Re: what if...

PaxtonNewt · Jun 2, 2019

o7 Cmdrs

Thoughts drift through my head like a spaceship drifting through deep space.

I noticed the cost of my ship repair upon arriving at Hutton orbital was cr325,000 for a flight of around 1.5 hours.

What would happen if I carried on past Hutton orbital and drifted further and further away. Would there come a point where my ship would disintegrate if I did not repair it?

What if I wanted to fly to the next system using thrusters only.. would my ship make it?

Are shields related to the repair costs? Low shield = higher repair cost?

I could experiment to find out but it would be a big boring waste of time but nonetheless it's a scenario that could happen..

SpocksOddSocks · Jun 2, 2019

There's a specific thing called ship integrity that goes down while you're in supercruise. The longer you are in, the lower that goes, all the way to 0%. The lower it is, the less resistence your hull has to damage (I think it reduces it by about 75% when integrity is 0). It doesn't go any lower than that, and I think it reaches 0 within the time it takes to get to Hutton Orbital. So, no. It shouldn't cost more than that (unless you've taken actual damage).

PaxtonNewt · Jun 2, 2019

Attack Chimp said:
You can't fly from system to system in standard space.

Waaat.. surely you must be able to. Wouldn't it just take weeks or months of travel instead of a few seconds.

PaxtonNewt · Jun 2, 2019

Attack Chimp said:
It's to keep locked systems from being visited.

Does that mean your ship would be destroyed If you travelled to far

PaxtonNewt · Jun 2, 2019

Attack Chimp said:
No. Worst case scenario is you'll need to call the Fuel Rats.

How do you call them. I've never had to but would be nice to know how to if needed

Rat Catcher · Jun 2, 2019

PaxtonNewt said:
How do you call them. I've never had to but would be nice to know how to if needed

Google is your friend: https://fuelrats.com/

pnellesen · Jun 2, 2019

PaxtonNewt said:
Waaat.. surely you must be able to. Wouldn't it just take weeks or months of travel instead of a few seconds.

There's at least one video I've seen of a CMDR who tried to do it and couldn't. Each system is instanced, you HAVE to do a jump to get from one to another.

Hellfire85 · Jun 2, 2019

As the others have said, it's not possible to fly to another system n normal space.
the hyperspace jump acts as a disguised loading screen to load the various assets, NPCs, eventual CMDRs in the system you are going to.

Florenus · Jun 2, 2019

CMDR Maylor Rom said:
I'm doing a test of this in Sol. I'm moving at 2,000c in supercriuse and 0.24lys out beyond Persephone.

Seriously, don't waste your time.
You must jump, because it's loading screen.

Edit:
To save your time I've found you this:

Now you can do something worthwhile with time I saved you. Go help somebody with something for me