I was bored….
So yeah I was bored, like really bored, and two things popped into my head while contemplating something to keep me occupied until the Q4 release
Of course the latter remark popped into my head while reading a thread by Deluvian about taking his fuel Conda as far from sol as possible (there were others but that’s where I got inspired), so some maths crunching & calculating how far he would get I wrote this …
“so with 464T on board that's.... ~374 hours of supercruise
Or 15 days... soooo 8th of October? I hazard a guess 1hr gets you 0.2LY so my guestimated distance from sol would be 65,722.14LY
or using some other maths... I get 86.61LY so that would take you to 65,733.95LY from Sol
if indeed you had 464T on board
which brings me to another point... it can be beaten, I reckon you could get 158.3LY away from the star using a different ship which would break the 65,800LY barrier but would take you 28days solid to get there.
I aint got time to spend a month in supercruise though... or have I??????”
I got my cutter out of the shipyard and brushed the dust off it – fitting name for the vessel would be “Lemon” because it could all go south pretty quickly
I calculated I could get over the necessary 41.4LY JR so I could make the jump without the FSD booster, I just needed to time the fuel right because the jump range was very close on MAX!
I quickly got it outfitted and left shinrata with a miniscule fuel scoop and lots & lots of fuel tanks, like seriously a stupid amount of fuel on board, so much so class 6D thrusters were inadequate to get it off the landing pad!
848T, and a ~28 day Supercruise lay ahead, but some quick SC testing sent me back to Jameson memorial to get my fuel T/hr down, I wanted it as low as possible, and thanks to me being a module hoarder I had some silly but daft legacy modules you wouldn’t even modify in today’s scheme which had interesting effects on my T/Hr – while I needed less than ~2T/Hr to beat the record (which the cutter easily achieves) - but the final outfitting & figure will remain somewhat a mystery...
why you ask, well because I left the star at a certain angle, im sure if someone with better maths than I could almost match or potentially beat my distance, so with my t/hr kept a quiet little secret along with outfitting (other than lots of fuel tanks) so at least anyone trying to beat it will have to actually do some work themselves rather than copy / paste a Coriolis build.
So yeah you need a cutter and some fuel tanks
Three things concerned me about this trip…
The latter was an easy fix and the Xbox in the conservatory (fancy English name for a glass box) was gathering dust so would be the Supercruise mule while I could play something else
Also the lack of scanners made the commute out there exactly that, interestingly I picked up a handful of populated systems meaning I had visited them before in previous runs out here, not always knowing where the star was (if thrown in a binary system) was annoying but manageable
Progress was quick (comparatively) with the neutrons, might be a crap fuel scoop but that extra range worked out to be the most efficient way to traverse space (thanks to spansh) but was still a lot of jumps!
Hats off to you barge flyers out there too, steering the cutter away from binary stars is painful, which led to one emergency stop along the way as it just would not turn quick enough!
It surprised me how far I could actually go on “one tank” all 848T of it mind because even my max jumps were hardly noticeable on the fuel tank and I was doing some 90-100 jumps I think (I kept losing count!!!) Which got me wondering if you could make it without a scoop doing economical jumps.
Anyway perhaps that’s one for someone else equally mad
The other fun thing about the trip is your fuel management skills getting to OEVASY SG-Y D0 because you need a jump of 82.68LY to get from OEVASY NA-A D0 - OEVASY RG-Y D0 (which means 41.34LY+G3) and if you it up you will be sat burning fuel
Unfortunately I did this bit up and had to do some fuel management!
I finally arrived at Semotus beacon on the 1st of October and spent an ice age re-fuelling, I couldn’t get too close to the star without overheating so couldn’t scoop at full efficiency (and also things move so yeah!), so there I was finally “fuel scooping complete”
All non-essential systems off… and off into the black.
The days drifted by….
22nd of October – I became aware a joint effort to reach the outer limits was complete – excited that actually I was flying alongside some other CMDRs perhaps they were in SC but soon realised it was a few days before so I was alone in the world of Open
The cutter was still flying admirably and a quick check showed it was now 65,770.8LY from Sol, past the “new record” achieved and at this point i thought maybe I should switch to solo, but…
It was fun to be in a little club of one knowing that actually the furthest distance from sol record was updating on an hourly basis
Here I would put some other figures in but, the mathematically astute will be able to work some things out, and as I mentioned in the beginning… some things are better kept under wraps
But all you need to know is that I estimated I had another 35LY left in the tank.
29th October – Availability to get the last drop out of the tank meant some time delays here and I had to exit game etc to align timings with RL availability otherwise id run out of fuel and come back to “ship Destroyed” and no screenshot…
The fuel gauge with 848T at its limit was difficult to judge where on the bar I could get down to and still get out, in all honesty I think I chickened out too early & I think I had some 20T left when I bottled it which could have got me further!! (The bar looked like it was on fumes and I panicked as the next fuel cycle was fast approaching) – Hindsight ay!
So there you have it some 28 days and 65,804.4LY!
The hardest part… patience, not touching the controller - keeping a schedule to “check in” on the ship and finding something else to play
You can squeeze a bit more distance from it but… I wanted to come back
So a long commute back to the bubble, all in time for the update, hopefully; that’s what im rushing back for & it’s time to get this paint stripped cutter home.
So yeah I was bored, like really bored, and two things popped into my head while contemplating something to keep me occupied until the Q4 release
- Despite FSD tech and other changes a cutter still hadn’t been to Semotus beacon
- If I filled said cutter with fuel tanks I could get quite far from Sol while I was at it.
Of course the latter remark popped into my head while reading a thread by Deluvian about taking his fuel Conda as far from sol as possible (there were others but that’s where I got inspired), so some maths crunching & calculating how far he would get I wrote this …
“so with 464T on board that's.... ~374 hours of supercruise
Or 15 days... soooo 8th of October? I hazard a guess 1hr gets you 0.2LY so my guestimated distance from sol would be 65,722.14LY
or using some other maths... I get 86.61LY so that would take you to 65,733.95LY from Sol
if indeed you had 464T on board
which brings me to another point... it can be beaten, I reckon you could get 158.3LY away from the star using a different ship which would break the 65,800LY barrier but would take you 28days solid to get there.
I aint got time to spend a month in supercruise though... or have I??????”
I got my cutter out of the shipyard and brushed the dust off it – fitting name for the vessel would be “Lemon” because it could all go south pretty quickly
I calculated I could get over the necessary 41.4LY JR so I could make the jump without the FSD booster, I just needed to time the fuel right because the jump range was very close on MAX!
I quickly got it outfitted and left shinrata with a miniscule fuel scoop and lots & lots of fuel tanks, like seriously a stupid amount of fuel on board, so much so class 6D thrusters were inadequate to get it off the landing pad!
848T, and a ~28 day Supercruise lay ahead, but some quick SC testing sent me back to Jameson memorial to get my fuel T/hr down, I wanted it as low as possible, and thanks to me being a module hoarder I had some silly but daft legacy modules you wouldn’t even modify in today’s scheme which had interesting effects on my T/Hr – while I needed less than ~2T/Hr to beat the record (which the cutter easily achieves) - but the final outfitting & figure will remain somewhat a mystery...
why you ask, well because I left the star at a certain angle, im sure if someone with better maths than I could almost match or potentially beat my distance, so with my t/hr kept a quiet little secret along with outfitting (other than lots of fuel tanks) so at least anyone trying to beat it will have to actually do some work themselves rather than copy / paste a Coriolis build.
So yeah you need a cutter and some fuel tanks
Three things concerned me about this trip…
- The tiny fuel scoop meant re-filling 848T was a long process
- The fuel vs range argument going off in my head for route plotting and time efficiency
- 28 days in Supercruise!
The latter was an easy fix and the Xbox in the conservatory (fancy English name for a glass box) was gathering dust so would be the Supercruise mule while I could play something else
Also the lack of scanners made the commute out there exactly that, interestingly I picked up a handful of populated systems meaning I had visited them before in previous runs out here, not always knowing where the star was (if thrown in a binary system) was annoying but manageable
Progress was quick (comparatively) with the neutrons, might be a crap fuel scoop but that extra range worked out to be the most efficient way to traverse space (thanks to spansh) but was still a lot of jumps!
Hats off to you barge flyers out there too, steering the cutter away from binary stars is painful, which led to one emergency stop along the way as it just would not turn quick enough!
It surprised me how far I could actually go on “one tank” all 848T of it mind because even my max jumps were hardly noticeable on the fuel tank and I was doing some 90-100 jumps I think (I kept losing count!!!) Which got me wondering if you could make it without a scoop doing economical jumps.
Anyway perhaps that’s one for someone else equally mad
The other fun thing about the trip is your fuel management skills getting to OEVASY SG-Y D0 because you need a jump of 82.68LY to get from OEVASY NA-A D0 - OEVASY RG-Y D0 (which means 41.34LY+G3) and if you it up you will be sat burning fuel
Unfortunately I did this bit up and had to do some fuel management!
I finally arrived at Semotus beacon on the 1st of October and spent an ice age re-fuelling, I couldn’t get too close to the star without overheating so couldn’t scoop at full efficiency (and also things move so yeah!), so there I was finally “fuel scooping complete”
All non-essential systems off… and off into the black.
The days drifted by….
22nd of October – I became aware a joint effort to reach the outer limits was complete – excited that actually I was flying alongside some other CMDRs perhaps they were in SC but soon realised it was a few days before so I was alone in the world of Open
The cutter was still flying admirably and a quick check showed it was now 65,770.8LY from Sol, past the “new record” achieved and at this point i thought maybe I should switch to solo, but…
- Im 65,770.8LY away no one else is stupid enough to be in SC this long
- Despite being here for the 4th time im still yet to see a ship anyway
It was fun to be in a little club of one knowing that actually the furthest distance from sol record was updating on an hourly basis
Here I would put some other figures in but, the mathematically astute will be able to work some things out, and as I mentioned in the beginning… some things are better kept under wraps
But all you need to know is that I estimated I had another 35LY left in the tank.
29th October – Availability to get the last drop out of the tank meant some time delays here and I had to exit game etc to align timings with RL availability otherwise id run out of fuel and come back to “ship Destroyed” and no screenshot…
The fuel gauge with 848T at its limit was difficult to judge where on the bar I could get down to and still get out, in all honesty I think I chickened out too early & I think I had some 20T left when I bottled it which could have got me further!! (The bar looked like it was on fumes and I panicked as the next fuel cycle was fast approaching) – Hindsight ay!
So there you have it some 28 days and 65,804.4LY!
The hardest part… patience, not touching the controller - keeping a schedule to “check in” on the ship and finding something else to play
You can squeeze a bit more distance from it but… I wanted to come back
So a long commute back to the bubble, all in time for the update, hopefully; that’s what im rushing back for & it’s time to get this paint stripped cutter home.
