Elite / Frontier Lightspeed in FE2

Adrena1in

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I'm sure plenty of people have already discovered this, but did you know you can't reach lightspeed in FE2? I assume you also can't in FFE?

Out of interest I tried it the other week, and I think I got to something like around 250,000 kms. (Lightspeed is roughly 297,000 kms isn't it?)

Interestingly, my speed stopped at 250,000 kms, but if I kept thrusting forwards it was like I was still accelerating. If I carried on thrusting fowards for a few seconds, then hit the reverse-thrusters, it would be a few seconds before my speed started to drop. The longer I carried on thrusting forwards after reaching top speed, the longer it took my speed to reduce when using the reverse-thrusters. So maybe I WAS still accelerating, but my speedo simply couldn't handle it? ;)
 

Adrena1in

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Steve said:
Exactly. Even if you could reach light speed, it would still take over 4 years to get from Sol to Alpha Centauri. Boring!
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True, but with Stardreamer you could do it in much less time. Wouldn't really be practical or sensible, but would be pretty cool if the option was there I think.

I was just impressed that the Frontier developers thought of everything when they wrote the game. ;)
 

Sir.Tj

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Steve said:
Exactly. Even if you could reach light speed, it would still take over 4 years to get from Sol to Alpha Centauri. Boring!
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This may have been discussed before but... Could you fly from one system to another this way ie. Sol to Barnards star?
 

Adrena1in

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T.j said:
Thats a shame, would have been interesting to try.
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The nearest system to Sol is 4-light years, so at top speed, StarDreamer on max, it'd take, what, half an hour of real-time to travel that sort of distance? I'm sure some systems would be closer to one another, and it would just be another level of realism were it possible I think.
 

Sir.Tj

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Adrena1in said:
The nearest system to Sol is 4-light years, so at top speed, StarDreamer on max, it'd take, what, half an hour of real-time to travel that sort of distance? I'm sure some systems would be closer to one another, and it would just be another level of realism were it possible I think.
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It would be a nice touch for E4, So, if you were in a unihabited system and your Military or Hyper drive was trashed by naught pirates, there could be a way out. I assume you could plot a course, accelerate to max speed of 250 kps shut your engines off, kick inthe stardreamer and get comfortable reading RIG!
 

The Space Pirate

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It might be a feature to consider, as you say, it would offer a way out when you're left without hyperspace capability. That way, you wouldn't have to resort to reloading from an earlier point.
 

Sir.Tj

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The Space Pirate said:
It might be a feature to consider, as you say, it would offer a way out when you're left without hyperspace capability. That way, you wouldn't have to resort to reloading from an earlier point.
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Especially as the standard escape capsule only has a interplanatary drive fitted.

Fat lot of good that is, when you heading our into the wilds of deep space!
 
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