Jump directly to a mapped planet in a system you have personally been.

CMDR Jowley

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Been thinking about this for a while. Why why FSD can't also latch onto high mass objects other than stars is a little basic. The year is 3305, the tech should be at a level where it can route to mapped planet within a system you have been already. In keeping with lore you could say the FSD can also target gas giants or other high mass objects.

Or even if the system has multiple stars, let me pick.

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Lestat

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Lestat
CMDR Jowley said:
Been thinking about this for a while. Why why FSD can't also latch onto high mass objects other than stars is a little basic. The year is 3005, the tech should be at a level where it can route to mapped planet within a system you have been already. In keeping with lore you could say the FSD can also target gas giants or other high mass objects.

Or even if the system has multiple stars, let me pick.
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Or you can start using some common Sense and go if it too far. Go to another system. We have 400 BILLION systems. Which caters to both players needs.
 

Sysmon

Sysmon
Planets move around, so finding them may be hard from outside their system, where the star mass overwhelms most other local signals.

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MK Regular

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Sysmon said:
Planets move around, so finding them may be hard from outside their system, where the star mass overwhelms most other local signals.

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Doing a bit of math, our sun has ~330,000 times more mass than Earth. Knowing that the force of gravity is proportional to the mass of the attracting object and the inverse square of the distance to said object, if you were the same distance from both Earth and the sun (which you effectively would be if you are jumping from another system as the distances involved are so large), the force of Earth's gravity would only be 0.0003% of the force of the sun's gravity. In this case, the Earth would be indistinguishable from background noise for all but the most sophisticated sensors.

Now, how far much closer would you need to be to Earth than the sun in order for the forces of gravity acting on you from both of them to be the same? taking the square root of 330,000, we find that you would need to be ~574 time closer to Earth than the sun in order to be experiencing the same gravitational pull from each of them. When you consider that Earth is 506 ls from the sun, you would need to within 1 light second of Earth in order to experience the same gravitational pull from both the Earth and the sun.

Yeah, I don't like my odds of my FSD being able to pick up on the gravity well of the Earth, and I'm certainly not going to trust my FSD to jump me there.
 
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dxm55

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Or more importantly, why can't we jump directly to any other secondary star in a system with more than one?

That's the burning question. And the answer prob is because FD just wanted to make you all waste time travelling about.
When you're distracted or occupied with moving around getting somewhere, you won't question why the game has little content elsewhere to engage you.
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
dxm55 said:
Or more importantly, why can't we jump directly to any other secondary star in a system with more than one?

That's the burning question. .........
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It only burns some people. ;)

Personally, I cannot understand why people cannot accept that when in one gravitational system (i.e. any star system in E D ) you can't target the same system. People can accept hyper-jumps, superluminal in-system travel, telepresence and TARDIS-pockets for engineering materials but won't accept the game designers decision on this point. Yes it is a "construct" but it is in place by choice (and the players had a voice) and for gameplay reasons.

Imagine walking in to Charing Cross railway station and complaining that you couldn't catch a train from platform1 to platform 12 - no doubt some on here would.

P.S. I won't be responding to this aspect of the thread subject as people play the system on here to suppress opinions - so don't bother trying to goad me.
 
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