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Newcomer / Intro What is the orange circle shooting out from the star mean?
- Thread starter SixthVG
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Yes, it marks the presence of belt clusters.
If the star in question was in planetary orbit, the same thing means ring(s).
EDIT: but is bugged, the rings are not visible in orrery view. Planets' rings are visible.
Zoom enough further in and there's a gap between the ring marker and the star.
If the star in question was in planetary orbit, the same thing means ring(s).
EDIT: but is bugged, the rings are not visible in orrery view. Planets' rings are visible.
Zoom enough further in and there's a gap between the ring marker and the star.
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This also happens to mark the zone beyond which your fleet carrier will orbit if you jump it to this star.
Which is kinda cool cause if you put your fleet carrier on a star with a huge asteroid belt zone like this, so that it's quite far out from the star, it's much faster to approach and depart from it. The drop out distance increases, you can do untargeted deceleration trickery and you accelerate to superluminar speeds immediately upon departure - pretty much all the goodness of a deep space USS.
Which is kinda cool cause if you put your fleet carrier on a star with a huge asteroid belt zone like this, so that it's quite far out from the star, it's much faster to approach and depart from it. The drop out distance increases, you can do untargeted deceleration trickery and you accelerate to superluminar speeds immediately upon departure - pretty much all the goodness of a deep space USS.
Asteroid belt, the asteroid clusters all orbit the star in that ring, other asteroids are too thinly spread out to register on the FSS as clusters. In a point of interest, stars with very large asteroid belts can't be jumped directly to using the fleet carrier, you can jump in with a regular ship and then map the bodies if it has any, then the fleet carrier can jump to one of them, but it can never jump to the primary star.
For instance HD 144719 can't be jumped directly to using a carrier, I had to use Jumponium to get there and map the system then jump the carrier in. Attempting to jump to the primary star just gave me the message "no free slots", the radius of the asteroid belt is just under 2,000ls;
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For instance HD 144719 can't be jumped directly to using a carrier, I had to use Jumponium to get there and map the system then jump the carrier in. Attempting to jump to the primary star just gave me the message "no free slots", the radius of the asteroid belt is just under 2,000ls;
EDSM - Elite Dangerous Star Map
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Here is the system from the OP ( ngc 6871 sector OC-E B14-0) in edsm:
www.edsm.net
EDSM - Elite Dangerous Star Map
The Galactic Positioning System of Elite: Dangerous at your service.
www.edsm.net
Here is the system from the OP ( ngc 6871 sector OC-E B14-0) in edsm:
EDSM - Elite Dangerous Star Map
The Galactic Positioning System of Elite: Dangerous at your service.
Some nice large asteroid belts there, two of them in fact!