150 Light Years too far to super cruise?

[ޓʕ̯•͡˔•̯᷅ʔ°゜]

Hi, I tried to super cruise to a location 150 LS away and it is not working,... does anybody know what is the maximum LS distance we can super cruise?

[Eviscerador]

There isn't a maximum distance you can travel

The furthest object in real space you can travel to is Hutton Orbital, at 6 million Light Seconds (not light years)

And if you want you can keep traveling. Top supercruise speed is 2001 c.

[Mr. Boombastic]

150 LY (Light Years) or 150 LS (Light Seconds)?

For LS you need to engage Supercruise, and 150 LS should be quite quick (< 1 minute).
For LY you have a FSD fitted on your ship which has a limited (single-hop hyperjump) range depending on the class of FSD you have and the ship you have plus its mass.

On average you should be able to hyperjump from star to star around 20-30LY. So to jump 150 LY you would need probably need to hyperjump 5 to 10 times, assuming you have enough fuel to do so.

[ޓʕ̯•͡˔•̯᷅ʔ°゜]

Thanks guys. I understand now. I am love space game but I am just not really good at it hehe

[One Eye Jack]

Yes, I suggest you try the Hutton orbital trip just to say you did it. I think it is .22ly and must be done in SC. Took me over an hour. I almost abandoned my mission and gave up. So you can go a very long ways in SC.

[ScareCrow]

Good luck CMDR! ;)

[Turih]

Originally posted by Eviscerador:

There isn't a maximum distance you can travel

The furthest object in real space you can travel to is Hutton Orbital, at 6 million Light Seconds (not light years)

And if you want you can keep traveling.

Oi!
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=649793160

[One Eye Jack]

Originally posted by Turih:

Originally posted by Eviscerador:

There isn't a maximum distance you can travel

The furthest object in real space you can travel to is Hutton Orbital, at 6 million Light Seconds (not light years)

And if you want you can keep traveling.

Oi!
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=649793160

That must have taken days!

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by Turih:

Oi!
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=649793160

Forgot to log out?.. :)

[Turih]

Originally posted by Dolphin Bottlenose:

Forgot to log out?.. :)

I never idle in the game without a goal to keep my gametime count as much accurate as I can. Everything I do has a purpose.

[morph113]

Originally posted by Auphy:

Thanks guys. I understand now. I am love space game but I am just not really good at it hehe

Btw. the speed you see in supercruise is measured in how many times the speed of light because c = speed of light. So 100 c would be 100 times the speed of light. Although this is not realistic, it had to be done this way for gameplay purposes because otherwise it would take too long to fly through a system. Just as a reference, it takes the sunlight 8 minutes to reach earth. From Sun to Pluto the light takes over 5 hours so they had to allow us for faster than light travel.
Also an important unit for distance is AU which stands for astronomical unit and 1 AU is exactly the distance from Sun to Earth. It's mainly used to tell the distance between a planet and it's star. Although in your ships interface it uses LS as distance.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by Turih:

Originally posted by Dolphin Bottlenose:

Forgot to log out?.. :)

I never idle in the game without a goal to keep my gametime count as much accurate as I can. Everything I do has a purpose.

I afraid to think of this particular purpose.

[masterm]

the speed goes up and up and 150 naa 700 and i was getting jiggy caus ,its stupid big in a good way

[Draco25240]

Originally posted by morph113:

Btw. the speed you see in supercruise is measured in how many times the speed of light because c = speed of light. So 100 c would be 100 times the speed of light. Although this is not realistic, it had to be done this way for gameplay purposes because otherwise it would take too long to fly through a system. Just as a reference, it takes the sunlight 8 minutes to reach earth. From Sun to Pluto the light takes over 5 hours so they had to allow us for faster than light travel.

Actually, it is kinda realistic. The Frame Shift Drive is based on the IRL concept of the Alcubierre Drive[en.wikipedia.org], which pretty much exploits a loophole in relativity to move you over large distances very quickly. Basically, instead of moving your ship through spacetime, the drive moves spacetime itself past you at superluminal velocities (while your actual ship keeps a normal, sub-luminal velocity) by contracting spacetime infront of you and expanding it behind you. This is actually allowed by relativity, and should be possible.
One difference though, unless if major optimizations are done to the Alcubierre Drive design, the drive would currently need about 700 kg worth of hypothetical negative energy (E = mc^2, turn it into a solid object and it will fall up in a gravitational field), while the in-game equivalent runs purely on standard energy from hydrogen fusion...
Hyperspace on the other hand, while it might be a sort of wormhole, is much less realistic with our current knowledge of that kind of stuff :P

[morph113]

Originally posted by Draco25240:

Originally posted by morph113:

Btw. the speed you see in supercruise is measured in how many times the speed of light because c = speed of light. So 100 c would be 100 times the speed of light. Although this is not realistic, it had to be done this way for gameplay purposes because otherwise it would take too long to fly through a system. Just as a reference, it takes the sunlight 8 minutes to reach earth. From Sun to Pluto the light takes over 5 hours so they had to allow us for faster than light travel.

Actually, it is kinda realistic. The Frame Shift Drive is based on the IRL concept of the Alcubierre Drive[en.wikipedia.org], which pretty much exploits a loophole in relativity to move you over large distances very quickly. Basically, instead of moving your ship through spacetime, the drive moves spacetime itself past you at superluminal velocities (while your actual ship keeps a normal, sub-luminal velocity) by contracting spacetime infront of you and expanding it behind you. This is actually allowed by relativity, and should be possible.
One difference though, unless if major optimizations are done to the Alcubierre Drive design, currently the drive would need about 700 kg worth of hypothetical negative energy (E = mc^2), while the in-game equivalent runs purely on standard energy from hydrogen fusion...
Hyperspace on the other hand, while it might be a sort of wormhole, is much less realistic with our current knowledge of that kind of stuff :P

Yeah I was aware of the alcubierre drive but there are many problems with it and it's very much a "well maybe" and based on other hypothetical ideas like negative mass. So I just went with what we currently can say for sure is possible.

[Mr. Boombastic]

More about Warp Drives and the science behind it:
https://youtu.be/H7tU0H6rD-g
NASA is hoping some kind of interstellar travel is possible by the end of this century.