Alpha Centauri Warning..

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Emissary

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Mison to Alpha Centirui C - Hutton Orbital

How on earth do you make it there without running out of fuel! Can jump there with hyoperdrive and a explore class Cobra doesn't have the range to make a normal flight up to 1600C at the moment and still predicts a hour... i have 10% fuel left :D
 

Kron

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Emissary said:
How on earth do you make it there without running out of fuel! Can jump there with hyoperdrive and a explore class Cobra doesn't have the range to make a normal flight up to 1600C at the moment and still predicts a hour... i have 10% fuel left :D
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i guess you need a bigger ship
 

Ydiss

Ydiss
Alpha centauri was like this in Frontier, too. It's huge because it's a binary star system.

We're hoping ED will eventually allow a way to jump to a specific star, so this will be less of an issue.
 

trigg88

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Hutton orbital 0.22ly sc

Looks like I'm gonna take a while for this mission I got in sol for alpha centauri system:eek:
 

trigg88

trigg88
Thinking about ditching this mission now No way il get there in time ,thankfully it's a no fine no cargo mission
Still have 0.14ly to go speed is 1,742c and will take at least another 40 mins
One to avoid in future
 

Tim Wheatley

Tim Wheatley
trigg88 said:
Thinking about ditching this mission now No way il get there in time ,thankfully it's a no fine no cargo mission
Still have 0.14ly to go speed is 1,742c and will take at least another 40 mins
One to avoid in future
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hahah, I'm glad they did that again. Was the same in the previous games. :) Such a feat to get there!
 

Mars Lightweaver

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Hutton terminal. If you see any missions to it. Do yourself a favour. Avoid. It is .22LY away from Alpha Centauri A. That is a MASSIVE SC trip. Take a packed lunch & a flask of tea if you desperately need to be there.

Initially when I jumped in the system and hit SC I thought the LS counter was broken, then I looked again and saw it said .22LY not .22LS

Arrrggh!
 

Zulu Romeo

Zulu Romeo
Mars Lightweaver said:
Hutton terminal. If you see any missions to it. Do yourself a favour. Avoid. It is .22LY away from Alpha Centauri A. That is a MASSIVE SC trip. Take a packed lunch & a flask of tea if you desperately need to be there.

Initially when I jumped in the system and hit SC I thought the LS counter was broken, then I looked again and saw it said .22LY not .22LS

Arrrggh!
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Heh, just like the good old days of FE2 with its 1000AU hike across Alpha Centauri...
 

GHDW

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In Beta some have reached 3500C in supercruise, a rough ETA: 45 minutes. Most likely will take longer since acceleration/deceleration is not instantaneous. I wonder how many interdictions one would rack up on that run.


Mars Lightweaver said:
.16LY and 50 minutes to go. Speed: 1650c
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Any interdiction trouble yet?
 
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Anon-E-Mouse

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Yeah I had the same issue, which I'd posted to reddit. In systems with multiple stars, there needs to be some way of selecting which star you want to jump to.

I managed to get upto 1840c, and it still took over an hour get there.
 

fandango

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DoctorDanny said:
We ought to be able to hyperspace that distance.
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Yep, between stars within systems this should be possible.

I just took a mission for Abbot Platform (Federal border) and amongst all the HP 562342342342342 blah blah details, nothing that gave me any immediate suspicion it was 380,000Ls away.

I actually just decided to drop out at a USS, attack a random clean NPC and just reset my save rather than face the tedium.
 

cpbtrading

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I like that you have to travel, for me coming out of SC should be at least 200kms from the station.. Why, because it makes it more interesting, just arriving temps newer players to just keep doing that and then complain its a little boring. I wish they could put something in there that effects the way the craft handles. I know :p, but I do turn off FA.
Not talking interdiction or whatever, i.e. throw AI at the player, that's an old trick in gaming. Don't mind if its another player, but NPC's really.. five in 3mins or thereabouts..

No, something more, I don't know, maybe a little sci-fi perhaps, but something that makes you have to concentrate on the flying aspect.. Shame we don't have turbulence in space..:D
 

talshiarr

talshiarr
At my start planet the base is 100,000 ls from the star you return to when you jump back. Surely the option should exist to choose which star in a multiple system you jump to, no? One system I passed en route to Sol was a binary with one planet at the exit point, and the main system planets and bases over 750,000 ls away at the other star. Now, I'm patient, but who would ever fly all that way repeatedly no matter what that system may have?
 
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