said it somewhere....

"I think the calculation might be a little off in other ways too, 5 minutes per system is way too optimistic. Even if all you wanted to do was get the names of each star rather than all the planets and their satellites then with an average of 5 stars per system (your 500B split into 100B systems) it'll take longer in supercruise and merely finding the stars.

Just doubling it would still be optimism (for the stars case) since you also need to refuel (and this still dismisses the requirement for maintenance).
So, with doubling it's close to 3000 days, 8 years minimum with 200,000 or so players doing it.

Given we all start in the same small segment of space it means we need to spread out. This means that there's going to be overlap until we're sufficiently distributed. Then we have the problem of algorithmically avoiding systems that others have explored (that we won't know about since we and they would need to return to human space to sell and buy the system data).

And that's just for the stars.

Add to that just finding the planets, then detail scanning them,the number becomes VERY large."
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So, is there a clue as to whether 'The Missing' are inside the bubble, or out side?
 
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