Finding Unexplored Systems

The universe is a lot bigger than you think

Finding a direction to go

• Fly between 2000 ly - 10,000 ly out of the bubble
  
• Go 500 ly - 1000 ly above or below the galactic plane

Checking if a system has already been discovered

You'll want the thrid-party plugin EDDiscovery[github.com]. It's super helpful.

• Go to the tab "Estimated Values" and there you can see the potential value of each body in the system.
  
• If there is a little blue icon in the "Already Discovered" tab, that means that the body was already discovered. You can still scan and map it to get paid for the discovery.
  
• If there is "EDSM" in the "EDSM" column that means that the body was uploaded to EDSM. If you never see this click the yellow EDSM button just above the table.
  
• If the table is empty, it means that this system hasn't been explored yet. You're the first!

Also, you can check the system map to see if there are any CMDRs credited with the discovery.

Conclusion

Do you feel discouraged? Like the galaxy is drying up and there's nothing left to discover and explore? Well, fear not! The galaxy is incomprehensibly large. We've barely dicovered 0.01% of the galaxy. That's ~54 million systems out of 400 billion. Don't worry, you'll leave your mark somewhere out there.

Helpful Resources

Check out these maps to find somewhere specific to go:

Exploration Saturation:
- Shows a general overview of unexplored systems, doesn't show highly trafficked routes to avoid.
- Useful to pick a location to head to.
- https://edastro.com/galmap/?layer=saturation

Discovered/Visited Systems (Heatmap):
- A detailed look at the traffic around the galaxy.
- https://edastro.com/galmap/?layer=indexedheat

Displays the Discovered/Visited Systems heatmap with sector names overlayed:
- Choose a location on the discovered/visited heatmap above and then find the sector name to enter into the map
- https://edastro.com/galmap/?layer=sectors

Average Stars:
- If you want to get really specific in where you go, this shows the individual stars
- https://edastro.com/mapcharts/averagestars.png

[Infinitism]

theres also an in game filter that you can use to automatically plot a rout to unexplored, or partially explored systems

[BaylanSkål]

Thanks, maybe this is what I need to return!

[Rogbarz]

Thank you very much!

Will get the plugin later tonight :)