Yeah, now you say it, that's direct confirmation of a lower limit. And so for me it's a 'can't absolutely 100% rule it out, but it's ruled out sufficiently that there's no way I'd personally be pursuing it in the absence of anything to actually suggest to do so.'. Everyone else can make their own judgements, obviously!
How ?
Worst case scenario - you get to have a bit of fun with some extreme SC speeds, and trying to actually get close to the target marker in that situation.
It is even possible to jump there? I have a FC and searched targets to try a distant exploration.
Keep an eye on the fuel gauge. You do run out eventually.
👁So we’re looking for Raxxla the Rabbit?
I just don’t see any ideas .... how can the gravity of the planets (G) change?That’s the whole point of this thread!
Ever been to Communication Array Delta 69? It is a silent, spooky place. If you suddenly notice anomalous gravitational pull, get out, quick. A certain, mysterious body...
Just how sci-fi do we want to get?
Do we actually think that Raxxla is something that can be "found" in space rather than it being a planet to land on or it being planet-side? Following the reasoning that it could be found even before Horizons, it would make sense somehow.
Not certainly in that way)Just how sci-fi do we want to get?
Anyway, I think the question you're asking is how would we tell if an unshown body was taken out of one system and put in another.
The answer from me is that I don't think we would be able to. At least not unless FD manually adjusts the systems. As I understand it, after the main stars are generated (which can be essentially considered as happening in the Galmap), when the rest of the system is populated it's done by working from allowable orbits of the main stars. Consequently taking something unseen out of one of those orbits in one system and putting it into an unpopulated one in another system is unlikely to have any noticeable effects (at least in terms of being able to spot anything via consequential changes to the system config.)
Having said that it does also suggest that an unseen body of sufficient mass should be detectable by looking for its effects on the system config - e.g. a star or body orbiting a barycentre without other bodies being visible. That does necessitate a body of comparable mass to the one which is orbiting the barycentre though, so that puts some fairly strict limits on the potential applicability of the approach.
Edit - obviously a body, or bodies, orbiting apparently empty space would be a giveaway as well, but just got to be careful not to jump to conclusions when finding examples that are already accounted for, for example, by the apparent empty space being orbited actually being comets. (Comets being present in some systems but not shown.)
Well, we spend our spare time flying around the galaxy in the 3300's looking for a mythical place that contains an alien relic that is potentially already being used by a sinister cabal to control humanity.....Just how sci-fi do we want to get?
sorry. Couldn't resist!Well if a celestial body has left the system, then it's no longer effecting the system. So that means looking for changes that happened due to when it was in the system.
Do we actually think that Raxxla is something that can be "found" in space rather than it being a planet to land on or it being planet-side? Following the reasoning that it could be found even before Horizons, it would make sense somehow.
Then taking it from system to system probably wouldn't change gravity in those systems all that much.
I think your thoughts regarding random events being prior to day 0 MUST be correct, because after day 0, I can't see how the algorithm could garuntee we all get the same system at the same time.
