So when do I leave the bubble?

[ZeeHero]

Making my way through the Elysian Shore right now. Still having trouble finding any undiscovered systems

[Verienkeli]

A: You're out of the bubble.
B: Get "above" or "below" the galactic plane by a few hundred light years and you should find plenty of undiscovered systems. Even after 10 years I don't think we've even breached 1% of systems visited.

[ZeeHero]

We haven't. which is why I'm pretty surprised

[Sighman]

Originally posted by Verienkeli:

A: You're out of the bubble.
B: Get "above" or "below" the galactic plane by a few hundred light years and you should find plenty of undiscovered systems. Even after 10 years I don't think we've even breached 1% of systems visited.

Correct, it's about 0.6% now

When trying to find undiscovered systems you want to be about 2500 ly from the bubble, above or below the plane, and not heading towards any nebulae, colonia or sag a.

[McGargoyle]

Originally posted by Sighman:

When trying to find undiscovered systems you want to be about 2500 ly from the bubble, above or below the plane, and not heading towards any nebulae, colonia or sag a.

By sheer luck, I found a few about 800LY from the Bubble, but as you said - in a direction to nowhere.

[ZeeHero]

I'm about 8000 or more LY from the bubble now. I've tried as up or down as I could go without running into places with 40-50+ LY between stars (unjumpable with my ship, I dont have billions of credits and engineered stuff)

Still zero unexplored systems encountered. What in the F is going on

[Kehre]

I've found undiscovered systems within 1000 LY from the bubble, go in the direction where most players don't go and disable class M stars from your route filter

[ZeeHero]

Why disable class M? why does everyone flock to those

[McGargoyle]

Originally posted by ZeeHero:

I'm about 8000 or more LY from the bubble now. I've tried as up or down as I could go without running into places with 40-50+ LY between stars (unjumpable with my ship, I dont have billions of credits and engineered stuff)

Still zero unexplored systems encountered. What in the F is going on

My "secret trick" is broadly rimward, about 70° downward from the plane and to the left when viewing from the Bubble towards Sag A*.

Originally posted by ZeeHero:

Why disable class M? why does everyone flock to those

Don't.
Most people flock to F-G-K, because they have the highest chance of valuable planets.
You might want to disable Y and T to not run out of fuel.

[ZeeHero]

Heading home in defeat. Won't bother with this again. not until much much later with way more money for the best longest jump ship to reach stars impossible for others

[Agony_Aunt]

Originally posted by ZeeHero:

Heading home in defeat. Won't bother with this again. not until much much later with way more money for the best longest jump ship to reach stars impossible for others

Terrible advice.

Even a few years ago i was finding earthlikes just a few thousand LY from Sol that hadn't been discovered.

Its all about getting off the beaten path.

You can fly in a direction and discover loads, then you'll hit a patch which has been covered by a commander, but a few hundred LY more and its all undiscovered again.

You don't need a massive jump range. First star from the left and straight on until morning.

[ZeeHero]

I knew that and I tried. I set my course as close to the dark spots on that map thing possible.

[Brew]

I just got back from a trip which wound up drifting back to sanguineous rim, and was heading toward elysian shore before I came back. I was surprised at how much was discovered. I was initially closer to the bubble and maybe +700 above the galactic plane but was getting fed up with everything being discovered, which is why I headed back to the other region. On that particular segment of the journey, everything was discovered: every water world, every earthlike, every bio planet with decent signals was first-footfalled. Even a few jumps into sanguineous rim, things were discovered (I was still about +450 above the plane at that point). It was better out there, but still surprisingly discovered. The trip home was 40 jumps in a 75Ly Mandalay, so I would have been near 3000Ly out by the end of it.

I have come away from it feeling like there's an exobiology gold rush going on right now. Understandable since they bumped the payout, and probably all the hints and recommendations are saying exo is easy money. I don't watch youtube or websearch for any info from anyone, but I see some of that here on the forums. The mostly-discovered area around the bubble seems a lot larger than it used to be, and is probably growing quickly right now. I can understand why people want to just get a FC and travel to the middle of nowhere and get away from the crowds. If you're doing PP though, you have to sell in PP territory or you get no merits. So you could jump out to the middle of nowhere but UC/Vista services would just be gathering dust. You have to carry it all back.

Sounds like the rush has even made it well into elysian shores. I wonder if there is anywhere reasonably near the bubble for someone without a FC who has to carry everything back to sell, where one could still find lots of first-footfalls. Apparently if you go outward, you need to travel quite a long way now.

[XOLiD]

Maybe we are closer to exploring the entire galaxy than we realize. Fleet carriers and further improvements to frame shift tech has really made exploration a lot more accessible and easier for people to do quickly instead of having to go out for weeks/months at a time.

[funkynutz]

Originally posted by Sighman:

...it's about 0.6% now

You're missing missing a decimal point.

The 0.06 reported in the newsletter was more than a year ago though... So we might even be close to 0.07 by now

I can't remember which newsletter it was, but as of January 10, 2023, it was only 0.059%.

[ZeeHero]

that or i'm just cursed. or theres an auto plot bug locking the path to explored systems