Exploration discoveries!?

[Artean]

According to Egosoft sectors are bigger than indicated by the map boarders. Have anyone ventured out in the open, beoynd sector boarders, and discovered anything?

[Hippopwnamus]

Yeah, nothing terrifyingly interesting but yes. Found a few raiders like 700k from civilization and no nearby stations. Some GIANT asteroids that had nothing on or in them that I could see. Occasionally miners.

[Carlos Spicywiener]

I couldn’t cross the border of grand exchange to see if I could just fly to the next sector. I was right at the border and flew about 700 km. Checked the map and I was still in the same spot. Funny thing though, every so often I’d have freight ships flying by me. Starting to think a lot of these ships we see are indeed static

[Artean]

Nothing that exciting so far, I take it. As soon as I'm done smuggling Maja Dust, I might take on an expedition on my own.

[Hippopwnamus]

Originally posted by Carlos Spicywiener:

I couldn’t cross the border of grand exchange to see if I could just fly to the next sector. I was right at the border and flew about 700 km. Checked the map and I was still in the same spot. Funny thing though, every so often I’d have freight ships flying by me. Starting to think a lot of these ships we see are indeed static

You don't stay right on the border, youre making the sector bigger.

[First5trike]

Originally posted by Artean:

According to Egosoft sectors are bigger than indicated by the map boarders. Have anyone ventured out in the open, beoynd sector boarders, and discovered anything?

I have in a few sectors. I have not actually found anything though.

Outside of maybe some easter eggs I am kind of having doubts there is anything out there right now.

[Multox]

I've found quite a few stations well outside of the initial borders.

[Coffeepot]

Use the "manage plot" button and zoom out to see all the blue plot boxes, these are where stations are located, there are a few outside of the original areas.

[Sovereigndrake]

Ships autospawn no matter how far away you go, there's no need for a fleet of gas miners to be a system that has no gas in it. Other than that, i havent found anything.

Edit: I hadn't noticed this before, but the planets are spinning -- or at least the gray moon in The Reach, i was watching it and the lake looking things eventually went over the horizon

[Marshall]

Originally posted by Multox:

I've found quite a few stations well outside of the initial borders.

what sector were you in?

[Tman]

If u plop a satellite down and target a station in range then go thru the jump gate while maintaining the lock you can see how far it is to the station from the other side. Its about 35000km from tharkas to hatikvahs. Its about a 2 hour journey which I'm not willing to try lol. Maybe someone else with a faster ship. I did about 10 minutes worth in a 5km/s ship and didn't find anything out there.

[Sovereigndrake]

Originally posted by Tman:

If u plop a satellite down and target a station in range then go thru the jump gate while maintaining the lock you can see how far it is to the station from the other side. Its about 35000km from tharkas to hatikvahs. Its about a 2 hour journey which I'm not willing to try lol. Maybe someone else with a faster ship. I did about 10 minutes worth in a 5km/s ship and didn't find anything out there.

Ooooo i might try, i've got a n 8km/s ship but i can get it higher if i can find some damn upgrade parts

[Zyandra]

i have found many empty ships after the sector borders 8 or 10 claimed most are transports and scouts 2 or 3 are heavy fighters

[Artean]

Originally posted by Zyandra:

i have found many empty ships after the sector borders 8 or 10 claimed most are transports and scouts 2 or 3 are heavy fighters

Not bad at all! Perhaps it is time to start planing my expedition.

[Tman]

the whole thing is fake. I flew from one sector to the other manually and stood in exact spot the target factory said it should be using the target lock trick as you jump gates. From argon prime to hatikvah is only 17000km and I did that in under an hour. Everything in hatikvah is missing if you fly there manually.