Just how big is a 400 billion star galaxy?

[Vandaahl]

Still, it a reassuring thought that there are about as much galaxies in the universe as there are stars in our galaxy.

Makes me wonder, when are really really nice, would we get galactic hyperspace jumps back? The first version of Elite had it

 

[dognosh]

We have? Which ship is that, the type 6?

my type 6 managed 47 , asp and obviously the big 2
someone got 46 ish out of their hauler

I had mine done for racing(buckyball race) , so no shield, every upgrade was at the one that weighed the least(usually G or H) except FSD was 4D, no guns,stripped to the frame

 

[Rankaze]

Just saw this thread and I am quite disappointed that players will be able to cross the entire galaxy in a week or two. When Voyager from Star Trek was flung across the galaxy into the Delta Quadrant it was estimated that it would take 75 years to get back home at warp speed.

If there were some way of making travel times slower without the game becoming boring, I would be all in favour. Maybe a "slow travel" plus "timeskip" option for solo-play only could be implemented for players who feel that deliverying fruit and veg to a neighbouring star system in 5 or 10 minutes flat is somewhat ludicrous.

In the original Star Fleet Technical Manual, it was established that the warp factors follow a geometric pattern:
Warp 1: c
Warp 2: 8c
Warp 3: 27c
Warp 4: 64c
Warp 5: 125c
Warp 6: 216c
Warp 7: 343c
Warp 8: 512c
Warp 9: 729c.

TNG chucked this system out (using transwarp from the movies as an excuse to redefine the scale) possibly because someone on the production crew developed a sense of scale. However, the fact remains...

We can go almost three times as fast as original Warp 9... in supercruise.

 

[dognosh]

All hyperspace jumps seem to take the same amount of time,from actual jump itself to initiating coming out of hyperspace. If I jump 30 LY and that portion of it takes 10 seconds, then I would have covered 3 LY per second.

warp 9 : 729 c (re:Rankaze)
my jump : 9.5 Million c

and using the starfleet formula :
Warp 212 : 9528128c

 

[Gelbrock]

Its about this big....

Maybe a bit smaller.

 

[Rankaze]

I don't know if this would actually work, but...

The shortest hyperspace jump I have yet seen is 1.73 light-years between CR Draconis and CR Draco. That's a little over 15,000 light-hours. In theory we can hit 2000c in supercruise, so if you could sustain max speed in interstellar space, you could make the trip in about 8 hours. Probably longer, given acceleration and deceleration times.

Sometime when I'm busy coding or something, I might have to take a stripped-down Cobra with a 16t fuel tank and see if I can make it. I have no idea what fuel consumption would be at that speed, though.

 

[graham.reeds]

I don't know if this would actually work, but...

The shortest hyperspace jump I have yet seen is 1.73 light-years between CR Draconis and CR Draco. That's a little over 15,000 light-hours. In theory we can hit 2000c in supercruise, so if you could sustain max speed in interstellar space, you could make the trip in about 8 hours. Probably longer, given acceleration and deceleration times.

Sometime when I'm busy coding or something, I might have to take a stripped-down Cobra with a 16t fuel tank and see if I can make it. I have no idea what fuel consumption would be at that speed, though.

The shortest is .3ly from 26 Draconis to LFT 1361.

A little over 2 hours at 2000c allowing for acc/Dec.

 

[Rankaze]

The shortest is .3ly from 26 Draconis to LFT 1361.

A little over 2 hours at 2000c allowing for acc/Dec.

Nice. Much more manageable on fuel, too!

 

[sgurr]

The shortest is .3ly from 26 Draconis to LFT 1361.

A little over 2 hours at 2000c allowing for acc/Dec.

Nice. Much more manageable on fuel, too!

Sadly it doesn't work, I tried. I was told that systems are boxes that you can only move between by hyperspacing so just out of interest I thought I'd test.

Between the above I reached 2001c and sat there for a long time. The eta kept dropping but by the time I'd got to an eta of around 1h45m each second counted down was taking 2 or 3 seconds to do, oh and the distance never dropped from 0.33ly. I gave up.

Shame really, but probably something only a small number would do anyway (made a nice background while I did necessary but dull things ), and then only once.

 

[Rankaze]

Sadly it doesn't work, I tried. I was told that systems are boxes that you can only move between by hyperspacing so just out of interest I thought I'd test.

Between the above I reached 2001c and sat there for a long time. The eta kept dropping but by the time I'd got to an eta of around 1h45m each second counted down was taking 2 or 3 seconds to do, oh and the distance never dropped from 0.33ly. I gave up.

Shame really, but probably something only a small number would do anyway (made a nice background while I did necessary but dull things ), and then only once.

That's kinda what I was going to use it for, yeah... just something to run in the background while I did something else as a curiosity.

Oh, well... I can kinda understand it, in the sense that, well... even empty space requires taking up room in the models, so creating the star systems as individual containers rather than building one giant galaxy makes it somewhat more manageable.

 

[SirFreddie]

yea but this is in this game figure it out.... cuz its online.


in previous game only one travelling took around 2 weeks.... so this socks.

Is that a whole pair of socks ... how many thigh length stockings to Andromeda? It boggles my mind... but somehow I can't get the image out of my head!

 

[sgurr]

That's kinda what I was going to use it for, yeah... just something to run in the background while I did something else as a curiosity.

Oh, well... I can kinda understand it, in the sense that, well... even empty space requires taking up room in the models, so creating the star systems as individual containers rather than building one giant galaxy makes it somewhat more manageable.

I can understand too but I'd love it if they implemented it. System box into genetic deep space box into next system box.
I wouldn't enjoy having to do it all the time though, so no complaints about how they've done the fsd.