The search for Wolf Reyet

Paul_J_Miller

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As a newbie explorer I set out to visit every star type and have visited all except for the Wolf Reyet type.
In the real universe the nearest Wolf Reyet star to Sol is 'Gamma Velorum' but in the game this entire sector is blocked off to players, you need a 'Unknown Permit' to get into that sector. The next nearest real life Wolf Reyet star is 'Theta Muscae' but in game this is not a Wolf Reyet but a Blue Supergiant, interesting but doesn't ring the bell.
Others like 'GK Persei' and 'CD Crucis' do not exist in the game.
Does anyone know of a good example of a Wolf Reyet star that they would like to share ?
 

Paul_J_Miller

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Thanks I will check these out, although I am quite far from the bubble at the moment.

Elferren :- The Codex seems to contain four panels, "Pilot's Handbook", "Knowledge Base", "Discoveries" and "Commander", it doesn't seem to have anything for finding stars.
Did you mean the Galaxy Map ? That doesn't seem to have a way to find a star of a particular type unless I know it's name. I could be missing something here as I am a complete noob at this game. It would be nice if there was a way to find something without knowing it's name first.
I can filter the star map by type but if what you are looking for is rare then what you see is an awful lot of empty map.
 

MattG

MattG
He means Codex -> Discoveries -> Astronomical Bodies -> Stars -> Wolf Rayet. Should show locations for first reported of a given type in a specific region.

You can also filter them on Gal Map by chooding Map instead of Realistic, then changing filter to Star Type. Much harder to spot, but you can filter them.
 

Elferren

Elferren
MattG said:
He means Codex -> Discoveries -> Astronomical Bodies -> Stars -> Wolf Rayet. Should show locations for first reported of a given type in a specific region.

You can also filter them on Gal Map by chooding Map instead of Realistic, then changing filter to Star Type. Much harder to spot, but you can filter them.
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Thanks for clear explanation MattG!

Good luck in your hunt Paul!
 

Paul_J_Miller

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MattG said:
He means Codex -> Discoveries -> Astronomical Bodies -> Stars -> Wolf Rayet. Should show locations for first reported of a given type in a specific region.

You can also filter them on Gal Map by chooding Map instead of Realistic, then changing filter to Star Type. Much harder to spot, but you can filter them.
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I had missed that part of the codex. I still have much to learn about this game.
Since the last post I have discovered something which may be of interest to people, I have found several Wolf-Reyet stars and visited two so far.
The things I have discovered is that the system names follow a pattern.
There are many systems in Elite Dangerous. Many have been copied from real star catalogues or from earlier Elite games or just inserted to fulfil the lore of the game. There are about 160,000 of these and they cannot be searched using the system below but the vast majority of the stars in the galaxy are generated algorithmically and these stars seem to follow a pattern.

<SECTOR NAME> XX-X XN-NNN

They all start off with the name of the sector they are located in.
This is followed by a three letter code XX-X which has some significance I have not fully figured out yet but all the Wolf-Reyet stars I have found so far have the code AA-A but this code is not exclusive to Wolf-Reyet stars because there are other systems which also have the code AA-A, I will figure the code out by looking at a more diverse set of examples.
The last part XN-NNN starts with a letter which denotes the mass contained within the system A being a small mass up to H which is a huge mass. This is followed by a number and a dash then another number. The single digit number I haven't quite worked out but the number after the dash seems to be a serial number. If the first example of this type of system were given the number 1 then the next would get the number 2 and so on. Some of the sequences are two or three thousand long.
Using this system you can search for a particular type of star in the galaxy map.
Some people may find this useful.
If anyone has any further insights on this matter then I would be very pleased to hear them.
 

osser

osser
Dont be discouraged Paul.
Good work on your part.
A lot of us have been around for a longgggg time.
 

varonica

varonica
Went through a WR system yesterday in the Outer Orion Spur, I wasn't the first visitor, but I do like to find these things myself rather than just following the lead in the Codex so I ticked a little box next to the OOS region.
 

Paul_J_Miller

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I have visited eleven Wolf Reyet systems now but in the game they are just very large but ordinary stars which you cannot fuel scoop. I had expected something different. In reality Wolf Reyet stars are often at the centre of nebulas, this is because they are shedding enormous amounts of mass continuously (this is why they are so short lived) in a massive solar wind, so I expected to see a mist around them which might decrease the further away from the star you were. So far none of them have been like this, I suspect none of them are.

Oh well ... how disappointing. :(
 

Heavy Johnson

Heavy Johnson
Paul_J_Miller said:
I have visited eleven Wolf Reyet systems now but in the game they are just very large but ordinary stars which you cannot fuel scoop. I had expected something different. In reality Wolf Reyet stars are often at the centre of nebulas, this is because they are shedding enormous amounts of mass continuously (this is why they are so short lived) in a massive solar wind, so I expected to see a mist around them which might decrease the further away from the star you were. So far none of them have been like this, I suspect none of them are.

Oh well ... how disappointing. :(
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A large number of named and procedural nebulas have WR stars at their center.

Also, expecting to see anything from this game is not a good idea. What you see is what you get; FDev hasn’t added anything visually interesting on a large scale since NSPs.
 

Cmdr Sharky

Cmdr Sharky
This is what a Wolf-Rayet star (NSV 1056) looks like from IC 289 Sector TJ-Q b5-0, 15Ly out...
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Once you're there, the star itself is a little disappointing, just a big white circle with barely any surface features. But you're surrounded in all directions by that nebula texture which is quite something.
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