I know i'm deep...deep...deep space, when i'm playing in open. (just joking, i try to play in open everywhere apart from hot-spots) Also, when you realise that you never really want to leave your cockpit ever again, and, when you finally come across a space-station and instead of trying to dock, you fly around it wondering why your fuel scoop isn't working.
You know you been in the deep dark too long when ....
- Thread starter CMDR GRAEME COWELL
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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*"
THIS!
"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*"
THIS!
I did a run out to sag A*, took nearly 3 months of fairly regular flying. Scanned many systems using the old mechanic.
No . Big systems could take a hour or more.
If you want to do same now, you'll have to surface scan each planet/moon.
Got my Elite badge for it though.
No . Big systems could take a hour or more.
If you want to do same now, you'll have to surface scan each planet/moon.
Got my Elite badge for it though.
Funny enough, I only really specifically decided to play in Open when I got close to Colonia this go around and docked at Jaques Station. Generally when out in the black I'm in Solo or PG for the Alt+F10 high resolution screen shots and in PGs with others on expeditions and that sort of thing.
Figured if I'm going to data bomb Jaques with several hundreds of millions worth I might as well spice things up a little bit – would have been more, but I use the FSS rather selectively.
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For me, it's really a strange self-defense mechanism - I know what happens whenever there are major updates, so I leave the bubble and return when things have been fixed, patches patched, and bugs buried. I've been at this long enough that I've consumed all the available content - I've hauled the cargo, toured the tourists, fought the fights, seen the sights, mined the ores, pirated pirates... I've done everything there is to do, in every ship there is to do it in, and then some.
What I've not done is gone on an extremely long, long-range exploration trip. Previous to Beyond, I simply couldn't bare to do it. My most distant trip was just before The Return, and I made it out about 6300 Light Years before it became excruciating. I simply couldn't stand it, and a couple days into launch, I came back. But Beyond changed things, for the better. I finally had something to actually do, not just point my ship in a direction and wait. There is room for improvement, but in this case Something is vastly greater than nothing.
I decided I wanted to see the edge of the galaxy, so I flew, scanned and mapped and photographed, all the way to the very edge, where there simply were no more stars to see let alone to jump to - and I stared into Nothing itself, because that's what's there - Nothing. From there, I decided I'd follow the edge of Nothing, until I made my way back to where I started. Now I'm right about half-way there, creeping up on Beagle Point, and going "You know, I've NEVER been to Colonia..." so I'm considering making a hard 90 at Beagle and heading in for a bit to see what there is to see. But I may wait until I reach my starting point again, then head in to Colonia.
I've seen things out here I'd likely not see cruising around the bubble, and been forced to think about things in new and creative ways, and I've enjoyed the heck out of it.
I especially like that when you get far enough out you are on your own, run out of something, or break something you had better find it fix it or work out how to live without it AA won't be coming out to give you iron to systh limped so you can fix your systems because yo zoned out and ran into that last star
I've wondered about how these newfangled repair type things work. Haven't gotten around to testing them out. Focusing on just not having accidents in the first place seems to work out well enough for me. I have... what are they called? AFMUs on many of my ships these days (I somehow seem to keep accumulating extra empty module slots), but I've only ever used them once or twice and have technically never actually needed to. I did take one rather hard landing once where the ground sneaked up on me. I think it was like 40 to 60 percent hull damage or something – I forget which was the damage and which was the remaining.
Maybe having to survive by not messing something up is what helps keep it engaging for me.
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