News on in-system travel

Zieman

Zieman
jabokai said:
I'm not sure if this is new news but it was certainly new to me... taken from the current DDF discussion on fuel -



Emphasis done by me.

Pretty interesting considering the previous nominal limit of 0.2c
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That 0.2c is sooo last year! :D "Significant fraction of c" has been the talk lately. In that respect nothing :)p) has changed, or almost nothing: from 8/10c to 8/1c - just drop a zero...

Note: 8/10 & 8/1 are just representation of the magnitude(s), not officially announced or confirmed.
 
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Leonick

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Considering the votes for in-system travel ended on people thing the journey from Pluto to the sun should take 5-10 minutes, no, not really new. Since the star systems are supposed to be properly sized the super cruise must be pretty fast, faster than light really, to cover that distance in that time.
 

jabokai

jabokai
Zieman said:
tha 0.2c is sooo last year! :D "Significant fraction of c" has been the talk lately. In that respect nothing :)p) has changed, or almost nothing: from 8/10c to 8/1c - just drop a zero...

Note: 8/10 & 8/1 are just representation of the magnitude(s), not officially announced or confirmed.
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Ah yes, I do remember the mention of "significant fraction of c", but has the "far far faster than the speed of light" been mentioned before? I was completely (pleasantly) surprised by it! Apologies for posting it as news if it was already out there. :eek:

Leonick said:
Considering the votes for in-system travel ended on people thing the journey from Pluto to the sun should take 5-10 minutes, no, not really new. Since the star systems are supposed to be properly sized the super cruise must be pretty fast, faster than light really, to cover that distance in that time.
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Yes, but the proposal specifically stated the "low" speed and the poll (being before the proposal) didn't give a statement of intent.
 

Zieman

Zieman
jabokai said:
Ah yes, I do remember the mention of "significant fraction of c", but has the "far far faster than the speed of light" been mentioned before? I was completely (pleasantly) surprised by it! Apologies for posting it as news if it was already out there. :eek:
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AFAIK "far far faster than the speed of light" was todays news (that "8/1c" was my take on that piece), and I too am delighted. :)
 

Ixnatifual

Ixnatifual
That's pretty interesting. A supercruise trip between all planets in our solar system seems in order at some point. Of course to be repeated once planetary landings are in. But now with picnics.
 
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ZenSpider

ZenSpider
What about systems far larger than our own? I that remember in Frontier in-system travel in certain binary or trinary systems was a genuine PITA.
 

ZenSpider

ZenSpider
Ixnatifual said:
Hyperspace? Downside being higher fuel cost.
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Well quite, but the implication of the above musings seems to be that hyperspace will be used for inter and not intra. I suspect they're going to have to allow micro-jumps of some kind.

Or some kind of "open-ended" supercruise with no speed cap relative to c, but that sounds tricky.
 

Mike Evans

Designer- Elite: Dangerous
Frontier
ZenSpider said:
Well quite, but the implication of the above musings seems to be that hyperspace will be used for inter and not intra. I suspect they're going to have to allow micro-jumps of some kind.

Or some kind of "open-ended" supercruise with no speed cap relative to c, but that sounds tricky.
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The current maximum speed is something like 2000c at the moment. There will be no micro-jumps or anything like that, though you could jump to the current system's star if it would be quicker, or more convenient for you to do assuming you don't mind spending the fuel to do so if you're somewhere else in the system.
 

ZenSpider

ZenSpider
Mike Evans said:
The current maximum speed is something like 2000c at the moment. There will be no micro-jumps or anything like that, though you could jump to the current system's star if it would be quicker, or more convenient for you to do assuming you don't mind spending the fuel to do so if you're somewhere else in the system.
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Thanks for the clarification Mike, that applies to systems with multiple stars then?
 

Zieman

Zieman
Mike Evans said:
The current maximum speed is something like 2000c at the moment. There will be no micro-jumps or anything like that, though you could jump to the current system's star if it would be quicker, or more convenient for you to do assuming you don't mind spending the fuel to do so if you're somewhere else in the system.
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Whoa, I was only a couple of orders of magnitude off in my guess then! :eek: :)
 

Tinman

Tinman
Mike Evans said:
Bare in mind you have to actually accelerate up to that. For the most part 10-20c is more likely.
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Maybe...but if those speeds (2000c) are left in you better make seamless transitions between star systems possible...people WILL try to do it then. Just saying... ;)
 
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