Is there a bug that would cause my distance traveled from start to not be correct? I played ED when it was first released and took a break when engineers were added. I'm now trying to unlock Palin and it is saying max distance traveled from start is 1,800LY. This cannot be correct as I went to sagittarius a, which is about 5 times that distance if I remember correctly
5000LY from start Bug
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Not sure about the possible bug. I’d just jump into my ship with the longest legs and do a quick 5k out and back and be done with it. Use neutron boosts and you will be back in no time.
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It's unclear to me if the game keeps such statistics on the server side or only locally. If you completely removed all the game files (including the logs), and the game tracks such things only locally, it may have lost that progress.
That being said, traveling 5 kly is a really quick trip nowadays. It's not such a big deal. Just select some system that far away and go there with a really high-jump-range ship and come back. No biggie.
That being said, traveling 5 kly is a really quick trip nowadays. It's not such a big deal. Just select some system that far away and go there with a really high-jump-range ship and come back. No biggie.
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I'm trying to remember...because I was playing when engineers came out and certainly had made some trips out to the Pleiades, Barnard's Loop and few other visible nebula.
It is possible that the requirement is from the implementation of engineers, not total traveled beforehand. Anyway...1.8k is pretty trivial nowadays, oh well.
It is possible that the requirement is from the implementation of engineers, not total traveled beforehand. Anyway...1.8k is pretty trivial nowadays, oh well.
Has to be server side as i am playing on a new computer and every other statistic seems to be correct
I'm almost 99.9% certain that the requirement is 5,000LY single distance from the bubble (not sure if it's the engineer or where you spawned, like LHS 3447 etc.) after you unlocked the engineer in your contacts and the requirement shows up.
Source: done it a few times before. Easiest way is to join a FC en route to Colonia, but I've done this last year and it took a 5,000 (+ change) LY straight line trip to complete the tickbox.
It's from where you started. I started in LHS 3447. Going to Sagittarius a is 26,000 LY from LHS 3447. I am positive I went more than 5k Ly in a single sitting on the way
Please note my underlined caveat above - when did you unlock (as in, it popped up in your engineers list) Palin? I reckon it was more recent than your Sag A trip.
I think you keep misunderstanding what I mean.
The engineers unlock in several stages. Palin only gets added later, and when he does I believe that is when the counter starts. What's showing in the Codex isn't really relevant from the engineer unlock requirement's perspective.
If you went 30,000LY before Palin got added to your engineer listing in-game, and went 3,000LY after that happened (and then returned), you will have never broken through the threshold for the unlock, which is 5,000LY. It's not accumulative either, i.e. you can't do another 2,000LY now to achieve the unlock.
You need to go 5,000LY into any direction in a straight line, and that's when you'll unlock him.
The engineers unlock in several stages. Palin only gets added later, and when he does I believe that is when the counter starts. What's showing in the Codex isn't really relevant from the engineer unlock requirement's perspective.
If you went 30,000LY before Palin got added to your engineer listing in-game, and went 3,000LY after that happened (and then returned), you will have never broken through the threshold for the unlock, which is 5,000LY. It's not accumulative either, i.e. you can't do another 2,000LY now to achieve the unlock.
You need to go 5,000LY into any direction in a straight line, and that's when you'll unlock him.
I get what you are saying, but codex is wrong and I am sure it was a statistic from the start. As far as needing to travel 5000ly before or after Palin is unlocked isn't known. I have engineers unlocked i didn't do anything to unlock them post engineer released. FDev doesn't exactly give us what we need to know.
This isn't what I remember, but it has been some time. I thought it was only your career max distance that mattered, regardless of whether it was before unlocking Qwent or not.
Odyssey, or one of the updates soon following it, broke several engineers so that they unlock without actually completing their reqirements.
I can assure you based on my recent (within the last year) experience it's precisely as I explained it.
It's indeed hilarious that this bug is still not fixed. I'm not complaining though as it saves a fair bit of mindless running about the bubble. Unfortunately, Palin isn't one of them, so I had to go and unlock him the way I explained above. I picked a random destination about 5,100LY away from Sol and got there with my explo AspX at the time. And lo and behold, the unlock occurred shortly after I crossed the 5k LY mark. Codex travel stats are irrelevant.
Bleia Dryiae HF-W b35-1 , 4900 ly and change from the Bubble. You can make (I didn't) a couple or three diversions to nebulae on the way.
FWIW, I think Palin also unlocks if you visit his system with a grelic in the cargo hold.
Make an exploration/moneymaking trip out of it: stop at and scan every system on the way (Economical setting for jumps) and make sure to record all the bio signals. Go off in just the right direction and you might even score some new systems.
Yep, that's what I've been thinking.
I haven't done any long-range trips yet, but I'm getting a Mandalay ready for exploring/exobiology, and that's how I see the long runs: a money-making adventure. No question, it adds time to the trip, but some really good income is possible from it. It's very possible to make it a billion-credit run if you toss in some exobiology hunting.
That's really not the case from my experience. When I first started the came I went out in the black (beyond 5000LY) before visiting an engineer or unlocking Palin. When I returned to the bubble and got the Palin invite, I didn't have to go back out beyond 5000LY to unlock him.