36 Ophuichi stupid large

[Factabulous]

The station location setup was I think done back before Frontier was talked into using supercruise rather than mini-jumps for in-system travel. You can tell, because if you look at the Pleiades and Colonia, where most of the new systems have been added since, there's a range of distances up to about 4,000 Ls ... a very small number up to about 40,000 Ls (and then only in systems where there isn't a suitable closer location) ... and that's as far as it goes. There's some five-minute supercruises, which is plenty to get a bit of variety and a sense of "this system is big", but no more than that.

Interesting - so if people did really object to the long SC one solution would be to have the Thargoids, as part of their invasion, destroy all the stations more than 4k ls away from the main star. Everyone happy with that?

 

[VR StarLightPL]

Interesting - so if people did really object to the long SC one solution would be to have the Thargoids, as part of their invasion, destroy all the stations more than 4k ls away from the main star. Everyone happy with that?

You have my pitchfork.

 

[Bigmaec]

Interesting - so if people did really object to the long SC one solution would be to have the Thargoids, as part of their invasion, destroy all the stations more than 4k ls away from the main star. Everyone happy with that?

Only if they really destroy them, if not my OCD compells us to haul even more :x

 

[Zeeman]

Would be interesting if in-system travel is part of the calculation.

Indeed it would *giggle*

Z...

 

[IndigoWyrd]

Be glad these are the exception, not the rule.

And aside from reading all the mission details and keeping as few details like this in your long-term memory, no, there’s no way to keep from being offered missions to East BF, Middle of Nowhere.

You do ‘em once and go “never doing that again.”

Says the pilot who’s made 56 runs to Hutton.

 

[VR StarLightPL]

Be glad these are the exception, not the rule.

Their own QA dept. would eat them alive.

 

[Factabulous]

Be glad these are the exception, not the rule.

And aside from reading all the mission details and keeping as few details like this in your long-term memory, no, there’s no way to keep from being offered missions to East BF, Middle of Nowhere.

You do ‘em once and go “never doing that again.”

Says the pilot who’s made 56 runs to Hutton.

Yeah, I ted just to move somewhere else if I start to see 'em, because I always forget The sightseeing Pax missions can be a pain, because they don't tend to tell you the distances at the later targets, and they always tend to stick in a bad one at the end.

 

[CMDR_Coenen]

Says the pilot who’s made 56 runs to Hutton.

Respect. You do earn the Elite on combat (combat to stay awake), trade (it does earn good) and exploration (it's really, really far away) rank if you survived 56 runs to Hutton.

 

[Brian of Ardagh]

I saw a mission to deliver 12 Bertrandite to Katzenstein Dock just this weekend, the pay was around 1.9M. The mission details, before accepting, didn't say how far it was from the drop-in point so I bought the exploration data and found it was 0.14 LY. I said yes! Sign me up for that! Took almost 70 minutes to get there. I brought another 84 Bertrandite to make some additional profit.

After looking at the system map I realized there are lots of HMC, WW and an Earth like. Made another 8.5M mapping all of them.

 

[Amargosa]

I saw a mission to deliver 12 Bertrandite to Katzenstein Dock just this weekend, the pay was around 1.9M. The mission details, before accepting, didn't say how far it was from the drop-in point so I bought the exploration data and found it was 0.14 LY. I said yes! Sign me up for that! Took almost 70 minutes to get there. I brought another 84 Bertrandite to make some additional profit.

After looking at the system map I realized there are lots of HMC, WW and an Earth like. Made another 8.5M mapping all of them.

Meanwhile you could have made like 200M from mining void opals during that time.

 

[Siobhan]

I saw a mission to deliver 12 Bertrandite to Katzenstein Dock just this weekend, the pay was around 1.9M. The mission details, before accepting, didn't say how far it was from the drop-in point so I bought the exploration data and found it was 0.14 LY. I said yes! Sign me up for that! Took almost 70 minutes to get there. I brought another 84 Bertrandite to make some additional profit.

After looking at the system map I realized there are lots of HMC, WW and an Earth like. Made another 8.5M mapping all of them.

And this is how it should be done! Make the most of the trip, and remember it for next time.
Hutton of course is a special case, and tbf, one shouldn't be allowed to get any of the high ranks without at least one trip out. I mean, it will probably be the first place we colonise, being our nearest neighbour. Only 4LY (approx) to Proxima... If the first manned ship out there doesn't name it Hutton, then someone's doing something seriously wrong.

 

[VR StarLightPL]

If the first manned ship out there doesn't name it Hutton, then someone's doing something seriously wrong.

I doubt children of our children will rember Elite Dangerous.

 

[Siobhan]

I doubt children of our children will rember Elite Dangerous.

Probably not, but who knows... maybe there'll be a retro games scene, or maybe Elite X will be popular with the cool kids.

Then again... it's likely Star Citizen will be out by then, or at least in public beta...

 

[IndigoWyrd]

Respect. You do earn the Elite on combat (combat to stay awake), trade (it does earn good) and exploration (it's really, really far away) rank if you survived 56 runs to Hutton.

Ah Hutton... the place to catch up on missed and forgotten seasons of the X-Files...

 

[Amargosa]

I mean, it will probably be the first place we colonise, being our nearest neighbour. Only 4LY (approx) to Proxima...

I doubt that any planet around red dwarves will ever be colonised. Those stars are too cold and throw flares all the time. Alpha Centauri might have a better chance if there are any planets.

 

[Brian of Ardagh]

Meanwhile you could have made like 200M from mining void opals during that time.

It's not all about the money. I think the best I've made mining was 80M in one trip, as interesting as mining is I find the PWA to be frustrating with so many false positives and little to nothing else to mine besides the cores. I'd rather not spend lots of time looking for that one "nugget", I'd rather be able to make money finding decent surface and subsurface deposits with the occasional mother lode.

To me the PWA is a P-in-the-A, it should only highlight things that have something of value in them, not just void opals but at least the occasional mineral or metal that's worth more than water. If a real world company designed a scanner like that they'd be laughed out of the market.

 

[shreddog]

You should be taking as many rares as you can fill an Anacondas hull with to Hutton Orbital for max profit.

Z...

 

[Ignition]

I have a mission on a station in 36 Ophuichi system. However it is 0.14 LY away from the arival star. Now after 20 minuts it only 3 million Ls away. That is sooo annoying. Is this really unavoidable (short of somehow not selecting those missions)

Enjoy the great gameplay...

 

[Para Handy]

I have a mission on a station in 36 Ophuichi system. However it is 0.14 LY away from the arival star. Now after 20 minuts it only 3 million Ls away. That is sooo annoying. Is this really unavoidable (short of somehow not selecting those missions)

Basically the "stupid" part of the title is not the star system's dimensions it is the player's failure to read the mission information before accepting it.

Hopefully you will live and learn. (...and maybe also learn to not make complaining rants about something that is your fault?)

I saw a mission to deliver 12 Bertrandite to Katzenstein Dock just this weekend, the pay was around 1.9M. The mission details, before accepting, didn't say how far it was from the drop-in point .....

Perhaps you mean you didn't notice it as they always show the approx distance in the mission description now (the pay should have been a clue too).

 

[Brian of Ardagh]

Perhaps you mean you didn't notice it as they always show the approx distance in the mission description now (the pay should have been a clue too).

The pay was a clue, which is why I bought the exploration data, from within the Galaxy map presented as part of the mission description. It's possible I just missed the distance to the dock but I was pretty sure all it showed was the distance to the system. It did say something about checking the distance before accepting, although I don't remember the exact wording.