Well i dont agree. And if its 1000 its even worse. Suddenly gaining 10x jump range detracts significantly from its hugeness. As some already said beagle point becomes a day trip instead of an achievment.
Edit: its not even purely down to jump range is it? I mean mobile base where ever? I can feel the galaxy shrivveling as we speak. No more isolation, no more epic journeys...
This is true but it also depends on how easy winnebagofuel is to get. The space winnebago might just be a way to replace massive rote jumping sessions with something more interesting in some form of resource gathering or crafting, possibly with more than one path to obtaining it (maybe you can trade for it? maybe it's a mission reward?). So you do something better than jumping and in exchange you get one trip. A plus is that you haven't tagged the stars of any systems on your way (from the perspective of other explorers). If getting the fuel for the winnebago costs significantly less time than jumping, then yes, it would be a major buff to exploration rate. That could be easily mitigated by a cooldown though.
Even if the galaxy does start getting explored, who cares? It's just a videogame. When nobody plays the game anymore, do you want only 3% or less of the galaxy to have been explored? We might miss some of the neatest crap the random number generator made. I don't think Frontier computes this stuff. I think they find out when we find out. Again, this isn't a real model of the milk way. The only accurate about it are the stars themselves and they're only accurate to our ability to make educated guesses as to what they are from observing them from here.
I've only done one exploration trip I would describe as epic and that was my first, and I had to figure out scoop rules along the way after crossing a patch of brown dwarfs, and that was to beteljeuce. My second trip which was to Explorer's Anchorage, which was my first trip out of the bubble, I would not describe as epic. Neat, maybe, not epic.
Everybody's different, but I think getting rid of massive jumping binges is a good thing. I am all for earlier explorer's being differentiated somehow on the map. In fact, I already wish pre-FSS people had some kind of additional flair on their names as it is.
