I agree - one mistake and it can cost entire trip, Personally I think it is a good learning opportunity for all potential explorers of dangers/risks of travelling into deep space. For me it certainly was - I now pay extra attention to my vitals (O2, fuel stats, Hull..etc) when venturing into deep space.
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I agree - one mistake and it can cost entire trip, Personally I think it is a good learning opportunity for all potential explorers of dangers/risks of travelling into deep space. For me it certainly was - I now pay extra attention to my vitals (O2, fuel stats, Hull..etc) when venturing into deep space.
If all the galaxy's systems were laid end to end you would barely be able to see how far we've come along the line.
So do I, but I still lose SRVs and ships.
So basically majority of galaxy is still unexplored?
There are 400 billion systems and we are but mortals.
According to EDSM.net:
0.021226% of the galaxy has been discovered on EDSM, it will take 43,727 years, 3 months, 19 days to discover it entirely.
When i started playing in 2019 it was about 0,011 discovered.
So in about 5 years we managed gain about 0,01%.
(if i had any) my great, great, great, (many more great) grandchildren would struggle to make it to 100%.
Little advice when you start going on long trips:
Travel at least 200 ly above or under the galactic plane.
Then every system you will encounter will very likely be new.
0.021226% of the galaxy has been discovered on EDSM, it will take 43,727 years, 3 months, 19 days to discover it entirely.
When i started playing in 2019 it was about 0,011 discovered.
So in about 5 years we managed gain about 0,01%.
(if i had any) my great, great, great, (many more great) grandchildren would struggle to make it to 100%.
Little advice when you start going on long trips:
Travel at least 200 ly above or under the galactic plane.
Then every system you will encounter will very likely be new.
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Latest official info was 0.058% if I remember correctly. No, there's no error on the decimals
I think this was last year, maybe 2 years ago.
I think it was early this year in the first Frontier Unlocked or late last year.Latest official info was 0.058% if I remember correctly. No, there's no error on the decimals
I think this was last year, maybe 2 years ago.
The discrepancy is due to not everyone reporting data to EDSM.
Either way there is still something for you to find.
You
Oh! Yes 0.058% is around 232,000,000 systems.
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Which is nonsense. Once you get good at ground combat it's no different to the rest of the game in terms of risk/reward. tbh, I rarely die in high ground CZs now unless I do something stupid. Frontier are just constantly degrading their own game.
That is astonishing - just makes you think how big our galaxy is
Either way I have started my journey by going underneath the galactic pane - gone around 300 light years and once you are outside of bubble you do start to feel little vulnerable. There is literally no one out here except me. If anything goes wrong it is down to me. But this also means no risk of being attacked by someone like pirates or some other hostiles (unless they exist outside of bubble). Some of these planets outside of bubble are really interesting to look. I found one the other day that had mountains like earth and deep canyons with volcanic activity. I bet there is still more stuff to explore.
Yes it does.That is astonishing - just makes you think how big our galaxy is
They do but generally not too far out and they get rarer the further you go.
Have fun looking.
Oh yes definitely - I had Elite for some time now including the odyssey expansion but all this time I never went outside of local systems. Kept doing some cargo transport/ salvage recovery missions and used to remain within one system. But soon they got boring and then I stopped playing elite for some time. I returned back the other day, started with new profile, eventually made some credits by doing bounty hunting to afford a reasonable ship and off I decided to explore, the moment I left bubble, it was too quite all of sudden. But then you realise how much there is to explore.
I threw that one into the Fuel Rats thread - they seemed to have some issues with the server, should be fixed now.
Out of Fuel? - Explorer Rescue Service, The Fuel Rats
Thanks! I will try that. For the time being I prep my arrival in Robigo and will station there, then aim for CEOS for transport missions, I need to fill up my credit and Carrier's tank and recover my Anaconda. Your Kiwi link is asking me for a password, it looks like it is your personal link...
Thanks - Yeah it is working since yesterday, Hopefully I never have to use it - but if I do they are there to help out!I threw that one into the Fuel Rats thread - they seemed to have some issues with the server, should be fixed now.
Out of Fuel? - Explorer Rescue Service, The Fuel Rats
Thanks! I will try that. For the time being I prep my arrival in Robigo and will station there, then aim for CEOS for transport missions, I need to fill up my credit and Carrier's tank and recover my Anaconda. Your Kiwi link is asking me for a password, it looks like it is your personal link...forums.frontier.co.uk
So far travelled 300 or so light years, discovered many systems along the way and today the big one - I arrived into a system which is a binary star system and there is a landable planet that orbits it's parent star which has got sufficient atmosphere as well as it's orbit lies within the habitable zone. Upon probing the planet with surface scanner - I found some form of biological life form on the planet. Went there to investigate, found few organic samples as well as I got message when I first put my foot down on surface "first footfall". Even though the planet was discovered by someone else, no one actually set down on it I guess, So hopefully assuming I survive my voyage - I should get the credit for that. More stuff to explore!
So I returned from my voyage (Or should I say I survived my voyage this time
) - it was short one, but managed to travel around 300 light years, scanned several systems along the way, did few detailed planets scans including one or two life forms on surface. I got 30 million credits just for doing that. Time to upgrade into something more sensible and then head out again - this time for bit longer.
That one time on Distant Worlds 2, when I was going down on a planet I could swear I was still in Glide Mode, but when the whistling didn't stop and the ground came closer and closer I came to understand that I missed the end of glide, and due to flying FA-off, my descent didn't end. Well. It did. Abruptly.
Buuuut this time I didn't explode actually, because my exploration ships are robust with reinforced shields and heavy duty modded armour. Don't fly cardboard ships, kids!
But yes. Every explorer loses data to their own stupidity once in a while.
Boosting at the wrong time, flying into white dwarf tails thinking it's a neutron star (definitely not me), pushing the SCO too far and running out of fuel (completely new way of screwing up. Fuel Rats should charge for SCO addicts), bouncing into a crater not realising how fast the ship is, accidently pressing the surface scanner button after a jump, realising you can activate it at full speed, and flying into a sun, or death by cockpit cats hitting boost in the wrongest moment possible.
Buuuut this time I didn't explode actually, because my exploration ships are robust with reinforced shields and heavy duty modded armour. Don't fly cardboard ships, kids!
But yes. Every explorer loses data to their own stupidity once in a while.
Boosting at the wrong time, flying into white dwarf tails thinking it's a neutron star (definitely not me), pushing the SCO too far and running out of fuel (completely new way of screwing up. Fuel Rats should charge for SCO addicts), bouncing into a crater not realising how fast the ship is, accidently pressing the surface scanner button after a jump, realising you can activate it at full speed, and flying into a sun, or death by cockpit cats hitting boost in the wrongest moment possible.
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I Do not understand why when ship is destroyed - you loose all of the data that you have collected along the way.
I fell you pain.
But there is an alternative you can stop by one of the permanent Fleet carriers in each sector. This way you can download your data but you do lose 25% in some cases of the money.
I've always said 25% is better than a 100%. I've also carried a lot of data and crashed so I always dump my data where the carriers are at.
Remember in real life you don't get a second chance ,
Data is Data and Gone is Gone.
Yea, they made combat bonds for on foot the same as ship combat bonds, and since in a ground cz one can easily die...
I wish they kept them separately