I watched YT vids and i can't see any.I go around from top to bottom sweeps, tried zooming in in clusters.i know about the black markers just i haven't seen any.Only time is when the priet gives me one.I'm missing something. With maxed out hyper drive I can jumpabout 1300 light yrears. Seems better thab a black hole jump. need some Ideas. Thanks.

You can ask Nada for new locations, and get a waypoint marker. But they turn up once in a while on the starmap - except you need to select the star and check the info before you see if there is one there, and so on.

Getting them from the Nada seems to be the only way. Hole jumps are about 1300 LY closer. If you use the orange path it stops at 600 LY . If you free pick a star thats 1500 LY from you its only 300 LY closer to center. I jump to a system and check out the planets. The anomoly shows up and visit the boys again and get black hole. So I have to do this about a hundred times to reach center? Thats a grind.

I actually came across 3 yesterday while playing around, I didn't know what it was first so I selected it. Sure enough, Black Hole System.

Oh, yeah. No doubt about that.

Something happened to the paths here as well at some point - you were supposed to be able to travel further in absolute distance with the better warp-cores by skipping the known routes. Makes sense, right - you can now travel past bigger star-systems with a better warp-drive, so new routes that were unavailable are in reach, even if you're not actually traveling further in total distance. (Would make sense to need that increased power to approach the core as well without having to do increasingly shorter jumps). This was supposedly there in the pre-release build. And there is a system in place for extending the distances like this for the closer systems, etc.

Most likely the sheer density of the yellow stars, total and absolute absence of any need for detours to any single star, etc., has made any of this completely obsolete in any case. But the maths in the distances makes absolutely no sense, and they supposedly did before the day-0 update.

I think the black holes also were supposed to be random with a pretty high maximum jump towards the core. You might lose some distance by being left in a system you would have to make a detour to get out of, etc (and would fit with how you lose a warp-system first once you get out, etc. There's a narratively sensible mechanic holding you back from just spamming the pf-systems). But now they really do seem to basically be one maximum jump. I've only jumped a couple of times, but I've never seen more than that, and I haven't heard of anyone else with better results either. Seems to be a good way to change which cluster you're in, and that's about it.

But that's what you get when you buy a Sony game, isn't it... :/

I dunno, in my experience, the linear distance is about 1/10th the actual distance to the core. And some of my black hole jumps netted me more than 1500 LY towards the core. However xplorer mode never gets me that much, even when the linear distance is 1500. It only gets me about 130 LY closer to the core. And that is going directly towards it.

Found a mod that boosts maxed warp drive to 12500 ly. This gives 3000 ly closer to center each jump. i am going that route just to see the ending.

Once you finish the path of the Atlas, you will see black triangle markers around stars with Black holes in the star map. They are pretty common (maybe one every couple hundred ly or so). Once you see the markers, you can always warp to black hole systems and get to the center fairly quickly. The only thing that will hold you up is the times when one of your warp drive upgrades breaks and you have to stop and find the resources to repair.

So that's what does it.Good to know.I didn't do the atlas path and didn't see that. Did get to center using the mod. Got 3k closer each jump without breaking anything.