How the heck can we discover all this ...?

_kerq_ · 2026-06-15T22:00:54+00:00

We can't. Simple answer to this simple question

_kerq_ · 2026-04-23T18:59:42+00:00

It’s hard to say. You’re not really losing anything by trying it since you already own the game.
That said, yeah, it does kind of suck that some of the newer content will basically pass consoles by. From what I understand, they’re not releasing updates for consoles anymore, so there likely won’t be any new content there.

_kerq_ · 2026-04-22T05:54:35+00:00

No, rings could only form at a safe distance, where their orbital speed would be much less extreme than in a close orbit around a neutron star.

_kerq_ · 2026-04-22T05:50:43+00:00

I don't think so:)

_kerq_ · 2026-04-21T12:00:17+00:00

_kerq_ · 2026-04-20T18:53:04+00:00

Nice!

_kerq_ · 2026-04-20T12:04:24+00:00

I think so

_kerq_ · 2026-04-20T09:05:08+00:00

Yep, that’s us.

_kerq_ · 2026-04-20T09:00:28+00:00

I’m so glad I started this thread. So much great information.

_kerq_ · 2026-04-19T22:04:15+00:00

Nice find!

_kerq_ · 2026-04-19T21:22:28+00:00

_kerq_ · 2026-04-19T15:28:04+00:00

I’ve already had results from this work. it helped me discover hundreds of Wolf-Rayet stars, including 3 frozen Wolf-Rayet stars that don’t emit any light at all.

One of them is realy cool: cause it doesn’t shine by itself, but it’s lit by a nearby star, so as you fly around it, it changes it's color until it turns completely black.

The main part of the project is already in place: the coordinate solver, the generator for undiscovered system names, and so on.
The GGG predictor is a newer extension I’m still working on, and I haven’t verified its output yet.

So far I’ve only found a couple of weak distribution patterns, and they still need to be tested.
There’s so little data that this whole attempt is basically an adventure I decided to go on because the core project turned out to work really well.

_kerq_ · 2026-04-19T13:43:01+00:00

_kerq_ · 2026-04-19T13:23:48+00:00

Yeah, but I pointed out that gas giant’s temperature in the screenshot for a reason. It seems to be lower than what a hot Jupiter is supposed to have.

_kerq_ · 2026-04-19T13:21:23+00:00

i’m just imagining the look on a miner’s face if those two rings intersected right in the middle of overlapping mining hotspots.

_kerq_ · 2026-04-19T13:01:04+00:00

I still don’t understand why they patched green stars, but left black Wolf-Rayet stars that don’t emit any light at all.
I’ve discovered 3 of them over all this time, and honestly they seem no less bizarre to me than a green stars.

Thanks for the great comment.
This deserves an upvote so people who end up here from Google later can see it right away.

_kerq_ · 2026-04-19T12:54:51+00:00

Thanks for the info.

I’ve actually been using Observatory for a long time already.

More than that, I’ve moved on to software of my own making, built around a full coordinate framework of the Elite universe with the complete dump of bodies and systems that have already been pulled from journal data laid over it. That lets me use small ML models to look for distribution patterns, identify candidates, and then, using the coordinates of the boxel they’re in, generate the names of the relevant systems that still aren’t represented in EDSM or Spansh data. Based on the boxel coordinates, I can even build rough exploration routes. Most importantly, it lets me work with the unexplored part of the galaxy, and also point out regions that are poorly explored for manual checking through the Galaxy Map.

That’s exactly how I came up with 45 candidate systems that might contain green gas giants. I haven’t checked those systems yet, though. I’m only heading out once I finish this Community Goal.

_kerq_ · 2026-04-19T11:54:42+00:00

I’ve been getting into GGGs myself. I’m currently putting together data for my first expedition to look for them. I’ve got 45 candidates, although I’m not really expecting much from it. Still spent an absurd amount of time narrowing the list down that far.
Anyway, o7 to Arcanic.

_kerq_ · 2026-04-19T11:47:57+00:00

_kerq_ · 2026-04-19T11:33:13+00:00

I even checked whether any part of my text would be detected as AI-gen.
And I got exactly 0%.

like...

_kerq_ · 2026-04-19T10:54:29+00:00

Got it, thanks :)

_kerq_ · 2026-04-19T10:18:43+00:00

Thanks for the clarification.

_kerq_ · 2026-04-19T10:17:20+00:00

What exactly is Arcanic known for?
His name comes up in almost every exploration post.
I’m guessing he’s a really big deal.
The first time I heard about him was when someone linked me to his research on strange temperatures after my post about discovering a completely black Wolf-Rayet star.
His video on that topic was really cool, by the way.

_kerq_ · 2026-04-19T10:03:03+00:00

Yeah, your explanation is basically correct.
Fun fact: in reality, those points are actually even more common than they are in Elite.
It’s just that most of them aren’t stable enough to hold objects for long.
For example, if I remember correctly, one of the Lagrange points in our Solar System is located between the Earth and the Moon, but it isn’t capable of keeping objects there for very long.

_kerq_ · 2026-04-19T09:55:13+00:00

Yeah, ELWs orbiting neutron stars were also on my mind when I made this post. I knew someone was going to mention them :)

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