Magic disappearing rocks in a ring system.

[Gold Member]

I was at a Rez around Barnard's Star and saw a band of rocks further out in the planet rings that was moving much faster around the planet than everything else. This is fine and actually expected. So I wanted to have a close look. Around 200km from the Rez I'm in the middle of this stream of rocks and they are disappearing as they approach my ship. I guess I should be thankful they aren't battering my ship, but it's a little immersion breaking.

Was it expected that nobody would think of exploring a little? Clearly there is something there because I'm mass locked, but unlike the ship destroying rocks in other parts of the ring, these ones are otherwise nothing more than pretty effects.

 

[Y'Berion]

You are still locked to first ring you've dropped into from supercruise. If it's close enough you will see that rocks in it aren't moving. To actually move into this other ring you are looking at, you must again engage supercruise and thus change the frame of reference.

 

[Gold Member]

I GET THAT THE ROCKS MOVE AT DIFFERENT SPEEDS. 'frame of reference' has absolutely nothing to do with the post. It has everything to do with rocks disappearing right in front of me rather than smashing my ship into scrap.

 

[trilathon]

I, too, have driven to see the 'exciting' fast moving river of rocks sparkling in the distance....

once you get there they prove to be like bubble bath, magically popping and re materialising all around you....

Here the game falls down....the reward for investigating an interesting phenomena just highlights the limits of the game and instils a ''why did I bother, I'll not do that again' instead of a wondrous reward for looking beyond the veneer and finding something cool

 

[TuxedoSteve]

Just an ugly bit of background that disappears when you get close to make way for the real asteroids that aren't actually there in this situation. Yet you're still masslocked even though theres nothing in the area to do so...

Never go to the very faint section of ring around Jupiter... there's so little asteroids and background 'asteroids' that I got stuck in the 'ring system's' masslock for 30 minutes trying to figure out which direction to go to escape it.

 

[Gold Member]

I'm sort of tempted to see what would happen if I flew in Supercruise from Barnard's Star to Sol. At max speed it would take 1.6 days. Would I still have to tell the game I needed to jump to Sol in order for me to access the stations or do anything else.

 

[Ian Phillips]

How much fuel do you have?

 

[bigian12]

It is the Thargoids, they are messing with your mind, make sure you get a tinfoil hat asap!

 

[Jukelo]

I'm sort of tempted to see what would happen if I flew in Supercruise from Barnard's Star to Sol. At max speed it would take 1.6 days. Would I still have to tell the game I needed to jump to Sol in order for me to access the stations or do anything else.

Yes. You can't really slowboat from system to system (the content only loads upon hyperspacing).

 

[LameoveR]

Moving rocks?

 

[Gold Member]

Yes. You can't really slowboat from system to system (the content only loads upon hyperspacing).

That's a shame in a way. It wouldn't be hard to make it impossible (it's impossible in EVE, you would never get there before the end of your natural life because jump gates actually handle the distance).

How much fuel do you have?

If the fuel rate indicator is accurate, there is definitely more than enough to get there.

It is the Thargoids, they are messing with your mind, make sure you get a tinfoil hat asap!

That's what I thought. Bubbles in space. maybe somebody is messing with my oxygen supply? I knew the workers at the last station resupply looked a bit shifty.