How to find Guardian sites?

[Walrus Beard]

So I know I want the Guardian FSD at least since I'd like to start doing some exploring. I looked up a video tutorial and found a Guardian site. Got a lot of what I needed, but I began to think that it feels really cheap piggybacking off the effort of others. I was able to find the location of the first Guardian ruins discovered on my own by referencing the codex. I know you can filter by civilization in the galaxy map, but of course no Guardian systems showed up since I haven't discovered any, but what about starting from the first ruins? I know you can buy cartographic data, but a 20 LY radius seems really pathetic. My DBX can jump farther than that in a single leap. Is buying cartographic data on the fly a viable way of finding more Guardian ruins? I don't mind buying exploration data that has been sold by others since it is ingame, but looking it up on the internet just feels wrong.

[Agony_Aunt]

Finding them yourself is not easy. I'm not sure where i would start. They were discovered through a lot of collaborative effort.

IIRC, there are some megaships or beacons in the bubble that point to them, but again, finding those locations also requires a lot of time/effort.

Some things in the game were never really designed to be discovered through individual effort.

[kraul59]

Give this a try: http://elitedangerous.hozbase.co.uk/

This is also a very good start: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/walkthrough-guardian-weapon-blueprints.445508/

[Walrus Beard]

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Finding them yourself is not easy. I'm not sure where i would start. They were discovered through a lot of collaborative effort.

IIRC, there are some megaships or beacons in the bubble that point to them, but again, finding those locations also requires a lot of time/effort.

Some things in the game were never really designed to be discovered through individual effort.

Yeah I always figured that for a game of this scope some things would need to be collaborative, but then shouldn't there be ingame tools players can use to share information without having to resort to 3rd party sites outside of the game?

[Walrus Beard]

I think I'm just going to bite the bullet on this one. It looks like I will have enough grinding to do even with tutorials holding my hand, never mind finding guardian sites on my own. I accept that much of this was not meant to be done solo, but I would prefer some sort of an ingame tool to share exploration data. Perhaps the option to buy data on known Guardian sites at say, Jameson Memorial. Using 3rd party sites feels like cheating.

[ExtremelyMift69]

Make a Discord link to Canonn-Gnosis, these are the scientific bods who play Elite. They are the ones who make many of the discoveries to be found in the Galaxy and they're willing to share that information with the whole community. This is the group that provide much of the more esoteric knowledge including where to find Guardian and Thargoid sites. Make good use of them they are well worth it. Fly safe & have fun Cmdr. o7

[G33Z3R]

I found info on Guardians and Thargoids in Codex under Discoveries somwhere...It tells you the system where they first where encountered.

[Brew]

Originally posted by Snarfblatt:

I know you can filter by civilization in the galaxy map, but of course no Guardian systems showed up since I haven't discovered any,

You don't have to "discover" them before they show up in the galaxy map filter. If you're zoomed in enough and looking in the right spot, the dots will show as blue even if you've never been to those systems. The problem is that if you zoom out too much, you can't see any dots; if you zoom in too much, you can't see very far so you're still panning around trying to find a needle in a haystack. The system seems pretty useless for finding anything very far away :(

[Agony_Aunt]

Originally posted by Snarfblatt:

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Finding them yourself is not easy. I'm not sure where i would start. They were discovered through a lot of collaborative effort.

IIRC, there are some megaships or beacons in the bubble that point to them, but again, finding those locations also requires a lot of time/effort.

Some things in the game were never really designed to be discovered through individual effort.

Yeah I always figured that for a game of this scope some things would need to be collaborative, but then shouldn't there be ingame tools players can use to share information without having to resort to 3rd party sites outside of the game?

The Codex should give you some info on where to find stuff, but it will only show stuff in your current region of space IIRC. I may be talking out of my rear end here though.

By the way, it gets worse. Some of the stuff people have uncovered were only able to be found due to people analysing audio and extracting stenographic pictures from within the sounds. So some stuff discovered is beyond the ken of most people.

[Kosevich]

Actually there is a mega corporation that provides a tour using 2 megaships to the nearest guardian site once a week.
So i recommend to start looking in guardian lore. Story of first contact and so on.

[LoboFH]

You know, Cristobal Colon discovered America and talked about it, then other explorers went there to explore even more stuff and find new lands. it wasn't a cheap piggybacking off the effort of others, it's what it is.

[Overloadedcasu]

Just look at your codex bro, some location

[Stelar Seven]

The last time I used the map set to Guardian several stars I hadn't visited before lit up.