I know a lot of explorers head towards the center of the galaxy. What about the other way? Into deep deep space. Since we can jump further than we could before with Engineer upgrades we can reach those far and in between stars. What do you think, worth it? Or do what everyone does and swim around the center?
To go the other way?
- Thread starter HazardousMatt
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Certainly if you want to avoid the well-beaten path, avoid the galactic core. If you head exactly in the opposite direction you will run out of stars "relatively" quickly, because you will have reached the galactic edge. But certainly, there have been less explorers along the edge than in the middle.
Pick a direction and activate your FSD...exploration is a blast!
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Thanks all for the tips. I am getting that itch to explore again!
you can get some 15kly+ from sol heading south, not that many tags around that area either but... its dark and black with lots of rocks, if that don't put you off then go
but it all depends on what you wanna see, the edges are quite dull in comparison to other POI's and the centre of the galthat said - my favourite exploration expeditions have all involved going beyond "the edge" of the galaxy (i.e using jumponium to find new clusters of stars)
I am currently hiding out in the Outer Arm Vacuus until the patch crapstorm is over, Don't know if I wanna tell OP this, but there are lots of undiscovered earthlikes (just found a nice binary pair yesterday), neutron stars and a handful of black holes out here too
A lot of the obvious areas have already been explored by maaaaany people, but galaxy exploration is a bit like a jigsaw puzzle, people complete the edges first, and maybe a few obvious features in the middle, but the rest of the puzzle is filling in the gaps - to put it crudely, it's a big- galaxy, and so lots of gaps to fill in (roughly 399.999 billion at last count apparently
)Edit: just stay out of my patch!
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Many of us stay almost exclusively in areas hard to get (i.e. where you can only navigate using jumponium). Allitnil is one one the many who has pushed boundaries continuously in the past years and frankly quite the inspiration for me. There are others too. My favourite parts of the galaxy involve jumponium navigation and at least one side total black. You can get those at the flat edges of the galaxy above and below the galactic plane, as well as the galactic rim. You need a good range with your ship of course - Condas can do 60 Ly and Asps up to 54 Ly on a full tank.
Yep, I've spent a lot of time out on the rim, especially over the last few months. I've covered about 40% of the galactic rim, manually plotting to keep as close to the very edge as possible without using jumponium. In some areas I've extended that to use jumponium to go along the absolute edge, most notably at the end of the Outer Arm to map out its very limits - that little jaunt took over 350 jumps from where I first had to use jumponium to the last one and covered some 10k LY.
Not sure how much more I'll do as it is all getting a bit samey now, but now and then you come across a great sight such as from this moon orbiting a ELW:
Not sure how much more I'll do as it is all getting a bit samey now, but now and then you come across a great sight such as from this moon orbiting a ELW:
EDD/EDSM can give you some indication as to what the beaten paths are so you can avoid them:
If you want to go the other way, going above or below the galactic plane are also good options. Especially with the higher jump ranges now, like you mentioned.
The primary sector heat map is another good way of finding the less travelled areas.
I just set out and see where I end up. When I first began exploring back in beta I wanted to make it around the galaxy but seem always to fail at that. So now just travel where the galatic wind takes me
Can you post a link to the section of EDSM that generated that map?
Also doing a slight round. Went after big stars, you know "Oh, Be, A...." and some exotics like non-sequence, WR and Dx types. First target was 20 Vulpeculae (err... or something like that), binary B system, then decided to go to Veil West, now heading just some random direction after a O-star I spotted 900 Ly away. After that? Who knows, might return to bubble, might continue to another interesting thing I see. Exploring isn't about destinations.
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Thank you all for the inspiration, rep to all!
The screenshot itself is from the fantastic 3D Map feature within EDD, which in turn is based on EDSM's data.
https://github.com/EDDiscovery/EDDiscovery/releases
Should I get an extra fuel tank of some sorts because there might be less scoopable stars in the outer rim?
well in a nutshell... it depends what ship your going with, if its an AspX or similar then no, there is plenty of fuel tank space there, if its an eagle then maybe.
There is always a scoop-able star maximum 3 jumps away in my experience, so as long as you have fuel for 3 jumps your fine.