Supercruising between star systems?

kapparomeo

K
I am not a very good Elite player.

For my entry into the Film Competition I was smashing up basic free-issue Sidewinders over in LHS 3447. I've been trying to do a simple 40LY schlep back home to Frey to pick up my Adder and failing miserably for over two hours, whether it be trying to get together a little folding on the way with some bounty hunting and then losing badly to flippin' AI pirates or smashing my own ship to pieces when trying to leave a station. Trying to risk a limited fuel tank found me in an empty star system, Ceramix, with no fuel left for an interstellar jump. I was still in supercruise though, and I noticed that an inhabited system Brani was only 2.05LY away - the computer wouldn't let me jump there due to low fuel but I just pointed my ship in its direction, opened up the throttle and hoped that the last cell of fuel on the bar would hold out.

Amazingly, it seemed to work - my speed reached over 900C and covered most of the distance, Brani going from being a week's flight away to just 19 hours. Unfortunately the experiment ended because I saw a "Weak Signal Source" appear - as it was in the gulf of deep space I figured that it would be some sort of special secret item and dropped out to pick it up, only for it to just be a random unresponsive AI ship flying in circles. Now my fuel tank was completely exhausted and left drifting in space there was no option other than to hit self-destruct and start over in LHS 3447... again. Ah well, as Dwarf Fortress said, Losing Is Fun.

To get to the question then - would it indeed have been possible to supercruise all the way to Brani? While the Time-to-destination counter was diminishing I noticed that the distance counter stayed at 2.05LY and didn't move. Even if I did travel two full light years, does the Elite: Dangerous computer code only allow you to enter a system if you Warp into it? Would I have left supercruise only to be in empty space even if I was supposed to be in the middle of the Brani star, as if I was still in the Ceramix 'instance' just really far out?
 
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Pendra

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Nope.
Doesn't work like this. You can travel as long as you want. Your instance will not get any closet to any other instance.
 
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Twelvefield

Twelvefield
What you are describing, the Elite folk call "slowboating." When you get to your destination, nothing will be there. Frame shift and supercruise controls your passage from one game cel to the next. It's like using the shimmering cloud to represent the transition from the Enterprise to the planet in Star Trek: it's just something to look at while the crew changes the film set in between scenes.
 
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Pendra

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In any case, it is a pity. I wish you could just zoom around in the interstellar space if you wanted.
When you leave the local heliosphere, you should get some sort of lighting effect to disguise the instance change. Interstellar instance would always be solo.
The skybox texture should get recalculated automatically in every 30 mins or so with a subtle fade/smoke effect.
When you are on the edge of another system, you would get the heliosphere effect again as instance change.
There solved.
 

Twelvefield

Twelvefield
I think it's likely that Frontier thought of that kind of stuff, but given that the networks are clogged now, and that the XBOX has some hard texture limitations, they decided on Occam's Razor.
 

Armante

Armante
Nope. As per above. Been tried and failed before.

I swear this is like the 10th time I've seen a thread on this. The forums really need a better search function, or users should be made to use it before posting a new thread
 
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