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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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Greyman
Superstar
I'm just using the galaxy map to find systems with a state of "incursion".  This doesn't mean that there will still be Thargoid activity, as players might have killed that off, but Galnet does provide that information.  It looks like there are usually only a few systems in this state at any time, 3 this week, and they are changed on Thursday (Thargsday) every week.

there is still activity where I am, so I am grinding combat rank by killing Scouts,, but once that activity has been stopped, I'll switch to evacuating paying passengers from the damaged station, to increase Federation, or Empire rank, as applicable.

Luciferous
Consultant
Greyman said:
Has anyone figured out a way of "writing down" the codes that you hear at the eagle eye installations, when in VR?  

Just shout them out to your wife, I am sure she will only be too pleased to act as your intergalactic personal assistant. 🙂

RattyUK
Trustee


Greyman said:
Has anyone figured out a way of "writing down" the codes that you hear at the eagle eye installations, when in VR?  

Just shout them out to your wife, I am sure she will only be too pleased to act as your intergalactic personal assistant. 🙂



I'm sure mine would - but being dyslexic....
PC info: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - Sapphire 7900XTX - 32GB DDR4 4000 - 3 NVMe + 3SATA SSD - Quest 2 & 3

Greyman
Superstar


Greyman said:
Has anyone figured out a way of "writing down" the codes that you hear at the eagle eye installations, when in VR?  

Just shout them out to your wife, I am sure she will only be too pleased to act as your intergalactic personal assistant. 🙂



LOL, my wife would probably write down something that would give me a very strong indication of where I should go.  😉

i wonder if there is anything the VoiceAttack voice packs peeps, HCS, could do to record the message.  I suppose if I were to say the letters, the VA log would record it, albeit in a little disjointed manner, but HCS might be able to consolidate the letters, perhaps after a spoken cue, like "eagle eye"???


Anonymous
Not applicable
"DEVs play their own game!" not in VR and no HOTAS. 
No fix for Multicrew connections, Restock button, balanced payouts, added potential gameplay, remove barriers of doing stuff etc.
Your LOGs are held in CODEX btw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r5XgpXNQe0&feature=youtu.be&t=325

MowTin
Expert Trustee

RattyUK said:

How is ED in the Rift S?


It's sharper. Space is not as black but it's black enough for me. The trade off is worth it. 
i7 9700k 3090 rtx   CV1, Rift-S, Index, G2

Anonymous
Not applicable
I use a darker mod in GraphicsOverride…(default was 0.3000) also the "no SPUD registry switch" 
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/6tca7t/why_you_may_need_to_disable_spud_oled_mura/

C:\Users\(your Username)\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics\GraphicsConfigurationOverride [Right-Click edit]
<ToeDenominator>0.2078</ToeDenominator>

I've ordered an IR Illuminator to try out this week.
https://forums.oculusvr.com/community/discussion/comment/686813#Comment_686813

RattyUK
Trustee

MowTin said:


RattyUK said:

How is ED in the Rift S?


It's sharper. Space is not as black but it's black enough for me. The trade off is worth it. 


I went mad and bought the S too, for me about as black in space as the original, but spud made it a pretty grey environment for me most of the time.  Being able to read text has been novel, even if the sweet spot is much smaller with the S.
As with others here, I have random, brief, flashes while playing any game, but not enough to want to spit my dummy out! Overall an 'upgrade' in clarity, sound from the headband speakers is plenty loud enough to hear above TV, wife, etc. 😄  Headphones plugged into the HMD is better if full-range audio is needed.
PC info: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - Sapphire 7900XTX - 32GB DDR4 4000 - 3 NVMe + 3SATA SSD - Quest 2 & 3

Greyman
Superstar

MAC_MAN86 said:

"DEVs play their own game!" not in VR and no HOTAS. 
No fix for Multicrew connections, Restock button, balanced payouts, added potential gameplay, remove barriers of doing stuff etc.
Your LOGs are held in CODEX btw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r5XgpXNQe0&feature=youtu.be&t=325

Thanks for that.  I'll check it out.  I think I've previously only opened the CODEX once and I think that was by mistake, but I apparently now have a good reason to open it again.  😉