What determines the jump-in distance?

space voyager

space voyager
Just realized that after all the years of playing, I still don't know...

What determines the distance from which you can jump into a USS or to a station? Most times it is 1Mm, but in a lot of cases it is 7,5 (or something) Mm. I never found a definite answer.

BTW, had a similarly late revelation about the docking the other day - when you enter a station the little direction dot points to your docking space. I have no idea if that was so from the beginning, IT WAS NEW TO ME. :ashamed:
 

IndigoWyrd

IndigoWyrd
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He does.

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Or maybe He does.

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Mohrgan

Mohrgan
It is directly related to the accumulative mass/gravity locally. You can drop further out from a POI, when there is less gravitational interference around the area.
 

ocflyer

ocflyer
Go into Deep Space and you'll see the drop distance to a USS increases compared to distances within the Shipping Lanes.
 
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Maolagin

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Mohrgan said:
It is directly related to the accumulative mass/gravity locally. You can drop further out from a POI, when there is less gravitational interference around the area.
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Yep. More specifically, 1 Mm is the minimum possible safe disengage distance. Because we are commonly dropping into rings, stations in close orbit around a planet, etc, it's quite common to encounter that situation. But stations and signals in wide orbits around gas giants commonly have drop distances of 2-10 Mm.

I don't know what the maximum possible value is. Even in extreme deep space I don't think I've seen a signal with a drop distance greater than 0.1 ls.
 

Sapyx

Sapyx
There are a small number of space stations that orbit the star directly, way out in deep space. I think that the second station in the Lave system (Warinus, the asteroid base) is one such. Stations such as these will have the largest drop-in radius, as they are hundreds or even thousands of Ls away from the nearest massive object.

Edit: note that not all "stations orbiting the star" are actually directly orbiting the star. Some (such as the ones in Pareco) are actually orbiting an invisible comet. I do not know if the drop-in-distance-calculator is aware of the comet's existence.
 
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M00ka

M00ka
space voyager said:
Just realized that after all the years of playing, I still don't know...

What determines the distance from which you can jump into a USS or to a station? Most times it is 1Mm, but in a lot of cases it is 7,5 (or something) Mm. I never found a definite answer.

BTW, had a similarly late revelation about the docking the other day - when you enter a station the little direction dot points to your docking space. I have no idea if that was so from the beginning, IT WAS NEW TO ME. :ashamed:
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One thing, NEVER apologise or feel ashamed on discovering something you assume everyone else knows. I have been playing this game for a long time, and still finding things out. And I wouldn't have it any other way, if I wasn't finding something new then the game isn't evolving or challenging me.
 
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