Gathering Storm: Science Victory

[Cartesius]

So, you can build lasers in order to make your exoplanet expedition go faster...
Each laser makes it travel 1 lightyear extra per turn...
Since each turn takes a year, the ship will be traveling serveral times the speed of light...
How is the beam of light reaching the ship?

[GeoModder]

Its a Quantum Tunneling Laser Array

[Ebrim]

Publicado originalmente por louis:

So, you can build lasers in order to make your exoplanet expedition go faster...
Each laser makes it travel 1 lightyear extra per turn...
Since each turn takes a year, the ship will be traveling serveral times the speed of light...
How is the beam of light reaching the ship?

At what turn number does 1 year = 1 turn? I mean, you're probably right you must eventually get to that point but it's probably pretty far up in the turn counter. For the vast majority of the game multiple years are going by with each turn, even decades.

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Do yourself a favor, do not go down the road into whether science is accurate in games and movies. It almost never is. And doesn't need to be. It is changed all the time for entertainment, story, and balance.

[IDerpedYourMom]

Time dilation? Your vantage point is that of being on "Earth."

[not John]

A turn can be a few or dozens of years...

[donald23]

Publicado originalmente por Ebrim:

Publicado originalmente por louis:

So, you can build lasers in order to make your exoplanet expedition go faster...
Each laser makes it travel 1 lightyear extra per turn...
Since each turn takes a year, the ship will be traveling serveral times the speed of light...
How is the beam of light reaching the ship?

At what turn number does 1 year = 1 turn? I mean, you're probably right you must eventually get to that point but it's probably pretty far up in the turn counter. For the vast majority of the game multiple years are going by with each turn, even decades.

Publicado originalmente por (Shrugs):

A turn can be a few or dozens of years...

If you get to the science victory part, you'll notice that it needs 50 (IIRC) light years to reach the victory for you. Default it travels at 1 light year per turn, thus essentially you needing 50 turns to reach victory.
These are the turns that OP is talking about.

This is separate from the years per turn that pass on the game map.

[Dray Prescot]

I noticed the same thing in my first (and only) Scientific Victory under GS. By the time I got to it, one turn = 1 year. I think that just before I arrived at the destination 50 light years away, that I was going 6 light years per turn, i.e. 6 light years per year or 6 times the speed of light for the last 2 or 3 turns/years. I think that I arrived around year 1912. I think I even posted a message about it, the faster than FTL travel from a light speed source of power.

[Mad Max]

where are the lasers to be buil? i cant find them even in civilopedia. And if is a scinece research. I have it, but still cant launch the expedition to exoplanet

[Ose]

Publicado originalmente por Mad Max:

where are the lasers to be buil? i cant find them even in civilopedia. And if is a scinece research. I have it, but still cant launch the expedition to exoplanet

You need a spaceport district for it.
And before you can launch the exoplanet expedition (it's at the bottom with the other city projects if your city has a spaceport district), you must first complete the other science victory-related space programs (Earth satellite, Moon landing, Mars colony).
After launching the exoplanet expedition you will be able to build the lasers. I'm not completely sure about the ground-based lasers but the ones that are launched into orbit also require a spaceport district if you want to build them. The lasers are also under the city projects tab just like every other science victory-related sub-project.