Escaping the Lozenge

[FaolGlas]

So, I wanted to get to the end of the lozenge - got there, and discovered I could just keep going, which I did, "because I can." There's nothing out here mind you - hoping the advanced surface scanner brings me some pennies if I can crawl across the void back to somewhere with, you know, stations and things!

 

[ZephyrDark]

Well there's a bug.... hah.

 

[Zireael]

Yes, the explorable part does extend beyond the lozenge, and no, you can't explore everything yet.

 

[FaolGlas]

Time to turn around and try to turn this foray into some profit! Avoiding combat like the plague since no repairs or munitions reloads way out here!

 

[CDR TSquared]

Yeeep. I was out there yesterday and on my first step outside the boundary I get jumped while scanning the central star. Me and my 30% hull got back to civilization as fast as possible afterward.

 

[FaolGlas]

I got lucky and was able to evade any interdictions, only got ones that were easy to avoid. Made it back to civilization, my gosh I even found a bulletin board! Haven't seen one in ages, long before decided to jump outside the pill (in fact the absence of missions was one of the reasons I made up that particular goal)

Got about 60,000 all told for the data when I got back, which wasn't that exciting. I actually dropped into an inhabited system and made 10,000 from scanning that on my return, ahem. Don't they know their own backyard!

 

[mikelowndes]

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=55584&p=974448&viewfull=1#post974448

So who's managed to get furthest out?

 

[FaolGlas]

There is a mighty obstacle out there in the far reaches, a vast and mighty wall of dark known as.... the boredom barrier! Is great to be visiting systems that few, if any, have seen before... but ultimately (and for me, relatively quickly) still want to come back, sell the data, fuel by buying rather than scooping, and continue the ever-ongoing quest for That Next Upgrade!

 

[Jackie Silver]

The unmarked extension goes out about another 50ly to 100ly beyond the fields we know.
Here's a shot from HIP 109278, which is about as far as you can get. Beyond that the stars are not accessible.

I didn't find any spectacular systems out there (no T-Tauri nursery clusters, no inhabited systems that I could see); I did find one with three nominally Earth-like planets in a row.
(If your definition of Earthlike is "too large or too small, boiling hot, tidally locked...")

 

[anikaiful]

The unmarked extension goes out about another 50ly to 100ly beyond the fields we know.
Here's a shot from HIP 109278, which is about as far as you can get. Beyond that the stars are not accessible.

I didn't find any spectacular systems out there (no T-Tauri nursery clusters, no inhabited systems that I could see); I did find one with three nominally Earth-like planets in a row.
(If your definition of Earthlike is "too large or too small, boiling hot, tidally locked...")

Pretty! Have to go see

 

[wizzpig]

Yep, I think HIP 109278 was about the furthest I managed to get. Very pretty.

Spoiler

 

[FaolGlas]

Dang I turned back too early! Heh! That is pretty awesome, the two white stars. Hopefully will get a chance to see those, though I think I will wait and hope that the area will become populated with... well, a population. Then the boredom barrier will be dissolved and I can drop by as part of my normal schemes! Thank you for sharing!

 

[anikaiful]

Time to turn around and try to turn this foray into some profit! Avoiding combat like the plague since no repairs or munitions reloads way out here!

A true explorer packs weapons that don't need munitions... ...it's a LONG road back to get some. Oh, and the automated repair thingy (what's it called again?), is a must -it runs out of shots though, in a very long run, but one likely learns by then how to avoid being shot at at all.

 

[FaolGlas]

How is the automated repair item? It takes ammo which has deterred me from trying it yet, as not sure how much repair you get from it. Ought to try it out sometime though, will put that on my list, everything is going to get wiped anyway so best to find out what I like and what doesn't suit while it doesn't matter!

And true enough, with just energy weapons there'd be no worries of running out of ammo! I just so love the way the multicannons look though that I do a half and half mix at the moment. Not very good planning I admit, but then flying off into the wild dark yonder was a spur of the moment thing!

 

[anikaiful]

How is the automated repair item? It takes ammo which has deterred me from trying it yet, as not sure how much repair you get from it. Ought to try it out sometime though, will put that on my list, everything is going to get wiped anyway so best to find out what I like and what doesn't suit while it doesn't matter!

And true enough, with just energy weapons there'd be no worries of running out of ammo! I just so love the way the multicannons look though that I do a half and half mix at the moment. Not very good planning I admit, but then flying off into the wild dark yonder was a spur of the moment thing!

I do a lot of spur of the moment things, but having hugged a few asteroids while being too brazen when mining got me buying the auto-repair. Not sure of the proportion of how much "ammo" it uses for repairs as I've not driven it to the limits of capabilities, but it can fix your ship from shambles to operable quite fine (it's not instant, however, so no miracle fix mid-combat there).

 

[FaolGlas]

Ok sounds worth trying, ty, will give it a go! I do like wandering off the beaten track, so being self sufficient for that would be awesome!

 

[anikaiful]

Ok sounds worth trying, ty, will give it a go! I do like wandering off the beaten track, so being self sufficient for that would be awesome!

- repair unit
- fuel scoop
- refinery
- mining laz0r
- intermediate/advanced scanner
- other gimmicks

...and one's about ready to head where no creature has stumbled at before.

 

[Togg]

i also ventured outside the end of the pill.. bounced around out there a bit.. then i spotted "20 Celphie" so i doubled back and south to check out a Orange Giant star... i forgot to screen shot it though. sigh... maybe i'll re-double back for that.

 

[Hellhawk666]

There are actually 3 very stunning class B stars in that system.

The A/B close binary:



and if you venture a bit further out and you'll find this one:

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[CMDR Gerakis]

Yes I've been around there as well... it's great to feel that freedom. The scoop is a good tool to have. What would be great is to have Lakon-9 NPC ships flying about which, like the ones that buy old stuff, would provide access to the nomadic mission board of some random faction living on the edges of the galaxy. They would pop up randomly. It would be great to have some sort of civilized activity going on on these areas... a little bit would be enough, including the occasional Thargoids scout sighting