Hello everyone!

[Rustman the Mad]

Well, the topic says it all. After perhaps a month and a half of browsing through this forum I decided to join you, and become a part of the community.

My personal thanks to Wolfy, for helping me with the registration.

[Ttech]

Let me be the first to welcome you to this great community! We got a bunch of great resources here and hopfully you will enjoy it. Out of curiosity where are you in the game?

[Hatsuya Kanzaki]

Welcome to the Transcendence Forums, Rustman! I'm Hatsuya, from the Philippines (though that name is very significant on one of my other works) :3

[Aury]

Technically I already welcomed him over email ttech

Anyways, welcome to the community? Have you tried making any mods yet?

[Rustman the Mad]

Well, nice to meet you all

Ttech - I'm currently in Numerianus. It's my first playthrough (yep, a newb so giant that I don;t even know if it's far or not ), and I fell in love with this game I use v 1.01 of the game.

Hatsuya - thanks, and hello from Poland

Wolfy - nope, no mods - as I am a newb in Transcendence, and unforunately know nothing about modding... In the future - who knows.

[Ttech]

Well, nice to meet you all

Ttech - I'm currently in Numerianus. It's my first playthrough (yep, a newb so giant that I don;t even know if it's far or not ), and I fell in love with this game I use v 1.01 of the game.

Hatsuya - thanks, and hello from Poland

Wolfy - nope, no mods - as I am a newb in Transcendence, and unforunately know nothing about modding... In the future - who knows.

Hard thing about the system names is we can only tell how far you are based on a few system names - St. Katherine Star System, Point Juno, Endari.

[Aury]

Eridani
Rigel
Charon
St.k's
Sanctuary
Jiang's star
Point Juno
Dantalion
Heretic


I think I'm missing a couple, but those are all the major/static nodes IIRC (the ones that always appear in every game).

[Rustman the Mad]

After Sanctuary, before Jiang's Star (at least I don't remember the second one). I have just discovered Howtizer MK III and am thrilled about the ease with which I can kick some Sung ass BTW, it's very nice how the game is (uptill now) intuitive and relatively easy, while at the same time being challenging and fun.


Edit:

As far as the system and how far I am are concerned, in this Numenorian System I found the first CSC ship, Arctica.

[Ttech]

Your pretty far in, your going to see a few more CSC.

[Aury]

Also, CSC's are randomly placed, just like nearly everything in the game

[ThePrivateer]

Welcome to the forums Rustman!

Don't worry if you're a newb to the game -- we have a special forum for that - Beginner's Luck. Don't be afraid to ask questions about the game or modding.

We're all playing a version of the game that hasn't been publically released yet -- 1.04.
The thread is here: Version 1.04

I hope your time on the forums will be enjoyable.

[Blitz]

Numerianus, eh?

Spoiler:
You are 10 to 12 systems from the end. 10 if you don't get any of the optional systems and 12 if get all the optional ones.

[Ttech]

Ag. I'm not sure if I understand what you mean?

[Blitz]

Ag. I'm not sure if I understand what you mean?

Er, if you are taking about the silly 5 point typeface that I used, then sorry. But if not, here's an explanation

Numerianus can appear as a name for the Level 6 system "C8". There is a 25% chance that system C8 will be named Numerianus. And every game will have a system C8. Here's an excrept from Transcendence.xml

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		<!-- LEVEL VI -->

		<Node ID="C8">
			<System
					level=			"6"
					attributes=		"ungoverned"
					variant=		"ungoverned"
					>
				<Table>
					<System chance="17" name="Zethus"		UNID="&ssEarthSpaceBinary;"/>
					<System chance="8"  name="Nobunaga"	UNID="&ssEarthSpaceStandard;"/>
					<System chance="20" name="Galgaliel"	UNID="&ssEarthSpaceNebulae;"/>
					<System chance="5"  name="Cinder"		UNID="&ssEarthSpaceRedDwarf;"/>
					<System chance="25" name="Numerianus"	UNID="&ssEarthSpaceAsteroids;"/>
					<System chance="20" name="Exael"		UNID="&ssEarthSpaceVolcanic;"/>
					<System chance="5"  name="Alembra"	UNID="&ssEarthSpaceDesert;"/>
				</Table>
			</System>

			<StarGates>
				<StarGate Name="Inbound" DestID="[Prev]" DestGate="Outbound"/>
				<Table>
					<StarGate chance="50" Name="Outbound" DestID="C8A" DestGate="Inbound"/>
					<StarGate chance="50" Name="Outbound" DestID="C9" DestGate="Inbound"/>
				</Table>
			</StarGates>
		</Node>

Also, it is apparent that the outbound gate in C8 can lead to either C8A or C9 and there's a 50% chance for each.
Here's the code for system C8A

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		<Node ID="C8A">
			<System
					level=				"6"
					attributes=			"ungoverned"
					variant=			"ungoverned"
					>
				<Table>
					<System chance="50" name="Maharashtra" UNID="&ssEarthSpaceNebulae;"/>
					<System chance="50" name="Bhutihan"	UNID="&ssEarthSpaceVolcanic;"/>
				</Table>
			</System>

			<StarGates>
				<StarGate Name="Inbound" DestID="[Prev]" DestGate="Outbound"/>
				<StarGate Name="Outbound" DestID="C9" DestGate="Inbound"/>
			</StarGates>
		</Node>

Here, we can see that C8A will always lead to C9. This effectively makes C8A RNG based system --- there's a 50% chance you will get it and there is a 50% chance that you won't. This is what I meant by an "optional system". I'll draw a small map of the remaining systems.
C8 C8A C9 A1 A2 EC A3 A3A PJ A5 A6 A7 G1 G2

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C8
|\
| C8A
|/
C9
|
A1
|
A2
|
EC
|
A3
|\
| A3A
|/
PJ
|
A5
|
A6
|
A7
|
G1
|
G2

G2 is Heretic

Aaaand, it turns out I can't count
The minimum number of systems left is 11 and the maximum is 13.

[Ttech]

Indeed, I have not looked at the Transcendence XML Source since 98c. But I doubt its changed that much.