I've been playing on and off for a couple years and did not have the intestinal fortitude to travel more than 1-2kly from the bubble. Little else worse than collecting millions or 10s of millions in exploration data only to pancake on a planet or some other mishap. I realize it's a "L2P" issue, but learning and remembering things like "always have an AFMU", "be careful landing on high-G planets", etc. can get to be a lot. Then there's doing everything needed to maximize FSD distance (engineering weight reductions, FSD engineering, guardian mini-game, etc). It can all be overwhelming when deciding to make those bigger distances.
Late last night I finally crossed the 5kly threshold, which unlocks a couple engineers, and of course I'm VERY nervous about making it back in one piece to sell my cartographic and biological data.
On a hunch, I did a Spansh search (amazing site, http://spansh.co.uk ) for all systems with any population and lo-and-behold, there are a handful of systems a few kly from the bubble:
Late last night I finally crossed the 5kly threshold, which unlocks a couple engineers, and of course I'm VERY nervous about making it back in one piece to sell my cartographic and biological data.
On a hunch, I did a Spansh search (amazing site, http://spansh.co.uk ) for all systems with any population and lo-and-behold, there are a handful of systems a few kly from the bubble:
