races?

[manoflinux]

space races?

would it be hard to setup two nav beacons so that you and someone else could race from nav beacon to the other in normal space and time it?
Both parties could bet and the winner takes all.
probably would see a lot of thruster sales


If you got that working you could eventually do a multi stop race maybe even involve FSDing to another system, maybe make it long enough that both ships have to refuel once, so its a true test of how good a pilot you are.
Its not only how fast you can fly, and how good you FSD, but how quick and safe you can land refuel and get back on course again.

And when you get the planet side stuff done you could even make a biathlon style event with stopping at a particular planet killing some particular piece of local fauna and taking off again.

 

[Issmir]

Putting in an FSD could be a problem though - it'd depend which of us loaded the system faster more than which of us can work the navigation system.

 

[manoflinux]

so fsd would make it more of test of whose machine was faster?

 

[Issmir]

so fsd would make it more of test of whose machine was faster?

Or who had a better connection, yeah.

 

[Raven]

Generally at the moment the better the connection, the quicker the Hyperspace is; mine usually only last a matter of 5s max unless for some reason it gets stuck for a moment on the 00:00:00 as I enter; then it can take up to 20-30s due to a fairly standard UPnP (UDP) issue where dropped packets and socket authentication can occur randomly, artificially extending connection attempts to the next sync (usually 3600ms) ... and due to most people being on IPv4 that isn't going to go away anytime soon.

I like the idea of having 'Racing' as something you can participate in, but perhaps rather than from System-to-System; the idea of when the depth of the Asteroid Belts, Nebular and Atmospheres are added to provide areas that 'routes' could be mapped out with Navigation Beacons (which activate in sequence if in a 'Race') to provide a test of Piloting, Speed Control, etc... similar to say a Rally Race; might be a better concept. Not something I'd like to see soon to be honest, but definitely down the line when they can add in various Stellar effects that can affect performance, handling, etc... with equipment optimised specifically for doing Racing that could be 'tweaked' after market to suit racing style.
Could be a pretty cool aspect if properly implemented as one of the 'Premium' features of a later Expansion, as opposed to just the Stellar Debris / Effect aspects that could be part of the Free aspects of the same expansion. ^_^