Light years per hour

Mersozz

Mersozz
During a recent exploration run, I decided to time my jumps to get a rough idea of how many light years I could cover in an hour.

I timed 50 consecutive jumps in my DBS, and based my laps on when my COVAS announced "Engage".

I'm not running anything fancy.... I have a fairly light DBS that is getting me around 43.62 Ly per jump.

Here are my numbers:
Average seconds per jump: 56.0746 seconds. When I don't pause to scoop, I'm running at about 44 seconds per jump. Scooping from almost empty to full increases my jump time to just under 2 minutes. So the mean is 56.0746 seconds when scooping is factored over 50 jumps.

Based on those numbers above, my ship manages roughly 2800 Ly per hour.

(3600 seconds per hour. 56.0746 seconds per jump. 64.20019 jumps per hour. 43.62 jump range).

I'm sure there are alot of ships out there that blow this number away. I'd be interested in seeing other times.

Here's my ship


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WR3ND

WR3ND
I generally don't race off anywhere unless it's to meet up for an event or something. It's rare enough that when I do it's actually kind of fun watching the galaxy slowly move around me. I'm sure these are my longest sessions, maybe lasting upwards of 16 hours or so. Naturally I've only really done this a few times over the years of this game. Also, I generally use a ship with roughly a 15 (pre-Engineers) to 35 Ly range depending on loadout, so as you can imagine, it can take a while.

My first trip to Sgr A was in a DbS back in 2015. A fun enough ship, but due to its slow fuel scooping speed, I'm sorry to say that I haven't used it since. Compared to others its jump range makes up for some of this, but I generally prefer systems per time over distance. The FSS does complicate matters more now though.

Cheers.
 
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Northpin

Northpin
It's very relative.
I usually do the longer trips in a ship that does minimum 65 ly (DBX, AspX, Phantom, Anaconda). Except DBX, all other ships can decently scoop so they dont waste much time refueling
If you hit the neutron highway, you can do an average of 250 ly per jump in a 65ly ship.
 

B.Roberts

B.Roberts
Mersozz said:
During a recent exploration run, I decided to time my jumps to get a rough idea of how many light years I could cover in an hour.

I timed 50 consecutive jumps in my DBS, and based my laps on when my COVAS announced "Engage".

I'm not running anything fancy.... I have a fairly light DBS that is getting me around 43.62 Ly per jump.

Here are my numbers:
Average seconds per jump: 56.0746 seconds. When I don't pause to scoop, I'm running at about 44 seconds per jump. Scooping from almost empty to full increases my jump time to just under 2 minutes. So the mean is 56.0746 seconds when scooping is factored over 50 jumps.

Based on those numbers above, my ship manages roughly 2800 Ly per hour.

(3600 seconds per hour. 56.0746 seconds per jump. 64.20019 jumps per hour. 43.62 jump range).

I'm sure there are alot of ships out there that blow this number away. I'd be interested in seeing other times.

Here's my ship


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I actually timed few of my ships when flew them to the Ishum's Reach and to the Sag. My average pace is about 73 jumps per hour, which is roughly 49 seconds per jump. This number is about the same for all my ships because I engineer all my FSDs the same way (G5 increased range with Mass manager). I use 8A scoop on the Cutter and 6A on Phantom and AspX so refueling is not a factor. Most of the time my fuel tanks getting fully replenished while flying around a star and aligning for the next jump. That 8A scoop, oh boy it really works. Sometimes you can see that star goes dim LOL. So my holiday pleasure Cutter has 49.7Ly jump range ( https://s.orbis.zone/7g9p) and gives me around 3600Ly per hour. AspX with 64 Ly jump range (https://s.orbis.zone/7g9k ) is on the second place and gets 4670 Ly per hour. My Phantom with 65.8 Ly jump (https://s.orbis.zone/7g9q) is on the first place with just over 4800 Ly per hour. Obviously when going on the neutron highway everything is different.
 

A C Ender

A C Ender
dognosh said:
That is approximately a speed of 26,500,000,000,000 km/h :oops:
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I'm not sure you got that correct.
Light travel 299792458 m/s (called "c")
A light-year is c*60*60*24*365=9.454*10^15 m
He did 2800 of those in an hour;
LY*2800/1000=26,470,000,000,000,000 km/h (1000 times your figure). I have checked my figures and can't see a problem with them, so I think somewhere you missed a factor of 1000.

This speed is also about 24.5 million c.
 

dognosh

dognosh
A C Ender said:
I'm not sure you got that correct.
Light travel 299792458 m/s (called "c")
A light-year is c*60*60*24*365=9.454*10^15 m
He did 2800 of those in an hour;
LY*2800/1000=26,470,000,000,000,000 km/h (1000 times your figure). I have checked my figures and can't see a problem with them, so I think somewhere you missed a factor of 1000.

This speed is also about 24.5 million c.
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1) I rounded c to 300000 , negligible but ok
2) a year I used 365.25 , also negligible
3) yes I know what c is :)
4) what is a factor of 1000 between friend eh ? :D
 
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