Why some nav beacons are so far from any nearest station?

[Pak0tac]

There are systems where the nav beacon is located at one sun, but everything ales (including stations, asteroid fields, other planets and so on) is 1 gazillion LYears away....
So i jump in, and have to spend 15 min (!!!) stearing at my screen waiting to reach the NEAREST station... wtf with that?
After the second time i had to do that (mission) i just rage quit in the middle of the jump...

[INSTG8R™]

Welcome to, wait for it... Space! It's really big...

[Ogami]

15min pfff.... There is one famous system where the only station is 800 light MINUTES from the system entry point. You need about 8 hours real time to fly there.

[Pak0tac]

Originally posted by INSTG8R™:

Welcome to, wait for it... Space! It's really big...

lol i know its big, that is what the cruise engines are for :p
anyways 99% of the systems are fine, i mean the beacon is placed in the right spot,
but this 1% of systems is just feels more like a bug...
And the dead end systems, i mean im spending 20 min flying just to find myself spending another 20 min returning...

[Hooligaani]

The thing that gets me is that when you have jumped to a new system, upon arrival you are almost always on a death course with that systems sun.
Still can't get my head around it, anyone know why?

[HighPlains Drifter]

Originally posted by Hooligaani:

The thing that gets me is that when you have jumped to a new system, upon arrival you are almost always on a death course with that systems sun.
Still can't get my head around it, anyone know why?

Yes. It's the same answer to the O.P.

The NAV Beacon takes you to the star that anchors the system, it's the 'heart' of that solar system. Moons, planets, etc. orbit the anchor star. Stations and hubs orbit the celestial bodies, which are in turn orbiting the anchor star.

If you wanted to traverse the huge distances of space, looking for a specific port, or even planet you'd never find it. Never, they're never in the exact same spot. And would be near impossible to find at the distances we travel. So instead you navigate, by what is anchoring that system together.

Thus when you exit hyper speed, at the NAV beacon, it's always near the largest star of the system.

[Hooligaani]

Originally posted by HighPlains Drifter:

Originally posted by Hooligaani:

The thing that gets me is that when you have jumped to a new system, upon arrival you are almost always on a death course with that systems sun.
Still can't get my head around it, anyone know why?

If you wanted to traverse the huge distances of space, looking for a specific port, or even planet you'd never find it. Never, they're never in the exact same spot. And would be near impossible to find at the distances we travel. So instead you navigate, by what is anchoring that system together.

That paragraph explains it very nicely, thank you for taking the time to write that.

[Edelweiss ✿]

Originally posted by Hooligaani:

The thing that gets me is that when you have jumped to a new system, upon arrival you are almost always on a death course with that systems sun.
Still can't get my head around it, anyone know why?

throttle back in hyperspace, when you exit, you'll be stopped

[Bakamoichigei]

The nav beacon is at the drop in point, situated in orbit of the astronomical body at the 'center of mass' of the system.

A good example of a system where the drop-in point is practically a different system, is Kappa Phoenicis. It has a huge blue/white star as its drop-in point, and then a whole hell of a long ways away, is a trinary star cluster that all the planets and stuff orbit.

[Oku]

Space is big. Deal with it.

[Lothar]

Originally posted by Ogami:

15min pfff.... There is one famous system where the only station is 800 light MINUTES from the system entry point. You need about 8 hours real time to fly there.

Thats hardcore O.O

[mbpoblet]

Originally posted by HighPlains Drifter:

The NAV Beacon takes you to the star that anchors the system, it's the 'heart' of that solar system. Moons, planets, etc. orbit the anchor star. Stations and hubs orbit the celestial bodies, which are in turn orbiting the anchor star.

Almost right, but you don't drop there because the nav beacon is there, it's the other way round: the nav beacon is there because that's where FSDs jump in (the most massive object in the system).

Otherwise we wouldn't be able to jump into systems without a nav beacon... meaning that we would never be able to explore, since only inhabited systems have nav beacons (and not even all of them, if I'm not very mistaken).

[morph113]

Originally posted by Ogami:

15min pfff.... There is one famous system where the only station is 800 light MINUTES from the system entry point. You need about 8 hours real time to fly there.

What system do you mean? The farthest away station I know is the famous Hutton Orbital in Alpha Centauri with 0,23 LY away and it "only" takes about 2 hours or so to fly there. Longest distance i have flown was to a station 0,12 LY away, which took a bit less than 1 hour. Is there really a station 8 hours away?

[mbpoblet]

Originally posted by Lothar:

Originally posted by Ogami:

15min pfff.... There is one famous system where the only station is 800 light MINUTES from the system entry point. You need about 8 hours real time to fly there.

Thats hardcore O.O

If Ogami is talking about the most (in)famous one (Hutton Orbital, in Alpha Centauri), that's ~0.22 light years (~116,000 light minutes) from the drop point... but you can get there in around ninety minutes if you manage your speed properly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyBcRfCGQEg Edit: ah, ninja'd! :D

But yes, 800 light minutes would be much less than eight hours of FSD (I mean, with enough time you can reach speeds of over 1,800c...); there's something wonky with Ogami's information. :/