Can I fly seamlessly from one system to another?

[animalfarm]

Just curious from a technical point of view - does the games technology actually allow seamless travel between stars? Even if it might take me 10 days & infinite fuel in SC, would it be possible to actually fly from one system to other without loading times?

I'm aware that being able to do so would no add too much gameplay-wise due to the vast distances and time amount needed. But it would be pretty cool from a geeky point of view...

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

Just curious from a technical point of view - does the games technology actually allow seamless travel between stars? Even if it might take me 10 days & infinite fuel in SC, would it be possible to actually fly from one system to other without loading times?

I'm aware that being able to do so would no add too much gameplay-wise due to the vast distances and time amount needed. But it would be pretty cool from a geeky point of view...

It would be possible, engine allows it, but it's not enabled at the moment. They said they might enable it for funzies (and for offline mode where someone will add cheats for infinite fuel), but it's extremely low on their todo list.

 

[Aewarin Jameson]

Just curious from a technical point of view - does the games technology actually allow seamless travel between stars? Even if it might take me 10 days & infinite fuel in SC, would it be possible to actually fly from one system to other without loading times?

I'm aware that being able to do so would no add too much gameplay-wise due to the vast distances and time amount needed. But it would be pretty cool from a geeky point of view...

Technically if you had infinite fuel and the game was coded in that manner then yes you could. However an experiment was done during Alpha (no fuel constraints) and it didn't work. You arrived at the new location but the computer didn't register it. (Map said yes but visually nothing was there) That could have been down to the way in which ED is being written; could be due to missing features with it being an Alpha; not sure.

Not sure if it was done in P.Beta or not.

 

[animalfarm]

It would be cool to have it in SP, especially if modding ever became a possibility. If anyone would want to recreate a smaller scaled universe such as planned in NMS or SC.

It would be possible, engine allows it, but it's not enabled at the moment. They said they might enable it for funzies (and for offline mode where someone will add cheats for infinite fuel), but it's extremely low on their todo list.

Do you have a source for that (just curious!)

 

[rgb_astro]

Technically if you had infinite fuel and the game was coded in that manner then yes you could. However an experiment was done during Alpha (no fuel constraints) and it didn't work. You arrived at the new location but the computer didn't register it. (Map said yes but visually nothing was there) That could have been down to the way in which ED is being written; could be due to missing features with it being an Alpha; not sure.

Not sure if it was done in P.Beta or not.

That was due to the way ED is coded. There's no dynamic loading of a new system as you move to it with FSD. They are "loaded" only on hyperjumps.