What is speed out of Supercruise measured in?

Ghosty

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dayrth said:
Just to be pedantic. C is the speed of light in a vacuum. Light has different velocities when travelling though different media.
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This is actualy false. The speed of light is always the same. Why does it seem slower? Because when it moves through a medium, it takes a longer route because it's reflected off of mulecules inside the medium in slight angles.

Took a little searching:
http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae509.cfm

Anyway, bit off topic. Just couldn't resist to correct.
 
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Mark Lock

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Malak Dawnfire said:
Just curious, the American in me wants to think that it's in Miles per hour but that's not true, even using the Kilometer measurement the game currently uses is far understating how fast the ship is actually moving.

Is it in meters per second? I can travel about 120 KM in my Cobra (with boost) under seven minutes.
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I believe and hope it will be ain m/s or Km/h, why should we use Miles ? Also since FD is a UK company, you will have to drive on the left
 

Mark Lock

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Saool said:
And in case anyone is interested, the 'max speed' in ED is 2001c.
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2001 in FSD phase, correct? you go far faster than that when jumping to another star, max speed I traveled at far away from a solar system is 200C, at that speed even if you traveled 10 - 20 minutes to reach that speed traveling toward outer space, that will take you only a few seconds to go back to the star you left and you will rapidly slow down as you approach the star or orbiting planets/moons
 

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Malak Dawnfire said:
Just curious, the American in me wants to think that it's in Miles per hour but that's not true, even using the Kilometer measurement the game currently uses is far understating how fast the ship is actually moving.

Is it in meters per second? I can travel about 120 KM in my Cobra (with boost) under seven minutes.
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Normal space: metres / second
Supercruise: megametres / second up to 30Mm/s, then switches to 0.1c and is relative to c from that up.
Hyperjump: no speed / infinite speed. Even though it seems to also use the FSD, it's a weird other-worldly, witchspacey kind of travel.
 

Mark Lock

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in any case, C is not that fast when you have to travel very long distances, ingame ships have some kind of Alcubierre drive to reach FTL speeds, however it's metric and speeds and distances will always be metric even on planets
 
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