What's the lowest jump range you've done distance with?

Bobo

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So I've been toying with the idea of setting off on my next trip in my combat python, maybe park it up somewhere 22k out towards the centre and wait for thargoids or similar to be implemented. Im a little hesitant to set off tho, my last exploration ship was asp with 29ly range....the python has about a 16ly range. 1000ly I remember as being around 40 jumps, my python will do it in 82 ish....which made me gaulk a lil. I'll be fine once I reach the outer of the peach of course as I intend to just hang out there, but the trip there is looooong, like 2 hours per 1k I'm guessing.

So, whats the smallest jump range you've gone distance in....like 1k+ kinda distance
 

Thrawn29

Thrawn29
Currently in a *ALL INCLUSIVE* Clipper, hence only ~24Ly jump range.
I'm flying 1000Ly in ~1,5 / 2 hours... but i never speedup, i take time to scan all interesting stuff.

16Ly is a small range, but it all depends on your patience. :)
 

Chaodiurn

Chaodiurn
Currently exploring some nebulas, such as Barnard's Loop, Flame nebula, Witch Head and others in a combat ready Python:



Depending on whether you go into the direction of SigA or away from it, you will occasionally not be able to plot routes as far as 1,000 ly, as the computer will be unable to find a route. Only as you get closer to your target, that may will become possible. So some manual navigation could become a thing. Currently, the furthest distance I can plot with the jump range seen above (16 something) is around 600 ly, which is 84 jumps. So, definitely possible!



 
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Raiko

Raiko
I think that you'll struggle to cross between the spiral arms with a 16LY range. During discussion in the Buckyball Run A* thread it's been mentioned that at some points the closest stars are 16-17LY apart, so you'd be cutting it awfully close! ;)

So you might have to either spend ages finding a 16LY route across the badlands, or take the scenic route and follow the arms clockwise to find easier crossings.

Note that the above is speculation on my part, my core trips were both in a 36+LY range Asp.

I do think that when the Thargoids do come, they're not going to appear in the galactic core, they're more likely to appear on the edge of the bubble forwards Polaris (ie around where the Fed President's ship was lost), or right in the middle of the Alliance or Federation. In previous Elite games I don't think they were native to our dimension/universe and so they could arrive anywhere.

I don't think most 'pew-pew' players will be prepared to travel 20,000LY or more just to get annihilated by Thargoid beam weapons and reset back the last place they docked! :D
 

Morbad

Morbad
Took a combat FDL to Sag A*.

14.26 ly jump range, over 2200 jumps to get there.

Was never at risk of not being able to cross the gaps between arms, but the path deviated from a straight line pretty badly. Near the core it was ~70 jumps per 1000ly. Between the arms it was ~100 jumps per 1000ly at times.

Raiko said:
I don't think most 'pew-pew' players will be prepared to travel 20,000LY or more just to get annihilated by Thargoid beam weapons and reset back the last place they docked! :D
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I'd consider it.
 

Bobo

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Wow, to the core in an FDL is impressive, guess I'll be fine then

I don't really expect to find thargoids in the peach, or anything outside of what we currently have for a very very very very long time...but you never know. I suppose this is more of an rp/bored with things exploration trip type thing, you know, fly around the peach with big guns looking for big game....big game that never arrives
 
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CMDR DoubleSkulls

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Raiko said:
I think that you'll struggle to cross between the spiral arms with a 16LY range. During discussion in the Buckyball Run A* thread it's been mentioned that at some points the closest stars are 16-17LY apart, so you'd be cutting it awfully close! ;)

So you might have to either spend ages finding a 16LY route across the badlands, or take the scenic route and follow the arms clockwise to find easier crossings.
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I'd crossed the badlands with a 31ly jump range asp and didn't even really notice them (and wondered what the fuss was about). With a ~24ly range I definitely noticed them and I'd suspect it gets increasingly difficult below that.
 

TruffleSnout

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CMDR DoubleSkulls said:
I'd crossed the badlands with a 31ly jump range asp and didn't even really notice them (and wondered what the fuss was about). With a ~24ly range I definitely noticed them and I'd suspect it gets increasingly difficult below that.
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Ah, good to know. On my return leg from the core I recall pulling up the Galaxy Map at one point to see that I was already half-way across a gap and thought to myself "What's everyone on about then?". I was in a 31-ish LY Asp at the time as well, though.
 

tiger61378

tiger61378
I'm running a DBX with around a 24ly range right now, and on my way to Sag A* for the first time. I've done a 1k ly run in my Type 6 with a 15ly range though, just to get to the medicine run CG...that took AGES.
 

Ziljan

Ziljan
Since the Thargoids are now multi dimensional creatures, and because FD is unlikely to force casual players to travel tens of thousands of killies just to be vaporized by space roaches, I am going to go out on a limb and say that the Thargoids (when they appear) will come to you.

Especially if they are "drawing their plans slowly but surely against us". To me that says that they are not only close by but are actually here among us, hiding, buried just beneath surface. Maybe a planet's surface? Perhaps in a form as insidious as a mysterious virus contracted by alien artifact? Watch galnet more closely (preferably while wearing a tinfoil hat) and many such reveletaions will be made clear to you as well ;)
 

Cdr Voorheez

Cdr Voorheez
Sorry I am a complete noob explorer so please bear with me, you mention a few names here and I am intrigued to know where they are, namely:

1. Badlands
2. CG

I undersatnd Core: Sag A* I guess, centre of galaxy and Arms: spiral arms I guess of milky way.

Apologies, new:)
 
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Rauminen

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Ah, I DID head out in my combat python. I even had limpets on board. (don't ask)

Couldn't stop going, only turned back to make it to the CG (docked with 1 hour left, so... all good :)

For one, you feel incredibly safe. You hear all these stories about griefers at A* - well they would be in for a nasty when they meet me. I'd even hatch break them, just for good measure :D

As for the jump range, I had 15.8, 16 when finally dropped the limpets. It's not a problem unless you head out rimward - which I did of course so had to circle back.

If you head coreward, jump range doesn't matter if you don't care about the time it takes to get there. You'll see more systems with shorter range, but you will get there eventually. Also I think an explorer would switch to economical routes at some point too, after reaching the edge of the bubble - at which point it doesn't matter if it's 16 or 26.
 
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Strangepork

Strangepork
Ziljan said:
Since the Thargoids are now multi dimensional creatures, and because FD is unlikely to force casual players to travel tens of thousands of killies just to be vaporized by space roaches, I am going to go out on a limb and say that the Thargoids (when they appear) will come to you.

Especially if they are "drawing their plans slowly but surely against us". To me that says that they are not only close by but are actually here among us, hiding, buried just beneath surface. Maybe a planet's surface? Perhaps in a form as insidious as a mysterious virus contracted by alien artifact? Watch galnet more closely (preferably while wearing a tinfoil hat) and many such reveletaions will be made clear to you as well ;)
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There is a slightly green hue to your avatar Ziljan !!!
 

Jackie Silver

Jackie Silver
"Low." I've used most ships to explore.

CMDR Voorhees: CG stands for Community Goal and is used to mean "the system or planet where a particular goal is being run from" - e.g. Lembava.
 

Topgear201

Topgear201
I have heard that someone went across the galaxy in a well equipped Sidewinder.... I don't really know where that is but I am sure I saw it.
 

lefty1117

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My first trip out was in a Cobra that had I think between 17 and 18ly range. it was OK because it was never my intention to go to the core. In fact I find that once you start coming across unexplored systems there's no reason really to keep making long jumps, if what you're after is getting your name on systems and making money. You can go on a nice lucrative exploration run for a week and not go more than 1500ly out from Sol.
 

Ziggy Stardust

Ziggy Stardust
Cdr Voorheez said:
Sorry I am a complete noob explorer so please bear with me, you mention a few names here and I am intrigued to know where they are, namely:

1. Badlands
2. CG

I undersatnd Core: Sag A* I guess, centre of galaxy and Arms: spiral arms I guess of milky way.

Apologies, new:)
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Badlands was the 500 ly area around the bubble filled with lost NPCs which usually had a bad temper
CG - Community Goal.

And no need :)
 
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