Also spot the permit blocked systems/areas as the lights go on around them leaving a hole in the map.
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Yes they are conspicuous. That one 'south' of the bubble gets in the way sometimes.
Another feature I've noticed, is that you see squares of intense activity, many near the centre of the galaxy. I think that will be commanders Earth Like World Hunting. They filter to F and I think A class stars and use the system naming convention to identify a 'boxel'. Then they visit 500 F and A class stars. If they find around 10+ Earth Like Worlds, it's considered a good boxel and they'll 'fish' out the whole boxel to find all the ELWs they can. Not sure this is my idea of fun game play, but each to their own.
Boxel = A subsector (of varying sizes) within a sector of space. The term comes from "pixel", but refers to a 3D cube of space. This usually refers to procedurally generated star systems with shared letter codes and mass codes, in the form "XX-X n", where "n" is the mass code.
I have not watched the video through - did he edit-out the rude words etc that people drew on the map in early days?
Check out the Galmap on EDAstro -- it has a heatmap of traveled areas. I use it to figure out a less-traveled area to go into (when I really want first-discoveries).
Elite:Dangerous Astrometrics Interactive Map
edastro.com
Somewhat Ninja'd. I shoulda read the rest of the thread first
But the interactive map is cool as heck.
CMDR
Didn't see any rude words. Picture of a (I think) cats head and a lady pointing somewhere comes through late on, though.
I'm not actually seeing a link to a video...
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That is the video that @CMDRQuainMarln had in their post.
I'm so weak. Bought Odyssey for my last non-Odyssey Alt and swore to myself I'd only be playing Horizons style.
Now I'm en route to my seventh ground CZ to unlock an Engineer. Epic Fail.
Now I'm en route to my seventh ground CZ to unlock an Engineer. Epic Fail.
Yes, so I reposted his link in case you could maybe see it in my post instead. Did it work?
Raxxla? Maybe a system with a station that sells Panther Clippers?
Well Quain is making his way back to Colonia from the Abyss / Beagle Point area which is in the right quarter of the galaxy to go look. I wonder which exact system she was pointing at....
I decided to move my area of operations. I've been messing about around 1.6kLY out, and having fun finding unmapped worlds and biologicals that are untouched. I found a few undiscovered systems as well. I wasn't sure how long I wanted to stay out in the black, so I didn't go very far.
But I'm having a really good time out here, so I'm going to stay a while more. I decided to go a bit farther off the beaten track, and also get out of the Inner Orion Spur sector. So now I'm in the Outer Orion Spur sector, about 2500LY out, and there are a lot more undiscovered systems out this way.
I found a "Water Giant." I guess they are not rare, but I don't recall ever seeing one. I was expecting it to be blue. The rings kind of made up for it though -- very pretty.
This little moon has some wild topography. There were plants on it, too. Some were in the mountains and rather hard to access.
I seem to have crossed some kind of mental threshold. I used to find it annoying when plants were in hard-to-reach areas. Today I enjoyed the challenge. It took a long time to find a landing spot here. It was just uneven enough, with lots of rocks, that almost no spot was acceptable. I tried the auto-land computer, but it simply said "no valid landing spot available".
I eventually found one manually, about 2k from the plants I saw. After I landed, though, I found some closer by, up the nearby slope.
It's life, Jim, but not as we know it. (this Stratum reminds me of a Star Trek episode).
Prettiest picture of the day, it looks amazing as my desktop wallpaper I almost expected to see little furry creatures running about. Maybe someday.
But I'm having a really good time out here, so I'm going to stay a while more. I decided to go a bit farther off the beaten track, and also get out of the Inner Orion Spur sector. So now I'm in the Outer Orion Spur sector, about 2500LY out, and there are a lot more undiscovered systems out this way.
I found a "Water Giant." I guess they are not rare, but I don't recall ever seeing one. I was expecting it to be blue. The rings kind of made up for it though -- very pretty.
This little moon has some wild topography. There were plants on it, too. Some were in the mountains and rather hard to access.
I seem to have crossed some kind of mental threshold. I used to find it annoying when plants were in hard-to-reach areas. Today I enjoyed the challenge. It took a long time to find a landing spot here. It was just uneven enough, with lots of rocks, that almost no spot was acceptable. I tried the auto-land computer, but it simply said "no valid landing spot available".
I eventually found one manually, about 2k from the plants I saw. After I landed, though, I found some closer by, up the nearby slope.
It's life, Jim, but not as we know it. (this Stratum reminds me of a Star Trek episode).
Prettiest picture of the day, it looks amazing as my desktop wallpaper
I almost expected to see little furry creatures running about. Maybe someday.I landed on a planet for the night with 3 bio signals including a fungus.... and bacteria groan again. Hoping the fungus is half as pretty as some of the stuff you are finding. I logged off after landing in the right area to find all 3 biologicals, so fingers crossed for next play session.I decided to move my area of operations. I've been messing about around 1.6kLY out, and having fun finding unmapped worlds and biologicals that are untouched. I found a few undiscovered systems as well. I wasn't sure how long I wanted to stay out in the black, so I didn't go very far.
But I'm having a really good time out here, so I'm going to stay a while more. I decided to go a bit farther off the beaten track, and also get out of the Inner Orion Spur sector. So now I'm in the Outer Orion Spur sector, about 2500LY out, and there are a lot more undiscovered systems out this way.
I found a "Water Giant." I guess they are not rare, but I don't recall ever seeing one. I was expecting it to be blue. The rings kind of made up for it though -- very pretty.
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This little moon has some wild topography. There were plants on it, too. Some were in the mountains and rather hard to access.
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I seem to have crossed some kind of mental threshold. I used to find it annoying when plants were in hard-to-reach areas. Today I enjoyed the challenge. It took a long time to find a landing spot here. It was just uneven enough, with lots of rocks, that almost no spot was acceptable. I tried the auto-land computer, but it simply said "no valid landing spot available".
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I eventually found one manually, about 2k from the plants I saw. After I landed, though, I found some closer by, up the nearby slope.
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It's life, Jim, but not as we know it. (this Stratum reminds me of a Star Trek episode).
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Prettiest picture of the day, it looks amazing as my desktop wallpaper
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AFAIK they're not common, but not particularly rare either. About on par with Earthlike & Ammonia Worlds.
There are blue ones, but they're the vast minority, must be (gut feeling based on what I've seen) low single digit percentage of all WGs.
Yeah, it may be that I've only ever landed in a Cobra and don't have much for comparison, but the ground clearance does lead to annoying situations. You'd think future spaceship AI would be a little better.
Though it probably happens as much when I land so I'm just as stupid.