Curious about ship speed. What is it?

[JinxTheWorld]

We are just given an unknown unit of measurement that explains nothing of ship speed.

Out of curiosity i looked up a few measurements.

To keep it simple lets use 100 units.

100 m/s (Miles per second)=360,000 mph
100 m/s (meters per second)=223 mph
100 km/s (Kilometer per second)=223,000 mph
100 ls (light second)=67,061,662,938.44 mph (super slow)

Are they just using b/s (Bethesdas Per Second), or does anyone know the actual number?

[fauxpas]

The setting seems to use the metric system so I'd guess it's meters per second.

[patrick68794]

meters per second

[Shroomy]

100 ls (light second)=67,061,662,938.44 mph (super slow)

Light speed is light speed chief.
Meaning, 300 000 km/s, you can't add up light like that unless talking about warp factor.

[HuffingJenkem]

Originally posted by fauxpas:

The setting seems to use the metric system so I'd guess it's meters per second.

More proof that Bethesda are Marxists.

[Torpex]

It is most likely in m/s.

Just judging from a relative scale of the "fighter" ships, which are about 30-40m.

[Torpex]

Originally posted by HuffingJenkem:

Originally posted by fauxpas:

The setting seems to use the metric system so I'd guess it's meters per second.

More proof that Bethesda are Marxists.

Yea US army uses metric system because it is marxist. L for logic.

[ULTRA]

Originally posted by Shroomy:

100 ls (light second)=67,061,662,938.44 mph (super slow)

Light speed is light speed chief.
Meaning, 300 000 km/s, you can't add up light like that unless talking about warp factor.

A light second is a measurement of distance, not speed, wtf

[Shroomy]

Originally posted by ULTRA:

Originally posted by Shroomy:

100 ls (light second)=67,061,662,938.44 mph (super slow)

Light speed is light speed chief.
Meaning, 300 000 km/s, you can't add up light like that unless talking about warp factor.

A light second is a measurement of distance, not speed, wtf

Exactly what i was talking about. I was quting the OP.
Light is a constant.

[Shroomy]

Light speed = 300 000 km/second, so its a distance in a time measured.

[Bad Behavior Defender]

I'll use this discussion to share my favorite mind blowing fact about lightspeed.
It's a constant, meaning if you are stationary; lightspeed =300,000 km/sec
But if you are moving at say 1.000km/sec then lighspeed is 300,000 km/sec + 1.000km/sec for a total of 301.000km/sec
Meaning lightspeed still is 300.000km/sec relative to you.

[HuffingJenkem]

Originally posted by Torpex:

Originally posted by HuffingJenkem:

More proof that Bethesda are Marxists.

Yea US army uses metric system because it is marxist. L for logic.

The USSR used metric too.

[Torpex]

Originally posted by Shroomy:

Light is a constant.

I'd say Plank's' constant is more important as a constant. LS was just measured earlier.

[Bad Behavior Defender]

Originally posted by HuffingJenkem:

Originally posted by Torpex:

Yea US army uses metric system because it is marxist. L for logic.

The USSR used metric too.

The whole world minus 3 countries use metric. (4 if you count UK is still fence sitting)

[Baphled]

It doesn't feel particularly fast, probably because space. But also in combat when two ships dart past each other, they can usually turn around still see each other. If it was incredibly fast, it would be difficult to see them after an event like this. Then there's the times where you need to approach a space station and docking bay.

Also it looks like they just converted ~0.1c to mph and made the mistake of calling it a light second, invoking nerd rage. Maybe chill.

[Shroomy]

Originally posted by Baphled:

It doesn't feel particularly fast, probably because space. But also in combat when two ships dart past each other, they can usually turn around still see each other. If it was incredibly fast, it would be difficult to see them after an event like this. Then there's the times where you need to approach a space station and docking bay.

Also it looks like they just converted ~0.1c to mph and made the mistake of calling it a light second, invoking nerd rage. Maybe chill.

If any planetory bodies seen in space from your vehicule is like, half your screen, your are probably at 15 000 to 100 000 km from it.

At 0,1c, you go at the speed of 30 000 km/s. If, by any chance, your vehicule goes at that speed, you'll have 2-3 secs before crashing on the planetoid (depending on the atmosphere thickness, gravity, etc.). And that is a "static" body (gravitating it's sun or whatever at only 30 km/s). So relativity is nothing here.