I remember Brookes said something like 0.000005% or thereabouts some time ago, anyone know what the latest is? I'm a Statto for stuff like this!
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What % of the Galaxy have we Explored?
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I'd love to see a view of the galaxy map where it only displayed the stars that have been discovered.
The sad thing is - all stars are "discovered" in that you can click on any one and know what is in the system. You simply don't know who has been there before you until you actually get there.
I really do wish that FD had kept the full galaxy "dark" - in that you would have no clue what was in a particular star blob was until someone had actually been there, got back, sold the data, and then someone else bought that data.
Now we have the situation where, for many people - all sorts of systems have already been gobbled up, exploring isn't so much exploring as ticking off points on a Tourists List Of Things To See.
It is still an absolutely vast galaxy, and I am sure that there are things in there still to discover, and I am absolutely positive that there are wondrous sights that nobody else has ever seen - but when you have peeps getting to Sag A* in under a day, it really does make me wonder.
I really do wish that FD had kept the full galaxy "dark" - in that you would have no clue what was in a particular star blob was until someone had actually been there, got back, sold the data, and then someone else bought that data.
Now we have the situation where, for many people - all sorts of systems have already been gobbled up, exploring isn't so much exploring as ticking off points on a Tourists List Of Things To See.
It is still an absolutely vast galaxy, and I am sure that there are things in there still to discover, and I am absolutely positive that there are wondrous sights that nobody else has ever seen - but when you have peeps getting to Sag A* in under a day, it really does make me wonder.
I thought at best there was only a rough description for what is in a system, as in you know what stars are there, but not what planets, what orbits etc
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But to the OP, yes they do need to give some updates for explorers such as where you have explored, orrery(?) view for a system (showing the orbits and positions of items in the system), more stats available for explorers (travel distance, # of planet types found ie earth like, terraformable)
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But to the OP, yes they do need to give some updates for explorers such as where you have explored, orrery(?) view for a system (showing the orbits and positions of items in the system), more stats available for explorers (travel distance, # of planet types found ie earth like, terraformable)
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yeah more stats would be cool, not sure if there's a 3rd party location tracker out there but something to show "where you've been and the route you took" would be cool
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When I joined the game, it had been said that the community was discovering [I presume full scans and getting "First Discovered By" status] around 12 systems a minute on average. Although it is probable that this number has gone up slightly since, if you do the math on the 400 billion stars in the galaxy, it will take about 150,000 YEARS to discover it all.
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We have barely scratched the surface of this game, there are plenty of chances to get your name plastered over entire stellar clusters in multiple directions, and to see some amazing sights out there.
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We have barely scratched the surface of this game, there are plenty of chances to get your name plastered over entire stellar clusters in multiple directions, and to see some amazing sights out there.
Further to the OP's question, what percentage of populated space has been "discovered" by cmdrs? Gotta be pretty close to 100%.
There are some excellent tools & web pages to calculate the coordinates of the systems and collect them in some databases. A very good start is EDDiscovery. Enable verbose logging (if you haven't already), and for every system shown in blue letters enter some referencing distances until the coordinates are known. I love the 3D star map. And I thought about painting some things into the galaxy which I can't mention here...
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"We have barely scratched the surface of this game".....the problem is, it is all surface, there is nothing underneath it.............Find a system with 3 Earth Types? So what.......there is nothing you can do but sell the data, nothing else happens......Find a ring system with pristine metallic reserves? So what, it is not like you can sell it to a mining corp and they will go set up some drilling rigs and stations...........those 400,000,000,000 stars are just generated on the fly, you get to see some system map...some textured spheres..........aaaaand...that's it.......go sell it for credits. Yawns.........
FD (MB AFAIR) provided a spreadsheet containing 19000somewhat system names & coordinates, and I think these were 100% of the populated systems. How many of them have been discovererd by commanders already I don't know, but I guess, all. You could search the forum, or you could take Redwizzards tgcsystems.json from this directory and check the systems with ID < 20000, or the complete system list from my EDSM API and check the older systems on the galaxy map. But you will need some weeks spare time for this...
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Patience... The game is in it's infancy, you can find a mind boggling number of planets that are perfect for mining, epic exploring or just relaxing on a beach watching a triple sunset. I have claimed a bunch of Earth like worlds and water worlds that I will return to once planetary landings come into play.
If you want a tiny glimpse of what exploring these planets will be like, check out Outera. Absolutely glorious in virtual reality.
http://www.outerra.com/index.html
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Frontier should create a real-time counter in the game or on the forum or on the official website
something on the website like a pilots log or stats would be nice
All available information, brings life to the ED environment
An amazingly funny statement.
Since there is no way of knowing how many of these 1.5 million reports are actually of the same systems, this number does not tell you really much.
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