Yep, if you're not paying attention, your jump path might lead you to jump in to a black hole system, since it's technically still a star type. Neutron stars, Black Holes, White Dwarfs... the nemesis of the traveler. I've been conditioned through harsh consequences, if I don't see a big fat glowing ball on exit, I pull back on instinct just so I don't blow up. Space is freaking scary, man XD I love it. That first jump... I've never been jump scared by a space game, but I swear: "oh my god, this is it, I'm doing it, our own galaxy, I'm really traveling through spACEWHATTHEFUCKISGOINGON!" Best introduction to gameplay ever.
Cretaal I conditioned myself to throttle down during the jump. That way there's no chance of "harsh consequences". Even with said knowledge I still get startled if there's not a bright star in front of me. Knowing that black holes can also be jump points makes me even more nervous about going back to the game after six months of not having played it. xP
CravenTHC Oops... my bad. Usually I keep the throttle in the blue zone when the jump initiates so I'm not speeding towards anything. Pull back and go "up" for a few seconds, then throttle down and figure out what the hell you just jumped in to (usually something valuable to scan). Face it, scan it... appreciate it from a distance and move on before it comes alive and eats me like the devil it is. It's one of the funner surprises in the game. It seizes your heart, but puts you in complete awe of nature. First time I saw a black hole, I couldn't move, I could just stare at it with my mouth agape in a half terrified smile. It was... awesome is the only word capable of describing it. I love this game so much, It's museum and academy quality, I can't wait to see it complete.
It's actually an alcubierre drive so it's not breaking any laws of physics. Your not travelling faster than light at all your compressing space time in front of you and expaning it behind you. essentially rather than moving "you" through space, you move space around you. Current estimates for the energy required place it at converting the mass of Jupiter into energy. However 2 decades ago they claimed it was all the energy in the universe.
22,000 light years. 11 hours. 1,000 ly/hr. It would take you 104 days to reach the Andromeda Galaxy, or five-thousand years to reach the edge of the observable (from Earth) universe. Not bad compared to this day and age!
All he needs is a drive capable of 2.5 million light year jumps. The lack of anything to refuel with in the intergalactic expanse is the main hurdle. This is why the new Mass Effect is all kinds of BS.
ME uses essentially advanced cannon transports, to travel between galaxies they'd need only to gather the fuel/power at the milky way relay, vaguely similar to how a 8 chevron address works in stargate.
but then, once in Andromeda, how does that ship go? with Mass Effect's basic FTL drives, it would take decades to travel that galaxy, unless they also had Reapers who built Mass Relays in there
I'm pretty sure there are stars in the intergalactic void.... but they're probably too sparse to be useable for regular refueling and at definitely more than 60 LY away from one another
On microsoft flight simulator X I flew from California to Florida. My friend was in the shared cockpit for a while, then he just stayed on Skype, and he went to bed. I was so freaking proud of my self.
I’m 5k light years into my first journey to Colonia right now and if you’re considering it then I say YES it’s so worth it! The places you’ll see and awe of the void is just beautiful
In the same way a fork is better than a spoon. NMS is way more relaxing as it is more free form, if that's not what you consider better than no it isn't.
+ZarPof Sorry, but I have yet to see a ringed planet, gas giant or neutron star which you can't even get near in NMS, this looks 1000x more real than NMS. Plus in NMS the entire galaxy seems to be inside of a rainbow instead of just the blackness of space, I want realism not relaxation, which is why I'm such a Star Trek fan.
***** 1st, fork and spoon. Relaxation looks better than realism, realism looks more realistic than relaxation. 2nd. Startrek as realistic? Come on NMS is startrek. You want realistic Sci-fi, go to Battle Star Galactica, 2010 space oddyssy, interstellar (kind of), the martian. Those are realistic. Holodecks and repicators? God techs that the series blows over. Startreck is barely more sci-fi than it is sci-fantasy. All that said I still do enjoy it.
I just got back from a 5k LY trip as a sort of prep before I try I go to this station. Ended up with lots of good pictures and it earned me about 3 million credits. Found an Earth-like planet even.
Good job. You don't forget your first! Good credit haul, I made a lengthy trip that netted me about 7 mil, but no earthlikes sadly (a bunch of water, ammonia and terraformable worlds, though, and a couple black holes wandering the outer edges of the galaxy about as far away as the Pleiades nebula is from the core).
@@MIG95374 you use the neutron plotter, it will give you a list of expensive planets, preferably metallic and earthlike planets, bought my anaconda just from scanning planets alone.
i know how you feel. did a 14000ly passenger mission. (back and forth so 28000 ly without a station) it was horrible and took me 2 weeks gonna go accept another after upgrading my frame shift drive.
that's twice the distance but 2.5 times the reward. btw i noticed that amount of passengers is verry important. when you can carry 30+ passengers you suddenly get missions like 1 million reward for a single jump.
It was a Condor you found, Scott, but that's a Federal ship. ;) Fyi you can also turn off your shields, AFMUs, cargo hatches and other non-essential systems to get your heat production down a bit and make fuel scooping a tad easier. While you're travelling far out there you won't need them, or at least not at a moment's notice.
true... I did need the cargo hatch though since I was carrying a full load of cargo. And it felt like a bad idea going so far without a shield, even though I could have saved mass.
Scott Manley You don't need to leave the shield generator behind, just turn it off in the modules tab, right side menu. And... I'm not 100% sure on this, but I believe you can safely turn the cargo hatch off even with a full cargo hold. It will just not allow you to open it, deploy limpets and the like. Better test that one before relying on it though.
It's fairly common practice to take away power from the cargo hatch whenever you aren't trying to grab something out of space. I think the lore is that it gets mechanically locked when you do that. I've flown most of my time with the hatch off, and haven't lost any cargo because of it. Supposedly that mechanical lock also makes your cargo immune from Hatch Breaker Limpets, but I've never tested that. It won't stop a pirate from blowing you or your cargo hatch apart with weapons though.
22,000+ light years... you are pleased you're finally there. To have gone so far, and the vast almost endless jump screen it took to get here...But it is tarnished by the knowledge that you have to do it again in reverse to get back.
elite: dangerous star citizen eve online space engineers ksp orbiter BUT NO!! NO MANS SKY HAD A COOL TRAILER AND SUDDENTLY EVERYONE REALIZED THAT SPACE IS AWESOME!!!!
I accidentally turned on closed captions (the c key is apparently a shortcut) and they are surprisingly accurate, bar the odd "point" being transcribed literally as "." and "space cargo bays" becoming the preferable "space cargo babes".
still, a better game than NMS? people saying they're different games... not that much. - space combat - planetary landing - surface to space flight - trading - space stations - surface colonies - resource gathering - procedural generation for planet surfaces the only difference is you can't land on every planet on Elite yet and can't leave your ship for a walk... also maybe yet. Elite has basically more depth in everything. also, totally not saying NMS is a bad game and you shouldn't play. it's just might not be what you'd expect and maybe Elite is that game.
Agreed, they're completely different games. Only real similarities are the fact they are both in space and that each involve a lot of grinding to buy better things that allow you to grind faster to buy even better things to grind even faster... etc.
I could never understand the loads of game publications and commenters stating the NMS starfields are a game-changer that's never been done before. You can't zoom out and see it from above like you can in Elite Dangerous. It's just a bunch of little balls with different colored spacemist and a single headlight shining at you representing the center.. The main difference between the galaxies being the color of that headlight.
Congrats on getting there safely CMDR! It's great seeing Elite videos from you again! I've done that trip before and it's no joke. Safe travels back home to the bubble, don't forget to visit the core and the Great Annihilator!
Curious... What music did you listen to while doing this? I have a few playlists that are solely for "traveling and exploration" as well. I dunno about others, but I like just hunting around for unmarked planets and such.
What keeps me from buying Elite Dangerous is that you look at the whole game from cockpit. Give me the option to walk my ship as it travels to space and its instabuy for me. Thats actually something I am looking for in any game.
Was about to make a trip to the Eagle Nebula myself because I was expecting the Pillars of Creation picture to actually be in the game, and you would be able to explore it. Nah, got a hundred jumps in and gave up (was using an upgraded Viper MK4, had a poor jump range for exploration). Looked it up afterword and realized that it would have been a waste of time. On my way back to The Bubble now. At least I'll get a boatload of creds from scanning systems!
Scott if you turn your shield generator off while you're exploring, it'll keep heat generation down when you fuel scoop. The shield won't protect you from a star.
Get some upgrades, and a better scoop. My AspX does over 40ly, and has the ability to defend itself with 6 grade 4 lightweight seekeer missile racks, all with thermal cascade. Other modifications include a grade 5 increased range fsd, enhanced low-power shields, low emissions powerplant, and a whole bunch of stuff that combines to reduce weight and heat emissions across the board. Not only does it make it a great exploration ship, I also have 8 tonnes of cargo capacity for smuggling, and can use silent running with FA off to defend myself against just about anything that interdicts me. For the big stuff, grade 5 clean engine tuning gives me 450+ m/s boost speed, and I can escape any of the bigger, slower stuff pretty easily, then high-wake out. Also, get a bigger fuel scoop dude. 577 is nothing on an Asp. 878 on the A-grade.
Every time I see your Elite: Dangerous videos I want to play it again. Then I remember that I want to play with VR and it makes me sad since I can't afford it.
Elite truly is one of the best, and in my opinions THE best game out there right now. I love everything about it. Sometimes I just sit and stare for ages at the majesty of some of its sights.
I bought NMS, and now everyone is putting out videos of "alternatives". Just bought Elite and Space Engineers. Wish I could get a refund for NMS. Elite looks so much more fun.
That's true. Some people would hate Elite, but love COD. I only heard of NMS about a week before release, so I wasn't too disappointed. Still, I figured the "no spoilers" stance meant there would be things to spoil, which there wasn't. This 22k LY journey definitely appeals to me; its the kind of thing I wanna do when I start playing this.
Indeed, a n00b trying a long journey is probably a bad idea. Can I ask, what are you using for head tracking? I noticed a very fluid look around when flying. I have a HOTAS setup, but panning around in most games is a nightmare. Are you using a full VR rig or something more about head tracking?
The entire ambiance is different. No Man's Sky is way more chill than Elite, and I enjoy exploring a lot more in NMS because of the Visuals and the non realistic aspect to it. The game is worth buying if you correspond to its niche. Because it doesn't fit the manys taste, doesn't actually mean it can't please anyone. It can basically be worth buying for a shit ton of reason according to the person.
It is beautiful, more startrek-ish exploration, and gives the 'live off the land' feeling and doesn't try and make you concerned about increasing or building up stats and wealth too much. You see something you make it, you can't you move on. It is light hearted and I think it is like comparing Civilization to Total War, not the same game as their major focus is on different things even though they share a similarities. Is it worth buying? It depends of the person. I know people who wouldn't touch Elite but play No Man's Sky.
Thank you for this! I know how tedious and frustrating ED becomes with repetitive gameplay. Watching your video saved me 11 hours of doing the same! :D
Sorry to spoil it for you but the community goal has ended, meaning you will get no reward for going there, also the adder isn't made for these very long trips, it will take much longer than Scott because of the low fsd range, and idk if will be able to refuel on the way..
+i'm everywhere You clearly don't have much idea of a ships potential. The adder can easily make it out there. There is still a cg but its a mining cg. you can make it out there with a 12ly jump range. a type 9 made it out there.
A happy Bambi I know I may be inexperienced, but I was just saying that it will be a very very long trip, and the part about losing fuel is that I think even with the fuel scoop he might lose fuel before getting to a scoop-able star system .. though the longest trip for me was to maia in a type-6 with 17 ly fsd..
i understand your pain! i was a member of DWE earlier this year and am still only half way back to Sol from Beagle Point on the east arm. my main problem physically nodding-off withing 3000 LY :( and only willing to try once or twice a week.
This just seems way too realistic to me. I was hoping for something exciting with elements from Freelancer (wrecks and dense gas clouds to explore etc). I actually played the original Elite back in the day (on a BBC Micro) and also Elite II on my Atari STFM but those were different times (I was also a child). I need more out of game to keep me interested now. I played alot of X3AP (using LitCube's universe mod) that was interesting because you control an entire fleet of stations and ships. As for Elite, it just does not look that fun.
There is a ship wreck in the video. It crashed on a planet over 10000 LY from the Bubble. There are other wrecks and things outside the Bubble. But only until 500 LY out. Speaking about gas clouds: did you see the nebulae in the video? The Eagle Nebula and that other orange nebula that looked like an aurora borealis? You can fly into them and explore them as you like. Have a look at No Man's Sky! It might be what you are looking for.
I enjoyed a range of games then I still do today. Both exciting action or more thinking. I do expect more from games now though as well I should. Keep in mind when Elite II was released I was playing games like Treasure Island Dizzy, Cannon Fodder and Lemmings. Elite blew my mind =p These days though, it has to do better. I mean really, does it offer any better game-play than the original Elite. I know it looks much much nicer and is flashier but as for game-play I think it needs fleshing out.
Omg took an ASP Explorer 11 hours to get there? Congratulations on your patience. Its been a while since I played ED, I just hovered away after getting horizons a long way back. Used to mine like crazy, found it soothing for some reason. Maybe I should reinstall.
So I recently did this trip in just under 8 hours in a diamondback explorer using as many neutron stars as I could find, helped alot it was about 300 jumps , I didnt stop to look at stuff it was just a whole day of jumping I think its gonna be quite sometime before I travel that far again
I managed to get top 10% on the new community goal at Jaques for exploration data, although that's probably due to the fact that I performed a detailed scan on every star, detoured at least a few thousand light-years to sight-see and found a previously undiscovered black hole (with a water world in the same system, haha that reminded me of Interstellar), my first Earth-like world AND a system with four water worlds (two of which were orbiting each other) in my last 2,500 ly. I'd say it was worth every jump!
this is one of the games flaws i cant bare, its 2299 or whatever year but no autopilot and you have to manually jump 99999999 times... that is not fun, at all tedious mechanic that makes it seem like the game is longer, but no you just wasted hours of you time looking at loading screen that makes you go crazy since it put you strait to collision with the star so you cant even get a glass of water cause you might end up in the sun if you miss when it finally loads, im still waiting for this game to be finished still feels like a shallow universe with barely anything meaningful to do in like any other early access game
Actually, if you fly too close to a star, you will drop out of supercruise. You will take a little bit of damage doing this but you will drop to a speed of about several hundred meters per second. At this speed you can have a fancy dinner and your ship would still be safe and sound when you come back.
I agree. An autopilot option would be nice. Perhaps for balance sake, it could take longer to make the tip on autopilot that it would with a pilot at the helm and it can't fuel scoop on its own.
That'd be fine by me. Just activate autopilot, and have it alert me when low on fuel. Or if I come under attack. I'd likely just open youtube on another monitor, or read a book and listen to music most of the time anyways.
randomnickify Having it auto jump from system to system isn't winning the game. It could take far longer to spool up the jump drive, it doesn't scan systems, doesn't fuel scoop. In fact, trying to do any of those things could pull it out of autopilot. When we eventually get the ability to move around on our ships, It would be good to do it while its on autopilot, or being driven by an NPCs to deal with other things they might add to the game or mingle with passengers.
The only options right now are basically this (Elite Dangerous) and the recently released No Man's Sky. If you're looking for something more hardcore then Elite is the way to go. No Man's Sky has planet generation with life and is more focused on exploration of planet surfaces.
allnewluke Yea it seems like it should have been priced a little lower. There's also a game called Star Citizen which looks like it'll be amazing, but it's currently in Alpha.
I did an exploration trip once. Intended to go to Sagittarius A*. Would have been about a 58,000Ly round-trip the way I was doing it. I got bored about 3,000Ly into it and turned around. Still totally worth it though; when I got back, I sold all the exploration data for around 6 million credits, slapped my name as "first discoverer" on several dozen stars and a handful of interesting bodies, and went from neutral to allied with the controlling faction. (My jump range was about 44.30Ly; I had a super-engineer-upgraded FSD) Maybe next time I won't chicken out!
I have two problems with this game... There's no big ships to fly and EVERYTHING is orange! I don't like it. The orange is to 97% the reason why I won't buy this game. It's the most stupid reason ever, period. I know this. But can someone explain all the orange, please?
+Commander William of Stuff No but I'm guessing those are bigger ships. Thank you. Can you make the HUD white, or a light blue like in star citizen? Looks alot cleaner IMO
The orange I can understand. But no Big ships? The Imperial Clipper is 600 feet long, that's about the size of a US Navy Zumwalt Class destroyer which has a crew of 140. That's pretty darn big IMHO
I noticed that square banding shape of the eagle nebula before. Assumed it was a bug. There is a similar effect above the core where cubes of neutron stars exist.
I find that unless you're flying with a purpose towards your goal, you gotta stop and take pictures, land on planets etc. Otherwise you're going to get so bored with the flight that you can easily quit. I myself am flying on an expedition. I am currently at the West Veil Nebula, almost ready to head out towards the next destination. I'm hoping to eventually end up at Jacques station.
Currently making this trip as well. When I made my way beyond the center of the galaxy and back on a three month trip, I never imagined I'd be doing this again.
God, I just joined the game, but I already WANT to do the same thing! In my life I would not have thought that the "space trucker simulator" could delight and capture me so much that in the first 4 days of the game I exceeded 35 hours (for me this is quite a lot) xD
Slowly returning to the bubble and I decided to brush up on some older Elite videos, cause why not.... Crazy to think that bubble to Colonia is possible in just a few hours, even less if you try hard enough these days!
Great vid. Did the Jaques run twice myself, love the way the galactic background changes as you approach the core. I did my runs in an engineer modded asp with 48ly jump range, so basically the easy way :) Oh and don't forget, if youre out far from civilised space, you can turn off your shields/power distributor/cargo hatch etc to save fuel and generate less heat (useful while scooping!)
I was going to upgrade my asp too, but the engineers and the materials kinda confuse me, do you know where i can find a good explenation on this subject. Would really like to have some оf these nice mods^^
+Nampara Brewery i now know how to upgrade and what i need, but this material gathering is naaaaaah... And integrity is sort of how much damage this module can take before breaking:)
I did this with an engineered Anaconda (72 ly jumprange). From Shinrata Dezra to Colonia, then to the center and back to Shinrata. Took me like 30 hours with all the scanning.Got me from second explorer rank to second to last with half the bar full when I cashed in the catographic data. I think I got around 300mil. credits. Frontier should implement achievements for these kind of things.
I just completed this journey last night, after about 6 weeks of elapsed time (this boiled down to about 1k LY per day, including scans.) The duration was due to this being an exploration mission rather than a speed run. Scans totaled ~100Mil (across probably ~1000 systems scanned), so not what you would want to do to get rich quick.
Just a thought but since you're all that way out already, you could make a stop near Sagittarius A on the way back. Ought to make for some great pictures.
Yeah, there are black holes in the game. I've visited one but didn't get too close. You can youtube search for elite dangerous black holes and see some videos for what they look like.
Xortsa well there is the accretion disk of matter spiraling into it as well as the radiation (I believe some of which is visible) that results from matter crossing the event horizon.
I propose a solution to the jump-out-at-a-star issue with Elite: Dangerous. The problem is that jumping out at a star is cool for the first few times and an iconic part of E:D so they don't want to get rid of it, however once you've been playing for a while it gets very tiring. Here's my solution: make a more expensive, larger, and less fuel efficient jump drive which pops you out further from and more to the side of a star. Now newbies will still be forced to jump near a star, and even veterans may choose it for better fuel efficiency, or if their ship is too small for the drive to be a good choice. But for those who really get tired of jumping near the star, they can make a sacrifice to get rid of it.
Starting to think of an idea for a game feature, a wormhole which goes somewhere random (but pretty far), but the destination doesn't change and can be marked, useful if the end of the wormhole is close to your target (we have FSDs which is also theoretical so why not??)
My asp explorer is getting 46.03 at absolutely full fuel, no cargo and with a passenger cabin with passengers, and the latest route calculated was 3750 Ly in 88 jumps, which goes by pretty fast.
Hi Scott! I just started (mebbe a month ago?), and after 77k LY travel on a carrier, we are starting the 55kLY jump back. Problem is, I'm the limiting factor at 22.3 LY per jump! It's been amazing, the 6 Earth Like Worlds (that all have my name on them XD ), the system of 11 gas giants, the double binary systems have ALL made this trip worth it. Do you still play Elite?
good run congrats at maintaining some sanity. now that they put a few desired engineers out there I'm trying to decide if its worth my own sanity using a stripped down engineered asp explorer then the credits it will cost to have my real ship transferred. I'd at least expect to see elite status in exploration before the meds kick in.
I also made the trip out there at about 26-ish light year jumps and I am having a great time here now because I am finally being left alone and have plenty of exploration opportunities, as well as mining. Granted the station doesn't have enough ships yet for me to properly outfit another miner (I'm currently using my favorite Asp Explorer). I am planning on staying here for a while until I finish my Explorer ranks, then maybe do my miner ranks too. By the way, has anyone else lost the ability to bookmark stars/planets?
Ugh. My Python is stranded at Jacques. I messed up, crashed it, and when insurance replaced it I hit the wrong button and ended up with a default load out. My class A scoop and highly tuned hyperdrive disappeared and left me with a 5LY jump limit instead of the 50LY one that I had. I haven't had the stomach to go through the thousands of jumps required to go home, so I just abandoned the game a couple of years ago. I should really get back into Elite, as it was amazing to play with the HOTAS Warthog and Oculus Rift.
Hey Scott! I was thinking about taking a 160LY trip with my Asp Explorer and I need a better fuel scoop. Do you know where I could find one like the one you have in this video?
Holy balls, 800 jumps!? Damn space, you big! I mean like, on a scale of one to ten, you rate in as an even "fuck that". That's some dedication, man. I'll see if I can make it out there, but I can't promise anything too spectacular. I'm still getting my deep space skills down pat before I decide to go too far out.
John Smith I'm still pretty green as an explorer, I've ventured to the pleiades nebula before the barnacles arrived, and went out to the orion nebula, both in a cobra. I still get nervous going back out in my Asp, still gotta get down the methodology and make sure I don't get stuck or blow out my canopy (haven't had it happen yet, but I've been driven back to the bubble by the damage incurred on traveling those distances and messing up repeatedly). Going to be grateful for that filtered path mechanic, can plot my path through the more interesting prospective stars capable of being scooped and capable of having earthlikes/amonia worlds/water worlds/terraformable worlds.
John Smith Caught unaware by one too many white dwarfs, or just being too hasty in the scooping process. Either way, I usually puss out and run back the moment I hear cracking. You know what they say, haste makes waste.
Its very pretty, but I wonder how realistic it is. I read an astronomy book awhile back and it stated that if you were in a theoretical startship heading to the Orion nebula for instance it would fade away into nothingness as you got closer to it.
Excellent job Scott. Can you tell me how to get the "gold skin?" I see so many people with it but I don't know how to get it. Please help me. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
I have a question, how rare a metallic rings around planets as opposed to metal rich ones? Is it 1 in 10, 1 in 100, ect..., Been traveling for a while and have yet to see one, was wondering if you knew the odds.
I'm very new to Elite: Dangerous and really want to get into exploration and venturing out across the galaxy, but only have my starter ship. What is the good way of making money in ED? I don;t mind grinding missions, or trading, if that's the way to go but am a little overwhelmed currently.
I bought this awhile ago but haven't played it yet. I was going to see if I could find my joystick first, which I never did. I have been playing other things and never started Elite. It looks awesome and I need to play it. I doubt I can do max settings but the graphics are awesome.
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22,000 light years in 11 hours? The crew of USS Voyager would like to have a word with you.
only if they can catch him
FSD > warp drive :P
I wonder if they will ever make a ship upgrade for unlimited jump range.
They could call it "fold-space drive", but there'd be a 10% chance you wouldn't survive the jump
I am sure that the in game time is a few weeks, maybe a few months.
*HONK*
"Fuel scoopi-Fuel scoop disengaged. Frame shift drive charging."
Blas x 2,000,000
It still frightens the shit out of me when I drop into a new system and don't see a star. It's completely irrational, but neutron stars scare me.
wait until you come across a black hole on accident, good thing I was wearing brown pants
madhouse5213 Accident? How does one do that on accident? I didn't think a black hole could be the main jump point.
Yep, if you're not paying attention, your jump path might lead you to jump in to a black hole system, since it's technically still a star type. Neutron stars, Black Holes, White Dwarfs... the nemesis of the traveler. I've been conditioned through harsh consequences, if I don't see a big fat glowing ball on exit, I pull back on instinct just so I don't blow up. Space is freaking scary, man XD I love it.
That first jump... I've never been jump scared by a space game, but I swear: "oh my god, this is it, I'm doing it, our own galaxy, I'm really traveling through spACEWHATTHEFUCKISGOINGON!" Best introduction to gameplay ever.
Cretaal I conditioned myself to throttle down during the jump. That way there's no chance of "harsh consequences". Even with said knowledge I still get startled if there's not a bright star in front of me. Knowing that black holes can also be jump points makes me even more nervous about going back to the game after six months of not having played it. xP
CravenTHC Oops... my bad. Usually I keep the throttle in the blue zone when the jump initiates so I'm not speeding towards anything. Pull back and go "up" for a few seconds, then throttle down and figure out what the hell you just jumped in to (usually something valuable to scan). Face it, scan it... appreciate it from a distance and move on before it comes alive and eats me like the devil it is.
It's one of the funner surprises in the game. It seizes your heart, but puts you in complete awe of nature. First time I saw a black hole, I couldn't move, I could just stare at it with my mouth agape in a half terrified smile. It was... awesome is the only word capable of describing it. I love this game so much, It's museum and academy quality, I can't wait to see it complete.
Oh Scott, that's the easy part. The difficult part is getting back. So much more demanding knowing that what lies ahead is kind of normal.
Well, he didnt really have a look at most things there, so i guess the difference is not noticable :P
A happy Bambi I am going to Colonia and that very thing is making me continue to Sag A* and then to Beagle Point
Tbh, if it was real life, 22,000 light years in 11 hours isn't _that_ bad... :P
Exactly
It would also break A LOT of physical laws
+Warrcoww Not if you had a warpdrive.
+Warrcoww Instead of thinking it as "breaking laws of physics", I like to think of it as "Stretching those laws to their absolute limit." xD
It's actually an alcubierre drive so it's not breaking any laws of physics. Your not travelling faster than light at all your compressing space time in front of you and expaning it behind you. essentially rather than moving "you" through space, you move space around you. Current estimates for the energy required place it at converting the mass of Jupiter into energy. However 2 decades ago they claimed it was all the energy in the universe.
“Space legs should come on the next season of content”
Oh you sweet summer child
11 months later
lexafied3d and 11 more after that
3 Years later
Still waiting
But then
"Water worlds are quite easy to sea"
Life must of been good in 2017
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22,000 light years. 11 hours. 1,000 ly/hr. It would take you 104 days to reach the Andromeda Galaxy, or five-thousand years to reach the edge of the observable (from Earth) universe. Not bad compared to this day and age!
All he needs is a drive capable of 2.5 million light year jumps. The lack of anything to refuel with in the intergalactic expanse is the main hurdle.
This is why the new Mass Effect is all kinds of BS.
***** And the old ones weren't?
ME uses essentially advanced cannon transports, to travel between galaxies they'd need only to gather the fuel/power at the milky way relay, vaguely similar to how a 8 chevron address works in stargate.
but then, once in Andromeda, how does that ship go? with Mass Effect's basic FTL drives, it would take decades to travel that galaxy, unless they also had Reapers who built Mass Relays in there
I'm pretty sure there are stars in the intergalactic void.... but they're probably too sparse to be useable for regular refueling and at definitely more than 60 LY away from one another
"Friendship drive: charging".
=walks away=
"Friendship Drive malfunction"
Snuggles.
hug and bring some cookies and blankets
haha thats what my girlfriend said when she was watching me play once, she asked if thats what it said haha
Liarra Sniffles lmao my girlfriend also thought it said Friendship Drive that's hilarious
11 Hours of footage!?. Holy heck Scott!.. that's a vast Pile of editing!?. Thank you for the amazing effort sir!!
Well I only recorded 8 hours of it.....
that was some pro editing with the frame-shift jumps
I quite liked that, but was too lazy to keep it up.
On microsoft flight simulator X I flew from California to Florida. My friend was in the shared cockpit for a while, then he just stayed on Skype, and he went to bed. I was so freaking proud of my self.
I’m 5k light years into my first journey to Colonia right now and if you’re considering it then I say YES it’s so worth it! The places you’ll see and awe of the void is just beautiful
This looks so much better than 'no man's sky'.
In the same way a fork is better than a spoon. NMS is way more relaxing as it is more free form, if that's not what you consider better than no it isn't.
Looks better, but it isnt
In my opinion it looks better and is better. There's just so Much more to do.
+ZarPof Sorry, but I have yet to see a ringed planet, gas giant or neutron star which you can't even get near in NMS, this looks 1000x more real than NMS. Plus in NMS the entire galaxy seems to be inside of a rainbow instead of just the blackness of space, I want realism not relaxation, which is why I'm such a Star Trek fan.
***** 1st, fork and spoon. Relaxation looks better than realism, realism looks more realistic than relaxation. 2nd. Startrek as realistic? Come on NMS is startrek. You want realistic Sci-fi, go to Battle Star Galactica, 2010 space oddyssy, interstellar (kind of), the martian. Those are realistic. Holodecks and repicators? God techs that the series blows over. Startreck is barely more sci-fi than it is sci-fantasy. All that said I still do enjoy it.
11 hours... Even better than your 6000 science grand tour!
I just got back from a 5k LY trip as a sort of prep before I try I go to this station.
Ended up with lots of good pictures and it earned me about 3 million credits. Found an Earth-like planet even.
I hate to make it sound less special, but there are many, many earth like planets in ED
How did you make so many credits
Good job. You don't forget your first! Good credit haul, I made a lengthy trip that netted me about 7 mil, but no earthlikes sadly (a bunch of water, ammonia and terraformable worlds, though, and a couple black holes wandering the outer edges of the galaxy about as far away as the Pleiades nebula is from the core).
Cretaal how?
@@MIG95374 you use the neutron plotter, it will give you a list of expensive planets, preferably metallic and earthlike planets, bought my anaconda just from scanning planets alone.
Journeys like this really make you realize how pathetically slow the speed of light is...
d0qtrx 7000 times the speed of light actually from the frame shift drive
I like to see it as the universe being wonderfully huge
Light speed is not slow the universe is just that vast. 30000 light year just to travel from earth to the center of our galaxy.
Its really shitty isn't itm
I think were in hell sometimes.
i know how you feel.
did a 14000ly passenger mission. (back and forth so 28000 ly without a station)
it was horrible and took me 2 weeks
gonna go accept another after upgrading my frame shift drive.
darkracer125 i am doing a 80mil passenger mission and its 30000ly from the bubble
lets see how long i need
that's twice the distance but 2.5 times the reward. btw i noticed that amount of passengers is verry important. when you can carry 30+ passengers you suddenly get missions like 1 million reward for a single jump.
yeah you can really make a lot of money with passenger missions
30k ly for 80mil.
Or over an hour mining LTD for around 170mil....
HMMM wonder what Id choose...
Did 19k ly (Carrier) on a Sunday morning. lol Never again.
Scott, you traveled 22 thousand light years in roughly the same time it takes to drive from San Francisco to Las Vegas, that takes dedication!
It was a Condor you found, Scott, but that's a Federal ship. ;)
Fyi you can also turn off your shields, AFMUs, cargo hatches and other non-essential systems to get your heat production down a bit and make fuel scooping a tad easier. While you're travelling far out there you won't need them, or at least not at a moment's notice.
true... I did need the cargo hatch though since I was carrying a full load of cargo. And it felt like a bad idea going so far without a shield, even though I could have saved mass.
Scott Manley You don't need to leave the shield generator behind, just turn it off in the modules tab, right side menu. And... I'm not 100% sure on this, but I believe you can safely turn the cargo hatch off even with a full cargo hold. It will just not allow you to open it, deploy limpets and the like. Better test that one before relying on it though.
It's fairly common practice to take away power from the cargo hatch whenever you aren't trying to grab something out of space. I think the lore is that it gets mechanically locked when you do that. I've flown most of my time with the hatch off, and haven't lost any cargo because of it.
Supposedly that mechanical lock also makes your cargo immune from Hatch Breaker Limpets, but I've never tested that. It won't stop a pirate from blowing you or your cargo hatch apart with weapons though.
Huh, I'm going to try that. I that could help allot.
22,000+ light years... you are pleased you're finally there. To have gone so far, and the vast almost endless jump screen it took to get here...But it is tarnished by the knowledge that you have to do it again in reverse to get back.
DarkChrisHour rookie numbers, try Beagle Point, 65000 light years
@@go-xn8ow On my way there rn, died on the first attempt though lol
@@rulingmoss5599 good luck friend! Damn looking back that was kinda uncool of me to say lol
elite: dangerous
star citizen
eve online
space engineers
ksp
orbiter
BUT NO!!
NO MANS SKY HAD A COOL TRAILER AND SUDDENTLY EVERYONE REALIZED THAT SPACE IS AWESOME!!!!
2.3 deg kelvin ish
Thats how important advertisements are to success
Star Citizen is no game, it's a buggy tech demo that makes money from ultra expensive Ships some even above 10.000 $.
So yeah, fuck Star Citizen.
I appreciate the editing. Especially the hyperspace countdown being made up of multiple actual jumps.
I accidentally turned on closed captions (the c key is apparently a shortcut) and they are surprisingly accurate, bar the odd "point" being transcribed literally as "." and "space cargo bays" becoming the preferable "space cargo babes".
still, a better game than NMS?
people saying they're different games... not that much.
- space combat
- planetary landing
- surface to space flight
- trading
- space stations
- surface colonies
- resource gathering
- procedural generation for planet surfaces
the only difference is you can't land on every planet on Elite yet and can't leave your ship for a walk... also maybe yet.
Elite has basically more depth in everything.
also, totally not saying NMS is a bad game and you shouldn't play. it's just might not be what you'd expect and maybe Elite is that game.
There is no competition. Elite just wins per default.
Depends both have very little depth imo.
A Different game. ED is a lot more combat oriented.
Agreed, they're completely different games. Only real similarities are the fact they are both in space and that each involve a lot of grinding to buy better things that allow you to grind faster to buy even better things to grind even faster... etc.
I could never understand the loads of game publications and commenters stating the NMS starfields are a game-changer that's never been done before. You can't zoom out and see it from above like you can in Elite Dangerous. It's just a bunch of little balls with different colored spacemist and a single headlight shining at you representing the center.. The main difference between the galaxies being the color of that headlight.
im actually traveling with sidewinder to Sagittarius A , wish me good luck XD
Joins Crib Infiltración bad idea, But lol. Good luck, have you made it there yet?
Joins Crib Infiltración 8 months later and he's still getting there
11 months later and he is still not there. Maybe its the time dilation thingy.
@@death_parade or maybe he's lost his mind, being an explorer is lonely after all....
Let's pour one out for this brave explorer, Joins Crib Infiltracíon, who is still somewhere out there in the black.
Congrats on getting there safely CMDR! It's great seeing Elite videos from you again! I've done that trip before and it's no joke. Safe travels back home to the bubble, don't forget to visit the core and the Great Annihilator!
Curious... What music did you listen to while doing this?
I have a few playlists that are solely for "traveling and exploration" as well. I dunno about others, but I like just hunting around for unmarked planets and such.
could you please share these playlists or the sounds in them ive exhausted my supply
I love listening Adagio in D Minor by John Murphy, it is amazing!!
So glad to see more Elite footage from you, such a amazing game.
What keeps me from buying Elite Dangerous is that you look at the whole game from cockpit. Give me the option to walk my ship as it travels to space and its instabuy for me. Thats actually something I am looking for in any game.
21willyx21 you can explore planets. But you have to be on a rover.
What would you want to do in your ship?
It may be coming
I’d rather have atmospheric landings than space legs, but whatever.
"I won't buy this game because it doesnt have a gimmick ill get completely bored of within 30 minutes"
Love your videos, Scott. Amazing as always. Thanks for this.
Scott if you see this- it means i love your videos :-)
I wanted No Man's Sky for my birthday.
I read reviews.
I changed my wish list to this.
Best decision ever.
Longest trip eh? How cute... try Beagle Point one day and return through the abyss ;)
Fuck me, the abyss is a torture
As someone who is interested in getting Elite (my HOTAS needs a workout), what is the abyss? And in general how is the game?
3x Beagle Point and back. Asp (32LY) , Anaconda (36LY) and Cutter (24LY). o7
I am crazy now. But it was worth it.
What's the abyss? I'm too poor to go exploring so I don't know much about the infamous regions of the Galaxy.
Google is your friend guys. Damn.
Was about to make a trip to the Eagle Nebula myself because I was expecting the Pillars of Creation picture to actually be in the game, and you would be able to explore it. Nah, got a hundred jumps in and gave up (was using an upgraded Viper MK4, had a poor jump range for exploration). Looked it up afterword and realized that it would have been a waste of time. On my way back to The Bubble now. At least I'll get a boatload of creds from scanning systems!
you can make your life much easier if you turn off the computer voice on count down the warp jump. in audio options.
lol thanks
I like the audio cues, let's me work on video editing and other stuff at the same time.
Scott if you turn your shield generator off while you're exploring, it'll keep heat generation down when you fuel scoop. The shield won't protect you from a star.
What was your laden jump range?
PS I'm now starting to regret doing this is a cobra
It was just over 33ly
Get some upgrades, and a better scoop. My AspX does over 40ly, and has the ability to defend itself with 6 grade 4 lightweight seekeer missile racks, all with thermal cascade. Other modifications include a grade 5 increased range fsd, enhanced low-power shields, low emissions powerplant, and a whole bunch of stuff that combines to reduce weight and heat emissions across the board. Not only does it make it a great exploration ship, I also have 8 tonnes of cargo capacity for smuggling, and can use silent running with FA off to defend myself against just about anything that interdicts me. For the big stuff, grade 5 clean engine tuning gives me 450+ m/s boost speed, and I can escape any of the bigger, slower stuff pretty easily, then high-wake out.
Also, get a bigger fuel scoop dude. 577 is nothing on an Asp. 878 on the A-grade.
I’m currently doing 44ly range in an Anaconda
Every time I see your Elite: Dangerous videos I want to play it again. Then I remember that I want to play with VR and it makes me sad since I can't afford it.
Better than that new cartoon space game thingy .....
Elite truly is one of the best, and in my opinions THE best game out there right now. I love everything about it. Sometimes I just sit and stare for ages at the majesty of some of its sights.
I bought NMS, and now everyone is putting out videos of "alternatives". Just bought Elite and Space Engineers. Wish I could get a refund for NMS. Elite looks so much more fun.
Fun is a relative term, it's very easy to play Elite as a space truck sim.
That's true. Some people would hate Elite, but love COD. I only heard of NMS about a week before release, so I wasn't too disappointed. Still, I figured the "no spoilers" stance meant there would be things to spoil, which there wasn't. This 22k LY journey definitely appeals to me; its the kind of thing I wanna do when I start playing this.
Well before you go that far I suggest a voyage out to the Pleiades cluster, only a few hundred LY and there's a lot of things going on out there.
Indeed, a n00b trying a long journey is probably a bad idea. Can I ask, what are you using for head tracking? I noticed a very fluid look around when flying. I have a HOTAS setup, but panning around in most games is a nightmare. Are you using a full VR rig or something more about head tracking?
+IdleGod I think he is using middle mouse button which allows you to do that
I made a trip to the core with a 23LY jump range. I got bored, really bored. Your video summed that experience up nicely.
Remind me again why No Man's Sky is worth buying?
good story line later on (20hours in), landing on planets, discovering artifacts, good crafting and customizing etc
The entire ambiance is different. No Man's Sky is way more chill than Elite, and I enjoy exploring a lot more in NMS because of the Visuals and the non realistic aspect to it.
The game is worth buying if you correspond to its niche. Because it doesn't fit the manys taste, doesn't actually mean it can't please anyone.
It can basically be worth buying for a shit ton of reason according to the person.
+Gauthier Natalashadow ive been playing for a week now and i have so much fun finding cool ships and monoliths
It is beautiful, more startrek-ish exploration, and gives the 'live off the land' feeling and doesn't try and make you concerned about increasing or building up stats and wealth too much. You see something you make it, you can't you move on. It is light hearted and I think it is like comparing Civilization to Total War, not the same game as their major focus is on different things even though they share a similarities.
Is it worth buying? It depends of the person. I know people who wouldn't touch Elite but play No Man's Sky.
Giant floating crab penises.
Thank you for this! I know how tedious and frustrating ED becomes with repetitive gameplay. Watching your video saved me 11 hours of doing the same! :D
I'm on my way, quarter way there, in a adder non the less!
Sorry to spoil it for you but the community goal has ended, meaning you will get no reward for going there, also the adder isn't made for these very long trips, it will take much longer than Scott because of the low fsd range, and idk if will be able to refuel on the way..
+i'm everywhere I know it has and I'm not a idiot I did bring a scoop ;) but I can still mine and get it the money for discovering stuff
When in doubt get a small cockpit and a large thruster
+i'm everywhere You clearly don't have much idea of a ships potential. The adder can easily make it out there. There is still a cg but its a mining cg. you can make it out there with a 12ly jump range. a type 9 made it out there.
A happy Bambi I know I may be inexperienced, but I was just saying that it will be a very very long trip, and the part about losing fuel is that I think even with the fuel scoop he might lose fuel before getting to a scoop-able star system .. though the longest trip for me was to maia in a type-6 with 17 ly fsd..
i understand your pain!
i was a member of DWE earlier this year and am still only half way back to Sol from Beagle Point on the east arm.
my main problem physically nodding-off withing 3000 LY :( and only willing to try once or twice a week.
This just seems way too realistic to me. I was hoping for something exciting with elements from Freelancer (wrecks and dense gas clouds to explore etc).
I actually played the original Elite back in the day (on a BBC Micro) and also Elite II on my Atari STFM but those were different times (I was also a child). I need more out of game to keep me interested now.
I played alot of X3AP (using LitCube's universe mod) that was interesting because you control an entire fleet of stations and ships. As for Elite, it just does not look that fun.
There is a ship wreck in the video. It crashed on a planet over 10000 LY from the Bubble.
There are other wrecks and things outside the Bubble. But only until 500 LY out.
Speaking about gas clouds: did you see the nebulae in the video? The Eagle Nebula and that other orange nebula that looked like an aurora borealis? You can fly into them and explore them as you like.
Have a look at No Man's Sky! It might be what you are looking for.
Heh, its like your mind is backwards. Fine with boring realism as a child. But now need flashy stuff to keep you entertained as an adult.
I enjoyed a range of games then I still do today. Both exciting action or more thinking. I do expect more from games now though as well I should. Keep in mind when Elite II was released I was playing games like Treasure Island Dizzy, Cannon Fodder and Lemmings. Elite blew my mind =p
These days though, it has to do better. I mean really, does it offer any better game-play than the original Elite. I know it looks much much nicer and is flashier but as for game-play I think it needs fleshing out.
Omg took an ASP Explorer 11 hours to get there? Congratulations on your patience. Its been a while since I played ED, I just hovered away after getting horizons a long way back. Used to mine like crazy, found it soothing for some reason. Maybe I should reinstall.
I'm still on my sidewinder!
AcCeSsDeNiEd65 stay with it till u have enough money for a really good ship (depending on what role u want to play)
So I recently did this trip in just under 8 hours in a diamondback explorer using as many neutron stars as I could find, helped alot it was about 300 jumps , I didnt stop to look at stuff it was just a whole day of jumping I think its gonna be quite sometime before I travel that far again
Can you only land on airless bodies?
Yes
+Motokid600 for now, future expansions will expand on this.
not ones with atmosphere
Thanks everyone I think ill try it. No Mans Sky was a little too on the arcade side for me.
I managed to get top 10% on the new community goal at Jaques for exploration data, although that's probably due to the fact that I performed a detailed scan on every star, detoured at least a few thousand light-years to sight-see and found a previously undiscovered black hole (with a water world in the same system, haha that reminded me of Interstellar), my first Earth-like world AND a system with four water worlds (two of which were orbiting each other) in my last 2,500 ly. I'd say it was worth every jump!
this is one of the games flaws i cant bare, its 2299 or whatever year but no autopilot and you have to manually jump 99999999 times... that is not fun, at all tedious mechanic that makes it seem like the game is longer, but no you just wasted hours of you time looking at loading screen that makes you go crazy since it put you strait to collision with the star so you cant even get a glass of water cause you might end up in the sun if you miss when it finally loads, im still waiting for this game to be finished still feels like a shallow universe with barely anything meaningful to do in like any other early access game
Actually, if you fly too close to a star, you will drop out of supercruise. You will take a little bit of damage doing this but you will drop to a speed of about several hundred meters per second. At this speed you can have a fancy dinner and your ship would still be safe and sound when you come back.
I agree. An autopilot option would be nice. Perhaps for balance sake, it could take longer to make the tip on autopilot that it would with a pilot at the helm and it can't fuel scoop on its own.
That'd be fine by me. Just activate autopilot, and have it alert me when low on fuel. Or if I come under attack. I'd likely just open youtube on another monitor, or read a book and listen to music most of the time anyways.
press 'E' to win the game? brilliant, we need something like that in dark souls :)
randomnickify Having it auto jump from system to system isn't winning the game. It could take far longer to spool up the jump drive, it doesn't scan systems, doesn't fuel scoop. In fact, trying to do any of those things could pull it out of autopilot. When we eventually get the ability to move around on our ships, It would be good to do it while its on autopilot, or being driven by an NPCs to deal with other things they might add to the game or mingle with passengers.
Right on, Commander! Been out here since before his repair CG (1st) was over. Been mining (and mining and mining) since then
Can someone tell me the best space exploration game
The only options right now are basically this (Elite Dangerous) and the recently released No Man's Sky. If you're looking for something more hardcore then Elite is the way to go. No Man's Sky has planet generation with life and is more focused on exploration of planet surfaces.
+Jake Jake thank you I was playing no mans sky and I find it fun but not 60 dollars maybe it is a 30 dollar game
allnewluke Yea it seems like it should have been priced a little lower. There's also a game called Star Citizen which looks like it'll be amazing, but it's currently in Alpha.
+allnewluke you can try star citizen - it free to use till 22nd of this month (basically you have till Sunday )
Space engine and Elite are pretty great, can't say the same thing about no man's sky.
I did an exploration trip once. Intended to go to Sagittarius A*. Would have been about a 58,000Ly round-trip the way I was doing it.
I got bored about 3,000Ly into it and turned around. Still totally worth it though; when I got back, I sold all the exploration data for around 6 million credits, slapped my name as "first discoverer" on several dozen stars and a handful of interesting bodies, and went from neutral to allied with the controlling faction. (My jump range was about 44.30Ly; I had a super-engineer-upgraded FSD)
Maybe next time I won't chicken out!
I have two problems with this game... There's no big ships to fly and EVERYTHING is orange! I don't like it. The orange is to 97% the reason why I won't buy this game. It's the most stupid reason ever, period. I know this. But can someone explain all the orange, please?
Have you ever seen the Anaconda or Imperial Cutter? Also you can change the HUD color.
+Commander William of Stuff No but I'm guessing those are bigger ships. Thank you. Can you make the HUD white, or a light blue like in star citizen? Looks alot cleaner IMO
The orange I can understand. But no Big ships? The Imperial Clipper is 600 feet long, that's about the size of a US Navy Zumwalt Class destroyer which has a crew of 140. That's pretty darn big IMHO
+Scott Manley Nice to know I'm not alone regarding the orange. Again, I didn't know about the big ships so sorry about that. Also, you replied!!!
Yes you can change the HUD color to blue or any color you want. But the pictures on the mission board will have weird color. :D Nothing gamebreaking.
Only just stated playing this on my Xbox One, what an amazing game, just... stunning. The scale is scary but unlike anything, just incredible.
Just watching your videos while i make my trip to Sag A. I'm starting to go insane.
I noticed that square banding shape of the eagle nebula before. Assumed it was a bug. There is a similar effect above the core where cubes of neutron stars exist.
I find that unless you're flying with a purpose towards your goal, you gotta stop and take pictures, land on planets etc. Otherwise you're going to get so bored with the flight that you can easily quit. I myself am flying on an expedition. I am currently at the West Veil Nebula, almost ready to head out towards the next destination. I'm hoping to eventually end up at Jacques station.
Currently making this trip as well. When I made my way beyond the center of the galaxy and back on a three month trip, I never imagined I'd be doing this again.
Scott, what do you think of "3... 2... 1... 0... ENGAGE!. I love how they engage at T+1.
I submitted a bug report during beta and they said it was by design...
God, I just joined the game, but I already WANT to do the same thing! In my life I would not have thought that the "space trucker simulator" could delight and capture me so much that in the first 4 days of the game I exceeded 35 hours (for me this is quite a lot) xD
8:40
Scott: "A Condor Imperial fighter"
[Zachary Hudson wants to know you location]
Slowly returning to the bubble and I decided to brush up on some older Elite videos, cause why not.... Crazy to think that bubble to Colonia is possible in just a few hours, even less if you try hard enough these days!
Great vid. Did the Jaques run twice myself, love the way the galactic background changes as you approach the core. I did my runs in an engineer modded asp with 48ly jump range, so basically the easy way :) Oh and don't forget, if youre out far from civilised space, you can turn off your shields/power distributor/cargo hatch etc to save fuel and generate less heat (useful while scooping!)
I was going to upgrade my asp too, but the engineers and the materials kinda confuse me, do you know where i can find a good explenation on this subject. Would really like to have some оf these nice mods^^
+Darkeight 8 same here! don't get that dice rolling stuff...and what does "integrity" mean?.
+Nampara Brewery i now know how to upgrade and what i need, but this material gathering is naaaaaah...
And integrity is sort of how much damage this module can take before breaking:)
Thanks!
I did this with an engineered Anaconda (72 ly jumprange). From Shinrata Dezra to Colonia, then to the center and back to Shinrata. Took me like 30 hours with all the scanning.Got me from second explorer rank to second to last with half the bar full when I cashed in the catographic data. I think I got around 300mil. credits. Frontier should implement achievements for these kind of things.
Feels like my caravan holidays around Scotland when i was younger.
I just completed this journey last night, after about 6 weeks of elapsed time (this boiled down to about 1k LY per day, including scans.) The duration was due to this being an exploration mission rather than a speed run. Scans totaled ~100Mil (across probably ~1000 systems scanned), so not what you would want to do to get rich quick.
Just a thought but since you're all that way out already, you could make a stop near Sagittarius A on the way back. Ought to make for some great pictures.
I think he said he'd make that stop at the end of the video. Im curious as well. Does elite dangerous implement black holes?
Yeah, there are black holes in the game. I've visited one but didn't get too close. You can youtube search for elite dangerous black holes and see some videos for what they look like.
they don't look like much seeing as no light escapes around them but they are hot as all hell if you not careful they will easily fry your ship
The only way to see a black hole is either see where the space is missing or if its fucking massive you can sometimes see stuff redshift into it.
Xortsa well there is the accretion disk of matter spiraling into it as well as the radiation (I believe some of which is visible) that results from matter crossing the event horizon.
I propose a solution to the jump-out-at-a-star issue with Elite: Dangerous.
The problem is that jumping out at a star is cool for the first few times and an iconic part of E:D so they don't want to get rid of it, however once you've been playing for a while it gets very tiring.
Here's my solution: make a more expensive, larger, and less fuel efficient jump drive which pops you out further from and more to the side of a star. Now newbies will still be forced to jump near a star, and even veterans may choose it for better fuel efficiency, or if their ship is too small for the drive to be a good choice. But for those who really get tired of jumping near the star, they can make a sacrifice to get rid of it.
this is the next gen of what Derek Smart started with Battlecruiser 3000AD
Lovely. Thanks for the brown dwarf tip.
Literally Laughed out loud from the first 3 minutes of this video. Love ya Scott.
Starting to think of an idea for a game feature, a wormhole which goes somewhere random (but pretty far), but the destination doesn't change and can be marked, useful if the end of the wormhole is close to your target (we have FSDs which is also theoretical so why not??)
Never thought I would admire a "video game explorer" but damn you, I'm CAPTIVATED by all of this! Can't wait until payday, I need to play this game!
My asp explorer is getting 46.03 at absolutely full fuel, no cargo and with a passenger cabin with passengers, and the latest route calculated was 3750 Ly in 88 jumps, which goes by pretty fast.
Hi Scott! I just started (mebbe a month ago?), and after 77k LY travel on a carrier, we are starting the 55kLY jump back. Problem is, I'm the limiting factor at 22.3 LY per jump! It's been amazing, the 6 Earth Like Worlds (that all have my name on them XD ), the system of 11 gas giants, the double binary systems have ALL made this trip worth it.
Do you still play Elite?
I do like to fly around for fun from time to time, waiting for space legs though.
good run congrats at maintaining some sanity. now that they put a few desired engineers out there I'm trying to decide if its worth my own sanity using a stripped down engineered asp explorer then the credits it will cost to have my real ship transferred. I'd at least expect to see elite status in exploration before the meds kick in.
The Condor is Federation, you goober. Glory be the the Empire, home of the prettiest ships.
I also made the trip out there at about 26-ish light year jumps and I am having a great time here now because I am finally being left alone and have plenty of exploration opportunities, as well as mining. Granted the station doesn't have enough ships yet for me to properly outfit another miner (I'm currently using my favorite Asp Explorer). I am planning on staying here for a while until I finish my Explorer ranks, then maybe do my miner ranks too. By the way, has anyone else lost the ability to bookmark stars/planets?
Ugh. My Python is stranded at Jacques. I messed up, crashed it, and when insurance replaced it I hit the wrong button and ended up with a default load out. My class A scoop and highly tuned hyperdrive disappeared and left me with a 5LY jump limit instead of the 50LY one that I had. I haven't had the stomach to go through the thousands of jumps required to go home, so I just abandoned the game a couple of years ago. I should really get back into Elite, as it was amazing to play with the HOTAS Warthog and Oculus Rift.
Hey Scott! I was thinking about taking a 160LY trip with my Asp Explorer and I need a better fuel scoop. Do you know where I could find one like the one you have in this video?
Scott you are a braver man than I. I happened to be in Sol and just went to Arque and went bounty hunting.
0:47 by that rate of acceleration even a kerbal won’t survive long...
1:05 Scott that was really cool how you timed the montage with the countdown.
Holy balls, 800 jumps!?
Damn space, you big! I mean like, on a scale of one to ten, you rate in as an even "fuck that".
That's some dedication, man. I'll see if I can make it out there, but I can't promise anything too spectacular. I'm still getting my deep space skills down pat before I decide to go too far out.
somebody hasn't been to beagle point clearly this is a cake walk
John Smith I'm still pretty green as an explorer, I've ventured to the pleiades nebula before the barnacles arrived, and went out to the orion nebula, both in a cobra. I still get nervous going back out in my Asp, still gotta get down the methodology and make sure I don't get stuck or blow out my canopy (haven't had it happen yet, but I've been driven back to the bubble by the damage incurred on traveling those distances and messing up repeatedly). Going to be grateful for that filtered path mechanic, can plot my path through the more interesting prospective stars capable of being scooped and capable of having earthlikes/amonia worlds/water worlds/terraformable worlds.
Cretaal
baby steps i suppose as for blowing out your canopy what the heck are you doing flying to close to stars trying to scoop?
John Smith Caught unaware by one too many white dwarfs, or just being too hasty in the scooping process. Either way, I usually puss out and run back the moment I hear cracking. You know what they say, haste makes waste.
Its very pretty, but I wonder how realistic it is. I read an astronomy book awhile back and it stated that if you were in a theoretical startship heading to the Orion nebula for instance it would fade away into nothingness as you got closer to it.
I would love it if Fauna gets introduced to Elite Dangerous. How flipping awesome would that be?!
8:38 Maybe it's John Crichton.
I doubt there are many people that will understand that.
im listening to his explination of going to Jaques and im like, "welcome to deep exploration, Scott.." lol
Excellent job Scott. Can you tell me how to get the "gold skin?" I see so many people with it but I don't know how to get it. Please help me. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Scott Manley, You should revisit "From the Depths", It has had major changes, new graphics and tons of new mechanics.
I have a question, how rare a metallic rings around planets as opposed to metal rich ones? Is it 1 in 10, 1 in 100, ect..., Been traveling for a while and have yet to see one, was wondering if you knew the odds.
I'm very new to Elite: Dangerous and really want to get into exploration and venturing out across the galaxy, but only have my starter ship. What is the good way of making money in ED? I don;t mind grinding missions, or trading, if that's the way to go but am a little overwhelmed currently.
Somebody survived on that wrecked ship, foot prints everywhere.
I remember Elite from the late 80s.
It was one of the best PC games of the time.
Always Enterianing Scott, fly safe!
I bought this awhile ago but haven't played it yet. I was going to see if I could find my joystick first, which I never did. I have been playing other things and never started Elite. It looks awesome and I need to play it. I doubt I can do max settings but the graphics are awesome.