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Elite Exploration

JohnnyDioxin
Expert Trustee
Getting well  into my second month of exploration along this route:

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If you get fed up with bugs or mundane missions in the Bubble, it's well worth heading out into the black. Taking your time, doing a sesh whenever you feel like it, with no stress, no time constraints or targets - just cruise and do what you like. I'm out here with Commander Hazardous Matt and another companion, and so far my undiscovered system count is at 134. Yes, that's 134 systems that will have my commander name on them - and an awful lot top-up for the bank, and I'm nowhere near the end of the journey yet.

First, we met up at the "bottom" of the galaxy (or top, depends which way you look at it!) and then headed towards the Lagoon Colonia Highway stop. From there we headed out towards the NGC/War & Peace Nebula. There were quite a few undiscovered systems along the way - but not much that was spectacular or particularly noteworthy - just regular systems, 65 undiscovered in all. When we got to NGC, I found that all of the systems from 20LY out had been discovered.

Whilst we sat there, wondering what to do next, I came up with the route in the picture above, and Matt was keen - so off we set. Since leaving NGC, almost every system I have come across has been undiscovered and there has been lots of nice screenshot material. Planets of all kinds of colours, werid huge gas giants and silvery, mirror-like rings, not to mention very spectacular looking nebula clouds.

Here are some screens from along the way. I'm only at stage 2 - and there are another 11 to go yet! Seey sometime around Christmas.... maybe! 😉

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See these clouds on the galaxy map?:

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Well, they are there in the galaxy, too:

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Planets are often coloured based on the clouds around them - like this one:

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A typical system, ripe for scanning and imprinting with my name:

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...and in many cases, they are just a few light years from each other, all in a nice, tight cluster:

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You can see the nebulae we are heading for - it's almost like joining the dots:

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these are a couple of the nicer ringed bodies - the second one is actually a shining Brown (Tauri) star and was very spectacular in-game:

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This is where we are now - was a little reluctant to enter this aggressive looking cloud - but no worries, apart from cutting out some of the light and actually obscuring some of the neighbouring stars, it's quite harmless:

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All of this, not even half as far away as Colonia - so you don't have to go that far to find it, and find 'fame' in the form of your name spread across astronomical bodies in the galaxy.

And it's so much more relaxing... B)

i5 9600k @4.5GHz; 16GB DDR4 3200; 6xSSD; RTX2080ti; Gigabyte Z390D Mobo
Rift CV1; Index; Quest; Quest 2
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Anonymous
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You need Graphics Quality>FX QUALITY=OFF as that adds huge stutter. It could be a setting for 20series cards for Ray Tracing likely. It is said to be a fix soon.

Anonymous
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RattyUK said:

I took my (then tanked up) T10 into an AX CZ all loaded up with cannons (Ax & Normal) and had tremendous fun, moved my rank from 60% Novice to 2% Expert.  All was fine until a double swam of Thargs appeared (a bug I gather) and ganged up on me once the NPC's had been dispatched.  But what's a 36 Million rebuy anyway?  That's the only issue with bug-hunting, the payouts, if you are not a commited cyclops killer, are trash compared to rebuy 🙂



You're doing this for the human race. The cash is just a nice bonus.

I still haven't taken any on yet, might get myself an FDL at some point and take it for a spin.

I've decided to reinstall Windows 10 on a fresh drive because I'm having mouse and keyboard issues so I'll get myself an FDL after I've sorted that out. Just waiting for a MicroSD reader to arrive in the post because I don't have any DVDs going spare.

OmegaM4N
Expert Trustee

MAC_MAN86 said:

You need Graphics Quality>FX QUALITY=OFF as that adds huge stutter. It could be a setting for 20series cards for Ray Tracing likely. It is said to be a fix soon.


I will check that out, thank you for the heads up. ::smile:

Update(found my issues, i was clicking the SteamVR version of ED which for some reason was at the top of my last played list, instead of the native Oculus SDK version of ED from inside Oculus home, that is why it was running like a pig, all good again)
CV1/Vive-knuckles)/Dell Vr Visor/Go/Quest II/ PSVR.

Digikid1
Consultant

snowdog said:


RattyUK said:

I took my (then tanked up) T10 into an AX CZ all loaded up with cannons (Ax & Normal) and had tremendous fun, moved my rank from 60% Novice to 2% Expert.  All was fine until a double swam of Thargs appeared (a bug I gather) and ganged up on me once the NPC's had been dispatched.  But what's a 36 Million rebuy anyway?  That's the only issue with bug-hunting, the payouts, if you are not a commited cyclops killer, are trash compared to rebuy 🙂



You're doing this for the human race. The cash is just a nice bonus.

I still haven't taken any on yet, might get myself an FDL at some point and take it for a spin.

I've decided to reinstall Windows 10 on a fresh drive because I'm having mouse and keyboard issues so I'll get myself an FDL after I've sorted that out. Just waiting for a MicroSD reader to arrive in the post because I don't have any DVDs going spare.


Off topic but why not use a USB Drive?

Anonymous
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Here's a song in tribute to those Explorers missing home back at Stations, and for those even at Stations still waiting for Atmospheric Landings 😉 
(WARNING= Is Not KPOP!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VBex8zbDRs

Greyman
Superstar

snowdog said:
I've decided to reinstall Windows 10 on a fresh drive because I'm having mouse and keyboard issues so I'll get myself an FDL after I've sorted that out. Just waiting for a MicroSD reader to arrive in the post because I don't have any DVDs going spare.


Do your keyboard problems show themselves by having a key press auto repeat endlessly, at least until you remake the USB connection?

ive been getting that and had put it down to my Asus mobo's apparently dodgy USB or to a failing keyboard, but as it only happens when I'm in ED, which is most of the time, I wonder if I might be missing an alternative.

Anonymous
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snowdog said:
I've decided to reinstall Windows 10 on a fresh drive because I'm having mouse and keyboard issues so I'll get myself an FDL after I've sorted that out. Just waiting for a MicroSD reader to arrive in the post because I don't have any DVDs going spare.

I had that with my Mouse double-clicking too much. You need to Update your USB 3.1 Hub even though WIN10 did so already, do another search and it may add another Hub as well as. Then unplug/plugin Mouse. May do same for Keyboard.

RattyUK
Trustee
Yesterday's patch appears to have removed the performance issue (at least for PC users) but introduced a bug or two from the distant past in the process 🙂
The power management bug was also, thankfully, squashed.
PC info: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - Sapphire 7900XTX - 32GB DDR4 4000 - 3 NVMe + 3SATA SSD - Quest 2 & 3

Anonymous
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Digikid1 said:


snowdog said:


RattyUK said:

I took my (then tanked up) T10 into an AX CZ all loaded up with cannons (Ax & Normal) and had tremendous fun, moved my rank from 60% Novice to 2% Expert.  All was fine until a double swam of Thargs appeared (a bug I gather) and ganged up on me once the NPC's had been dispatched.  But what's a 36 Million rebuy anyway?  That's the only issue with bug-hunting, the payouts, if you are not a commited cyclops killer, are trash compared to rebuy 🙂



You're doing this for the human race. The cash is just a nice bonus.

I still haven't taken any on yet, might get myself an FDL at some point and take it for a spin.

I've decided to reinstall Windows 10 on a fresh drive because I'm having mouse and keyboard issues so I'll get myself an FDL after I've sorted that out. Just waiting for a MicroSD reader to arrive in the post because I don't have any DVDs going spare.


Off topic but why not use a USB Drive?



Cos I'm too tight to buy one lol 😄

I did have a card reader that I bought years ago but it has died on me, I've got one on the way so will sort out the problem. I always try and completely reinstall a fresh copy of Windows every year because it's a bit of a crap operating system that needs it to continue running smoothly so I'm overdue a reinstall anyway.


Greyman said:


snowdog said:
I've decided to reinstall Windows 10 on a fresh drive because I'm having mouse and keyboard issues so I'll get myself an FDL after I've sorted that out. Just waiting for a MicroSD reader to arrive in the post because I don't have any DVDs going spare.


Do your keyboard problems show themselves by having a key press auto repeat endlessly, at least until you remake the USB connection?

ive been getting that and had put it down to my Asus mobo's apparently dodgy USB or to a failing keyboard, but as it only happens when I'm in ED, which is most of the time, I wonder if I might be missing an alternative.



It's not an Elite Dangerous exclusive problem, it happens all the time no matter what program I'm using.


MAC_MAN86 said:





snowdog said:
I've decided to reinstall Windows 10 on a fresh drive because I'm having mouse and keyboard issues so I'll get myself an FDL after I've sorted that out. Just waiting for a MicroSD reader to arrive in the post because I don't have any DVDs going spare.

I had that with my Mouse double-clicking too much. You need to Update your USB 3.1 Hub even though WIN10 did so already, do another search and it may add another Hub as well as. Then unplug/plugin Mouse. May do same for Keyboard.



Tried updating all my drivers the other day but it hasn't solved the problem.

Today I tried plugging in the receiver into my USB extension that I normally plug my HOTAS or wheel into and it seems to have solved the problem. No idea why the range has gone screwy though, I haven't added any new bluetooth devices that could be interferring with the signal, maybe one of my neighbours has bought a new device that's buggering things up.

I'll try reinstalling Windows 10 and see if it makes any difference and if not I'll just get another extension.

Anonymous
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After using FX QUALITY=OFF and apparently someone said the stutter was fixed (although now we got Orange Menu Tabs), I found stutter again in a big Ice Res and found I also needed VOLUMETRIC FX=LOW to rid it again.