Too Slow

[-Nessy]

Is there anyway to travel faster? I'm using "Go To" which puts all the power to the engines, but for each objective in each mission am I expected to actually wait 5 minutes and just watch as my ship slowly travels to destinations?

[mmihokovic]

There are couple ways to fast travel:
1. T-Gates - you pay to use them and they will take you to destination instantly. Network is shown on starchart
2. T-Drive - equipment used from ship, also jumps instantly to any point. The farther you want to jump, the more charges you spend
3. Wormholes - very fast, free,but potentially dangerous for ship and crew
4. Riftway - use this "cross" Gemini slipstream to gain speed, but you need to maneuver manually and keep an eye not to drop out of it

Oh, and in PTE you can also redistribute more power to engines and use extra speed bar...
Hope it helps.

[-Nessy]

how much do t-drive charges cost? Can I carry an infinite amount?

[Zero Enna]

extra speed bar?

but i don't understand the complain that it takes too long. it's a space-game o,o in other games you're travelling way longer

[-Nessy]

Some games you have to travel longer, yes. I don't play games like X3 either. A warp ability like EvE that takes you to your destination is the kind of thing I was looking for.

My time is too valuable for me to justify sitting and waiting for my ship to travel over the course of 5+ minutes. If you enjoy waiting in a game then that's fine, I don't however.

[ac6587]

I think they are $35000 each; sometimes you find them when looting ships. I've had 50+ at times with no problem.

Keep in mind, the bigger the ship; the slower the speed. But you can offset this thru crew and enhancement bonuses.

[mmihokovic]

Originally posted by -Nessy:

how much do t-drive charges cost? Can I carry an infinite amount?

T-Drive is about 35 000 and you can have infinite numbers of them. You can also find them on derelicts, steal from other ships etc...

[mmihokovic]

Originally posted by Zero Enna:

extra speed bar?

but i don't understand the complain that it takes too long. it's a space-game o,o in other games you're travelling way longer

When you redistribute power to engines, speed won't be automatically increased, but speed bar will and you can mouse wheel up to new benchmark :)

[jacquesmerron]

Try EvE Online then. 50 minutes travel through 18 stargate jumps from point A to point B. This game is insanely fast compared to others.

And with T-Drive you can jump form one point of the universe to other in no time.

And as Mario said, you have Riftways which are something of a space highways, you have Stargates.

[probe]

Or you could check out some of the videos explaining some of these things. They've helped me alot (I still suck bigtime at combat, though).

[-Nessy]

I've played EvE. Eve is different because:

1. It's an MMO
2. I'm rarely required to autopilot while watching the screen
3. I'm rarely required to travel any more than a few jumps unless doing PvP.

Also 50 minutes for 18 jumps...you using a freighter or something? Should be about 1 minute per system.

[Zero Enna]

well, flying from Taru to Jita with a Bestower... takes some time ;) but had to do it only once a week to sell stuff, was okay and kinda relaxing :D

yeah, X was one of the games i thought about, but also Elite: Dangerous. jumping into a system doesn't take too long but flying from the entry-point to the station. some are only ~400Ls away, others nearly 2k or even further (i guess). takes some time to accelerate and you also have to decelerate early enough to not overshoot your target ^^
Independence War 2 - Edge of Chaos also had long routes... well, it would be boring to have no travel-time in space games :D but after some time you probably have enough of these T-charges to just jump everywhere :)

[jacquesmerron]

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind EvE traveling, it's relaxing and beautiful. But I don't mind it here too. I'm just not a fast reflexes, frantic gamer like I used to be in my CoD2 days. Now I like to take things slowly. Even combat in SPG2 is sometimes too intense for me. My old heart is not what it used to be. Damn pirates. :)

[-Nessy]

I just loaded up the game again to try to figure out how to use the power to engines thingy. When I put the power to engines my ship speed didn't seem to increase, and my speed bar was still at full.

Does the starting ship not have any more speed to give or something?

[probe]

Let your mouse hover over the ship icon on your left side. There you can change the power distribution (can't quite figure out if you know this or not) to go full engine, meaning less power to shields and weapons. Sorry, if you already know this.

[-Nessy]

I didn't know that, going to try it now. I hope it's a significant speed bump