Instead of instant teleportation of ships have the player hire a pilot who installs their own engineer modded class X FSD and fuel scoop giving the target ship a jump range of >50ly. Calculate the route from ship to player. Take a time on that route ignoring fuels scooping. Deliver the ship in the given time and show the player via timer in the UI.
at >50ly and less than a minute per jump it should take no longer than 10 minutes to get a ship from one side of the bubble to another, or from Sol to Sothis/Maia/Robigo. However, it will take longer for it to get to Jaques Station which IMO is a very good thing. It should not be easy or quick to travel such distance.
10 minutes max, in the bubble, is practically nothing. Make a cup of tea, fiddle with outfitting, you'd barely have time to get to a RES and back in 10. And it keeps immersion, there is no magic handwaving instant teleport and people get their ships in a timely fashion.
But please, for the love of all things holy, don't make it instant.
Ta
at >50ly and less than a minute per jump it should take no longer than 10 minutes to get a ship from one side of the bubble to another, or from Sol to Sothis/Maia/Robigo. However, it will take longer for it to get to Jaques Station which IMO is a very good thing. It should not be easy or quick to travel such distance.
10 minutes max, in the bubble, is practically nothing. Make a cup of tea, fiddle with outfitting, you'd barely have time to get to a RES and back in 10. And it keeps immersion, there is no magic handwaving instant teleport and people get their ships in a timely fashion.
But please, for the love of all things holy, don't make it instant.
Ta
