What Is Your Average Jump Distance?
- Thread starter Ralph Vargr
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17 light-years is about what Sidney The Sidewinder's max range is. I had thought there would be more small-time/part-time explorers.
Engineering has vastly changed the exploration scenario. The type of responses I'm getting may be getting many of the serious explorers to self-identify, creating a poll bias.
Ah, well. Only Elvis can create the perfect poll. Only Frontier has the complete data set, and I very much doubt they feel like sharing.
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I think my stats have been corrupted as I'm getting an average of 39.25, which is quite impressive when you consider that I have never had a ship capable of more than 35 ly I'm also getting a max distance from start of 68993 which I know is wrong, as the furthest I've been is Sag A. The only other explanation is that Thargoids must have taken my ship for a joy ride some time when I was taking a break from the game to play something else.
Another factor that I had not considered, was that a considerable number of players may have exploration-only alt accounts, not just using a single account, such as I had done pre-Thanksgiving.
That may tend to skew averages up. There might be alt accounts used solely for exploring, by experienced explorers answering the poll. The original intent was to get non-explorers, or part-time explorers, to take a look at their jump ranges inside Inhabited Space, using their main/only account.
I ran lots and lots of short-range missions for rep, in a single area, using a single account. I had never created an alt account, until two weeks ago.
So, my averages include all normal play, not just my early-days explorations.
Good news: I'm allied with just about every one of the factions I need. Bad news: they are all within thirty light-years of Borscht, which makes my average jump suffer. Also, too many trips to Discount Space, in unmodified (cheap) shuttle ships, in the pre-storage era. Cash in the shuttle, build the desired ship at a discount. Fly back to Borscht. Long, long trip, with lots of short jumps, due to fuel. Seattle to Miami trip, with bad kidneys, and IBS. Repeat until you have forty ships. Which are 39 ships too many for bumping up my average range.
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Wow. For four weeks Frontier game time, that's not bad.
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Wait until Space Legs. Then check the odometer.
The kids took the car joy-riding again!
That may tend to skew averages up. There might be alt accounts used solely for exploring, by experienced explorers answering the poll. The original intent was to get non-explorers, or part-time explorers, to take a look at their jump ranges inside Inhabited Space, using their main/only account.
I ran lots and lots of short-range missions for rep, in a single area, using a single account. I had never created an alt account, until two weeks ago.
So, my averages include all normal play, not just my early-days explorations.
Good news: I'm allied with just about every one of the factions I need. Bad news: they are all within thirty light-years of Borscht, which makes my average jump suffer. Also, too many trips to Discount Space, in unmodified (cheap) shuttle ships, in the pre-storage era. Cash in the shuttle, build the desired ship at a discount. Fly back to Borscht. Long, long trip, with lots of short jumps, due to fuel. Seattle to Miami trip, with bad kidneys, and IBS. Repeat until you have forty ships. Which are 39 ships too many for bumping up my average range.
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Wow. For four weeks Frontier game time, that's not bad.
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Wait until Space Legs. Then check the odometer.
The kids took the car joy-riding again!
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That's a rather new commander. I keep reseting all the time, lol.
(the game counts total play time for the account, not commander)
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Indeed. I have never clean saved, and I had not considered the possibility of other commanders clean-saving, and optimizing their statistics, as an experienced player.
My fail.
Not much to write home about but 344802 distance / 20428 jumps makes 16.878 average.
Oh well.
Oh well.
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Almost a 70/30.