So a previous thread, well multiple threads I read had me curious about something.
So there's Hutton orbital, 20ly from the star. It takes 40 minutes(est) at Max SC speed (2001c if I remember correctly)
Why is it, that in a similar ship (heck the same ship) once you get up to speed, (2001c) it still says, it'd take a year to SC out of system to a targeted system 8ly away?
Stepping back further, a year ago I remember a guy telling me, he'd just mined a FULL anacondas worth of painite. And his FSD was damaged, if I remember correctly back then his load would have yielded 500m+. And so to travel 47ly in SC he had to leave his game on, for 8 months. Barely managing to scoop stars on his normal route, without the fsd.
Thoughts? Comments? Concerns? Questions? (Open discussion!)
A lot of that’s not making sense OP, so will try to clarify.
SC has a universal and local maximum.
The universal maximum is 2,001c. It is the maximum speed reachable via SC.
The local maximum is the maximum SC speed at the point in space you’re at. For the purposes of this we can consider it as being reduced from the universal maximum in proportion to the net gravitational field strength at that point in space.
So, travelling at max supercruise does not mean travelling at 2,001c. It means travelling at the local maximum, and that local maximum will change as you travel.
To understand better, let’s consider just 2 duplicate stars, reasonably far apart and you’re travelling on a straight line between them.
As you start travelling you’re near the first star so the local maximum is low. As you move away from it, the local maximum increases and continues to do so until you reach half way between the stars after which it will then decrease as you move towards the second star.
Hope that makes sense so far.
Let's go through your post now.
So there's Hutton orbital, 20ly from the star. It takes 40 minutes(est) at Max SC speed (2001c if I remember correctly)
Hutton Orbital isn't 20ly from the star.
Hutton Orbital is a few ls from Proxima Centauri (a star).
Proxima Centauri is 6,397,061 ls from Alpha Centauri. (They are part of the same system). That's 0.2 ly, not 20 ly.
The trip is roughly of the star to star form talked about higher above. You can travel at local maximum all the way. That's not the same as travelling 2,001c all the way, as explained above.
Why is it, that in a similar ship (heck the same ship) once you get up to speed, (2001c) it still says, it'd take a year to SC out of system to a targeted system 8ly away?
It doesn't. It tells you the estimated travel time based on your current speed. At 2,001c, your travel time for 8 ly would be 0.004 years (1.46 days). If the travel time for 8 ly is showing as more than 1 year, then it mean your currently travelling at less than 8c.
Stepping back further, a year ago I remember a guy telling me, he'd just mined a FULL anacondas worth of painite. And his FSD was damaged, if I remember correctly back then his load would have yielded 500m+. And so to travel 47ly in SC he had to leave his game on, for 8 months. Barely managing to scoop stars on his normal route, without the fsd.
Some guy didn't know what he was talking about. If that's what he was planning then it didn't work. If he was saying he did it then he was lying. The biggest point to take into account is that you can't reach anything that's not in your system using supercruise. So they can't have done what they said in any way whatsoever.
Hopefully that all makes sense now! o7