There's nothing out there I tell you...I thought I would do a little bit of adventuring and decided to head towards the centre of the universe and here I am. I must be 50 or 60 jumps in and (like) I said nothing... no planets no space stations no resource extraction sites which is what I'm looking for.
Now, nothing, just star after star called col2 85 something... I'm changing direction but still seems much of the same. Unfortunately I didn't tag where I was where the rich pickings were so that's the end of my adventuring. (I) have tried all different filters for travelling and none of them make any difference whatsoever, he's (it's maybe) just totally barren out there so don't do it.
Sorry if my addition of punctuation/(words in parenthesis) changed the meaning of what you were trying to say, but I had to do it...Anyway...
1) It can take 50 or 60 jumps (or more depending on your jump range) just to clear the Bubble. Was your intent to get out into the Deep Black, or just to hop out a few hundred LYs and poke around? It took me 643 jumps on a dog-legged course to reach Sag A*, 848 total to then get to Colonia, and I am now at 1122 jumps and still have about 175 jumps to reach LHS 20 again. If you are wanting to Go Deep, then don't expect to see anything out there once you get beyond the Bubble besides Stars and Planetary Bodies. It took over 900+ jumps to Finally find a Neutron Star. Once you get out there, you won't see Unidentified Signals (i.e. Ships in distress, weapons fire, wedding parties...nothing). If you are not Honking the system when you jump in, then doing an FSS, you are not going to see much at all. If you didn't equip a DSS, you can't map...Mapping can be a pain, but I always map the valuable worlds unless they are like 300,000+ LS out (I left a couple like that, Sorry not traveling 432,000 LS to map an Ammonia world).
2) If you are only going out to do (Enter Operation of Choice Here), and you are looking outside the Bubble, about all you will find is Mining. There are systems out there that might be a veritable Gold Mine, but if you don't honk and scan you won't find them, then if you don't Map the suspected Body/Rings, you won't find anything. Also, unless it is an inhabited system you are probably not going to find Resource Sites. You will have to map the Rings and see what pops up. I have one system saved that has a Void Opal Site in a ring (No, I won't give up the name). The only way I found it was to Honk, Scan, Map and Voila!
3) As you may know, Mining within a system that has ships in it (NPC) will invite pirates to want a cut of the action. Mining outside the Bubble may free you from NPC harassment during the Mining portion of the operation, but once you are back, either sell your cargo at the first station you find, or Git Gud at evading Interdiction if you are traveling to your favorite Station. Because if you are hauling something nice, again, pirates will want their cut.
Just my 2 Credits worth...
Take Care and Check Six Commanders o7
Lakon Michael Charlie Golf signing off...