[Picture heavy!]Frame Shift Drive overestimated? (A long journey to the stars)

[Bizz Keryear]

While doing normal ED stuff I encountered one part of my route that where only 0.75 Ly apart from each other ...
So I tried to travel to from one system using only SC ...

You might ask: "Why would you do that?"
I will answer that with: "Why is the dog licking himself?" .... "Because he can!"​

So this is the documentary of this long journey.
I am on my way ....

More than two thirds are already done ...

see..

Ups...whizzed past 350,000 Ls ... small mistake

3rd try ... getting close ... the fine tuning it is hard work

Is 20.5Ls as close as I can get? ... let's try to get even closer (and I should see the sun by now, shouldn't I)

This is close ... really close. Only 14.0Mm

Ok, here is where thing getting wired... Target started to jump around ... floating point issues I guess...
127km ... can I do better?

I can ... 118km

98.3km it is just a matter of tapping accelerate and full stop for fractions of seconds

Otherwise time is not going down ... in the wall I guess ...
but ... 65.5km

and 32.8km

Forget SC I am doing the rest in normal space ...
Dropping out of SC put me further away ... 73.3km away again

I definitely broke the system here...distance is not really going down ... the number just jumps ... time works normal, though.
still 65.5 km to go

done! I am 0m away .... but still not there.

I should be in the sun ... a brown dwarf as I found out later... I hope I wasn't too deep in the brown end of this dwarf.

Had to fly a bit back to actually be able to jump there ... when in 0m it always showed me that my destination is behind me. No matter in which way I had turned or flown.
I SC for a second to put enough distance ... then it worked.

 

[Raf von Thorn]

Well, if you have searched the forum, you would find at least dozen of topics about the fact, that going in the super cruise between system is NOT working... tested in beta/gamma.

Nice pictures .

 

[ElleShaped]

This is working as intended, alas, because each system is in a separate instance and you need the hyperdrive step to load you from one instance to the other. This makes the servers job a lot easier because it doesn't need to have calculated nearly as much.

 

[-SOVEREIGN-]

Although it would be awesome if you could do what this guy had tried. Would give a way better feeling of a persistent universe...

 

[The Gael]

Yeah, sucks. Really immersion killing knowing this. Just have to try not to think about it. Nice effort tho have some rep...

 

[Space Lord Mother]

That's a shame! I wondered if that would work. Kind of ruins the 1:1 scale Milky Way thing. Now it's really just 1:1 solar systems all individually instanced. Ah well, I was never going to do it myself anyway so I'll just pretend I didn't read this.

 

[Bizz Keryear]

I have to say that it almost worked... because that it was a 4 hour continuous play ... and normally no one bothers to do so ... and that it is quite a work to implement ... I can understand why they didn't have implemented it ...
It still would be cool when it would be in, though ... maybe it comes in a future update.

Found a video from the release recently ... in which they stated that planets (landing on them to be precise) getting out of your ship and walking / floating around ... and getting out of your seat (and walking around in your ship) will be a thing in the future. ... If enough money comes in to support the development.

 

[Kolato]

What if you were close enough to another system so that in real life when you would enter that other systems SOI (sphere of influence aka gravitational field) you would get a message saying "Transitioning to SYSTEMB's SOI from SYSTEMA'S SOI"

 

[OnePercent]

the primary reason why they didn't implement this, was because they didn't want to have to render the parallax of all stars 20+ ly away so as to when you travel between stars you don't see their movement.

If you want this experience, play Space engine.

 

[SlimExpert]

The issue is you went at night, try going in the daytime, when the sun is out!

Slim