Edge of the universe

[Dewj]

Assuming the in game universe is to scale and the speed at which we go at is true (1 trillion C even though we'd have to have negative mass to even do such a thing) and the starting point is located in the exact center, it would take just over 17 days of continuous flying to get to the edge. I have 2 questions regarding this.

1: Anyone want to have a go at flying to the edge of the observable universe?

2: Do you think the devs actually programmed something at the edge or do you think it just goes on infinitely?

[SaltyCheese]

woah woah einstein hold ya horses the only way I can answer this is if u speak in english, not giberish. thank you.

[SaltyCheese]

(even though i probaly would go and have a try of flying to the edge of the universe :P)

[Dewj]

Originally posted by SaltyCheese:

woah woah einstein hold ya horses the only way I can answer this is if u speak in english, not giberish. thank you.

LOL. To put it in simpler terms, man goes fast. Space is big. Fast man go fast in big place for long time. What happen when he gets to the end? :P

[Wet Dog Squad]

Granted, that's just the edge of the observable universe, the liklihood of there being something beyind it is pretty high.

Either way, I doubt the devs put anything in out that far, and I really don't want to leave the game running for 17 days straight with the W key held down x.x

[Dewj]

I too doubt it but it'd be cool if they did put a little easter egg for people that did the calculation and put in the time to do so. Even if they didn't an extra text line like when going for the one achievement would be sorta neat.

Either way, considering the observable universe is getting bigger with time, I have high doubts there's anything beyond it both in game and in our universe.

[Aviator11]

I have actually done this before. I didn't look up the visible universe size and try to figure it out (17 days sounds like a long time), I just decided to start flying and I can share what I found:

So for the test, I just chose a direction and flew. After about 5-10 minutes of flying in that one direction, I got an achievement called "Really far from earth". (fly past a few dozen galaxies basically). Getting excited I flew in the same direction for another ~45 minutes or so only to find nothing, however I did notice one thing, the universe is shaped like a cube in the game (I'll come back to that). Upon reaching this point, I turned around to expect to see just some glowing dot (the glowing effect that shows you where Earth is) maybe a galaxy or 2, and that is just what a I saw. A bunch of galaxies, one of them with Earth in it, however being so far out, I expected it was just marking the far away Milky Way galaxy through one of the closer ones, so I expected an ~hour or so long trip back. It ended up being the "Milky Way galaxy" right in front of me (aka the closest galaxy) despite me flying past dozens of galaxies to get to the spot. (this was where I learned space wasn't mapped out in the game, but instead procedurally generated, essentially turning into a treadmill type of generation once you reach the edge of our galaxy's gravity/light and keeping that galaxy right next to you at all times, while showing an illusion of flying past other galaxies rather than actually doing it). I turned back around to look where I was going and that was when I noticed the shape of the "universe". If you fly to the edge of the universe like this, then look into an area without galaxies or stars, you can see the faint outline of the game's actual generated space surrounding it which definitely gives an "edge of the universe" feeling despite understanding that it is basically just the map's limit. It looks like you are only maybe half the distance to the outer limits of the map but, it is the closest you will ever get as trying to push any further into "deep space" will make it appear like you are getting farther away from galaxies and closer to the endless abyss, but no matter what you will always turn around to the Milky Way galaxy and Earth being right there behind you.

Now granted I didn't fly for 17 days straight, but I'd imagine it wouldn't change the outcome. Hopefully this answers your 2nd question though.

[Le_Langusto]

Originally posted by Aviator11:

I have actually done this before. I didn't look up the visible universe size and try to figure it out (17 days sounds like a long time), I just decided to start flying and I can share what I found:

So for the test, I just chose a direction and flew. After about 5-10 minutes of flying in that one direction, I got an achievement called "Really far from earth". (fly past a few dozen galaxies basically). Getting excited I flew in the same direction for another ~45 minutes or so only to find nothing, however I did notice one thing, the universe is shaped like a cube in the game (I'll come back to that). Upon reaching this point, I turned around to expect to see just some glowing dot (the glowing effect that shows you where Earth is) maybe a galaxy or 2, and that is just what a I saw. A bunch of galaxies, one of them with Earth in it, however being so far out, I expected it was just marking the far away Milky Way galaxy through one of the closer ones, so I expected an ~hour or so long trip back. It ended up being the "Milky Way galaxy" right in front of me (aka the closest galaxy) despite me flying past dozens of galaxies to get to the spot. (this was where I learned space wasn't mapped out in the game, but instead procedurally generated, essentially turning into a treadmill type of generation once you reach the edge of our galaxy's gravity/light and keeping that galaxy right next to you at all times, while showing an illusion of flying past other galaxies rather than actually doing it). I turned back around to look where I was going and that was when I noticed the shape of the "universe". If you fly to the edge of the universe like this, then look into an area without galaxies or stars, you can see the faint outline of the game's actual generated space surrounding it which definitely gives an "edge of the universe" feeling despite understanding that it is basically just the map's limit. It looks like you are only maybe half the distance to the outer limits of the map but, it is the closest you will ever get as trying to push any further into "deep space" will make it appear like you are getting farther away from galaxies and closer to the endless abyss, but no matter what you will always turn around to the Milky Way galaxy and Earth being right there behind you.

Now granted I didn't fly for 17 days straight, but I'd imagine it wouldn't change the outcome. Hopefully this answers your 2nd question though.

i´ve read this and im amazed anyways. gg fellow superbeeing