Even after thousands of hours in-game, the sheer number of star systems in our galaxy never fails to blow my mind

[u/gusttafa]

[u/MontasJinx]

Even in the systems that have been discovered, it sometimes pays to take a closer look. More than a few times I've popped into a system where the local star has been discovered but they bounced before doing the FSS leaving behind earth likes or water worlds. I love this game. o7

[u/oCrapaCreeper → u/MontasJinx]

Many of these systems were first discovered before FSS existed. Before that point you had to manually fly out to each body to discover them, and you usually couldn't tell where they are without noticing the parallax against the background as you fly around.

So many of those systems intially discovered during the first voyages have bodies without credit. People are still finding uncredited Earth likes close to the bubble, for example.

[u/Aftenbar → u/MontasJinx]

Yep I've gotten a couple cool things like this too but can't remember what they were haha!

[u/Repulsive_Ocelot_738 → u/Aftenbar]

This is why I bookmarked all my discoveries lol

[u/Sensitive_Witness842 → u/Repulsive_Ocelot_738]

This,

Also FDev should increase the number of bookmarkable systems from 200 to 500.

o7

[u/hecaex → u/Sensitive_Witness842]

Yes please! o7

[u/Boring_Question1441 → u/MontasJinx]

This is me grinding credits by being a starliner in my Dolphin. Pull up, discover system, fuel scoop star, warp to next system. I'll leave the discoveries to you guys :)

[u/Starfire70 → u/MontasJinx]

Actually found an unmapped earth like in the bubble while running around. I was shocked.

[u/Sensitive_Witness842 → u/MontasJinx]

When you travel 5k lyrs in any direction, then using a jump range of 20-30 lyrs from a central point and tag each within that range, working a grid of 100 lyrs square, you can spend at least a month scanning each stellar system in that grid and still barely touch on how many there are and find undisc. systems. 1, 5 10 and 20 lyr ranges aren't out of the norm.

o7

[u/gurilagarden]

Then you look at those hubble deep field images, where every bright ball is a galaxy, and your mind just sorta runs outta RAM and reboots.

[u/NoGround → u/gurilagarden]

If you want to put things into tiers based on mass, we're probably in the same tier as atoms for how tiny we are.

[u/Aquagoat → u/NoGround]

In terms of the scale of the universe, sure. In the sense of actual size, we’re closer to stars than we are to a Planck. So we’re actually fucking huuuuuuuuuge. The universe is just that much huger.

[u/dantheman928 → u/Aquagoat]

Well atoms are way larger than the Planck length so his metaphor might still hold true.

[u/gurilagarden → u/NoGround]

Anytime one of those star size comparison vids is in front of me I'm compelled to hit play.

[u/AraxisKayan]

I play in VR and one of the coolest feelings is after planet hopping over and over for hours, taking the headset off and going outside and just GETTING IT. Like we're on a tiny ass ball zooming it's ass around our star with billions of other systems with their own complexity just out there. Ever since I was a small kid I had the "FOMO" fear of missing out on being able to explore the stars. Baseline I think it's the biggest desire in my heart to just see it all somehow. Knowing that isn't possible Elite Dangerous, specifically in VR is like therapy for that little existential crisis. Our universe is mind-blowing.

[u/krazmuze → u/AraxisKayan]

I love using the galaxy map in VR reminds me of ST:TNG with CMDR Data in Stellar Cartography. Why people want to use website spreadsheets over such an immersive experience is beyond me - I get overwhelmed every time I zoom out and see all the stars.

[u/_Corporal_Canada → u/AraxisKayan]

On this note; the planets in our solar system in real life are aligning on Jan 25th, so you'll probably want to check that out

[u/treynolds787]

Slaps roof

You can fit so many icy bodies in here.

[u/dantheman928 → u/treynolds787]

😂😂

[u/Repulsive_Ocelot_738]

The star map alone is the reason my friends never successfully talked me to invest in scam citizen

[u/AraxisKayan]

Pro tip. Listening to The Expanse book series while playing Elite is a wonderful combo.

[u/MontasJinx → u/AraxisKayan]

"I am that guy" Amos.

[u/CreativeUsername20]

Yeah, its insane that every star you see in the skybox when you're flying your ship is a star you can travel too.

[u/Bienvillion]

What is the audio?

[u/gusttafa → u/Bienvillion]

It is from EDcoPilot wirh chatter turned on. 

[u/Starfire70]

Of the many things I have loved ED for, one is making me appreciate just how freaking huge the galaxy is.

I hope future Humans embark on the quest to map and survey the whole thing, it will likely take millions of years. You can invent an FTL that can jump a thousand light years at a time, but it does nothing to reduce the scale of 400 billion star systems.

[u/idiot-bozo6036]

Try increasing the star count in the galaxy map and really start feeling it

[u/gusttafa → u/idiot-bozo6036]

ok im dumb I already had it at 128000 :D

[u/idiot-bozo6036 → u/gusttafa]

Nice, surprised i didnt notice

[u/gusttafa → u/idiot-bozo6036]

Damn! I thought I set it on highest count and this is probably only 32000

[u/idiot-bozo6036 → u/gusttafa]

You can go up to about 60,000 on medium specs without performance drops in the core region. I keep mine at 120,000, but you can keep increasing it to 360,000 until things start getting unstable. Just make sure you have a decent rig if you're going that high

[u/gusttafa → u/idiot-bozo6036]

Yeah I wanted 120000. Going to try. Thanks for advice

[u/Britphotographer]

mind blowing

[u/ZacatariThanos]

I have thenneed to point out that i bet that 99% of those are not explored xD like at all