What's outside the bubble?

[Furry Eskimo]

I'm nearly a triple elite pilot, but funnily enough I've only traveled a short distance from the bubble. The idea of exploring an empty void didn't interest me. I recently found a timelapse of Elite explorers and it's fascinating, and confusing.. There are 3-4 main hotspots (the bubble, Colonia, Sagittarius A, and Beagle point) but there are apparently dozens of outpost locations of some sort. Can anyone give me an idea regarding what these are? Also, upon closer inspection there seem to be multiple spheres where no one has explored. Are these literally just spheres we can't enter? There's one Right next to the bubble and yet I never hear anyone talk about this region no one can enter! (Also does anyone know how to upload data to something like this? I wasn't aware players were uploading this much content!)
https://edastro.com/galmap/

[Furry Eskimo]

Also some maps have really weird patterns, like black holes: https://edastro.com/mapcharts/

[Sinthe]

if you check your codex it has a lot of POIS (points of interest) that you can visit like biological and geological sites as well as Notable Stellar Phenomena like lagrange clouds, space storms & possibly aliens! o7

[Furry Eskimo]

So far I've found about 10 spheres that seem to be off limits to explorers, five cubes that have been extensively scouted for some reason, and dozens or hundreds of specific locations that seem to represent important travel locations, but for no reason I can tell.. Some of these stations are in wide curved paths around the galaxy. Is there a group that's telling people the names of these systems so people visit them more frequently?

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by Furry Eskimo:

Is there a group that's telling people the names of these systems so people visit them more frequently?

Sometime you can find a station just buy looking at star systems names. If you see a lot of alpha-numeric names, and among them something like HR 3753 - this one is worth checking for being inhabited.

[Furry Eskimo]

Ok, so the inhabited system have special names. That's good to know.
This was my attempt to mark the important areas: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2086480983&fileuploadsuccess=1

[Furry Eskimo]

Overlapped the heat-map of where players have explored and all discoveries made. A lot of the paths people seem to take are between these key locations, helping explain their existence. I'm really surprised though, it seems like very little exists on the 'western' side of the galaxy.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2086519113

[[82AD] danielcave87]

Originally posted by Furry Eskimo:

Are these literally just spheres we can't enter? There's one Right next to the bubble and yet I never hear anyone talk about this region no one can enter!

Are you referring to the cone sector?

A while back the gnosis was supposed to jump through the 400 ly belt that hides what is inside. But it was attacked by thargoids.

If you look at some of these spheres they are built the same way. I suspect with the release of FCs players will be able to jump through these belts now to explore what's behind them.


But I agree. No one seems to talk about them.

I think(that the player base has changed since then) it's been forgot about as the OGs left.

The thing about exploring out of the bubble is that it's not interesting in the form of every system has a poi. You will find that it's more or less the same everywhere. Interesting stuff is a relletive term. I find that planets close together are interesting and binary systems. But there is that time you find somthing amazing but it's rare.

These time lapses you see are accumulations of months of exploration to make them. Long term out of the bubble exploration is not for the faint hearted. Yes it's a game but it's really not for the faint hearted.

[Furry Eskimo]

So the entering these spheres is impossible because thargoids intercept you? Did I get that right? If they really are off limits I’d have to assume they’re like this so Fronteir have places for future content to be added. Still not sure about these squares that have been Very well explored, they seem totally random. Anomalies don’t get much attention though, which is odd. Balls of energy that are unrelated to anything and do nothing? Is that right? I’d never heard of them until I started researching this topic.

Part of what makes me think these, spheres, are going to be vital locations is their placement. One next to Sol, another one or two near Sol to the south west, two near Colonia that cover the currently empty western half of the galaxy, four near Beagle point, and one to the far right near all the organic life. They seem strategically placed to cover the entire galaxy with content.

[MrLunario]

The adventure of a lifetime

[[82AD] danielcave87]

Originally posted by Furry Eskimo:

So the entering these spheres is impossible because thargoids intercept you? Did I get that right? If they really are off limits I’d have to assume they’re like this so Fronteir have places for future content to be added. Still not sure about these squares that have been Very well explored, they seem totally random. Anomalies don’t get much attention though, which is odd. Balls of energy that are unrelated to anything and do nothing? Is that right? I’d never heard of them until I started researching this topic.

Part of what makes me think these, spheres, are going to be vital locations is their placement. One next to Sol, another one or two near Sol to the south west, two near Colonia that cover the currently empty western half of the galaxy, four near Beagle point, and one to the far right near all the organic life. They seem strategically placed to cover the entire galaxy with content.

No you don't get intercepted by thargoids. The gnosis is or was a player run FC. Before FCs became a thing.

They organisation cannon who run it tryed to jump into the cone sector and FDev put a stop to it by attacking the FC with thargoids.

I think I may have confused you and I Appoligise.

the spheres should have a 400ly buffer and FCs can jump 500ly.


The only way to know for sure what's there is to check it for yourself once FCs go live.

Hope that clears things up.

[Planewalker]

The spheres you are talking about is just permit-locked areas for future content.

There are two giant blocked off areas at ~1000ly*~1000ly; one near barnards, the other on the other side of the galaxy near a cluster of nebulas.


The official forums have quite a few threads about this.

[Sihmunath]

Outside the bubble is boredom.

[Planewalker]

Originally posted by Kirnalto:

Outside the bubble is boredom.

I guess it's a YMMV; i was recently on a three-month trek into the dark, and it was far from boring.

[Furry Eskimo]

Well I see about five large empty spheres, and a few small ones in a cluster. Do these have a name I can research them using? Calling them ‘empty spheres’ seems a little too generic considering how important they likely are, and the fact that Fronteir has already made efforts to keep people out, at least for the time being.

Funny though,, One of these spheres is right next to Sol, so has no one been able to go explore this area in the Beta?

[Ratt]

Originally posted by Furry Eskimo:

Well I see about five large empty spheres, and a few small ones in a cluster. Do these have a name I can research them using? Calling them ‘empty spheres’ seems a little too generic considering how important they likely are, and the fact that Fronteir has already made efforts to keep people out, at least for the time being.

Funny though,, One of these spheres is right next to Sol, so has no one been able to go explore this area in the Beta?

They're called permit-locked systems. Entering them is impossible because if the ship is ordered to initiate a jump to one, it refuses. The one in the bubble is probably the noob haven, a set of six systems that get irrevocably locked to anyone who leaves them without being all of Harmless in combat rank, Penniless in trade rank, and Aimless in exploration rank.