You can't possibly have a family in this game

[CMDR Mark Val]

As I was playing the game it got me thinking of having some imaginary family in this game and I realize it would be impossible! Let's suppose you have a family in some orbital station. If you were to travel at lightspeed and perform interstellar travel (assuming there is no wormhole - the FSD DOES NOT CREATE A WORMWHOLE even though it looks like one) by the time you reach back to your home base after just a short visit to the nearest star, your family would be long gone!Any thoughts on this?

 

[Poseidal]

As I was playing the game it got me thinking of having some imaginary family in this game and I realize it would be impossible! Let's suppose you have a family in some orbital station. If you were to travel at lightspeed and perform interstellar travel (assuming there is no wormhole - the FSD DOES NOT CREATE A WORMWHOLE even though it looks like one) by the time you reach back to your home base after just a short visit to the nearest star, your family would be long gone!Any thoughts on this?

Because of the FSD drives, we don't actually 'travel' at the light speed ones, and the acceleration of our ships mean we don't go near. Everything is in standard time relative to each other (or close enough).

The interplanetary FSD makes a distortion bubble, so you aren't 'actually' travelling >c; the interstellar FSD does create a wormhole of sorts as it goes through Hyperspace, skipping actual lengthly travel.

 

[DrSpin]

You're potentially travelling at far greater than light speed even in SC. Intersystem jumps are vastly faster too (and I suspect it is supposed to be a wormhole). Relativity doesn't apply in E : D and couldn't from a technical point of view - how would you handle the subjective timelines of various different people interacting in the same universe? How would galnet work?

Short answer: yes you could have families. ;-)

 

[TriumphANT]

Special Relativity doesn't apply in ED in any sense. And I won't add "unfortunately" to that. When we're in SC we're in "normal" space, and a bubble of spacetime in front of us is compressed and behind us rarefied to allow us to move MUCH faster than c

Bearing in mind that at c we would have infinite time dilation, travelling faster than it would break everything. Although NASA found a way to do it a couple of days ago. Or was that tomorrow?

 

[Jakester13]

It's hard enough having a real family, and finding enough time to play the game, nevermind all the time/relativity complications arising from FTL travel!

 

[FoxTwo]

Putting aside the fact that the FSD and Supercruise are made-up technologies, we don't travel at/near/beyond lightspeed in the conventional way hence time dilation does not apply.

How do we REALLY travel in the game? No one knows for sure. FD didn't even give an "overview" of how the FSD works, let alone specs on it... so any and all arguments about wormhole and real-world physics are just academic - no one is right or wrong until FD steps in and tells us (even in layman's terms) how the FSD works.

So, for now, just take it that this amazing future tech allows you to travel faster than light and still be in the same time frame as everyone else ... kinda like Star Trek.

 

[Poseidal]

Yeah, it's better they don't try to explain it otherwise it will become 'dated' like some old sci-fi did using old conjectures at the time.

Literately, some words are pretty safe: Hyperspace, Warp drive, even FSD, as if something like that is actually discovered, it will be called those things at least in slang, regardless of the actual mechanism they use.

 

[aws357]

Anyway. You did not earn enough money to feed them all. 8 of your 10 kids died in front of their mother who went crazy with grief. She sold the last 2 as slaves to an imperial merchant.

Her last word before getting to the nearest airlock without space suit was "I prefer to know they will become imperial sex toys than see another one of my kids die of hunger".

No wonder I never RP in games. Good things never happens when I am around.

"If only my sidewinder did not crash with those crates of food and vegetables, little Timmy would still be alive... Noooooooo !"

 

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[Cmdr Spooky]

my understanding is that the FTL drives used for in system travel are like the warp drive from star trek where the ship it self is not actually travelling at light speed rather the actual spacetime moves around the ship. I have heard that this sort of FTL travel actually means that the relativistic effects of time dilation would not apply. Reference the following video https://youtu.be/w7P95LLpljo