1 HOUR TO TRAVEL?

[ARNUD SWAZZANEGGER]

I'm sure this has been discussed and debated until the skin fell off peoples fingertips from typing, but as a new guy i can't help but bring it up.

Flying to Katzenstein dock since the pay looked great, but the time to get there isn't great.
It'd be much less of a annoyance if the *speed in Super Cruise quickly went up to 2001c when locked on such distant destinations* instead it slowly creeps up.

I have had to aim just outside of the Super Cruise alignment to get my ship to speed up faster.

Even by aiming just outside the Super Cruise assist area to get my speed higher faster, it slowly drops down the closer you get! Like I got into the 300,000Ls range and my speed was dropping like 1c as fast as a timer. When i lock in with SC assist it drops me right down a good 460c.
It's wacko to have it set this way!

I also tried to fly to Hutton Orbital in Alpha Centuri (played the old game by that name and loved it so wanted to go there), and that looked bugged out to me as the timer was going down, but the distance wasn't, and i got the feeling the marker would be there but nothing would be loaded in so i just jumped to another system to get out of there.

How do you get to these places faster? can't we just jump into the star right nearby those stations instead of having to travel 0.14ly? (or 0.22ly for Hutton Orbital)?

It kinda put me off when i realised the speed was slowly creeping up in Super Cruise compared to not in super cruise, why do that to people?

I know the idea is to simulate to a degree, but ain't nobody got time for dat!

Anyone else feel the same about this sorta thing, or do you all enjoy the hell out of sitting there for 1 hour or more doing zero in-game? I have to look at these journeys as a extended toilet break and snack time, otherwise it doesn't sit right with me.

In the end, this is still a game (very good one in my view) but c'mon, at least impliment things like *Speed in Super Cruise quickly goes up to 2001c when locked on such distant destionations and doesn't drop until you get close in enough that it would need to*

[Laurreth]

Some people got time fo dat, the rest simply don't go there.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

How fast the speed goes up to 2001c only depends on how close massive bodies are. The gravity of those bodies affect your frameshift drive's ability to compress space, and as a result - doesn't let you to go fast.

The game tries to emulate a realistic space. And it can't help but to emulate planets being very far from the main star, too.

If you don't want to fly that far - always check your mission destination in Ls, and don't take anything that is farther than say 10kLs away.

[<Caeris↝]

Others watch some movies or me play/ed on Switch meanwhile.

Atm. there´s no other way to jump to your destination. Maybe in 2021, who knows ?

[nolgroth]

I was just trying to visit there yesterday and decided to jump somewhere else for whatever gear it was that the EDDB site pointed me there in the first place for. Later, I was looking at a courier mission that was like 500k for the lowest tier reputation. When I saw it was to Katzenstein, I was very much in the "Nope" frame of mind.

[Bannor]

Space is BIG. Get over it.

[ARNUD SWAZZANEGGER]

Originally posted by Dolphin Bottlenose:

If you don't want to fly that far - always check your mission destination in Ls, and don't take anything that is farther than say 10kLs away.

Right, but being a new guy i didn't think about this, and i actually didn't even know it was something i would need to think about. The reason is every other station or base i went to, i didn't have to spend one hour flying there.

Hyper Drive could be used for these journeys!

[ARNUD SWAZZANEGGER]

Originally posted by Bannor:

Space is BIG. Get over it.

Really?

Real life is even bigger than this game though. But i won't make that joke because i don't want to be an a$$.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by ARNUD SWAZZANEGGER:

Right, but being a new guy i didn't think about this, and i actually didn't even know it was something i would need to think about.

That's the beauty of this game - you learn a lot of new things as you play along. Wait until you fly to Proxima Centauri! ;)

Hyper Drive could be used for these journeys!

By the game's lore, the hyper drive can only focus on the main star in the star system. Could be something to do with the gravity.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by ARNUD SWAZZANEGGER:

Originally posted by Bannor:

Space is BIG. Get over it.

Really?

Real life is even bigger than this game though.

You may think it's the long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space!
https://youtu.be/Hv1spjsvu-A

[ARNUD SWAZZANEGGER]

Originally posted by Dolphin Bottlenose:

Originally posted by ARNUD SWAZZANEGGER:

Right, but being a new guy i didn't think about this, and i actually didn't even know it was something i would need to think about.

That's the beauty of this game - you learn a lot of new things as you play along. Wait until you fly to Proxima Centauri! ;)

Hyper Drive could be used for these journeys!

By the game's lore, the hyper drive can only focus on the main star in the star system. Could be something to do with the gravity.

I tried to go to Hutton Orbital, i think that would be at Proxima then. It looked bugged to me as in the timer was going down but the distance wasn't moving. The longer i kept travelling there it would drop like 0.01Ly so it seemed as if something was broken.

Since i have aleady been to Katzenstein dock, i know now that if i want to go there i just NEED to keep flying toward it for over an hour and it will eventually appear LOL

I usually waste away over the chrristmas months by being off work the WHOLE MONTH!! so i suppose i can keep up with lifting weights this way and listen to some podcasts, maybe even take in an episode or two of Only Fools and Horrses.

[ARNUD SWAZZANEGGER]

Originally posted by Dolphin Bottlenose:

Originally posted by ARNUD SWAZZANEGGER:

Really?

Real life is even bigger than this game though.

You may think it's the long way down the roads to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space!
https://youtu.be/Hv1spjsvu-A

No i know that akshual space is akshually bigger than "real life" i was making a point about NOT being an a$$ to the guy made an a$$hole comment.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

See - you have a lot of time to waste! You can even go to Hutton Orbital twice! :)

[ARNUD SWAZZANEGGER]

Originally posted by Dolphin Bottlenose:

See - you have a lot of time to waste! You can even go to Hutton Orbital twice! :)

Well i didn't actually get to Hutton Orbital. I thought it was bugged and decided to jump to another system to get away.

As fo having plenty of time, well yes, it's christmas. I have had since December 3rd off (December 2nd technically as i only had one job on that day) and don't start back at work until January 3rd. So when i have nothing else to do, i can sink time into this. I had been watching youtube videos of the game for a while and always wanted to get it, but knew i never had enough time to play and get into it to enjoy it.

When i start back at work and only have a few hours to myself after work, between dinner and having to get to sleep and not having anything else on, I'll go back to RDR2 or something like that.

[Bubba Fett]

When the designed the game they decided they wanted to make space seem big. (which it is)
Plenty of other games allow you to fast forward past the boring bits or compress their universe so it doesn't take long to get anywhere. This make a space game feel quite unrealistic though. Remember Freelancer where all the planets and bases were only a few minutes apart? Didn't that seem fake? The X universe is pretty tiny too and in Rebel Galaxy Outlaw everything is just the push of the autopilot and a cutscene away.
It all makes space travel seem trivial.
If you don't like sitting in supercruise for a long time, you can avoid going places where that's a thing.
If you made the acceleration to high C velocity's faster for long trips you'd end up making the short trips trivial and space would end up feeling small.

[Blackout]

It always amazes me that people never read the mission details(especially regarding the distance involved) . First off, of you are neutral with a faction, and ya see a 100k- 500k reward: it is probably a long distance mission. Secondly, when traveling to distances greater than 10,000 light seconds, always put all pips into engines. Furthermore, make sure the supercuise speed indicator is pushed all the way to the top(past the blue zone). The farther you are away from any celestial objects; the faster you speed up(up to a max of 2001c- I believe). Hutton orbital is a 0.22 ly journey. As a result it takes 90 minutes to do. There are no large landing pads, and no free anacondas at Hutton. Finally, as a warning the faster you go- the harder it is to slow down.