As above why does it take so long to travel to the stations in alpha centauri im heading to hutton orbital and its 0.22 ly away and im doing 976c+ and says its going to take 1.30+ thats going via superdrive or do i need to upgrade to get there faster if so what as if i have to wait 1hr+ to get to places then thats just stupid.
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Newcomer / Intro Why does it take soo long to go to stations in alpha centauri.
- Thread starter j4ffax
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Then don't go there. There are 399,999,999,999 systems to choose from. 
Travel times are influenced by the masses and gravity wells of the objects in the system, I noticed that if I have to pass near a planet my speed will be lower, I usually try to do elliptical trajectories, meaning I don't always flight straight, I try to coast the gravity wells not too get bogged down.
Also, try putting more pips in engines
Also, try putting more pips in engines
The FSD always drops you at the primary star. If you can see the system map for your destination always check it first. If the station orbits another star than the primary you are likely to have a long trip. The concept of "micro-jumping" between associated stars has been mentioned, but I don't think it's officially on FD's list.
I have no problems with system in the x thousands of light seconds away. Tens of thousands is where I get a bit antsy!
You need to start looking at the system map before committing to a jump. Look at the orbital period of the station around its star (actually, look at the station's main stellar body around it's star) and if it's a multi star system like alpha centauri look at the orbital period between the primary star and your destination's star. You can use a calculator here to convert orbial periods to light seconds. If you want to do the math yourself it's (T^2*R^3)186282.40 to covert orbital period in days to light seconds. Or you could realise that an orbital period of 365 is the same as a distance of 1AU, which is the same as 499light seconds... so roughly 700days orbital period should be roughly 1000ls distance and so on.
I just had 3 systems in a row where the station was not at the parent star. The last one took me 20mins real time to get there. Used up nearly all my fuel but I could not jump to another system because they were all similar ()non parent star stations) and I would have been stranded without fuel.
All up the 3 systems I spent 45 mins just trying to get to stations.
Finally refuled at the station and went to leave but the planet was in between me and the Jump target. I would have had to use most of my fuel to get around it before I could jump. So, I went back to the station and turned off the game for tonight. I hope when I play tomorrow that the stations orbit has taken it to a better position so I can get out. If I cant get out next time, I'm just going to self destruct.
Definatly not fun and I do feel they need to do something about it
All up the 3 systems I spent 45 mins just trying to get to stations.
Finally refuled at the station and went to leave but the planet was in between me and the Jump target. I would have had to use most of my fuel to get around it before I could jump. So, I went back to the station and turned off the game for tonight. I hope when I play tomorrow that the stations orbit has taken it to a better position so I can get out. If I cant get out next time, I'm just going to self destruct.
Definatly not fun and I do feel they need to do something about it
Alpha Centauri is rapid compared to some....
I timed a hyperspace jump to a station in the 36 Ophichui (sp?) system two days ago....it was a flight time of 4.5 hours realtime from entering the system to getting docked (and this was at hyperspace speeds of 1800c+ for the majority of the time).....
Neeeeeever going back there
I timed a hyperspace jump to a station in the 36 Ophichui (sp?) system two days ago....it was a flight time of 4.5 hours realtime from entering the system to getting docked (and this was at hyperspace speeds of 1800c+ for the majority of the time).....
Neeeeeever going back there
Had a situation last night where even at full speed the timer was so large that I ended up going afk, grabbed a glass of something cold and alcoholic, went to the loo and came back in plenty of time to spend another few minutes staring at the screen.
Not sure it is good fr the game to have a situation where you can afk for quite so long. If I remember the original the game would leap you forwards if there was no contacts between you and the destination. There are other areas of grind and a good game should have them in my view, this could be an area where a tweak would be helpful.
Not sure it is good fr the game to have a situation where you can afk for quite so long. If I remember the original the game would leap you forwards if there was no contacts between you and the destination. There are other areas of grind and a good game should have them in my view, this could be an area where a tweak would be helpful.
You'll always come out of hyperspace next to the primary star, which is the topmost star in the system view. Long story short; just ignore any station that's not around the primary star, it's too far to bother going there.
