How long will it take to visit every system in elite...

[ishmair]

For fun I did some math on how long will it take to visit every system in elite. Not sure if it's right or not.

10 Minutes per system. X 400,000,000,000 Systems in elite. / 6 Groups of 10 minutes in a hour. / 24 Hours in a day. / 365.25 Day in a year. = 7,605,141.07 Years it will take to visit each system and have 10 minutes to spend in each system.

 

[VanQ]

But this is without sleeping, eating and other essential things that whould easyly double up the time (not that it maters).
on the other hand: 10 min. per system is very long to "visit". In "boring" systems i usually stay for under a minuite (honk, scoop, jump)

 

[David Aaron]

I better get started right away!

 

[Sapient6]

While 10 minutes per system sounds rather conservative, it's probably not nearly conservative enough. There needs to be time in there for finding systems that you haven't visited yet, an activity that will become more and more time intensive a few million years down the road.