3000 Lightyears in 68 seconds: Exploring doesn't have to be slow.

[Wartface]

I've been mostly trading and wanted to try something different. Doing a bit of research and noting how to do Exploring, I bought an Asp, kitted her out and picked a route out from Sol that I thought others wouldn't do. It worked for me.

Every time I entered a system, I screenied it...plus a few Water / Earth Like scans too. Not really knowing what I was going to do with the images until I thought about putting them together in a short video. Total play time for the 3,000+ Ly trip was just over 8hrs and netted 4million credits (poor compared to trading, but that wasn't the plan).

I had a blast, was surprised how much I enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone that hasn't yet and wants a change of pace.

Here's my video short, enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJNcPjp-ews

Happy spacing, CMDRs.

 

[Wendiga]

Thank you for sharing.

 

[Alien]

Total play time for the 3,000+ Ly trip was just over 8hrs

So I'm confused ... why does the thread title say 68 seconds?

 

[Wartface]

So I'm confused ... why does the thread title say 68 seconds?

Because the video is 1 min 8 seconds long

 

[Jesters09]

All the screens in 68 seconds and you can't really go wrong with blackmore's Rainbow.
Nice ideas.

 

[Macros Black]

Nice video, OP, thanks for sharing (+1). I like to think there's many forms of exploring, you just did what you liked to do.

@Wendiga:Nice sig

 

[Wartface]

Nice video, OP, thanks for sharing (+1). I like to think there's many forms of exploring, you just did what you liked to do.

Thanks. I really agree that playing the game how you want is key. When researching a bit on Exploring, most of the talk was about weeks or months out in the Long Dark...and I didn't want to commit to that much. So I set myself the goal of spending about eight hours Effort over a few days Duration. More than anything it was about finding out how much I enjoyed Exploring.

Thanks for the +1.

 

[Alien]

Because the video is 1 min 8 seconds long

Ah that explains it ... excuse me while I sit in the corner being stupid

 

[Flimley]

Groovy...

 

[Wartface]

Ah that explains it ... excuse me while I sit in the corner being stupid

We've all had those "out of caffeine" moments, I put it down to that.

 

[Belzmort]

All the screens in 68 seconds and you can't really go wrong with blackmore's Rainbow.
Nice ideas.

To be fair I only watched it when I saw Rainbow mentioned. I am already a explorer en route to the core.

 

[Surly_Badger]

Did Ritchie Blackmore invent heavy metal? Uh... What?

 

[jacozilla]

That's what I've been doing so far for my exploration. I have a home base for trading so didn't want to be out of touch for too long.

So all my trips so far have been 'day trips' - go out, muck around, and come back before end of that day's play session - 4hrs on weekdays, 8 hour on weekend day

On a weekday, I can maybe go 1000 light years out, and back - with time to scan the obviously good stuff I see. On weekend 8 hour exploration days, I didn't get quite as far as the OP but was finding lots of first scan systems within just a few 300 LY out of bubble range so I've been mostly putting my claims down in less than 1k LY radius around the bubble.

 

[Wartface]

Found this in one of my image decks...I'd been exploring for a while being the first to Tag 'em, and was surprised to see that this star had been claimed by a Chubby Henparty...I think a little bit of wee came out as I laughed.