Hi
Exploration is a big topic in Evochron. There have been several threads about how hard it
was and as a result a couple of people wrote some add-ons to the game that allow you to map where you have been or even download an up to date map of everything that has been found. The map is interactive and even lets you show that position of your ship in real time!
The nav screen in you ship lets you see the known systems including overlays of political and economic info. There are many more uncharted systems around Evochron. SeeJay and Mapman are the creators of the map. Atollski's gem is a logging system that lets you cruise around, find boundaries between systems and then use a nifty triangulation option to suggest locations worth exploring for new planets etc. Marvin has written a decent guide for using it to find new systems
The issue is that both addons can be spoilers since they can show everything that has been found. Atollski's logging programme can be used without loading the universe data - then you just add the stuff you've found and build up a map of space you've explored.
There might be a database in a thread somewhere that just has the "official" charted systems in it - but you might think that that is cheating as well - part of the fun of the game is exploring everything and discovering things for yourself (wrecks, carriers, asteroid fields, asteroids with caves inside, stations, stars, containers of free goodies, wormholes (to new places), black holes that with care can be used to go to other systems as well.
A few descriptions of how to discover things using pattern searches have also been described in threads.
Depending on how much help you want (Personally, I think that getting hold maps of all the known systenms is the equivalent of buying maps of your own country and so is OK) you might try using the search function (top of the page) and using the people named above or "maplog" as keywords.
Wait a short time longer and others on the forum will offer you loads of encouragement, help and advice (including joining MP where you can get lots of help and advice)
This community is the most helpful and interested and interesting I've come across!
