WHAT IF Elite Dangerous Had Dark Systems and Rogue Planets?

[@aSliceOfChoccyMilk]

I want ObsidianAnt to narrate a 2 hour space documentary

[@pandafoz9994]

i second this!

[@Chaydex]

Yes please, collab with Ant and Scott Manley doing a space documentary would be legendary

[@soldier72]

And bring in The Pilot as a cameo.

[@jamesleyden2982]

Yes! Yes !and Yes!

[@MrAwol007]

yes please that would be epic

[@VANdeVice]

Me: - What if - Walk inside the ship ? - What if - Meteor shower's ? - What if - Comets ? - What if - City, which covering the entire planet ? - What if - Oceans, caves, biomes varying by altitude ? - What if - Vegetation on the surface ? - What if - Animals with realistic behavior ? - What if - Magnificent ... Frontier: - Hey ! Stop spoiling around, would you ?

[@NuncHistoria]

Check out molluscs if you haven't already. They're actual space faring animals

[@yumri4]

I do think they said something about the inside of your own ship in the up coming DLC thingy. I might be wrong though i hope i'm not. Meteor shower's would be cool. The thing is it would most likely be connected to comets. Both of these will make for non static and fast moving objects compared to planets which will make the FSS scanner less useful for scanning a system. I think doin a single city covering the entire planet would be hard as each planetary port has landing pads and if it covered the entire planet it would just confuse the player for where they are to land unless they use advance docking computer that is then it might get to the point that you only had to get into the place you can land then you will be able to use the advanced docking computer to do the rest due to how random it seems landing pads are assigned. It would be cool to have oceans on planets that could support that. Iced over ones on them that are to cold and areas that could be or were an ocean in the past on others. Having biomes would only be a thing on planets with enough atmosphere to support it which most don't. The altitude thing i don't see happening either. Really to me it seems like they took the sim of universe sandbox changed it a bit by adding stations, an actual story, space ships, combat, aliens etc. BUT never did anything to the planets. That will go with my above one for vegeation on the surface. There's animals in elite dangerous? other than the xeno creatures and humans i mean.

[@elixwhitetail]

@@yumri4 There will be NO walking around inside your ship with the launch of Odyssey, that's confirmed.

[@AleronWolf]

@@elixwhitetail that's really sad. Even just being able to walk in your own cabin, like in X4, makes game super cozy.

[@dangernoodle8813]

what if - what if -

[@NathanielChattoo]

Elites main problem is that it's so static. You know that every jump is going to be successful, you know every jump is going to take exactly [this] amount of seconds, you know that every system is going to have a star. It's severely lacking in terms of randomness. Just the chance of a jump failing due to damage or stellar phenomenon and it dumping you out in the space between stars would make the game feel more alive.

[@TechnoMinarchist]

I wouldn't mind being able to chain jumps together into one jump with one long witch space period being used so you don't have to just chain jump over and over again. It's the chain jumping that makes exploration boring.

[@DoctorBastard]

Jumps aren't always successful in Pleiades, bloody Thargoids are constantly interfering with them out here.

[@yumri4]

@@DoctorBastard to which recently happened to me ..... as i was there trying to do a cargo run before i found out it is like 1000+ light years away from anything i normally do. The inhumane signals were up in the amount of 30s in every system too. Unsure what threat 6 is as i steer clear of those not having a good K/D ratio on threat 1 and 2 threat 6 is probably harder than threat 2.

[@The4j1123]

THIS

[@fishthemeh6346]

yeah the one thing that keeps it interesting is hyperdiction

[@cadenh03]

I had never thought of rogue planets in Elite until now, but now I want them

[@1invag]

I mean they wouldn't really be any different lol you can't actually travel between solar systems directly so you'd essentially just be landing on another planet in a solar system. Just a temporary one

[@joerensh8463]

Raxxla is said to be a rogue planet...

[@Kanitoxx]

I mean, systems in Elite are bodies gravitationally bonded, so, rogue planets shouldn't be mapped in a system even if they are really close. But they could appear as a faint signal with unknown distance and unable to jump directly without previously calculate the trajectory from 3 or 4 systems (triangulation)

[@hindae085]

Even without changing the way the game instances you in a given system its possible. Look at Hutton. 0.3LY of manual travel to get to the place. Could also add a "Deep Space Scanner" or something that allows you to hop to a rogue planet lost in the abyss

[@NuncHistoria]

Fun fact. Rogue planets EXIST in the game files, and even the official manual. They've never been loaded. Meaning it remains unfound or locked away for future content

[@greyworld2246]

Interesting. I wonder how that would work, with planets all currently being anchored to a single star system

[@NuncHistoria]

@@greyworld2246 My theory is as follows: right now our FSD's lock onto the largest mass body in the system, and anchor us there for a jump. We'd probably have to have a unique way to plot to a dark system, and I reckon if it's just a rogue planet, then that planet itself will be the highest mass anchor point. A dark system, the highest mass planet

[@Theonixco]

@@NuncHistoria Agreed, if implemented it would probably be done that way. There are plenty of Brown dwarfs in game that are jumped to in a similar way and those are technically not stars.

[@MaverickBlue42]

@@Theonixco They're just obese gas giants.....

[@Dark__Thoughts]

Comets apparently exist within stellar forge too, but are not rendered within the game.

[@spiderjerusalem100]

If i remember right Frontier never officially announced that Thargoids were in the game until someone made first contact so there has to be some amazing things out there yet to be discovered.

[@HighFidelityFox]

Due to raxxlan tinfoil hat purposes

[@grandreefer]

Omg yes please. Great idea, Ant. We need all the special anomalies.

[@ObsidianAnt]

The more the better! :)

[@EM-ks5my]

@@ObsidianAnt I asked Frontier why there is not LOW WAKE system travel and they said, that's because each system is a game instance, and the only way to change is with a jump. Frontier should follow Anton Petrov, he does astronomy and covers all the weird stuff like real anomalies, and things. m.kzbin.info

[@NathanielChattoo]

@@EM-ks5my For all the crap Star Citizen gets for delays and feature creep, and rightly so, the one thing they've managed to get perfect is the seamless transitions from one flight state to the next. I get that there's obviously going to be some tech limitations when simulating the entire galaxy compared to simulating a single system but if Frontier could figure out a way to get rid of the instancing, ED would be so much better. Imagine being on a planet when Odyssey releases and seeing a ship go from space, through atmospheric reentry, to touchdown instead of just appearing like they do now...

[@Mrrshal]

@@NathanielChattoo But Elite has no less seamless transitions? In system loading is hidden behind game mechanics like gliding to planet surface. In StarCitizen you still have to travel trough tunnel in to other star system with is the same as Elite witchspace albeit less interactive.

[@NathanielChattoo]

@@Mrrshal Elites' "glide" phase is just a single player instance, a ship following directly behind will see you just vanish and a ship on the surface will see you just magically appear once the glide is complete. Reentry in Star Citizen is literally seamless and a player on the surface won't see a ship just pop into view. As for system to system travel in Star Citizen, nobody knows exactly how it works yet as it's still (as with many things in SC) to be released to the Alpha. I imagine it'll be a load screen similar to Witchspace in Elite because the tech isn't there to have a seamless galaxy. My point in my original comment is that there's no reason for it not to be possible to fly from a planets surface all the way up to an orbiting station without having to do a jump. It should also be entirely possible to chase a ship down to a planets surface without having to lock onto its wake signature and drop out of FSD onto it.

[@Yinzermakesvids]

Really wish they would remake their black holes. They are uninteresting.

[@mada1241]

And innacurrate

[@PwnageJ]

exactly, black holes are a huge disappointment in the game.

[@congruentcrib]

I wish this was a thing. Being a commander who loves using the ffs and dss and any other tools I can I love finding the beauty that most people dont bother to stop and see. I’d love more tools and more equipment to be imported for use to find even stranger things in the game. I love the radio frequency, imagine if you had to check several tools to figure out what something is when it’s undiscovered. It’d just be - unidentifiable astral object - until you figure out what it is with all the proper tools.

[@APGfamily]

I want this guy to speak at my funeral

[@MGlBlaze]

Since our FSD jumps lock on to star gravitational signatures, I feel like managing to find a rogue planet would require very specific modifications. I have wondered about rogue planets in E:D for a while, though. Even if there's not a lot to them, the idea of a planet out in the void between stars orbiting the galactic center rather than its own star does sound really cool.

[@DZXDachande]

There are hidden systems in Elite and I don't really know why they were hidden. Just type PSR into the galaxy map search bar and hit enter. You will see loads of systems appear and disappear as it moves to a seemingly empty point in space. I managed to screen shot a few of the system names as it they appeared. PSR J0023-7204PSR J, PSR J0024-7204I and PSR J0024-7204H are 3 of the names I captured. If anyone knows the purpose of these hidden systems, I would be interested to find out.

[@JB-fk3bt]

What if FD did put in dark systems/rogue planets and never told us because they want us to find them. And because the galaxy is still so unexplored, no one has found one yet. 😮

[@brandonheald9624]

I remember a system I found once on the other side of Sag. A, heading towards Beagle Point. It was on the upper reaches of the galaxy as well and consisted of a Neutron star and a single Earth-like planet orbiting it. Very strange place and didn't really make sense but it's the closest thing I've been to that I'd call "A dark system".

[@kalimer0968]

huh...I wasn't aware that more complex mechanics regarding travel between systems were originally part of the plan. That's pretty much THE thing that could have kept me playing. Bummer...

[@MJRSoap]

Closest we have to "Dark Systems" are those containing purely a brown dwarf. I've seen systems however where a Gas Giant had a greater mass than the primary brown dwarf. The only reason in a system like that, that the gas giant isn't the drop point is because we're only allowed to drop out at the most massive STELLAR body. Gas giants are unfortunately not considered stellar body's at the moment.

[@rueben225]

Yeeeeep. Rogue planets could be a whole thing to track down. I would LOVE to evacuate a space station that has been hit by an ongoing meteor shower, or has found themselves in a space lightning storm on the scifi side. Comets would be amazing to visit.

[@comesee1752]

It would be cool if it works similar to an interdiction When jumping from one star to another your ship systems could recognize and a stellar object and drop you out of your jump

[@anakinjovanus1135]

I like the idea, but it would make journeys even longer

[@comesee1752]

@@anakinjovanus1135 I forgot to mention, i also think they should be rare...and once u find one, it will show up on the galaxy map. That should help...

[@FenrisOswin]

This was a hot topic years ago on the forums, several theories about Raxxla being in a Dark System or a Rogue Planet that occasionally passes through the Sol system

[@cmdrvex]

Thank you, OA, for featuring my image in your excellent video! o7

[@anakinjovanus1135]

I love these types of videos keep it up ant!

[@hindae085]

I'd love to see destroyed planets. It's been in the game for a long time now that highly advanced ancient civilisations were present in the Milky Way so no telling what may have happened with more dangerous tinkering. Plus, stuff happens in space. Planets collide, meteorites the size of moons hit stuff. Etc. Also, I'd love something dangerous to explore like fresh supernovas or something. Kinda like the jets from neutron stars except the payoff for exploring them is untold riches from the pure, heavy elements they discard. Imagine jumping into a system where there's an unstable dead core surrounded by broken shards of planet and extremely hot gas and dust. Your ship is screaming to turn back but the wealth of resources could make you a multimillionaire if you brave it a bit longer.

[@ladycaruso]

Awesome, what a clever series idea! Looking forward to more!

[@dreamyrhodes]

Honestly, Fdev needs to put some effort into this. Asteroids (not these belt rocks but real asteroids like Vesta or Bennu in our solar system), comets, stars that are a little different than always the same texture with a different color or size (for instance Beteigeuze should look like a violent blob of gas throwing off material and not like a calm orange sun), disks around black holes (honestly I never visited one because I find them rather boring in ED, they are just a lens effect on the background stars) ect.+ And not to mention dark systems, systems around Jupiter-like failed stars, rogue planets, also rogue moons and asteroids ect. Also star clusters... there should be a way to visit globular clusters in our galaxy ect. The overall look of the ED galaxy has not changed much since it's beta.

[@muzallisam5068]

Agree, why can't we follow comet Haley from behind. We have ships that move faster then the speed of light.

[@diegotorres6824]

The brown dwarfs in the game are the failed stars

[@JG27Korny]

Indeed Elite has to update the Space phenomena: Black holes look like those modeled in space engine, landable asteroids etc. I think space content should be free. And also separate DLC: Atmospheric planets DLC Lush planets DLC Base building DLC Factory building DLC City building DLC Also there should be a real estate market and economy. I mean there are so many possibilities. I think the community should build the world, not as it is in Star citizen where the community pay for developers to build their world and that is a hard task, and even more you cannot connect truly to something you are not involved in.

[@henryvaneyk3769]

Maybe a Gravitation Scanner could be a way to discover hidden away planets.

[@goodss2730]

Would this even work, i assume the fsd uses stars as destinatons and can't stop near a planet because of the small gravity wells, but maybe a carrier can since it can go to a chosen planet in any system even small space statons without a problem? It would be very expensive if you had to own a carrier or be inside someone else just to reach a rogue planet and after that would it even be worth it?

[@avythebird9483]

I hope Frontier is going to add things like this in the near future, perhaps with the Odyssey DLC?

[@viper_4115]

The idea of a rogue planet is interesting to say the least. I’d love to discover one if it were a thing.

[@pranayomama]

or some star trek style gravitational wave anomalies that if you encounter while frameshifting teleport you 50,000ly or something... and greater distance boosts for neutron star jet fsd overloading... or maybe some Einstein-Rosen bridges... the list goes on... oh yeah, and more ships!

[@Cramblit]

Rogue Planets would be fun to find using the scanner system they put in. Looking for those anomolous spikes in the static of space, and plotting it as a jump point. You may find nothing, or you might find an asteroid, or planet, or many things.

[@paulbowler5345]

These would be great additions to Elite. I'd love to see stable wormholes to make exploration of the Galaxy, even more fun.

[@ion_force]

Elite Dangerous: Deep Space Nine DLC

[@OrangePheonix]

Wow that was a surprise to see this morning! Thank you for showcasing my Conda infront of Star capture OA... Certainly in future feel free to ask for any of my captures for any purpose.... I have many many more 😅 Fantastic video as ever ő7 Same goes for the team at SPVFA 😉

[@benjackson8731]

Little point. From the display at @1:07, we have explored less than 1/20th of a percent. Rogue planets are great, but not sure how they would work in the given system as I think jumps target the much larger gravity wells of stars. Maybe if you got deflected a bit if you pass the rogue planet and you would need a few passes over the same area to unlock the system. Would black hole systems with no stars count as dark systems?

[@ellescer]

Elite would definitely benefit from more astronomical objects, even events like supernovas or meteors striking planets would be cool

[@popuptoaster]

WHAT IF Frontier had implemented some of these ideas before it was to late and they were forced to add a first person shooter to keep people happy that'll probably go the same way as the crappy fighter game they half arsed onto the game?

[@ellescer]

Fuck this is what I’m afraid of

[@ion_force]

Arena is fun bro

[@popuptoaster]

@@ion_force Not fun enough to bring in a decent player base, terrible choice to not even make it an integrated part of the game for a start.

[@ion_force]

@@popuptoaster its a completely optional tree to play. You don't even have to touch it to get through the game. So its not really an issue.

[@popuptoaster]

@@ion_force Which was a large part f the problem in the first place if you ask me, it was never integrated into the game and just became a huge amount of wasted effort. FD should have either made areas around capital ships and stations where it was only possible to fly in fighters for combat OR if they were really dead set on it being an in universe "e" sport they should have made it accessible through the options in the stations or on your ship console. It's just a bare bones tacked on bonus game at the moment, total waste.

[@username3471]

3:47 "Rogue planets that no one can see, forever lost, that is until someone makes the discovery" This is some destiny 2 level of dialogue

[@beforcial]

Dark Systems and Rogue Planets? ... YES PLEASE!! Have them be another game loop for explorers and somewhat easier to access after someone has initially found them, say via a gate of sorts or some other beacon device thingy.

[@gre3nishsinx0Rgold4]

This peeked my interest as to what's out there in elite dangerous

[@Insomn]

My suggestion was that during a H-Jump you might get a signal that an anomaly was detected and you could choose to drop on it or not.

[@1980juseppe]

Hi ObsidianAnt, the game needs a little bit of variation after so many years of playing around the same and your idea with the possibility of jumping out the hypercruze between systems is great.

[@greatdanexlks]

Yes. This idea is used in Vendetta Online. It was cool the first couple of times but then it got annoying. It would bring a realistic element of danger to hyperspace traveling. Maybe if these anomalies could take us to a completely of course part of the galaxy, forcing exploration. That would be cool.

[@michaelwoffindin]

Imagine you're just cruising through space and a rogue planet traveling at near-light speed just creams your fucking ship. It would be like swatting a fly with a house.

[@NFawc]

How about just some more involved gameplay in the existing 200+ billion systems before creating yet more... eg: Solid procedural atmospheric worlds with bar raising depth and variety. Ideally with plant life from a procedural engine with a myriad of inputs, both from stellar forge and topographic.

[@teddypicker8799]

Atmospheric planets wouldn't really add much gameplay though, just visual effects. Game needs more missions and meaningful things to actually do - I'm hopeful with Odyssey can see there being a lot of new interesting gameplay with the shooter mechanics and space legs

[@NFawc]

@@teddypicker8799 Agreed, but layers of mechanics for atmospherics all feeding off each other creates variety and uniqueness. Landing next to a large lake on the night side of a planet, in the distance aurora can be seen dancing. And closer, a huge electrical storm is reflecting off the water. Next to you a large waterfall is illuminated by the lightening. And around the edge of the lake various odd plants can be seen. The problem is though, FD have now put in their biggest ever development effort for ED, not to beef up the core gameplay/experience, but instead to create a whole new area of gameplay to leave half baked with shallow gameplay and poor balancing. Note: Plant life is hinted at for Odyssey, but rather than being the outcome of a solid procedural engine using loads of inputs from Stellar Forge and planet topography, I fear it's basically hard coded artist creations :( Fingers crpssed FD have put the effort in and it is an impressive procedural engine at work!

[@Blad071]

So, I think maybe the next dev diary drops tomorrow. The past two released on a Tuesday; the time between the first and second was 6 weeks, it's going to be 6 weeks tomorrow since the last one. Maybe it'll be titled 'ASSEMBLE YOUR CREW' or something like that since the first two are titled exactly as it shows in the game description on steam and their own website. If this is true then this will be dev diary 3 of 4. The last one releasing in December and then the game releasing in Feb. I don't know, crazy theory I came up with while being bored to oblivion at work.

[@OMentertainment]

Its too bad. Dark systems and misjumps are all over the books.

[@platypusrex2287]

When I first started playing I would see a spot of light in the distance in the system map, I could never zoom in on them, I thought they might be rogue planets but never could figure out how to get to them. I don't see them all the time but now and again I still do..

[@alvaroishere]

What If followed by Elite Dangerous is the most heart sinking title. We all know what could happen if all those What ifs came true :(

[@AleK0451]

the game is just a whole load of what if questions now that the game has become stale with its content

[@wilfridsephiroth9213]

And we also know they never will

[@pktrsho6055]

I jumped all the way out to the very edge of the galaxy until I couldn't jump anymore because there were no more stars to jump to. All of the planets look the same as the ones in the bubble so I think we've seen it all.

[@OseanBigshot444]

Aren't asteroids/comets simulated by the Stellar Forge, they've just never actually been enabled in the game? Maybe that's the special content they're making people who purchased the lifetime pass wait for. And they have to literally wait a lifetime.

[@simon-ricardokuhn1713]

I found a beautiful ringed earth-like: RS 8496-900-6-17063-4 A4 Planets like this really makes me want to have more fleshed-out atmospheric landings. I hope these will be added via updates for Odyssey. Maybe they can cooperate with SpaceEngine (and maybe even Outerra Anteworld. I also hope that with Odyssey also overhauls the looks of other planets and even black holes. Time will tell!

[@jimthegentleman2446]

Would we find Rogue Planets like we can find Voyager 1?

[@twoduece]

i was just thinking today about the possibility of black dwarfs in elite, basically white dwarfs that dont have any energy left and are just super dense black and dead celestial bodies

[@alekzc9109]

I've wanted rogue planets for a long time now 😢

[@tbgelectr0]

@ObsidianAnt: Rogue planets exists in game according to streams with FDev and api documentation for journal.json

[@admiralcurse7585]

Maybe a new modular would be needed; an advanced nav computer. And maybe these dark systems would offer great risk but great reward. Love the vid!

[@bjornseine2342]

And if you take the cheap/lightweight/small versions, you might take damage on missjumps - making effective exploration ships (for this type of exploration at least) more expensive, taking longer to get. More progression for the explorers, like there is for combat or trading.

[@suikerstaafje7]

I would love to see a black hole eating a star slowly, Comets and super nova states.

[@TheRandomYoYo]

Gameplay Idea: The Dark Wheel faction expands and gets an engineer. This engineer provides the schematics and upgrades for "Removed Governor" type FSD, which allows one to pick up and jump to lower mass objects, which a high degree of error (spits you out maybe 10s or 100s ls away). As a result you can now get readings of rogue planets from certain factions and other transmissions in regular systems, unlocking them on your Star Map to do said jump. There you can find a large number of things, other NPC Pirates, maybe a hidden faction. The argument for why Dark Wheel would provide this, of course, is to find what might be speculated to be the Rogue Planet or Dark System that contains Raxxla, which could open up the war with the Thargoids, for the life of the galaxy.

[@TOONYBOY]

This would be so useful for missions that make you fly 100,000 ls. Just jump out, replot the jump, jump in and then jump irl for the improved supercruise travel

[@sgintoki6561]

I'd love to see some supernovae and other extremes in game. It would make exploration way more thrilling.

[@VeronicasMidget]

I think the game could focus on exploration based goals a little more. It's sometimes hard being so far outside of the bubble looking in when there are events happening elsewhere. I like exploration, so it would be nice to have some added depths to the activity.

[@Soulveig]

As someone with over 1500 first discovered systems and elite exploration under their belt, I'm very certain we're quite a distance past 0.036% discovered. Unless you're counting all planets/anomalies/sites/signals in which case, yes there's probably a ship load of unseen discoveries. But system and to a lesser degree planet wise, we've discovered a lot. Plenty of times I've jumped somewhere in lonely space to find someone has been there, even after hours of "new discovery" jumps.

[@ObsidianAnt]

There are 400,000,000,000 star systems in Elite, and at least 1,000,000,000,000 planets and moons. :) 1500 is actually around 0.00000015%.

[@bigbuna]

Could be awesome, like your vids 😎👍

[@nafnist]

I'd rather see something that has actually been observed, like comets.

[@existentialselkath1264]

The idea for plotting your own routes and having misjumps could still work. Make it go a lot further than traditional jumps and you've immediately got a risk reward system, something elite desperately needs

[@Fost_UK]

Top idea! Also be fun if the LMC and SMC were in the game and could be reached by the discovered stellar bridges (www.sci-news.com/astronomy/stellar-bridge-large-small-magellanic-clouds-04603.html) - could be an incredible exploration trip! I think these would need a few "landmark" systems with unique things to discover. Although I think the game could do with this in general anyway.

[@tonyoliver4920]

Black hole accretion disk supercharging! Similar to using a pulsar to supercharge a jump but with the accretion disk. Sagittarius A* (the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy) could then potentially jump you to andromeda (M31 next nearest galaxy, 2.5 million ly)

[@troymcguffey8801]

For years I've been saying they should add; - Super Novas - The ability to launch and pick up your SRV mid flight - Player bases - Worm holes

[@MinistryOfMagic_DoM]

You can sort of kinda pick up the SRV in flight. Sometimes your ship will get stuck where it can't actually land but it will just hover there and you can still get picked up. It's rare, but it can be done.

[@anakinjovanus1135]

DEFINITELY WORMHOLES! I love the idea that they spit you out in a random location, but they close after a while

[@troymcguffey8801]

@@MinistryOfMagic_DoM I saw this years ago in a canyon that's when I thought they have the capability to do so.

[@troymcguffey8801]

@@anakinjovanus1135 yes and the possibility of stranding you somewhere is both exciting and terrifying. But I feel like you should have to have a special engineered item to be able to access one successfully.

[@anakinjovanus1135]

@@troymcguffey8801 it'd be cool because lets say you were in Colonia, the wormhole, if your lucky could spit you out in the bubble

[@CapsuleerCowboy]

Love this! I really wish I could visit somewhere beautiful.

[@bLu48o]

On today's episode of: "What IF FDev Gave a Shit" !

[@thebranmuffin8502]

if its not already in , then u will need to wait 5 years for them to develop it

[@sausageslaps]

but how do we visit these systems? we need a star to get to a system, fleet carriers can jump to selected bodies in a system but we need to the data of the system to do this

[@ChrisFowlerNH]

I've always had this sneaking suspicion or feeling that it already does. I feel like there are still many unspoken secrets to reveal. In a game universe this vast, there are plenty of places to hide.

[@MapleLeafAce]

Players have explored enough of the galaxy to be able to infer what the unexplored sectors have to offer. And the answer is: more of the same. If there were incredible stellar events or anomalies or rogue planets, someone would have found one by now.

[@dsagent]

Where is that purple area from?

[@lucacollas]

this is an amazing quest-ion.

[@Lightfu11]

Rogue planets would be epic, i hope also they add different weather system in each planet would be cool.

[@tonyoliver4920]

Jumping to a location requires a star. But how small a gravity well is required? Super massive gas giant (failed star / super Jupiter) rouge? Or a “Nibiru” (Planet X) in known systems, undetected due to current scanner radius? (Taking longer than a visit to proxima)

[@kedrednael]

One boulder's gravity well should do it :P. Ok your idea is better, every one you proposed.

[@tonyoliver4920]

@@kedrednael I know they have micro galaxys orbiting the milkyway and it’s possible to reach them in game using pulsar supercharging so could a black hole be used in game (accretion disk) Oooh I’m putting that idea as a full comment!

[@kedrednael]

​@@tonyoliver4920 I would like the accretion disk to be like hot planetary rings the rocks (with some glowing from the heat) move and collide, and deep core mining would release very hot gasses (instead of cooling gasses/ice clouds that we have currently). But black holes with active accretion disks should also produce jets like the neutron stars. Would be cool if those active black hole jets supercharge the FSD even more than neutron stars.

[@DarkSerris]

What about that permit locked region near Barnard's Loop ?

[@KristofferEngstrom]

whats the tune that starts at about 2:20 ?

[@UnseenMenace]

What about complete "star" systems where all the planets orbit one or more black holes? Do they exist and if not why not? Would be pretty eerie to have a system only lit by distant starlight.

[@rx0-rx]

what if elite dangerous had content

[@joerensh8463]

It has but we've only found less than 1% of it

[@adventurepeaks4514]

Now that one really boggles whte mind.

[@alanhilton3611]

If you don't like it don't play it.

[@SolaceOpossum]

Elite: Dangerous is a game of wasted potential. There are so many cool things out in the galaxy that could have been put in the game but instead we get the same bland, empty systems over and over. Sure you might get the occasional pretty system every now and then but that's hardly something to compel you to go exploring. In it's current state exploration is incredibly underwhelming, there's no SUBSTANCE to it, simply, the game needs more things in it and more variety in things to discover.

[@yumri4]

They most likely took the map from universe sandbox and/or an open domain map of the astronomy of the universe. If you haven't noticed humans have been mapping the stars for thousands of years. There's alot of empty space in the universe. Most of the universe is the same thing too just billions if not trillions of the same thing over and over and over again and again. In different locations but still there is a lot of repetition in the universe.

[@SolaceOpossum]

@@yumri4 Yes and there's also a lot of interesting things out in the galaxy that are sadly not included in the game. It is also why real life does not make for good video games, real life is boring and dull. If you have a game that is exactly like real life, then you have a game that is boring and dull.

[@terrellclane8715]

Always cool videos

[@proon.]

Unlike space engine, where players are free to explore free from restraint, elite places a heavy number of restrictions on the player, which after all is essential since elite dangerous is a game. Shots fired.

[@UltimateBargains]

Planet collisions would be cool.

[@darthhunter69]

It does, we just haven't found them yet

[@phil__1097]

But how would you jump to a system without a sun? Comets would be nice too

[@Marian87]

Man, so manay mechanics come to mind on how to implement that in fun and interesting ways, from new drives, to special scanners, to manual calibration that needs multiple jumps each time getting closer, but we won't get this or if we will it will in the most bland possible way.

[@Nazz-b7p]

They have some dark area systems that we need permits for, killing me

[@dustinbaucom8507]

Raxxla is a rogue planet.....

[@MapleLeafAce]

The greatest part of elite dangerous is all the great theories players have of how not-shit the game could be if the developers weren't garbage.

[@hj-redravenheng3822]

Rogue planets or old brown dwarfs, both are pretty dark especially in visible light.

[@FightGet]

It absolutely should IMO.

[@luke5g230]

This would be amazing! Let’s hope we get this in the future

[@soldier72]

If I have a tonne load of B-roll, where can I upload it for you to use in your new series?

[@jaffacake8787]

There is its where the landscape signal is coming from.

[@TOONYBOY]

I remember in Everspace there are dark systems. Systems with no light at all and the only way to see was because of periodic lightning strikes in space. I was stranded in this system with no fuel, the only other source of fuel was on tge other side of the system and the was a black hole I couldn't somewhere between me and the fuel. Fucking horrifying. Not to plug but this is a video on my channel just in case you guys want to see what this kind of thing looks like

[@bendraper3163]

It's a shame that the only comet we have in game currently is the invisible one in Pareco. I'm hoping the new ice planet renders may change that, but I won't hold my breath! Looking forward to the rest of the series. Also I think your figures for explored/unexplored are an order of magnitude out, they should be around ~0.05% explored/~99.95% unexplored.

[@845SiM]

I think they should start using more theoretical stuff, ( yes I know it’s all pretty much theoretical) like wormholes that drag you across to a random point in the galaxy, imho I think there’s a good amount of weird stuff they have put in the game we have yet to find.

[@WolfenMau]

WHAT IF there will be actually supernovas? Something like a message coming up: "One of the star in your current system became unstable please evacuate at least 50LY distance, SUPERNOVA Countdown: 10 minutes"

[@kedrednael]

That gameplay wouldn't make a lot of sense, because in supercruise you travel faster than the speed of light, outrunning any natural phenomena easily. Supernovas etc would be cool to see though. But keep in mind supernova's only happen around twice a century in the milky way galaxy in real life, so it wouldn't be a realistic threat. I think hot rings close to stars would be more feasible and realistic. When mining or bumping them too hard, the hot rocks can explode, releasing a lot of hot gas, as opposed to the icebergs which release a cloud of cold that cools your ship down. Or very active stars, where you have to evade solar flares in super cruise. There are just soo many possibilities that don't sound too hard to code, and are realistic as well, it's a shame elite hasn't improved a lot. Still we don't even have comets, asteroids, geysers and volcanos that can be seen from space, aurora, variation in size of ring rocks etc.

[@WolfenMau]

@@kedrednael yeah, you are right... I was too excited after re-watching The Treasure Planet right yesterday😅

[@kedrednael]

@@WolfenMau That was absolutely epic :D

[@brucejsg]

are all systems in the bubble discovered ?

[@chrisoliver3642]

What if planets in Elite actually spun on their axis?

[@chronicenigma696]

I was wondering about this, also about protoplanetary disks or young star systems.. It always seemed weird to me that you either had a fully developed star system with planets and or moons, or an empty star system. Seems there would be alot more gas in the space where young stars are were the gas hasnt coalesced into planets yet. A real bummer. Elite does so much right, but just doesnt have that last little bit for it to be true astronoimical simulation