Global FSD Range Boost

[ToastSky]

With the current event of Thargoids, an global upgrade of FSD range can easily be worked in with how it's derived from more and newer Thargoid technologies available to reverse engineer.
Really just a QoL change for everyone, maybe around a 5 light year range boost, just throwing it out there.

 

[Wyldwiisel]

Some ships could do with a boost but not all

 

[shadow133]

I approve this message. Doubling or tripling jump ranges would do a lot in terms of quality of life for those with less time and patience like me. Besides helping expansion efforts in places that are dead like Colonia. Some ships in particular could benefit from new fsd tech too: beluga, orca, corvette, fdl, to name a few.

 

[NW3]

With the current event of Thargoids, an global upgrade of FSD range can easily be worked in with how it's derived from more and newer Thargoid technologies available to reverse engineer.
Really just a QoL change for everyone, maybe around a 5 light year range boost, just throwing it out there.

I agree. A larger jump range would be nice.

However, you can easily get that sort of minor increase by using the engineers. With significant effort, you can nearly double your range. My AspX can jump up to 56 lyrs; the stock range is about 33 lyrs.

 

[Shinji Ikari]

I agree. A larger jump range would be nice.

However, you can easily get that sort of minor increase by using the engineers. With significant effort, you can nearly double your range. My AspX can jump up to 56 lyrs; the stock range is about 33 lyrs.

What do you mean by stock? That same build unengineered?

 

[MK Regular]

I approve this message. Doubling or tripling jump ranges would do a lot in terms of quality of life for those with less time and patience like me. Besides helping expansion efforts in places that are dead like Colonia. Some ships in particular could benefit from new fsd tech too: beluga, orca, corvette, fdl, to name a few.

I wouldn't increase the range that much. Doing so would make a lot of people very angry, as they would have wasted months doing 2-3 times as many jumps to go to far away places. As it stands, there are very few places you can't go with a 26LY jump range. I do agree that some ships could use more jump range (cough FDL cough), but it shouldn't be overdone too much.

As it stands, the only ways to increase jump ranges are to change the way jump range is calculated for all ships (not likely), change the stats of some/all FSDs (again, not likely), or to change the hull mass of certain ship(s), which would also affect maneuvering and shields unless those stats were changed as well. I wouldn't be holding my breath over this.

 

[[VR] CMDR TYRTHEMIS]

I'd like to know what the anaconda hull is made of to where it has more armor than the fed corvette and also a longer jump range, why cant my fed corvette be made of that stuff? they should bring the hull weight vs jump range in the ships a bit more in line with each other.

 

[Starwolfe]

No.

I see no reason my DBX should jump north of 64 light years.

 

[Shinji Ikari]

I'd like to know what the anaconda hull is made of to where it has more armor than the fed corvette and also a longer jump range, why cant my fed corvette be made of that stuff? they should bring the hull weight vs jump range in the ships a bit more in line with each other.

Yeah, the anaconda is OP in terms of jump range but I can understand why. It was simply made as the ultimate multipurpose ship. The corvette is combat focused so it logically can carry more armor and shields, albeit in exchange of jump range.

 

[NewBlacksmurf]

Yes I’d be open to this

 

[Daynen]

A higher jump range sounds cool now, but once you've grown bored of the game because you've covered it from end to end, you'll regret asking for this. Arbitrarily jacking up jump ranges does nothing but shrink the universe for us. We don't need to galaxy to be smaller; we need it to be fuller. Jump range would not be a QoL change; it would simply accelerate our boredom and obsolete many challenges that make the game fun.

 

[shadow133]

A higher jump range sounds cool now, but once you've grown bored of the game because you've covered it from end to end, you'll regret asking for this. Arbitrarily jacking up jump ranges does nothing but shrink the universe for us. We don't need to galaxy to be smaller; we need it to be fuller. Jump range would not be a QoL change; it would simply accelerate our boredom and obsolete many challenges that make the game fun.

I disagree. I think it would push Fdev to create more content, to say the least. Today I am taxing the bubble on a 60ly dbx, it is awesome and i can’t think of any bad reasons why my corvette being able to do the same would not be an improvement for me. Instead I got a 11ly on it and not only got stuck in a few places, but had to engineer it to get to 16ly. It still sucks and I now rarely use it.

 

[shadow133]

I wouldn't increase the range that much. Doing so would make a lot of people very angry, as they would have wasted months doing 2-3 times as many jumps to go to far away places. As it stands, there are very few places you can't go with a 26LY jump range. I do agree that some ships could use more jump range (cough FDL cough), but it shouldn't be overdone too much.

As it stands, the only ways to increase jump ranges are to change the way jump range is calculated for all ships (not likely), change the stats of some/all FSDs (again, not likely), or to change the hull mass of certain ship(s), which would also affect maneuvering and shields unless those stats were changed as well. I wouldn't be holding my breath over this.

People would be angry because they suffered in the past and so should all in the future? I don’t have a lot of time available, at 26ly I would do half as much. Probably I would only jump and then do stuff the other day. Yes, space is big, I get it. But technology should advance too. And yes, there are some extreme cases like the fdl and corvette that are painful. I had disassemble it, jump with fsd boost and then transfer the modules in some cases just to get to some places. Terrible.

I have been to Colonia before the NS route was a thing. Did it again after the NS routing in less time and it was a lot better. If I could do it in 1/3 I would return there, otherwise no thanks. At 60ly with my taxi I found I can enjoy traveling without any suffering or reluctance.

 

[Arthur Shappey]

I am anti a global-FSD-boost.

Why?

It'll significantly lessen one of the most important attributes of the game: the sheer, magnificent, wondrous scale of the galaxy in ED. If it isn't a major commitment to get from one side of the galaxy to another, there is no challenge, no commitment and no sense of achievement in doing so. It trivialises the galactic model.

In many ways the jump ranges (many have 50-72 yr jump ranges) are already too high. Why? Because it makes a mockery of why the bubble is so small and the populated planets aren't more sparsely dispersed. You can currently get to Colonia far too easily. It's like driving down to Italy from London. Yes it is a long trip, but it's not Australia, and it is certainly not any form of new stellar scale.

I would agree that a couple of the ships with almost unusably small jump ranges could do with a very slight boost, but that would be as far as I would go.

 

[GJ51]

The galaxy has already been shrunken way too much

In the early days it had a wonderful sense of enormity

Now it seems small and just too easy to traverse

 

[WR3ND]

No thanks. I don't want my efforts and the future potential achievements of others further diminished and undermined for the "convince" and "accessibility" of some.

People can already get halfway across the galaxy in less than a couple of hours. That's plenty "easy casual arcade mode" well enough for the likes of some.

The space of the entire galaxy, all 400 billion or whatever systems having some significance? Well, I should darn well hope so, for goodness sake.

 

[Mike Reacher]

No thanks. I don't want my efforts and the future potential achievements of others further diminished and undermined for the "convince" and "accessibility" of some.

People can already get halfway across the galaxy in less than a couple of hours. That's plenty "easy casual arcade mode" well enough for the likes of some.

The space of the entire galaxy, all 400 billion or whatever systems having some significance? Well, I should darn well hope so, for goodness sake.

I agree with you, but aren't we supposed to check out "A Galaxy Far, Far Away"

 

[WR3ND]

I agree with you, but aren't we supposed to check out "A Galaxy Far, Far Away"

Hasn't Star Wars been done for 35 years?

Oh yeah, that's right, some people can't let go and find something better to do than play with corpses of the past, pretending they still have some life left in them.

For better or worse, this is Elite: Dangerous. At least leave if for those who care for what it is rather than trying to make it what it isn't. Find something else to do with your "valuable time."

 

[Mike Reacher]

Hasn't Star Wars been done for 35 years?

Oh yeah, that's right, some people can't let go and find something better to do than play with corpses of the past, pretending they still have some life left in them.

For better or worse, this is Elite: Dangerous. At least leave if for those who care for what it is rather than trying to make it what it isn't. Find something else to do with your "valuable time."

Time isn't valuable. It is unending supply. And for the record my son dragged me off to the latest starwars movie and it was good. Still had that silly saying at the beginning. And I want my Python to jump 50 LY. While tanked! And armed!

Edit: Just remembered why I mentioned the far galaxy. This thread is about jumping. Some say it is to small. I'd like to see the players able to get to another galaxy.

 

[WR3ND]

Time isn't valuable. It is unending supply. And for the record my son dragged me off to the latest starwars movie and it was good. Still had that silly saying at the beginning. And I want my Python to jump 50 LY. While tanked! And armed!

Edit: Just remembered why I mentioned the far galaxy. This thread is about jumping. Some say it is to small. I'd like to see the players able to get to another galaxy.

I actually rather liked Rogue One quite a lot; mostly because it was a halfway decent movie and because they all mercifully died in the end. What a relief.

Sure, I'd love to explore beyond the Milky Way myself, leastwise to the Large Magellanic Cloud. Not saying I've put some consideration into it, but...

Spoiler

Bit of a tangent here though, my friend.

Live long and prosper... [noob]