Newcomer / Intro What's the furthest I'll ever have to jump to reach any star?

[Lord Maniac]

I kinda wish I had enough time to be on that frontier. As it stands... well I'm probably better of in the galactic core. It will be well explored by the time I'm ready to purchase a carrier.

Well, to put it into perspective:
Asume, we have 4000 Commanders mapping ~100 Systems a day.
If they play 365 days a year, that would leave us at 146.000.000 Systems mapped a year. To map ALL the systems, it would take about 27 Years with 4000 Players mapping 100 Systems a day, so i am pretty sure you´re fine

 

[[VR] optimal_909]

I kinda wish I had enough time to be on that frontier. As it stands... well I'm probably better of in the galactic core. It will be well explored by the time I'm ready to purchase a carrier.

Frontier is overrated. Most of the time you land in boring systems of mediocre M class stars, so apart of the remote side view of the galaxy, there is no advantage of that region.

In the core, you get a much higher variety of systems with exotic stars and planets, ultimately it is both much more rewarding and lucrative to explore. And most stars are only a few lys apart. Plus, if you travel to the top or at the bottom of the galaxy, you get really unique views of the Milky Way still.

I've been twice at Beagle Point with low jumprange ships (pre-engineering Keelback and post engineering Fer de Lance without guardian booster, both were the first), and apart of the navigation, the sparse regions were a chore to get through, at least relative to the core.

 

[Simon Templar]

I have a 45ly asp-x and for what I'm doing, 45ly is plenty. But as far as cataloging new systems goes, you miss a lot systems jumping so many light years. I'm not even close to the core and yet I'm super busy with new systems folks seem willing to pass by on their mad rush to the core and beyond.
Yeah, I know only around 04% of the galaxy remains undiscovered, much more system's that have been are on the outter fringes, along the colonia hwy, straight to the core and to the far side of the galaxy.
My personal explorer philosophy is why pass by so much that hasn't been gleaned yet, just to get where everyone else is going?
The road to riches path seems to be quite popular

https://edastro.com/mapcharts/

Exactly! I just got 23 First Discovered planets (and lots of first mapped) just flying up to Colonia using a slightly sideways route. I'm an Asp-S explorer but I don't always use the full range, for precisely the reasons you outline.

o7

 

[NorthernDevo]

As far as I am aware the longest jump range that is needed to reach one of the most distant stars which is Ishum's Reach is ~83Ly, and so it is only possible to reach it using FSD Synthesis. If you wanted to reach that system you would need a ship with a jump range of 41.5Ly. (though I have just seen your additional answer about not having Horizons, so that is a long term goal )

I still think the Asp Explorer is the best Exploration ship for manoeuvrability and visibility. I spent the first 3 years of the game in my 32Ly Asp, and took it all the way around the galaxy even to Beagle Point before I decided to actually get around to engineering it.

I'll agree with the AspX as a superb early explorer - and indeed one you might like for your entire career. Hey, if it's good enough for Felicity, it's good enough for the rest of us, amirite? Above the AspX is the DBX with (as far as I know) the second best Jump range in the game at 64ly maxed out, she's fast, fun and manoeuverable and she sounds FANTASTIC. Equally importantly, she runs COOL so refuelling at stars is a lot easier.

 

[Harrowdown]

Well, to put it into perspective:
Asume, we have 4000 Commanders mapping ~100 Systems a day.
If they play 365 days a year, that would leave us at 146.000.000 Systems mapped a year. To map ALL the systems, it would take about 27 Years with 4000 Players mapping 100 Systems a day, so i am pretty sure you´re fine

Sorry.

According to EDSM, we're at 0.04%. FD recently announced that the actual figure was around 0.1%. That's the percentage of systems in the Galaxy that actually have been visited/explored. You'll still have unexplored systems in the game when you can fly out there in real life yourself (or, the way things are going now, have to get granddad to work out on the excercise bike so you have power to run your PC).

I meant that the outer systems will have been fully explored by carriers by the time I manage to get there, not the core. I poorly phrased that, sorry.