Horizons Reaching the Center of the Galaxy

[PenguinActual]

So roughly how fast does it take to reach the center of the galaxy? I have two missions that take me near the half-way point before turning back and I have just under a month to do so.

I'd like to add that my ship isn't optimized for Deep Space so I'm just trying to get a rough estimate. And by "Not Optimized" I mean completely unprepared.

 

[CMDR ANCALAGON]

Haha he said how "fast" does it take to get there!

Find the distance from where you are now to the center, and then divide that by your average jump range, and then divide that by 60. That will give you a rough estimate of how many hours it will take.

Oh yeah, and then multiply your answer by 2, because you will probably want to fly back (hell, you'll be tempted to blow yourself up a few times along the way if you start thinking about the return trip.)

 

[William H. Bonney]

it took me between 3-4 weeks round trip to Sagittarius A*, this was pre-passengers, pre-neutron-star scooping and pre-colonia (was a bucket list item at the time). My ASP Explorer also had a jump range of 56LY on a full tank.

things i found out...

1. Getting there was "fun", i made loads of new discoveries, farmed the neutron star fields and had a blast generally.
2. Going back home is the hard part, it's like having a migraine on a Roller coaster, your near the front and sat between wasp nests and a group of school kids, who had bad tuna sandwiches, rotten yogurt and fizzy drinks for lunch. And than finding out the ride never ends and wasps are expert at flying fast... the migraine becomes the least of your worries as you know this ride has at least 3 loop-de-loops.. forwards and backwards!
3. you can be 20,000LY in the middle of no where and if you go into an asteroid field or the rings of planet... pirates will still find you and they will scan you.
4. be prepared! take the biggest A.F.M.U. and more importantly, the biggest Fuel scoop you can.
5. Never, ever... ever, try to repair your FSD in supercruise. it will not be a good experience.
6. there is no novelty shop in Sagittarius A*, it's a fairly boring system to be honest. you'll no doubt see plenty of black holes on the way, and the one in the system is like, just bigger. it's the same feeling when you were a kid and was given a "jawbreaker gobstopper", looks great to begin with but after a while you realise that's actually pain your feeling in your jaws.
7. there is an area on the way which is full of non-scoopables, if your fuel tank drops between 1/3 - 1/2, check the map for scoopables, easiest way i remember them are KGB FOAM, because you know, the K.G.B. probably have the strongest foam currently known.
8. it's worth doing just so you know you've done it, i wouldn't go to Paris without at least seeing the Eiffel Tower, Amsterdam without visiting the coffee-shops/seeing the "culture" something-something or eating sausages in Germany. perhaps thats just me though.

hope that helps, or not, i don't care as i already did it

good luck Commander and fly safe... or Fly dangerous, again i don't care.


Lee

 

[PenguinActual]

Well, I under took my journey due to the 8 digit paycheck should I survive. I really wasn't thinking all that much and started my trip only to realize I have a Shield with Boosters and no AFMU. I have dead weight so the smartest (shut up...) thing I could think of was to shut down my shields and boosters to save fuel. I have a 6A Scoop and an extra tank to push through in a Type-7. Again... 8 digits.

 

[Robbieboy43]

It took me 2 weeks playing 2-3 hours a day....

But i was Exploring in my 50lyr Conda.... But i'm shure it could be done quicker.

 

[kpmop]

A few weeks - it's ~20 kylies there & I did it in a 30ly jump range Asp at about a kylie an hour or so (bit of scanning slowed it down a bit - I blitzed a chunk on the way back and maybe did about 1.5 kly an hour).
I didn't take a direct route there because I figured I wasn't going to do it again in a hurry so I detoured to some of the sights along the way. I guess if you're doing passenger missions you've got a time limit though and no time for sightseeing.

And what Laplandz said.

 

[777Driver]

So roughly how fast does it take to reach the center of the galaxy? I have two missions that take me near the half-way point before turning back and I have just under a month to do so.

I'd like to add that my ship isn't optimized for Deep Space so I'm just trying to get a rough estimate. And by "Not Optimized" I mean completely unprepared.

It depends on if you plan to blast your way there or take a leisurely cruise. It is possible to get there in under 6 hours (has been done in under 4 hours) Realistically you are looking at around 15 hours unengineered if you are not stopping to smell the roses whilst enroute.

First long range trip took me a couple of weeks in a 18LY Type-9 constantly stopping off to first discover systems, hung around the great annihilator for a bit and charted a neutron field that had been hiding from the exploration community.

Not sure what laplandz is on about, no NPC's exists in planatery rings 1500LY outside the bubble unless a remote port is nearby. I do a lot of deep space mining for R&R, nothing out there except empty fields of pristine rocks and ice.

4 weeks is more than enough if you plan to do the trip casually in a non optimized ship. My recommendation would be to head to SagA* high speed, just do AD scans, get to the destination and see how much time you have left for the return trip, if you have lots of time to spare use the return trip to explore, checkout the explorer forum, there is a huge amount of Planetary Nebula and interesting planatery locations to see on the trip back.

Non scoopable stars are a non issue now, filter the route plotter accordingly.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...e-Galactic-Mapping-Project-amp-Expedition-Hub

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/forumdisplay.php/117-Elite-Exploration

 

[PenguinActual]

It depends on if you plan to blast your way there or take a leisurely cruise. It is possible to get there in under 6 hours (has been done in under 4 hours) Realistically you are looking at around 15 hours unengineered if you are not stopping to smell the roses whilst enroute.

First long range trip took me a couple of weeks in a 18LY Type-9 constantly stopping off to first discover systems, hung around the great annihilator for a bit and charted a neutron field that had been hiding from the exploration community.

Not sure what laplandz is on about, no NPC's exists in planatery rings 1500LY outside the bubble unless a remote port is nearby. I do a lot of deep space mining for R&R, nothing out there except empty fields of pristine rocks and ice.

4 weeks is more than enough if you plan to do the trip casually in a non optimized ship. My recommendation would be to head to SagA* high speed, just do AD scans, get to the destination and see how much time you have left for the return trip, if you have lots of time to spare use the return trip to explore, checkout the explorer forum, there is a huge amount of Planetary Nebula and interesting planatery locations to see on the trip back.

Non scoopable stars are a non issue now, filter the route plotter accordingly.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...e-Galactic-Mapping-Project-amp-Expedition-Hub

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/forumdisplay.php/117-Elite-Exploration

Well... here's the thing. A rough estimate of my two missions put me somewhere around the 40,000 Ly mark, starting at BD+47 2112, round trip. I'm firing my Advanced Discovery Scanner every time I drop out of High Wake, point towards my next system and Jump when my ship has cooled to about 50% and I only have a Jump range of 18.8 Lightyears with my fuel tanks full. I'm trying to get to both missions as fast as possible while carrying dead weight but I'm not talking about Phil who's eaten all of the ice cream in my mini-fridge.

 

[777Driver]

18LY range will allow you to do 1000LY an hour quite easily (with a decent sized tank and good scoop) the rest is down to how much spare time you have.

 

[Chris Simon]

Well... here's the thing. A rough estimate of my two missions put me somewhere around the 40,000 Ly mark, starting at BD+47 2112, round trip. I'm firing my Advanced Discovery Scanner every time I drop out of High Wake, point towards my next system and Jump when my ship has cooled to about 50% and I only have a Jump range of 18.8 Lightyears with my fuel tanks full. I'm trying to get to both missions as fast as possible while carrying dead weight but I'm not talking about Phil who's eaten all of the ice cream in my mini-fridge.

I'd reserve about 50 hours of game time for 40.000LY trip. Check the timers on your missions (usually it's at least two weeks) and plan it accordingly.
And hey, don't just honk and jump. You'll get mad.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

Make sure you're OK with doing nothing else than a ton of repetitive tasks. And then some more. I once flew to Heart and Soul nebula and stopped playing for months after I got there - I just couldn't take any more of it.

 

[777Driver]

Make sure you're OK with doing nothing else than a ton of repetitive tasks. And then some more. I once flew to Heart and Soul nebula and stopped playing for months after I got there - I just couldn't take any more of it.

Well that's your problem right there, absolutely no point doing something like that unless you plan to actually explore/chart or do something worthwhile. That's why I'm not a big fan of these ultra long range tourism pax mission.

 

[Chris Simon]

Well that's your problem right there, absolutely no point doing something like that unless you plan to actually explore/chart or do something worthwhile. That's why I'm not a big fan of these ultra long range tourism pax mission.

I have to agree with that. Thinking of exploration in terms of lightyears per hour is the root of all evil.
It's a grinder's point of view, not explorer's.

 

[Rampant]

I have to agree with that. Thinking of exploration in terms of lightyears per hour is the root of all evil.
It's a grinder's point of view, not explorer's.

I really pity those that play sand-box games but in doing so choose to do something in that sand-box that they don't enjoy doing.

Sure, you can then tell your mates that "I got several Billion assets in just a few weeks", or "I got Elite in *only* 2 months", or "Rear Admiral only took me a few days and now I have a Corvette", or some such other right-to-brag metric. But what a painful way to spend your leisure time?

Personally, I subscribe to the play model of: do whatever is fun or interesting and the money/rank/ratings will look after themselves. This is why even though I am a kickstarter, have over 7 weeks game time I have less than 400MCr in assets, not Elite in anything*, and biggest ship owned is a Python. I play for fun. Not for end-game metrics.

Your Aye

Mark H

* Pioneer+99% with enough cartographic data to make Elite. Even having visited well over 7,000 systems, visited the far side of the galaxy, first-discovered around 20 Earth-like Worlds, over 200 Water Worlds, etc, etc, etc. I appear to be in no rush to level up just for the sake of it?!

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

Well that's your problem right there, absolutely no point doing something like that unless you plan to actually explore/chart or do something worthwhile. That's why I'm not a big fan of these ultra long range tourism pax mission.

You assume too much.
That was before tourism. I simply wanted to visit nebulae. The trip to the destination was OK, on the leg back there weren't many objectives left to do.

 

[clampitts]

So roughly how fast does it take to reach the center of the galaxy? I have two missions that take me near the half-way point before turning back and I have just under a month to do so.

I'd like to add that my ship isn't optimized for Deep Space so I'm just trying to get a rough estimate. And by "Not Optimized" I mean completely unprepared.

I went there and back because I could, was pretty naive at exploring and played went on non-Horizons iMac platform. Since then I Bootrcamped and came back and I'm now just operating out of Fwd Base Colonia, all my shops are back in the Bubble. I'm just enjoying goofing around trying to search and snap pix of interesting features. That is, no desire to return to combat (yet!). I have ASP X, 31 Ly, not engineered (yet!). Biggest scoop, AFMU anf SRV

 

[HazardousMatt]

I have to agree with that. Thinking of exploration in terms of lightyears per hour is the root of all evil.
It's a grinder's point of view, not explorer's.

I agree as well, I did a straight shot coming back from Sag A and all I did was "Play movie, J, Right Click (honk), J, Right Click, J, Right Click, J Right Click, change movies, J, Right Click" times a few thousand. I got BURNT bad. Now I'm around Heart and Soul jumping around, scanning all stars and checking out the planets that look interesting and also trying to find Geysers and maybe, just maybe a Ancient Ruin. But let me ask you.....What is not GRINDING about looking for Geysers? To me that is by far the most boring thing EVER! And I have yet to find any.

 

[PenguinActual]

I went there and back because I could, was pretty naive at exploring and played went on non-Horizons iMac platform. Since then I Bootrcamped and came back and I'm now just operating out of Fwd Base Colonia, all my shops are back in the Bubble. I'm just enjoying goofing around trying to search and snap pix of interesting features. That is, no desire to return to combat (yet!). I have ASP X, 31 Ly, not engineered (yet!). Biggest scoop, AFMU anf SRV

As I have not signed up for Colonia, am I able to use Colonia to get back to the Bubble?

 

[Chris Simon]

I agree as well, I did a straight shot coming back from Sag A and all I did was "Play movie, J, Right Click (honk), J, Right Click, J, Right Click, J Right Click, change movies, J, Right Click" times a few thousand. I got BURNT bad. Now I'm around Heart and Soul jumping around, scanning all stars and checking out the planets that look interesting and also trying to find Geysers and maybe, just maybe a Ancient Ruin. But let me ask you.....What is not GRINDING about looking for Geysers? To me that is by far the most boring thing EVER! And I have yet to find any.

Heheh, yes. Fundamentally, playing a game is a repetitive action. The only different between "Grind" and "Gameplay" is whether you are entertained by it or not.

 

[Alklazaris]

With a fully modded Anaconda and carrying a full load of passengers (LY Range 45) I can get there in about 10 hours if I just honk/scoop jump.
I ignore neutron stars, they take more time to set up the right angle, then target the right system and repair then just jumping.

Get at least a 6B fuel scoop, drop all non essential ship systems to low D class and target small scoopable stars only so you can orbit around them quickly.

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I agree as well, I did a straight shot coming back from Sag A and all I did was "Play movie, J, Right Click (honk), J, Right Click, J, Right Click, J Right Click, change movies, J, Right Click" times a few thousand. I got BURNT bad. Now I'm around Heart and Soul jumping around, scanning all stars and checking out the planets that look interesting and also trying to find Geysers and maybe, just maybe a Ancient Ruin. But let me ask you.....What is not GRINDING about looking for Geysers? To me that is by far the most boring thing EVER! And I have yet to find any.

If they make a hull repair module then the grind will be easier. We will be able to freely explore without fear of slowly destroying our ship. There is always discovering new things too. I normally fly around 1,500-2,000 light years above the disk. It offers near endless first discoveries.