But… it wasn’t an optical effect. When rotating around, the line was still there with our system a part of it. More, when taking position with the same angle
Welcome to the Starchain. It was discovered by @Mad-Hatter and the reason we chose that area to settle.
You will find bases scattered in some of the systems..and comms buried deep underground and perhaps even floating in space.
Feel free to stay a while. Claim any systems you like for the Atlas-65 CSD
Ah ok, I didn’t know we were there because of this line. I have a 8 years base on our ex hub so I knew that most of systems are ECSD tagged but I never paid attention to this Starchain.
Some commball are still effective, mainly the ones showing portals. If I see an attractive system I’ll claim the station, we need one “on line”
After finding this particular one, I actually spent a huge amount of time ‘surfing’ the galactic map, in Euclid & elsewhere & only once found another that was a similar size. It too was in the Alpha Quadrant of Euclid but I messed up my waypoint & lost it.
There are many smaller chains of stars spread throughout the galaxies & they pretty much always consist of mostly yellow star systems. It’s my understanding that it is caused by a fluke in the starpoint locations lining up on some sort of mesh in how the galaxy is constructed.
A fun fact that many players don’t realise is that the NMS galaxies are shaped like a big pizza box & so actually have flat sides & corners. You need to use the higher speed method of movement when in the Galactic Map to really see much. I find combining this higher speed with a spiraling motion helps find destinctive formations, chains, voids, fades & other interesting features that are mostly hidden when using the slow, normal method.
Another fun fact that some of us realised a long time ago, thanks to this destinctive line of stars, is that the stars in the sky are the same stars you see within the galactic map. Somewhere on this forum there is a picture taken from my Capital Ship bridge of the starchain as viewed from a upward angle from what I think may have been one of Todd’s Survival Mode bases. (I could be remembering that bit wrong). I’d always thought the sky was just eye candy but it turned out to be a legitimate replication of the visible stars from a specific point. I believe macforaday also did a video on this
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EDIT2: A later update made more stars visible & so it was much harder to see the destictive formation.
I think you live in a place with washed out night views from too many lights.
The night sky is really thick with stars… Sadly it is hard to find a place that lets you see them all
I do, you’re right, but I have been to places like the Namib desert and countryside in Finland. I still think the NMS sky’s still too much of a consistent mass of similarly bright/dim stars. Some more variation in brightness would help.
Neither are a ’ big deal but we can also see them when in sunlight , in space.
