I started my expedition on December 28th 3301 in my Anaconda Detritus II (39,6 ly jump range on full tank, 16t tank allowing only 2 jumps), a couple of weeks before the DW, and I wanted to explore even longer, but the arrival of Thargoids made me reconsider and hurry back to Sol while they were still peaceful. I arrived home safely on January 22nd 3303 and not counting the 2 patch days when I couldn't log in and play, I spent 390 days out there.
My route was the same as DW to Beagle Point, then a clockwise circumnavigation back to BP, then back to Sol. The return home from BP is in blue:
Stats just before the start:
After coming back, before and after selling data:
18717 systems visited
462 628 332 cr earned
679 873 ly traveled
18738 jumps made
46 301 minutes played, that's 771 hours 41 minutes
4296 materials collected
4490 km traveled in a SRV.
After using a calculator we get:
118,72 minutes played per day
48,05 jumps per day
1743,26 ly per day
36,28 ly average jump distance
24717 credits per system
Assuming an average SRV speed of 20 m/s, we get to over 62 hours of time spent driving. More then 30 days.
So if I didn't land at all but instead jumped on, I would have visited 1500 more systems, earned some 40 mil cr more, traveled 60 k ly more.
That would have put me over 500 mil cr for the trip, more then 700k ly and more then 20k systems visited, which were all on my wish list.
I love the red planet, you'll know it when you see it:
So should I be angry because I rushed back too early because I was scared, or should I be angry because I landed on planets too much?
The answer is : neither. I had fun every minute of it, and I can't wait to go out again. And my stats are rather pathetic anyway compared to some hardcore explorers.
Scanned:
835 WW
219 ELW
30 planetary nebulae
125 Ammonia worlds
201 black holes
1048 neutron stars
For the first 200k ly I scanned 90% of water worlds, but then I realized I wouldn't come back home in 5 years so I started skipping most of them. That culminated visiting a system with 5 water worlds and I didn't scan any of them, because they were all too far away.
Some of you may may know that on the 25th December last year I had an accident while using NS supercharged boost. My ship was about to explode, only 4 minutes of Oxygen left, all modules taking constant damage and turning off. I could not escape. Luckily, I raised a ticket and in just 3 hours it was resolved, my ship was teleported to safety one system back and repaired. Thanks again, Rear Admiral Taurus,
Son of Admiral Taucos, Eighth of his name, Warden of the Bubble and Solver of Problems.
The accident happened on my 69th NS boost, but that didn't stop me. I boosted exactly 400 more times, to a total of 469.
I managed to jump from NS to NS all the way to 4200 ly from Sol, and everyone is saying the NS fields start at 7k ly from Sol.
Not only that, but in addition to using NS boost I also had an insane number of jumponium boosts, considering my rather large jump range.
With 39,6 ly range I was supposed to get to BP without boosting, but I decided to find my own route, between the two crossings all people use. I was rather surprised to find out I used 150 bosted jumps crossing to BP and back.
Then on my circumnavigation I also had to boost a lot, because backtracking was out of the question, I was in a hurry.
I made 870 jumps using jumponium.
That's 1339 boosted jumps, jumponium and NS combined, to travel some 100 000 ly. That's an OK distance for a medium expedition, made all in boosted jumps.
I visited all cardinal points, seemed a logical thing to do when you're on a circumnavigation around the Galaxy:
Two planets interesting to prospectors, but only scientifically. I call them Copy and Paste. The only binary pair out of hundreds I scanned to have identical materials data including all percentages, and the planets don't even look similar:
This gas giant is incredibly close to a star, probably less the 1 ls, but 1,1 ls at the most, you can tell from the last 4 screenshots, I started taking damage so I couldn't come nearer. I even turned on orbit lines to check how close it was:
What's this gas giant doing alone so far away? Haven't seen a solitary planet or a lonely gas giant further away then this, almost 58 000 ls:
Some random pics:
Now to prepare for the next expedition, getting to know Miss Felicity, I have 58 ly range,52 with a large fighter bay and a passanger cabin for 6, need to improve it more, maybe meet some other engineers, too.
Doing some passenger missions, seeing some ice geysers, used a fighter once, it destroyed an enemy ship in seconds, seems a better option then carrying weapons.
Until next time,
CMDR Picker
My route was the same as DW to Beagle Point, then a clockwise circumnavigation back to BP, then back to Sol. The return home from BP is in blue:
Stats just before the start:
After coming back, before and after selling data:
18717 systems visited
462 628 332 cr earned
679 873 ly traveled
18738 jumps made
46 301 minutes played, that's 771 hours 41 minutes
4296 materials collected
4490 km traveled in a SRV.
After using a calculator we get:
118,72 minutes played per day
48,05 jumps per day
1743,26 ly per day
36,28 ly average jump distance
24717 credits per system
Assuming an average SRV speed of 20 m/s, we get to over 62 hours of time spent driving. More then 30 days.
So if I didn't land at all but instead jumped on, I would have visited 1500 more systems, earned some 40 mil cr more, traveled 60 k ly more.
That would have put me over 500 mil cr for the trip, more then 700k ly and more then 20k systems visited, which were all on my wish list.
I love the red planet, you'll know it when you see it:
So should I be angry because I rushed back too early because I was scared, or should I be angry because I landed on planets too much?
The answer is : neither. I had fun every minute of it, and I can't wait to go out again. And my stats are rather pathetic anyway compared to some hardcore explorers.
Scanned:
835 WW
219 ELW
30 planetary nebulae
125 Ammonia worlds
201 black holes
1048 neutron stars
For the first 200k ly I scanned 90% of water worlds, but then I realized I wouldn't come back home in 5 years so I started skipping most of them. That culminated visiting a system with 5 water worlds and I didn't scan any of them, because they were all too far away.
Some of you may may know that on the 25th December last year I had an accident while using NS supercharged boost. My ship was about to explode, only 4 minutes of Oxygen left, all modules taking constant damage and turning off. I could not escape. Luckily, I raised a ticket and in just 3 hours it was resolved, my ship was teleported to safety one system back and repaired. Thanks again, Rear Admiral Taurus,
Son of Admiral Taucos, Eighth of his name, Warden of the Bubble and Solver of Problems.
The accident happened on my 69th NS boost, but that didn't stop me. I boosted exactly 400 more times, to a total of 469.
I managed to jump from NS to NS all the way to 4200 ly from Sol, and everyone is saying the NS fields start at 7k ly from Sol.
Not only that, but in addition to using NS boost I also had an insane number of jumponium boosts, considering my rather large jump range.
With 39,6 ly range I was supposed to get to BP without boosting, but I decided to find my own route, between the two crossings all people use. I was rather surprised to find out I used 150 bosted jumps crossing to BP and back.
Then on my circumnavigation I also had to boost a lot, because backtracking was out of the question, I was in a hurry.
I made 870 jumps using jumponium.
That's 1339 boosted jumps, jumponium and NS combined, to travel some 100 000 ly. That's an OK distance for a medium expedition, made all in boosted jumps.
I visited all cardinal points, seemed a logical thing to do when you're on a circumnavigation around the Galaxy:
Two planets interesting to prospectors, but only scientifically. I call them Copy and Paste. The only binary pair out of hundreds I scanned to have identical materials data including all percentages, and the planets don't even look similar:
This gas giant is incredibly close to a star, probably less the 1 ls, but 1,1 ls at the most, you can tell from the last 4 screenshots, I started taking damage so I couldn't come nearer. I even turned on orbit lines to check how close it was:
What's this gas giant doing alone so far away? Haven't seen a solitary planet or a lonely gas giant further away then this, almost 58 000 ls:
Some random pics:
Now to prepare for the next expedition, getting to know Miss Felicity, I have 58 ly range,52 with a large fighter bay and a passanger cabin for 6, need to improve it more, maybe meet some other engineers, too.
Doing some passenger missions, seeing some ice geysers, used a fighter once, it destroyed an enemy ship in seconds, seems a better option then carrying weapons.
Until next time,
CMDR Picker
