That doesn't make sense unless they have it backwards. If the distance to center is calculated along a path it should be decreasing faster since it says linear distance when I select a star. But yeah, maybe linear distance is distance to the center and what is stated as linear is actually along a path. That's a very inefficient path. I'm at 162,400 ly distance to center atm. Maybe black holes are better for traveling?

I'm at about that. I went through a black hole once and it said 200000 light years traveled, I thought, awesome. Then realised the 164000, went down to only 162000. I'm generally confused by the distance thing which is why I'm now ignoring it and just heading towards the bright light.

You aren't traveling in straight line, so the distance bewteen you and the center is always going to be less than total distance you traveled. So yeah I average about 400 light years closer to the center each time. 

Perhaps there is some gravitational lensing going on and travelling towards the bright light is not actually the right direction. Or some other spatial anomalies are interfering. Black holes can ofcourse go sideways as well as forward, found any that went backwards?

I'm going to experiment a bit later, see what's going on. Or perhaps the game is just screwing with us.

You know, I never though about it. I've gone through 3 or 4 black holes so far and just accepted the fact they were taking me closer (as that's what the guy hinted was happening) not realising they could indeed be moving me closer but to the other side of the galaxy at the same time. I've no idea how I'd ever get back to my starting system and have yet to find another system not discovered by me.

This said, what I do is look at the general direction the map is telling me is the centre, move my selection as far as I can and randomly pick a planet that I can travel to.

I guess 400 ly closer per 1600 ly jump is the best there is, selecting a star towards the center. Any other direction only lessens the distance, going backwards has the 25% actual distance travelled result. Just one jump on the suggested path already lessens the distance by half, 87ly jump only reduced the distance by 40ly. No Euclidean geometry can account for that. (And I'm in the Euclid galaxy!) It was at most 20 degrees off center.

I tried a few black holes. One claimed to have transported me 1.2 million ly! I got a bit under 2k closer. Still better than 400ly, yet it cost me my advanced cooling theta, now I need to find 5 gravitino balls again. The next one transported me 700k ly, got about 1k closer and it broke my warp core theta, most expensive friggin thing on the ship, removing access to B and O stars. I grudginly got the materials together to repait it, and it was still broken after taking all the materials! I reloaded the game and dismantled it which gave me enough materials to simply rebuild the thing. pita.

Perhaps there is some logarithmic function to the actual distance you creep closer. The further you jump the less real effect it seems to make. Although that 25% rule seems pretty consistent when you fly towards the core for a while in the map screen. The linear distance stays at about 4 times to what you get closer to the 'center'

Meanwhile I finished the zoology milestones. One planet was quite a challenge, lot of hostile creatures in groups. I frequently had to jet pack out of the next ambush with exosuit shield almost gone. This was one of the friendly ones


It took a long time to complete that planet yet the last one to complete the set was suddenly real easy. 15-20 minutes, all tagged, just needed to wait for nightfall to get the last one. Arctic planet


Plenty gold to fix the warp core theta

I just landed here

More Gek to learn. I'm over 750 words now total, Vy'keen mastered, Gek getting there, Korvax still a bit shaky.

And I finally got the v2 pass. It was a recipe from a spatial anomaly for me. Next v3 pass, still can't get in those doors in the space station!

You get it from the shelters that are locked, when you use the beacons selecting "colonial". If you have v3 pass you don't need the v2 pass. 

I need to get back into this game but I can't put Ni-Oh down >.
Did anyone read the Gaf post where some people have backtracked and found a lot of their discoveries had been erased. Names of planets, animals and plants.

I wonder if that's more to do with network issues, particularly around launch and even now my in game connection is a bit hit or miss. Then the game likely only saves so much data locally, or has assumed it has uploaded it. Assumedly the game queues data to upload but nothing's infallible.

Hopefully it's not a case of deleting, I can understand they are probably having to store a lot of data but 2 weeks seems far too short which suggests to me it's an error or bug. Right now I'm not naming things so it doesn't bother me, but once we get base building I'd like to settle a system and part of that will be naming everything.

I'm still playing, a bit off and on after platinuming it, started working towards the center but I'm not in any rush.

Yes, but the servers are absolutely shocking. I'd say it's more of a technical issue but we need answers really. Talking about servers HG should of been prepared. I love this game but it's rough around the edges. 

I see the thread about this issue in our forum but because there is so much hate for the sake of hating it's impossible to talk about it. It just another big circle jerk of hate with the usual ring leaders.