Empty Sectors?

[Dal]

When you jump into a system and zoom out and see nothing, does that mean there is truly nothing? Or do you have to fly around to to discover objects?

[Ohm is Futile]

There are empty sectors in this game. There's a lot of them actually. So yes, chances are that if you zoom out and see nothing, it really is empty. You can usually tell before entering a system. If there's a green or yellow blinking light over a sector, it shouldn't be empty. Note that yellow blips only appear when you have a system that mentions it shows mass sectors on the map equipped.

 

As for discovering objects, a high level (exotic?) C43 object detector will highlight anything valuable in the system for you regardless of the distance. Lower-level ones will have range restrictions, however.

[Dal]

As for discovering objects, a high level (exotic?) C43 object detector will highlight anything valuable in the system for you regardless of the distance. Lower-level ones will have range restrictions, however.

 

That's funny as soon as you said it, a turret merchant that got ganked by pirates, dropped one. I scooped and ran! lol

 

[Pyrax]

Sectors you have visited will have any objects listed on map if there were any. The map view lists ships, players, stations and asteroids based on your last visit for a given sector. If you only see coordinates in the map view for a sector you're in/visited then there is nothing of interest except maybe shipwrecks, although these usually spawn with something else in the sector.

 

Get yourself a mass scanner to show yellow blips. I only ever go to empty sectors on purpose if I'm logging out on multi-player. With almost 1 million sectors you should try not to waste your time in empty ones...