100 billion star systems

If you visit 100 systems every day, it will take like 2.7 million years to explore every system. God help you if you spawn across the galaxy, because that would be a deal breaker for making friends.

"Oh you're just in the x104C-B system? Let's meet up. ETA: 40,023 years"
 
We'll all be starting within some kind of reasonable distance I expect. Probably no more than several hours flight time I would hope.
 
We'll all be starting within some kind of reasonable distance I expect. Probably no more than several hours flight time I would hope.

Well, if you're ever chased by bandits the good news is you can pick a random direction and never be found again.
 
They wont all be distinctive from each other, there are bound to be some system that are almost identical with regards to sun type, number of planets, planet types... the only thing that will be distinctive is the landscapes etc.

Um, so they will be distinctive then...

I take your point, and for those that choose not to go for the planetary landings or walking about expansions (Boggle), they're going to have to contend with some "samey" looking systems. But for the rest of us, hopefully everything will be worth looking at - because there will be significant differences.
 
Thargons .. or Thargoids ? (Elite Wiki mentions only Thargoids but oddly there are Thargon books :eek:)

Whoops. There were Thargons in the 'The Tomorrow People'...
thargon_general1.jpg
 
...and for those that choose not to go for the planetary landings or walking about expansions...
It will be interesting to see how FD deal with the notion that one player with the expansion and fleeing to a planets surface is being chased by one that does not.

Given the multiple types of stars and types of planets, there are going to be a great number of combinations and that doesn't even include multiple stars in the same system, the number of planets and then the planets geographical make up as well. I would imagine the chance of a player finding two systems the same to be quite low.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_types
 
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I you are at one star, can you fire a missile at another star and it will hit?
Can you follow it their from a distance? log out, next day rejoin the game and find the missile again still on it's way, that would be great. Are things saved in space?
 
...I take your point, and for those that choose not to go for the planetary landings or walking about expansions (Boggle), they're going to have to contend with some "samey" looking systems. ...
You mean Liqua et al. Content to see painted backgrounds of planets but not being able to travel to them.

Sorry Liqua. :p
 

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I you are at one star, can you fire a missile at another star and it will hit?
Can you follow it their from a distance? log out, next day rejoin the game and find the missile again still on it's way, that would be great. Are things saved in space?

I can't speak for this version, but in previous ones missiles self-destructed after a set time period. Of course, bullets from projectile weapons have no such restriction, so if you were very unlucky you could be hit by a stream of hot-lead death 100 years after it was fired at a different intended target.
 
I you are at one star, can you fire a missile at another star and it will hit?
Can you follow it their from a distance? log out, next day rejoin the game and find the missile again still on it's way, that would be great. Are things saved in space?

Projectiles will disappear after a certain distance, otherwise the server would explode.
 
There is another explanation for that as well and that was the idea that a missile fired might hit someone thousands of years later. So once its fuel has expired it would self detonate.

Although I would imagine given the speed that stars are moving it is more likely that a star would hit a projectile rather than the other way around!
 
If they are modelling the Galaxy correctly its more like 200 to 400 billion stars. :)

Yes dude, but many systems are multi-star systems.
Maybe the average is 4 stars per system..Its quite possible

I know for a fact (Real astrophysics here), that most systems are binary systems. There are more binary systems than solar systems. I guess we got unlucky here on earth! :S
 
Hahaha indeed, things would get rapidly confusing with 2 stars in the sky...Imagine the 6 star system, sun dials probably never happened for obvious reasons!!!
 

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I also only visited a tiny proportion of the Frontier universe.

The fact that I know there are all those worlds out there is enough, I dont need to visit them especially when they are mostly going to be computer generated barren rocks.

As long as there are a fair few worlds dotted around the universe that are 'interesting' that will make exploration worthwhile, especially if there is a chart that explains the more interesting ones that people might want to visit because they contain something worth seeing. But also there should be other surprise worlds that may be covered by subtle hints, clues in missions, etc that will reward the player when visiting them especially if you have to negotiate a tricky ring system or a high gravity well of a black holes in order to get there!
 
Or maybe time would be depicted in a different way for a civilization living there? :)

Perhaps using different crystals to focus different sunlights around a board / rock etc, use a spiral shape to mark the orbit and mark the intersecting lines ;)
 
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