If one were to fly out of a solar system, i.e. point a direction and click, without warping; where would you go? Is it actually possible to (fly) from one system to another without using a jump gate?
Tony Moore [ Editor ]
I believe that ral is correct here - it would simply take too long. Wikipedia tells that 1 AU is around 149,597,871 kms and some systems are 100 AUs across. One AU in a 5km/s interceptor would take nearly a year.
I also don't think that CCP intended it to be possible as evidenced by their removal of the so called "deep safe spots", that were far outside the supposed limits of a solar system, that some players managed to create by exploiting a bug in the system.
I once heard the tale of a pilot who attempted to reach Jove space by travelling to the "edge of the universe" and pointing his interceptor in the supposedly right direction and leaving it flying for days, restarting it after each downtime. I doubt he got very far even if it were true.