Why such an empty galaxy? Procedural Civilizations, Biomes?

That we know of. Other intelligent species could have evolved and been wiped out without a trace many times over in those 4 billion years and we wouldn't know. We ourselves won't make it to 400,000 years by the looks of it. Imagine how many other species may have had the same fate.

Also, intelligent life doesn't necessarily equal development of technology and/or civilization. There could be entire planets inhabited by highly intelligent dolphins and we wouldn't know by just flying over and looking out the window.
This is the problem with only having a single sample to work with.
Regarding item 6; Development of technolocal civilization, meaning radio communication.
Humans have been around for 300,000 years, we've had radio for about 100. Obviously somewhat less than the 50% cited in the OP's source. If we use civilization in the more general sense we've had that for 5000 years.
The major issue with these figures is that they treat the development of intelligent life and civilization as factors of time.
That isn't true for us and isn't likely to be true elsewhere in the galaxy.
 
We're in quarantine established by the truly intelligent spacefaring species. They just don't want ogres to spread out from Solar system. Once we develop into something more predictable, they'll contact us and bring us into a galactic society. Assuming we don't wipe ourselves out before that moment, of course.

It's very well pictured in ED. The only sentient race that contacts us is another ogres.
 
So we're trying to decide between using actual available data or just pull figures out of our rears... Are we going for realism or Government economic policy?
 
Even at sub-light speeds the entire galaxy should be colonised by now if a culture could survive that time. If there are thousands of sapient lifeforms out there Earth should've had wave upon wave of alien immigrants. I'd be living in a sci-fi fantasy melting pot, and yet I'm not.
 
The Drake equation alone states there should be at least 12500 advanced civilizations.


Drake equation proves one single thing: the fact that we dont know.
The only thing we do know from that equation is the rate of formation of new stars, the other 6 parameters are Unknown and there is no way for us to know the values for those parameters. Sure, lately we're getting a bit more observational data regarding some of the other parameters, but nothing that would meaningful make that equation turn out accurate results.

Which makes the second most famous equation nothing more than a party gimmick
 
Who knows? Maybe sentient organic species are just the pupae before sentient inorganic life, and the spacefaring empires put them under quarantine because past encounters between meat and "machines" (a seriously offensive slur to them) have all gone terribly.

Anyway, fantasies aside, back to the original topic: this wouldn't add to actual gameplay, and would just restrict what Frontier might do later. After all, should they decide to actually do such landings, people would then complain about why the planet Reonar has no killer edible arts graduates, even though the game said so before.
Not that they could actually do this though: with these graphics and visual style, nobody could.

In the meantime, however, anyone can write up their own app, or existing app plugin, and use the info from the journal to generate these texts. Basically, everything except the surface map is written there. Those would be much more difficult to generate, and would require players hanging around the ELW for at least a whole rotational period to have a full map, not just the day side.
So yeah, if you want to make this happen, you don't have to wait on Frontier to do this (I'm pretty sure they never will), you can make it yourself, and share it with others, so that they can generate their stuff too. Or just run it on the crowdsourced databases, there are over 430,000 ELWs shared already.
 
They need to add something as simple at PROCEDURALLY GENERATED TEXT INFORMATION about lifeforms in the galaxy. The galaxy is far too empty to be realistic.

This is the simplest solution its been done to death by other games but it also gives us more to look for to make money as explorers.

How many brain trees and bacteria do we need to find ? How about some primitive civilizations?
Erm, far too empty to be realistic; Upon which reality are you basing this argument exactly, so that I might also make a comparison? In the reality that I live in, there are as yet still no other known life forms, than those found on earth itself, and only hints towards the existence of other earth likes.

I'm not convinced that life could exist without some very peculiar goldilocks zone effect, that are also found here on earth. However, this reality, is founded in the study of eastern philosophy and its resultant science, though it does have a substantial body of work to back it up, all verifiable with scientific experiment, it is not really very main stream in academic circles.
 
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The ignorance and arrogance of people to conclude decisively there is no life out there because there has been no direct evidence of it yet... is quite astounding.
 
The ignorance and arrogance of people to conclude decisively there is no life out there because there has been no direct evidence of it yet... is quite astounding.
Ignoring the fact that Arizona Uni made some basic maths errors (100% = 1, not 100) and assuming that an intelligent civilization can hang around for 1,000,000 years+ the figure I'm coming up with is 18.75.
I do think the size of the galaxy should be factored in somewhere...
 
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