In the Developer Discussion Forum days, Exploration was going to be a bit more involved-
if it wasnt a nav jump already in your ships computer- it was a jump you had to "plot" with discovery scanners and such
You would sent a probe, scan, determine an aiming point, do a mini jump, reprobe rescan, and the better you got at doing it, the less repetitions it would take.
Ultimately, you would have plotted a jump route to a new unexplored star. your ship can now jump that route as if it was a normal jump route. You could sell that jump data, share if with friends only, or keep it to yourself.
It all sounded very exciting. Of course, we didnt get that sort of exploration... and by now, people have been to the center of the galaxy and beyond.
What if this exploration module came out in an update? and now we had to scan down new jump paths? is it too late to do that now?? I fear that it IS.
To do so would strand people far from home.. they arent going to wipe the galaxy clean and start everybody off in the human space bubble, are they?
It just makes me sad that the dreamed of mechanics may be too far beyond possibility. Pandora's Galaxy has been opened. No one's going to want to do it the explorer way.
if it wasnt a nav jump already in your ships computer- it was a jump you had to "plot" with discovery scanners and such
You would sent a probe, scan, determine an aiming point, do a mini jump, reprobe rescan, and the better you got at doing it, the less repetitions it would take.
Ultimately, you would have plotted a jump route to a new unexplored star. your ship can now jump that route as if it was a normal jump route. You could sell that jump data, share if with friends only, or keep it to yourself.
It all sounded very exciting. Of course, we didnt get that sort of exploration... and by now, people have been to the center of the galaxy and beyond.
What if this exploration module came out in an update? and now we had to scan down new jump paths? is it too late to do that now?? I fear that it IS.
To do so would strand people far from home.. they arent going to wipe the galaxy clean and start everybody off in the human space bubble, are they?
It just makes me sad that the dreamed of mechanics may be too far beyond possibility. Pandora's Galaxy has been opened. No one's going to want to do it the explorer way.
