I left core space on Patch 1.1 (March 2015) and am still working my way out on a spiral arm after reaching the galactic edge. Hull is 86%. No SRV or planet landing tech and I'm doing just fine. [yesnod]
... 14% hull in about year. Gives a nice time frame. Not quite infinite though, but maybe we'll get a (*slow* method of fixing hulls at some point; slow, as in, not fast enough to be of any use in combat situations - but a method nonetheless).The only things you can't repair with an AFMU are the hull, the powerplant and the AFMU itself (unless you have 2+). After a few weeks your ship integrity will be 0% (only viewable from the repair tab in station services) but that only makes your ship more vulnerable to damage, it doesn't actually do any damage by itself. Basically if you don't overheat, run into an asteroid or planet surface in normal flight or emergency drop from supercruise, you won't take any damage.Doing fine after all that time? That's great
Yeah, those are always fun, though on my 80k Ly/3,000 system trip I think I only ran across 2 of those that would have done anything. The first cooked me a tiny bit, the second I just turned away from and was totally fine because I went full throttle immediately. I was in an Asp but one of the major advantages the DBX has (which two of my friends were exploring in at the time) is that it runs so cool you have quite a bit of time to get away from a binary before you need to consider popping a heat sink. Eventually, yeah, you'd blow up, but you could go a really really long time if you're careful. Long enough that it would feel like forever.
... by then we've probably invented time machine anyway and solved the paradox issues etc (regardless of how much it would break the current laws of causality and whatnot, but laws are *made* to be broken anyway).
