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Newcomer / Intro What's the furthest I'll ever have to jump to reach any star?
- Thread starter Harrowdown
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So theoretically, I could go ~133lys in one hop... wow, that's akin to making the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs.
Ozric
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Yeah, when I finally went back to Beagle Point and out to Ishum's reach a year or two ago I had beefed up my Asp so it had a roughly 62Ly jump range on 1/3 tank of fuel. I used a fair amount of synthesis to get there, plenty of 120Ly hops.
There are more than a few - go up and down and there are countless places you can reach only with long range and either a synthesis boost or a neutron supercharge. Not mandatory of course, but lots of fun.
As you might have gathered from the previous answers there is no magic number. It could be said that reaching those very hard-to-reach places is actually tourism since they have all been "explored" already. It is very true that your ideal explorer ship is one that you are happy to spend time in - I have an exploration-build anaconda in one account that I used for the distant worlds 2 expedition - it is still a very long way out in "The Conduit". The reason it is not progressing "home" quickly? - It isn't fun to wallow about in supercruise in the beast (mapping). I will never take an anaconda out exploring again.
As far as I am aware the longest jump range that is needed to reach one of the most distant stars which is Ishum's Reach is ~83Ly, and so it is only possible to reach it using FSD Synthesis. If you wanted to reach that system you would need a ship with a jump range of 41.5Ly. (though I have just seen your additional answer about not having Horizons, so that is a long term goal)
I still think the Asp Explorer is the best Exploration ship for manoeuvrability and visibility. I spent the first 3 years of the game in my 32Ly Asp, and took it all the way around the galaxy even to Beagle Point before I decided to actually get around to engineering it.
Thanks. Even if I never jump that far it's good to have some idea of what the upper band is like.
The rim of the galaxy is fairly smooth - no system is that far away from another. Going up and down is another story entirely - there are systems requiring a 330LY jump to reach, in which case 83LY would have to be your base range!
Someone already mentioned that, but I didn't see any numbers. That is within the range of the fleet carriers, right? I imagine there will be a bit of a gold rush once those are available.
Yeah. I guess I was thinking of starship ranges; 330LY is achievable if you have neutron stars at either end to send you there and back again. There are systems needing even more range than that. But yes a Fleet Carrier will do it no problem. There will be many systems above and below the plane that we’ll be able to reach with their 500LY range.
Perhaps as was possible in the original game, they'll be able to jump to another galaxy.
The real question now is; how many stars are there that are still outside of even fleet carrier range, if any?
I kinda wish I had enough time to be on that frontier. As it stands... well I'm probably better of in the galactic core. It will be well explored by the time I'm ready to purchase a carrier.
I really hope this happens. And that they don’t give us the map next time.
Excluding the really far out solitary systems, there should be only a handful of systems in the procedurally-generated galaxy proper that remain unreachable.
Sorry.
According to EDSM, we're at 0.04%. FD recently announced that the actual figure was around 0.1%. That's the percentage of systems in the Galaxy that actually have been visited/explored. You'll still have unexplored systems in the game when you can fly out there in real life yourself (or, the way things are going now, have to get granddad to work out on the excercise bike so you have power to run your PC).
Thwarptide
Banned
I have a 45ly asp-x and for what I'm doing, 45ly is plenty. But as far as cataloging new systems goes, you miss a lot systems jumping so many light years. I'm not even close to the core and yet I'm super busy with new systems folks seem willing to pass by on their mad rush to the core and beyond.
Yeah, I know only around 04% of the galaxy remains undiscovered, much more system's that have been are on the outter fringes, along the colonia hwy, straight to the core and to the far side of the galaxy.
My personal explorer philosophy is why pass by so much that hasn't been gleaned yet, just to get where everyone else is going?
The road to riches path seems to be quite popular
https://edastro.com/mapcharts/
Yeah, I know only around 04% of the galaxy remains undiscovered, much more system's that have been are on the outter fringes, along the colonia hwy, straight to the core and to the far side of the galaxy.
My personal explorer philosophy is why pass by so much that hasn't been gleaned yet, just to get where everyone else is going?
The road to riches path seems to be quite popular
https://edastro.com/mapcharts/
x4 multiplier, so 300%
and can you stack it with the "material boost"?
when you have a 60 ly ship you get up to 180ly with the neutron star and then 360ly with the material boost?
No they don't stack with each other.
You’re not the first to wonder; alas, the answer is no.
60LY would be 240LY with a neutron; x4, or +300%.