You get to the first station you see, and spend 10 mins trying to chat up the AI hologram at docking control
You know you been in the deep dark too long when ....
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49 weeks now, still no hurry to get back to "civilized" space.
Which brings up a point I hadn't thought about before, but what is the longest continuous time (actual weeks/months) someone has spent exploring on one trip away from the bubble??? Anyone??
I'll throw my trip in the ring - 49 weeks and counting.
I know of people who have been out longer, but I suspect some, if not all, of them have been institutionalized by now.
I think I was little over 2 years. Swooped near the area where Colonia is now on my to the Core. Continued there to the region now known as The Veils, zipping up and down the galaxy. It was all good. Until the night came. Yes, the rats in the night. In the walls. They knew I was there. Said it was my fault but it was the anthills behind the barn.Growing inthe shadows.But thats notthe worst,,they said butter on the left...Butter on the left! But only if you walk bweteen the sprucses intheclouds,. cLOUDS know differnt...like the teeth gnawingthe back oyur skulll!scraming your name,,RUN!PULL therespoison milk in the firdge..do not drink it.tehy know your nameeeeaoweifaoa -n aioehfa äefpWEG+WPE0GYH N<LDlkasdlf laskdjfaopg
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My first long trip was about 14k ly out for a couple months (weekends usually), upon returning to the bubble I went to the closest station to sell my data. I was so happy to see civilization and had been out so long I forgot about that little thing called docking request and flew straight into the mail slot. Luckily full reverse thrusters and split second decision making saved my little Dbx and data from being sploded. Needless to say I kept a sticky note in my expedition notebook to remember to not do that again during my Formidine Rift journey.
You know you been in space too long when your wife calls you in for dinner and you try to scan the plate to find out what it is
9 months of Sunday's I was working remote and had little contact with people so my one day of a fortnight I would fly around in the deep dark and also have no contact with people... not sure how healthy that is
Statistically, there are probably still a few people who got the game at first launch, got into an explorer ship as soon as they could (probably a Cobra III, since getting 5 million credits for an Asp took a long time way back then) and just took off into the black and have never been back. So I'm going to guess the answer at "4 years and counting".
Personally, I simply couldn't stay out that long. I'm too accident-prone. I start to get paranoid about suddenly dying and losing all my data, once I've done a couple thousand jumps. I recently died in the black, again, going AFK at just the wrong moment and coming back to the rebuy screen; this time I was only away a couple minutes for an IRL phone call, but "a couple of minutes" is more than enough time for an arrival-point near-contact-binary star to execute you by heat death. Lost about 40 pages of data; I'm about 15% of the way through revisiting all my lost stars.
You know you been in space too long when you do not remember how long you've been there.
Busted...
And I'm thinking like, yeah, I've got some exploration data to sell...
Come meet me at Jaques bar and we can discuss it over a few drinks.
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Yeah, I guess it was like 10, 11 months for me this last go around. Not sure if my stop at Jaques to conclude DW2 really counts anyway, since I'm already out again.
It's easier to keep track of time I've spent in colonized space, since it's rarer and I'm usually itching to get out again.
I am currently helping a mate (new to game) get his bearings in meat space so i'm all "hey lets go check this out it's only 2590 light years that's not too bad only like 250 jumps in your current rig..." him "What the ...." so.. i'm geussing he is slightly less keen on that than me.
Deep space explorers have always puzzled me 
I made my first decent exploration trip, touching all the nebulas going to the jellyfish nebula. At the moment I’m at 6000 ly from home and I’m coming back as fast as I can. Neutron highway all the way. I’ll stop only in the California nebula.
I made my first decent exploration trip, touching all the nebulas going to the jellyfish nebula. At the moment I’m at 6000 ly from home and I’m coming back as fast as I can. Neutron highway all the way. I’ll stop only in the California nebula.
Deep space explorers have always puzzled me
I made my first decent exploration trip, touching all the nebulas going to the jellyfish nebula. At the moment I’m at 6000 ly from home and I’m coming back as fast as I can. Neutron highway all the way. I’ll stop only in the California nebula.
Meanwhile, some 52,000 light years out... I'm puzzled by why I hadn't done this sooner - oh, that's right, I remember... I hated the old mechanics of deep space exploration.
I certainly don't care for the new mechanics in particular. They're just a means to an end.
Certain elements of exploration seem more immersive and compelling to me, like finding and mapping out routes places.
Colonized space on the other hand only really has a meta grind to offer me toward engineering and that sort of thing.
Well, to each their own.
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It sneaks up on you...
"I'll go visit XXX as it's only 60 jumps"
"That cluster over there looks interesting..." 40 more jumps
"I know there are NSP's a couple of systems away..." 10 jumps
"Perhaps that 'B' Class has Bio-life" more jumps
"Oh, I'm already 10KLy from the bubble, may as well visit Sag A*"
Ho-hum