Anyone tried flying from one Solar System to another without Hyperdrive?

[NormireX]

As title states, anyone tried and been successful ?

[Korva]

So again with this nonsense. Why would they make it possible to fly between solar systems? We all know it is just waste of time. Same thing why you cant fly into stars, because we all know what would happen, and again waste of time.

Can you shoot yourself with your sidearm in Battlefield? no. Why no one whines about that?

[NormireX]

Publicado originalmente por The_Pastmaster:

Publicado originalmente por NormireX:

So Sean lied then........very disappointing........

How did he "lie" this time? -_-

He said in an interview that you could travel from system to system without warping. He didn't have the calculations on how long it would take, but he figured someone would try it. You said it was outright impossible, therefor based on your statement, Sean lied.

Some people are saying that each system is essentially instanced, and I would rather not beleive that, I would like to know that space is indeed open and you could fly wherever you wanted if you were crazy enough to try.

Either way, disappointing if each system is instanced. Kind of takes a bit of the magic away from thinking this was a fully open Universe. Won't change my love for the game, but is a tad of a let down if true.

[Cryptic]

Publicado originalmente por Mwnci:

Publicado originalmente por NormireX:

So Sean lied then........very disappointing........

Out of interest, I attempted to fly towards a systems' star last night.
Now, using our Sol system as a basis, I assumed that the planet I started from would be at least 149.6 million km away (habitable zones and all that).

After about 5 minutes (I didn't time it exactly), I'd travelled about 5 million km using my pulse engines.
For argument's sake, let's assume it takes 5 minutes to travel 5 million km's.
5 million into 150 million = 30
30 * 5 = 150 minutes
150 minutes = 2.5 hours.

Assuming the star WAS 150 million km's away (and it did take me 5min to travel 5mil km), it would have taken me 2.5 hours to get to that system's star.

Now, the way astrophysicists have set ♥♥♥♥ out, we don't use km's when talking about distances between stars. We use light years. In order to portray light-years in a distance that human's could understand, Robert Burnham invented the Astronomical Unit, or AU. One AU is approximately 150 million km's. So our star (Sol) is 1 AU from Earth.
Therefore, it would have taken me 2.5 hours to travel 1AU.

With me so far? Good.

There are 63,000 AU in one light-year.
In order to travel one light-year, it would take me 18 years (63,000 AU x 2.5 hrs per AU).

Our closest neighbour, is Alpha Centauri A at 4.24 light-years.
Travelling 4.24 light-years will take you: 76 years.

So.. when Sean says yes you can travel between stars, he doesn't mean you can do it whilst you go make a coffee and have a smoke. He means it's theoretically possible, but nobody is going to do it.

You can call him a liar if you want, but you have literally no way of substantiating that accusation.

Owned

[NormireX]

Publicado originalmente por TAW Cryptic:

Publicado originalmente por Mwnci:

Out of interest, I attempted to fly towards a systems' star last night.
Now, using our Sol system as a basis, I assumed that the planet I started from would be at least 149.6 million km away (habitable zones and all that).

After about 5 minutes (I didn't time it exactly), I'd travelled about 5 million km using my pulse engines.
For argument's sake, let's assume it takes 5 minutes to travel 5 million km's.
5 million into 150 million = 30
30 * 5 = 150 minutes
150 minutes = 2.5 hours.

Assuming the star WAS 150 million km's away (and it did take me 5min to travel 5mil km), it would have taken me 2.5 hours to get to that system's star.

Now, the way astrophysicists have set ♥♥♥♥ out, we don't use km's when talking about distances between stars. We use light years. In order to portray light-years in a distance that human's could understand, Robert Burnham invented the Astronomical Unit, or AU. One AU is approximately 150 million km's. So our star (Sol) is 1 AU from Earth.
Therefore, it would have taken me 2.5 hours to travel 1AU.

With me so far? Good.

There are 63,000 AU in one light-year.
In order to travel one light-year, it would take me 18 years (63,000 AU x 2.5 hrs per AU).

Our closest neighbour, is Alpha Centauri A at 4.24 light-years.
Travelling 4.24 light-years will take you: 76 years.

So.. when Sean says yes you can travel between stars, he doesn't mean you can do it whilst you go make a coffee and have a smoke. He means it's theoretically possible, but nobody is going to do it.

You can call him a liar if you want, but you have literally no way of substantiating that accusation.

Owned

Hardly