How Long Do You Stay At Beagle Point?

[Seizewell Warrior]

My distance to BP is closing fast as I pass through the Hieronymus Delta and approach the Formorian Frontier. Hoping to cross to the north of the Eishat (what a lovely name, Mr. Braben!) which I did last time with boosted jumps in my 47 LY AspX so this time hopefully slightly fewer boosts in my 59 LY Annie. Once at BP I intend to make the further pilgrimage out to Ishum's Reach. Although the systems and astronomical bodies have all been scanned and mapped 100's of times by now, I will probably still do it for the exploration XP and to have given the voyage a sense of purpose.

This is actually my third time at the Beagle and it always seems a bit, well, empty after that long voyage north to just turn around and express jump back to the Bubble.

Depending how much juice I use up crossing The Abyss, will probably prospect some materials and, if I'm taking the neutrons home, plenty of supplies for the AFMU too. Other than that, though, not really anything else to do up there.

I guess it's a bit like a mountaineer scaling Everest or K2, once you reach the summit, you know you have to start back but can't quite bring yourself to do so. Also like mountain climbing (or rather descent) the return is when you're more likely to get sloppy, make mistakes and come a cropper!

I do also wish FDev would give us a station or outpost up there so we could dock and hard save, maybe turn in some of our data.

 

[Alyssa]

I'm in Mare Somnia region, trying to reach the edge here, then heading upward, maybe visit BP second time. 63Ly Phantom.

 

[Maolagin]

There's not a ton to do out at the actual far rim, unless you want to make a challenge of navigation along the perimeter for a bit. But if you haven't been out there in a while, a number of interesting sites in the Abyss were added to EDSM in the wake of DW2. A few of which are actually harder to reach than Ishum's itself (in a 59 ly ship you can reach Far Oasis for instance, but it'll take a lot of jumponium and manual plotting).

 

[recrudesce]

Five minutes or so. Jump in, take a screenshot, jump out.

 

[Seizewell Warrior]

I might try for Far Oasis, assuming I can get enough polonium and yttrium for the premium jumps - the former I have found to be very scarce, even on planets and moons that show > 0.5% chance.

 

[Maolagin]

I might try for Far Oasis, assuming I can get enough polonium and yttrium for the premium jumps - the former I have found to be very scarce, even on planets and moons that show > 0.5% chance.

When I was out there after DW2, my impression was that the premium materials are easy enough to keep in stock, since every geological site will have at least one or two needle crystals. I found that germanium and arsenic were my limiting resources - you need them for multiple boost recipes, they're rare enough that they don't just drop from every rock, but common enough that you can't rely on them dropping at volcanic sites either.

 

[Seizewell Warrior]

Duplicate...

 

[Seizewell Warrior]

Five minutes or so. Jump in, take a screenshot, jump out.

This is pretty much what I did on my previous two visits, the overwhelming desire to get back to the Bubble and cash in my exploration data before anyone else did! Of course, on reflection, those first find systems have stood like that for however many years the game has been running so the chance of someone beating you to it is remote. On a more real world level, two months solid playing one game largely just jumping and scanning is more than enough to want a change - go do some Fallout 4, Mass effect or Deus Ex for a change.

 

[Maolagin]

This is pretty much what I did on my previous two visits, the overwhelming desire to get back to the Bubble and cash in my exploration data before anyone else did! Of course, on reflection, those first find systems have stood like that for however many years the game has been running so the chance of someone beating you to it is remote. On a more real world level, two months solid playing one game largely just jumping and scanning is more than enough to want a change - go do some Fallout 4, Mass effect or Deus Ex for a change.

This is exactly why many serious explorers have multiple accounts. Much easier to scratch that bubble itch by logging in as an alt for a day or a week, than to make a 65,000 LY dash back home.

 

[Seizewell Warrior]

Not just the Bubble itch, but the playing-something-other-than-Frontier one too.

Anyhow just crossed Eishat and arrived at my last map route finder plottable system in Pyrea. Time to break out the jump juice!

 

[Saool]

An hour or so. Probably the same for ilum's.

At BP I went to the DW2 listed point. It was quiet as I was in Mobius, but I liked that. I sat at the edge of the vast crater looking at the star, and taking it in, in VR. Flew around a bit, scanned etc.

At Ilum's it was going to the far side of the farest body and looking into blackness and seeing nothing but distant members of the local group, and taking a few screenshots of my ship with the whole galaxy behind it.

 

[GunnerBill]

How long... Work it out as a % of the time taken to get there..

ROFLMAO!

 

[Orvidius]

I didn't stay long on my first visit. I probably spent about 15-25 minutes taking screenshots and looking around. Then moved onto Semotus Beacon to do the same before logging out for the night. Then on the next login, I started the trek to Colonia.

 

[Zieman]

I didn't stay long on my first visit. I probably spent about 15-25 minutes taking screenshots and looking around. Then moved onto Semotus Beacon to do the same before logging out for the night. Then on the next login, I started the trek to Colonia.

Ditto.

 

[iain666]

Last time, about 5 months.

Although that was because I decided to take a break and catch up on my steam backlog a bit at the end of DW2...

 

[Heavy Johnson]

Unlike Everest, you aren't at risk of immediate oxygen starvation and can hang around...

Like iain666, I was so exhausted after my last trip there I took a few months off. It's a lot of work to make that trip!

 

[Seizewell Warrior]

Unlike Everest, you aren't at risk of immediate oxygen starvation and can hang around...

Like iain666, I was so exhausted after my last trip there I took a few months off. It's a lot of work to make that trip!

Just looked at my log for the journey and it's a month today since I departed Khun and the 21st November when I turned north from Explorers End. I should hopefully finish crossing the Formidine Rift/Abyss today sufficient to get back on a route finder plot for the last 4000 LY or so. But while that is relatively quick, yes it is a huge effort and apart from a couple of diversions to drive my truck in ETS2 I haven't really been playing anything else.

That's why it would be nice if FDev rewarded that effort with something a bit different at BP - a station or two, but after all that effort all we get is an identikit system and the prospect of that long jurney home!

 

[Heavy Johnson]

Getting there is the achievement. Not anything else.

 

[MaultierColt308]

I stayed over night...
But actually, it were around 20 minutes of my in-game time at a whole. Came in, visited the beacons, took screenies and landed on planet 2 before log-off.
On next day, I immediately left planet 2 and, therefore, the system for Semotus Beacon (where I did the same minus the beacons).

 

[Old Duck]

You should just sit there running ED forever with a script that detects and notifies you when someone enters the instance. When they do, BLOW THEM UP!!! You'll be the Hero of Canton Ganker Of Beagle Point.