Exploring and feeling home sick

[Maximillian Forrest]

Just curious as to how far my fellow players have travelled out from their home planet when it comes to exploring the universe. Also curious as to what craft was used and how you felt the further you left your home planet behind.

For me it’s no more than 2200ly and that felt like a million as I missed my home planet so much. This has to be the first game I’ve played where travelling so far away actually made me feel home sick :-( Am I the only one to feel this way about exploring?

 

[newman1702]

Currently at 65,347 ly from Sol, might be time to slowly head home. But I don't get as homesick as I used to back when I first started exploring. You get used to the black being home and then it's the other way around - I get antsy if I spend too much time in the bubble...

 

[Mengy]

But I don't get as homesick as I used to back when I first started exploring. You get used to the black being home and then it's the other way around - I get antsy if I spend too much time in the bubble...

This is me now too. I don't get homesick for the bubble, but I do long for deep space if I'm in the bubble too long. I wish we had a few deep space stations out towards the core, just little oasis to repair and change modules and such.

 

[Witzo]

Just curious as to how far my fellow players have travelled out from their home planet when it comes to exploring the universe. Also curious as to what craft was used and how you felt the further you left your home planet behind.

For me it’s no more than 2200ly and that felt like a million as I missed my home planet so much. This has to be the first game I’ve played where travelling so far away actually made me feel home sick :-( Am I the only one to feel this way about exploring?

You are still on The Tether. In my experience, it breaks between 4 and 8 weeks out of the bubble.
Or so it did on my first six trips out. After that, it started breaking sooner.

 

[Sugarat]

Been out since Dec 26th.. was watching someone stream the other week and suddenly realised how much I miss docking.. funny really cos I never thought about it before that

 

[Maximillian Forrest]

Currently at 65,347 ly from Sol, might be time to slowly head home. But I don't get as homesick as I used to back when I first started exploring. You get used to the black being home and then it's the other way around - I get antsy if I spend too much time in the bubble...

Wow 65,347ly from Sol…I cannot even comprehend that, let alone do it! Good on you for not feeling home sick though. Send me a postcard when you reach the turn around point

 

[GreyAreaUK]

I'm outbound westwards from the bubble in my Cobra MkIII. Not very far as yet (less than a Kylie in fact) but won't be heading back in any time soon, and feeling oddly calmer the further out I get. I feel like...I belong out here.

 

[Maximillian Forrest]

I'm outbound westwards from the bubble in my Cobra MkIII. Not very far as yet (less than a Kylie in fact) but won't be heading back in any time soon, and feeling oddly calmer the further out I get. I feel like...I belong out here.

Cobra MKIII was my first choice too as I wanted to defend myself against anything I found. By the time I return from my second journey I realised there wasn’t anything to defend again apart from colliding with a planet…which thankfully never happened. Still, it was nice to fly in comfort

 

[CMDR Space Lurker]

My furthest from Sol is about 27000LY in a Diamondback Explorer on my second trip to the Galactic Core... It felt like a great adventure, going to the top and bottom of the galaxy, and meeting up with a friend at the Great Annihilator. I did not get homesick until I started the long journey home.. and more so after I accidentally bounced off an asteroid while showing off for a friend, dropping my hull integrity to 32% while about 20k from home.. that felt lonely.

The most homesickness generating trip I've done, though was my trip to the near rim in an Asp.. I was never more than 17 or 18k LY from Sol on that trip, but the Galactic Rim feels so forlorn and empty...

My first trip to the core, in a Cobra, was a really great adventure, and I had actually wanted to stay out longer than I did, but I turned home when my AMFU ran out of supplies and my modules starting sinking below 80%...

Right now I'm in the Bubble, and it is starting to feel crowded allready, (might be because I went to a CG system, though)...

 

[Mengy]

Wow 65,347ly from Sol…I cannot even comprehend that, let alone do it! Good on you for not feeling home sick though. Send me a postcard when you reach the turn around point

Not to brag, Newman, but......

 

[Maximillian Forrest]

My furthest from Sol is about 27000LY in a Diamondback Explorer on my second trip to the Galactic Core... It felt like a great adventure, going to the top and bottom of the galaxy, and meeting up with a friend at the Great Annihilator. I did not get homesick until I started the long journey home.. and more so after I accidentally bounced off an asteroid while showing off for a friend, dropping my hull integrity to 32% while about 20k from home.. that felt lonely.

The most homesickness generating trip I've done, though was my trip to the near rim in an Asp.. I was never more than 17 or 18k LY from Sol on that trip, but the Galactic Rim feels so forlorn and empty...

My first trip to the core, in a Cobra, was a really great adventure, and I had actually wanted to stay out longer than I did, but I turned home when my AMFU ran out of supplies and my modules starting sinking below 80%...

Right now I'm in the Bubble, and it is starting to feel crowded allready, (might be because I went to a CG system, though)...

Trying to return home in a damaged ship is sure to bring back the longing to be back home safely. I agree life in the bubble appears well overcrowded after you’ve been exploring places in the middle of nowhere. As for 17-18k ly from Sol, that is still a huge distance to someone like me who’s barely bursted the bubble in comparison.

 

[Ginger chris]

I'm only 19k ly out at the moment, in an Asp explorer (I know, no imagination!), heading galactic north aiming at a spot about 3kly west of SagA, just looking at the best spot to head heading back in towards the more travelled areas and complete the SagA pilgrimage. I must admit to getting upset at finding my first pre-discovered system for some time earlier today though, sort of ruined my feeling of solitude! Are you using EDDiscovery? I found the 3d map to be a great motivational tool on my way out of the bubble, and even today it helps me along......

 

[Maximillian Forrest]

I obviously need to get out far more given it seems I’ve hardly scratched the human tolerance of self deprivation when it comes to universal exploration. How easily we fall from what we thought was a worthy pedestal

 

[Henkka77]

You do know that theres this Distant Worlds expedition going on right now? Thats why theres cmdrs bragging about their 65,279Ly distance..

Ahem... and im one of them..

 

[CDR Michael Darkmoor]

Wow 65,347ly from Sol…I cannot even comprehend that, let alone do it! Good on you for not feeling home sick though. Send me a postcard when you reach the turn around point

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That pretty much IS the turn around point (though we can always try to go just a little bit farther... 65 KLy is skirting the edge of the galaxy).
But I think I've found another "heading" to include in the disease progression.
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Thank you!!

 

[Zenith]

My sig says it all...

"I don't feel homesick, because I'm already at home in the stars."

 

[Ginger chris]

You do know that theres this Distant Worlds expedition going on right now? Thats why theres cmdrs bragging about their 65,279Ly distance..

Ahem... and im one of them..

thats why I've gone in the other direction, 1000 less explorers picking up the first discovered tag! at least that's what I tell myself, the real reason is that real life is about six weeks old and very shouty and doesn't appreciate her dad buggering off to do a few thousand more Lys in between feeds! Here's hoping for the next Distant Worlds though....

 

[Cdr Voorheez]

Been out since Jan 14th with Distant Worlds. Got to 65279ly out and I'm slowly making my way back. Probably going to get back to the bubble in Jun/Jul.

 

[Maximillian Forrest]

You do know that theres this Distant Worlds expedition going on right now? Thats why theres cmdrs bragging about their 65,279Ly distance..

Ahem... and im one of them..

Yes, I’m familiar with it. I think it take a certain type of player who is dedicated enough to do such a thing . . . . which I admit I’m not up to doing. Lots of admiration from here though through my telescope

 

[GreyAreaUK]

thats why I've gone in the other direction, 1000 less explorers picking up the first discovered tag! at least that's what I tell myself, the real reason is that real life is about six weeks old and very shouty and doesn't appreciate her dad buggering off to do a few thousand more Lys in between feeds! Here's hoping for the next Distant Worlds though....

I'll see your Real Life shouty and raise you a still-as-yet not housetrained cocker spaniel. Bless him.