Whoah!!! Distance is massive!!

tasev1

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Case in point? Proxima Centauri! 0.22LY (yes, light YEARS) away. I am just passing the Star Trek equivalent of Transwarp Warp 11 on my way to Hutton Terminal for some rare good that better be damn well worth this trip!! I will be if they have 0 / low stock. Currently my clock shows a travel time of 1h 10 min at 1400c (warp 11.5). In theory, my ship would be occupying all points simultaneously - as Elite uses the same theory of FTL travel as does Warp Speed in Star Trek. This speed should not be obtainable!! LOL

Fronteir: This is an example of a suggestion I made in the forums - let us chose which star to arrive at when flying to a binary / trinary star system! They should even be shown as two very close points on the galaxy map.

I gonna go nap for this hour long trip - god help me if I get interdicted.
 

tasev1

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Psychometric said:
Pah, I've been at over 2000c before :)
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Dare I ask where? I know my MkIII only just passed 1800.

I vote to start an Elite Special Stats page! Furthest distances, most unique finds, easter eggs, etc....

Seriously though, Proxima should technically be another system entirely. Centauri is just the cluster.
 
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DaveB

DaveB
tasev1 said:
Case in point? Proxima Centauri! 0.22LY (yes, light YEARS) away. I am just passing the Star Trek equivalent of Transwarp Warp 11 on my way to Hutton Terminal for some rare good that better be damn well worth this trip!! I will be if they have 0 / low stock. Currently my clock shows a travel time of 1h 10 min at 1400c (warp 11.5). In theory, my ship would be occupying all points simultaneously - as Elite uses the same theory of FTL travel as does Warp Speed in Star Trek. This speed should not be obtainable!! LOL

Fronteir: This is an example of a suggestion I made in the forums - let us chose which star to arrive at when flying to a binary / trinary star system! They should even be shown as two very close points on the galaxy map.

I gonna go nap for this hour long trip - god help me if I get interdicted.
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Trekkie nitpick. That warp factor is only true if you use the formula from the TOS writers guide. Under the modified formula introduced in TNG and subsequently used for all following series, your 1400c is warp 8.8 and the maximum attainable speed for SC in open space is warp 9.1
 

peteuplink

peteuplink
tasev1 said:
Case in point? Proxima Centauri! 0.22LY (yes, light YEARS) away. I am just passing the Star Trek equivalent of Transwarp Warp 11 on my way to Hutton Terminal for some rare good that better be damn well worth this trip!! I will be if they have 0 / low stock. Currently my clock shows a travel time of 1h 10 min at 1400c (warp 11.5). In theory, my ship would be occupying all points simultaneously - as Elite uses the same theory of FTL travel as does Warp Speed in Star Trek. This speed should not be obtainable!! LOL

Fronteir: This is an example of a suggestion I made in the forums - let us chose which star to arrive at when flying to a binary / trinary star system! They should even be shown as two very close points on the galaxy map.

I gonna go nap for this hour long trip - god help me if I get interdicted.
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Sorry to out Trek you, Tasev, but 1400c is somewhere between warp 8 and 9, according to the offical TNG technical manual from the early 90's, so you're pretty safe so far :)

The highest speed on the warp char was 9.9999 which is 199,516c and is the speed of subspace radio waves (with booster relays).

*edit*

Looks like Dave got in there before me :p
 
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DaveB

DaveB
tasev1 said:
Dare I ask where? I know my MkIII only just passed 1800.

I vote to start an Elite Special Stats page! Furthest distances, most unique finds, easter eggs, etc....
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In deep space far away from stars or planets. Max possible speed in SC is 2001c (if I remember correctly)
 

FaolGlas

FaolGlas
I play a betting game with myself when I see comments on SC durations, size of systems - Alpha Centauri, I bet! And then I click and see if I was right heh.
 

kari_san

kari_san
peteuplink said:
Sorry to out Trek you, Tasev, but 1400c is somewhere between warp 8 and 9, according to the offical TNG technical manual from the early 90's, so you're pretty safe so far :)

The highest speed on the warp char was 9.9999 which is 199,516c and is the speed of subspace radio waves (with booster relays).

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Looks like Dave got in there before me :p
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I didn't realise that warp was a exponential growth value.

Warp factor
Calculated speed (*c)
Distance traveled in 24 hours (*light years)
Travel time from Earth to Alpha Centauri
0.50.1250.000334.64 years
110.0034.33 years
280.022197.69 days
3270.07458.57 days
4640.17524.71 days
51250.34212.65 days
62160.5917.32 days
73430.9394.61 days
85121.4023.09 days
97291.99652.07 hours
1010002.73837.96 hours
1113313.64428.52 hours
 

DaveB

DaveB
TOS used a formula where speed was c multiplied by the cube of the warp factor. Michael Okuda altered that formula in TNG where up to warp 9 speed was c*w^3.333333.. but above warp 9 the exponent itself increased exponentially such that as speed increases the warp factor approaches but never quite reaches 10. (For my 9.1 calc above I fudged it and stayed with the "up to warp 9" values, since the exact formula is unclear above warp 9 since it was based entirely on a hand-drawn diagram for which - as far as I know - an exact formula has not been calculated)
 

tasev1

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DaveB said:
Trekkie nitpick. That warp factor is only true if you use the formula from the TOS writers guide. Under the modified formula introduced in TNG and subsequently used for all following series, your 1400c is warp 8.8 and the maximum attainable speed for SC in open space is warp 9.1
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In that my friend, you are right! I forgot about that change in speeds.

http://imgur.com/gallery/Su1RB
 

tasev1

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32,500 Ls from Proxima.....and I ran out of gas. What did I know? Never travelled that far before. So what now? I don't even have enough rebuy cost for my ship!
 

kari_san

kari_san
Can you get a loan? Maybe somebody can drop of some cargo and you can scoop it up! Are you a part of a consortium or clan?
 

Toumal

Toumal
peteuplink said:
Sorry to out Trek you, Tasev, but 1400c is somewhere between warp 8 and 9, according to the offical TNG technical manual from the early 90's, so you're pretty safe so far :)

The highest speed on the warp char was 9.9999 which is 199,516c and is the speed of subspace radio waves (with booster relays).
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Just ask Lizard Janeway.
 

tasev1

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I should just not have touched Elite tonight. After the death, I had 1000 credits and a significant loan. Finally made back all I had lost from before (only some 50-60,000), I CRASH running some illegal cargo into a station, and now AGAIN I have 1000 credits and double my previous loan!!!

Yikes!!!! I got myself into some deep doodoo.
 
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