100 Billions stars systems

TrueFranco

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If it is true that the game will have that amount of systems, how will be possible to find another player. I played eve online for 9 years and some times was hard to find players in 0.0 regions and the game has only like 3000 systems.

What about the amount of time to travel let`s say 1 Light year ?

Can someone explain this to me cause the way I see it it sound a little unrealistic from the point of view of a game.
 

roryscarlett

roryscarlett
At the release of the game humanity will only occupy a 200 light-year bubble not the entire galaxy. And to be honest, I'm not that bothered about bumping in to other players...
 

Leonick

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People won't be spread out over all those systems. The part of the galaxy inhabited by humans is very small when compared to the galaxy as a whole. There will still be thousands of inhabited systems though, probably more than the 5000 or some systems in EVEs normal space.

If you need to find/meet up with a specific player I bet there will be systems for that.

As for randomly running in to other players, well, depending on how many players there will be you might not run in to a lot of players outside the central systems. You'll just see more NPCs instead.

roryscarlett said:
At the release of the game humanity will only occupy a 200 light-year bubble not the entire galaxy. And to be honest, I'm not that bothered about bumping in to other players...
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Alpha 4 will be a 200 cubic light-year area, the human inhabited area of the release game will probably be a lot bigger than that. A 200 cubic light-year area will only be a couple of systems. I'd count on each of the three human factions having several sectors (a sector being a 10x10x10 light-year cube) under their control.
 
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Leonick

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GeordieMarv said:
It's 400 billion :-

"The full Milky Way galactic map, containing some 400,000,000,000 star systems, will be present"
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Could have sworn that was it as well.. To be fair, the "The Game" section of the official ED website does say "Fight, trade, hunt your way across a giant galaxy of 100 billion star systems"...

TrueFranco said:
I can`t see myself traveling 3 days to meet a friend that is 5 light year away from me.
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You wouldn't have to. If he's that far away he's in another system, travel between systems done by hyperdrive. While we haven't seen hyperspace travel yet (we will soon, very soon) and I'm not sure if I've seen any estimates for how long a jump takes it'll definitely won't be a matter of days :p
 
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Lobstris

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TrueFranco said:
I can`t see myself traveling 3 days to meet a friend that is 5 light year away from me.
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Erm. Isn't that what hyperspace is for? :)
Also, if your friend is many AU's from you, but in the same system, that's what SuperCruise(TM) via FrameShift(TM) is for (Now with added Superluminal speed!) :D
 

Cody

Cody
Many stars will be in binary/trinary (or more) systems.

@TrueFranco: five lights is (probably) only one jump, which would be more or less instantaneous (I think).
 

TrueFranco

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So that mean that all ships will travel like Carriers and motherships do in EVE, enough fuel in my cargo to cover X amount of sustem ?
 

Thespen Tombs

Thespen Tombs
;)I do have a grave concern:

I feel having just one Galaxy is a bit limiting, when can we expect intergalactic (i.e.between galaxies) travel?

Its never too early to think ahead:rolleyes:
 

Tinman

Tinman
Leonick said:
Could have sworn that was it as well.. To be fair, the "The Game" section of the official ED website does say "Fight, trade, hunt your way across a giant galaxy of 100 billion star systems"...
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This is because you could chose to define a star system in two ways I guess. As Cody pointed out above many stars have one or several companions. If you define the system as this group of stars then the galaxy consists of approximately 100 Billion star systems.

If you however chose to define each individual star as it's own system (since every star can potentially have their own planets orbiting) then the number would be approximately 400 Billion.

Doesn't really matter though since the human brain can't really comprehend these numbers anyway no matter which one you pick. There's simply put more stars out there than you could ever visit even if you played the game nonstop without food or sleep for the rest of your life. ;)

In regards to the OPs question.

We live in a galaxy of the same size right now and we manage to meet up with each other just fine. ;) They are making it that big simply because they can and that happens to be the size of the Milky Way which this game takes place in. :)

Travel in ED is not done through warpgates but instead you have a hyperspace drive that has a certain range (couple of light years) based on what ship/engine you have installed that lets you jump to any star within the bubble. Trade, missions and a lot of other activities will also help drive people together. Another thing to keep in mind is that there is going to be a lot more NPC activity in ED compared to EVE which will help the universe feel alive even if there happens to be no real players around you in the particular area you are playing in.

As people already have pointed out. The DDF archive is a gold mine of information if anyone wants the specifics about this game.

http://forums.frontier.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=36

Reading about the background simulation might be a good starting point in regards to this.

Background Simulation
 

Smugallo

Smugallo
TrueFranco said:
So that mean that all ships will travel like Carriers and motherships do in EVE, enough fuel in my cargo to cover X amount of sustem ?
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Not really. EvE is a different game. In Elite you are one ship, one pilot. You start with some credits and a starter ship. You have a whole galaxy of unexplored stars, procedurally generated missions and events and stuff you can do. It's a sandbox go play in it.
 

Mazhurg

Mazhurg
Thespen Tombs said:
;)I do have a grave concern:

I feel having just one Galaxy is a bit limiting, when can we expect intergalactic (i.e.between galaxies) travel?

Its never too early to think ahead:rolleyes:
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Methinks that this is an overly misconstrued concern...;)

By the time inter-galactic travel is needed in game due to the .. err human population explosion ... We will have found the way to do this for real.
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