Trip duration

Ginger chris

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I was looking at a thread on the newcomers section regarding Sanity and Exploring, and it got me wondering about how long people have been out exploring for on a single trip? My last trip I was out for about Six months, but that was only an hour or two per week due to IRL stuff going on, and did nowhere near enough to make it anywhere near Elite!

How long have you lot, and by you lot I mean the proper space mad, OCD, virtual hermits of the Elite Dangerous universe, been out for at one time? How many make it more than a year of solid exploration? Are you still out there, wondering how your going to cope when 1.3 drops with its new fangled power play shenanigans?
 

iain666

iain666
15 months yesterday. I've been to the end (as seen from the cockpit of a Cobra) of the Sag-Car arm, the end of the Scutum-Centaurus arm and as far into the Outer Arm Vacuous as I could get with a stock Mk III. I'm currently heading back in a Formidine Rift direction to cross over to the Perseus Arm so I can get to the end of that and then head home. So I suppose I'm halfway through the 6th eighth of my trip.

I've played for at least an hour or two, often more, most days in that 15 months (EDSM heat map for the last 12:
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470kly, 21,450 systems so far.
 

Arry

Arry
Loads of guys and girls were off into the Black at the first chance, in Beta. Some have never come back.
 

goemon

goemon
i have made three longer trips to the core and one medium to the statue of liberty nebula, the longest being 10 weeks RL - probably 150-200 hours ingame.

i prefer shorter trips - for exampel i made a project visiting all 1000-coordinates last year (+1000/-1000/-1000 etc.), tried a lot of different ships, visited all hypergiants <2000 ly etc. etc.

last week i took some days to search for geysers and pristine metallic rings around quince --- next i'll probably explore Rho Ophiuchi.

I'm often out of the bubble for 3-4 days or 1 week only.

500 k ly hyperspace distance, 21 k jumps, 14 k systems visited.
 

Evyl Minkey

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I set off when the power play update came out and I've just made it back to Colonia. I've had periods where I don't play for weeks then others where I put 6 hours a day in. Its weird and now I'm just trying to learn how some of the new bits work, like planetary landing etc.
 

Kuroshio

Kuroshio
Evyl Minkey said:
I set off when the power play update came out and I've just made it back to Colonia. I've had periods where I don't play for weeks then others where I put 6 hours a day in. Its weird and now I'm just trying to learn how some of the new bits work, like planetary landing etc.
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Minkey! I thought we'd lost you until I saw you pop up in solo a few times over the last couple of days.

Edit: Sorry, on topic: 5 months. :)
 
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Evyl Minkey

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Hello again old friend. I thought I was lost too. Then I found someone had built a nice friendly station a few light years from me.
 

CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI

CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI
In season one I've been out 6 months too. Took my time to make a 180000LY trip, nothing extraordinary, other CMDR make that trip in few weeks, but for me has been a grand adventure and required some endurance.

Another number I can give you is the time I've spent in the bubble. Of my 1000 hours spent playing, I've spent no more than 50 in the bubble in total. Every bubble activity bores me superfast, the only solutions are either taking a pause or compulsively head out in the black. Every single second passed in the bubble served to prepare the next expedition.

To each its own, many ppl don't understand how can we stay out for such prolonged periods of time, I don't understand how someone can pass extended periods of time in the "bubble cage" playing wargames when there's a galaxy to explore out there.
 

Jackie Silver

Jackie Silver
The longest time I've been out was for only a few months in the black during DWE. I tend not to go out for longer than a week or two, and most of the time I'm only making short excursions out from the Bubble, just a few Kylies out and around and returning to one of various home bases to sell data. Especially at the moment when I'm visiting hundreds of stars within a Kylie of Sol, I'm just going out for a few hours then returning.
 

Yanick

Yanick
My longest was about three months, when I went out to the Abyssal Plain/Ends of Scutum Centurus arm. With a pre Horizons Asp.

Hats off to CMDR Cruento Mucrone, for his continuing super epic run, out in the black!
 

Sunwalker

Sunwalker
I set off out of the bubble for exploring just yesterday, and I have over 200 hours played :p. I am not sure how long I will be out, perhaps just a couple of days, or maybe a week or two. It will hardly be more than that.

I spent around 150 of my 200 hours in order to get to the control of a system a minor faction I have adopted, and yesterday we have just won the civil war and took the control of the system. Anyways, though it was rewarding, I was also exhausted. So I decided to do something different, long ago I had marked a random star close to the core as "go there someday", and I resolved that now it is "someday" [big grin]!

About the time I am expected to take... I have as ASP explorer with 27 Ly jump range, and last night I plotted a route of almost 1000 Ly (the limit of the in-game map) to roughly the direction I am going. The route had 41 jumps. If I just scoop the star and move to the next system, I should take a little over a minute between each system, so I estimate that if I am in a rush I can take an hour to cover 1000 Ly. But I am stopping around the way on random systems to explore them, so it might take longer than that if I am on the mood for exploring. And now I decided to deviate my course to northwest so I get more "First Discoveries" along the way.

All in all, the time you spend on exploration do depends on how thorough you wish your exploration to be. I recall someone mentioning that he got to the core in almost six hours, I imagine that for that you need to plot an optimized route to the core, using a ship with a large jump range, FSD boost, and neutron/white dwarf stars.
 

osser

osser
Just passed 12 months as of Nov 22nd. 14 thousand systems. 89 ELW's 81% hull 88% PP.
Planing on coming back after 18 months.
Goal: 20k systems & 125 ELW's

Live to sell.

CMDR Tootiny
 
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NW3

NW3
I'm usually outside the bubble for a few weeks up to a month or so at a time. My longest trip was DWE; I was exploring for about 5 months, before I returned to the bubble, with only 6% hull remaining. I didn't dare explore any longer on that trip.
 

disorganise

disorganise
9 months between stations......of which just over 3 months on one planet (134 game hours)
Only rushed back for the final DWE meet really. Had I known the instancing issues/general inability to get into the game would raise their heads again.....I wouldn't have bothered :/
 

[VR] optimal_909

[VR] optimal_909
CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI said:
In season one I've been out 6 months too. Took my time to make a 180000LY trip, nothing extraordinary, other CMDR make that trip in few weeks, but for me has been a grand adventure and required some endurance.

Another number I can give you is the time I've spent in the bubble. Of my 1000 hours spent playing, I've spent no more than 50 in the bubble in total. Every bubble activity bores me superfast, the only solutions are either taking a pause or compulsively head out in the black. Every single second passed in the bubble served to prepare the next expedition.

To each its own, many ppl don't understand how can we stay out for such prolonged periods of time, I don't understand how someone can pass extended periods of time in the "bubble cage" playing wargames when there's a galaxy to explore out there.
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I have probably similar stats, and whenever I'm in the bubble I envy those green markers in the galaxy map, who are far out in the black in unexplored systems.

Having said that, I love the stations and the docking sequence, and I'm looking forward seeing the upgraded interiors. Also, the mysteries and event in and around the bubble are also getting more interesting. At the end, I appreciate being in the bubble after spending time in the black, and vice versa.
 

Jackie Silver

Jackie Silver
optimal_909 said:
I have probably similar stats, and whenever I'm in the bubble I envy those green markers in the galaxy map, who are far out in the black in unexplored systems.

Having said that, I love the stations and the docking sequence, and I'm looking forward seeing the upgraded interiors. Also, the mysteries and event in and around the bubble are also getting more interesting. At the end, I appreciate being in the bubble after spending time in the black, and vice versa.
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Mmm, that's it for me, too - my feelings towards the Bubble qua CMDR-inhabited Space vary (I get shot at a lot, because I like to poke my nose into things and possibly because my sunny personality rubs some people up the wrong way), but I always like the chance to fly round and take random missions and see the sights.

If you've been away a while, the new stations are nice - it adds a much-needed diversity - and there are lots of tourist spots all over the Bubble now, it would take a long while to exhaust them.
 

Jon474

Banned
Jon474
I must confess to feeling a little home-sick at the minute. It will pass. Getting into hunting for surface features now (not having a huge amount of success, though) and progress towards home has become very slow.

Despite all the negative posts seen in "Other Sub-groups" I do fancy a few visits to some of the Engineers. However, I do know that after three or four trade runs, a couple of missions and a fatal interdiction that I will once again turn the prow of my Lakon to face away from the Bubble.

Flying happily
Jon
Type-6 Explorer
 
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