I want to clear something up to those considering unlocking Palin. I'm not an explorer. I hate it. So I was dreading 5k from home star thinking you had to hop in a ship at LHS 3447 and go 5k away from there in a straight line.
However, once I got his invite I saw I indeed had already done that and thought "now there's no way, but hey, I'll take it!". Then I thought... it must mean that you must have traveled the sum of every lightyear from every jump made not to or from LHS 3447. My 'max distant from start' was 68,000 at that point and I knew for certain I never went that far away.
This might be old news to some, but as more players are coming around now and more like myself who have been around since the stone-age but took one look at engineers and decided you'd been fine without them all that time so why bother... that information should help.
Hop to the next system over from your starting star, choose the next farthest system you can jump from that star, and go back-&-forth. No need to go out of the bubble, weigh your ship down with scanners and such. If you're looking to do it as fast as possible that's what i'd do. Though I'm sure the money from going 5k in a straight line would be good as well as exploration rank but I don't know.
Disclaimer: This will still suck and won't be very pretty. But it'll still work and you can do it in a stripped down 'holler (U.S.)/ holly-err (U.K.)/ laurie (U.K. & Aussie)
However, once I got his invite I saw I indeed had already done that and thought "now there's no way, but hey, I'll take it!". Then I thought... it must mean that you must have traveled the sum of every lightyear from every jump made not to or from LHS 3447. My 'max distant from start' was 68,000 at that point and I knew for certain I never went that far away.
This might be old news to some, but as more players are coming around now and more like myself who have been around since the stone-age but took one look at engineers and decided you'd been fine without them all that time so why bother... that information should help.
Hop to the next system over from your starting star, choose the next farthest system you can jump from that star, and go back-&-forth. No need to go out of the bubble, weigh your ship down with scanners and such. If you're looking to do it as fast as possible that's what i'd do. Though I'm sure the money from going 5k in a straight line would be good as well as exploration rank but I don't know.
Disclaimer: This will still suck and won't be very pretty. But it'll still work and you can do it in a stripped down 'holler (U.S.)/ holly-err (U.K.)/ laurie (U.K. & Aussie)
