Greatest distance traveled from home?

KaizoMK

KaizoMK
I heard someone talking about being 60kly out, and it got me wondering...what is the greatest distance from home that has been achieved, whether you returned or not? Is it possible to just go indefinitely?

ANSWERED IN THREAD: the galaxy is a finite disc shape so travel is limited to ~65kly.
 
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iain666

iain666
~65kly will get you to the far galactic rim, the furthest distances I know of that people have gotten to have been 65 thousand and something. Not heard of anyone cracking 66...

You can't keep going indefinitely (well you can, but you have to start getting closer to Sol again eventually since we can't leave the Milky Way).

I've made it to a whisker over 9kly but that was on the near rim and I couldn't get any further out at that point along it.
 
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Katejina

Katejina
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45kly away and increasing. A week or so until I get close to the 65kly club.
 

KaizoMK

KaizoMK
iain666 said:
~65kly will get you to the far galactic rim, the furthest distances I know of that people have gotten to have been 65 thousand and something. Not heard of anyone cracking 66...

You can't keep going indefinitely (well you can, but you have to start getting closer to Sol again eventually since we can't leave the Milky Way).

I've made it to a whisker over 9kly but that was on the near rim and I couldn't get any further out at that point along it.
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So wait, it loops? Even if you just go in a straight line?

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Katejina said:
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45kly away and increasing. A week or so until I get close to the 65kly club.
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Nice work, good luck!
 

Allitnil

Allitnil
65,372 LY from Sol is my record which I believe is the greatest distance achieved by anyone to date.
 
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iain666

iain666
KaizoMK said:
So wait, it loops? Even if you just go in a straight line?
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No, the galaxy is (roughly) disc shaped and finite. Eventually if you keep going in a straight line in any direction you'll get to an edge and you won't be able to go any further at which point you need to change course (and eventually start coming closer again, however circuitously) or log out and never ever play again (which would be a shame).
 

KaizoMK

KaizoMK
iain666 said:
No, the galaxy is (roughly) disc shaped and finite. Eventually if you keep going in a straight line in any direction you'll get to an edge and you won't be able to go any further at which point you need to change course (and eventually start coming closer again, however circuitously) or log out and never ever play again (which would be a shame).
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Thanks, this is the point that I needed.

Now, my new question is, can you actually fly to another system from super cruise....you know, if you had days?
 

Allitnil

Allitnil
KaizoMK said:
Now, my new question is, can you actually fly to another system from super cruise....you know, if you had days?
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No, people have tried it. The act of jumping creates the new instance in the target system and without that jump you just end up endlessly super cruising even after you have covered the distance to the next system. It doesn't even reduce the distance you then need to jump to get to the destination system.
 

Katejina

Katejina
KaizoMK said:
Thanks, this is the point that I needed.

Now, my new question is, can you actually fly to another system from super cruise....you know, if you had days?
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Nope. Each system is an instanced area and can only be entered through FSD unfortunately.

And there are systems that are close enough that they only take hours of supercruising to reach. I've done it once with a distance of 1.2ly. It's sad, but it's the most efficient way of handling the galaxy at present.
 
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