Like seriously... i never played elite 1 and 2... just dangerous any help would be nice
What is Witch Space everyone talks about?
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The (7th?) dimension you travel through when you make a Hyperspace jump between systems.
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but there is Normal Space>Super Cruise>Warp>??? thats witch space? whats so different?
Witch Space was what happened to you if you got "interdicted" by Thargoids in the old Elite of the 80's. You'd hyperspace off somewhere, and then it would be interruped, and you'd find yourself in Witch Space, which is a sort of void area half way though your hyperspace jump. Then you'd get attacked by 1 or 2 Thargons + little remote control Thargoid drone ships. If you survived, by killing the mother ships, you could pick up the drones with your cargo scoop and sell them later. I think you had to have enough fuel to hyperspace out of Witch Space, I think I once tried to fly out and just pointed the ship in a direction and went off and did something else, and came back later, and .. well space is a big place I suppose.
I am not an expert and only remember what I learnt from playing the original Elite on an Amstrad CPC464 but, witch space is where I encountered lots and lots of Thargoids. Kind of like an alternate universe/dimension/places in space/time. And if things have stayed the same from the original Elite then you will want to take a mining laser with you. Those bad boys were able to tear through a Thargoid ship in seconds. Crappy range though so you need to be up close.
THAT! i know lol...
<nods> That's how I've always thought of it, but some people/sources (including TDW) state that Witch Space was the actual hyperspace transit.
This was the original description on the dark wheel
But descriptions get updated and evolve as the lore grows and changes direction.
In Effect we have Normal or Real space, where you and I live.
Super cruise is Frame shifted Real Space allowing one to travel faster than the speed of light whilst not exceeding it locally by compressing real space
As per the ED manual
The Old Hyperjumps actually opening a tunnel in to a different dimension with none of the normal laws of physics apply and the exit of the tunnel is at the destination star, i.e leaving Real Space behind entering a different reality and the name witch-space is a kin to putting "dragons be here" on maps of unknown places
But descriptions get updated and evolve as the lore grows and changes direction.
In Effect we have Normal or Real space, where you and I live.
Super cruise is Frame shifted Real Space allowing one to travel faster than the speed of light whilst not exceeding it locally by compressing real space
As per the ED manual
But you stay in our dimension and realityPage 60 said:
The Old Hyperjumps actually opening a tunnel in to a different dimension with none of the normal laws of physics apply and the exit of the tunnel is at the destination star, i.e leaving Real Space behind entering a different reality and the name witch-space is a kin to putting "dragons be here" on maps of unknown places
I do hope a future update makes hyperspace travel exciting and risky, be it Thargoids pulling you over, or misjumps hurtling you off course and wrecking your FSD.
Perhaps if they implemented the idea of a precise alignment of the ship to the target meaning that there would be a sucessful jump, and wear and tear making it increasingly inaccurate or difficult to do so.
Perhaps if they implemented the idea of a precise alignment of the ship to the target meaning that there would be a sucessful jump, and wear and tear making it increasingly inaccurate or difficult to do so.
I can already hear the rage from something like that being implemented. Thargoids are one thing, the other ideas will cause a lot of grief.
Hear!! Hear!!
Remember on Star Raiders, when if you didn't keep the ship on course you would end up in a system you didn't initially plot the course to. That type of risk in Star Raiders would be great.
Wave goodbye to exploration...
Capships and Ocellus stations still travel via witchspace i believe, cause they have too much mass for the relatively new frameshift drive tech to work with
Makes sense, capital ships come out of a sort of portal after all.
Now that's interesting. But yeah, FSD has nothing to do with Witchspace that I can determine. We also don't use Quirium as fuel anymore, but if capital ships still use it, then they're the only ships that are 'vulnerable' to the old-school Thargoid interception. I say vulnerable, but I'd like to see a Thargoid warship vs a Majestic-class Interdictor.
... it's a loading screen.
If my grey matter still serves me well in the original Elite, there were some systems in the galaxy that were outside the 7LY jump distance that your ship had. These systems could not be reached unless you deliberately jumped yourself into witchspace, fought off the Thargoids, then land.
I do recall spending hours re-jumping into witchspace until i was within the 7LYs range of these planets. Then i would need to keep re-jumping to get back to the reachable systems again.....happy days!!
I do recall spending hours re-jumping into witchspace until i was within the 7LYs range of these planets. Then i would need to keep re-jumping to get back to the reachable systems again.....happy days!!