Max Seatruck length?

[Sputnik]

I'm too lazy to make a vast number of modules to test this out. Anyone know how many before the Seatruck grinds to a halt?

[Coops]

It's infinite according to Zeno's paradox.
If the seatruck moves half as fast each time a new module is added, then It can never be unmovable.

[Sputnik]

Zeno's Paradox hey?

I'm not sure Speed IS infinitely divisible, since speed is derived from distance (speed = distance / time) , and distance is NOT infinitely divisible

'Planck Length' is the minimum distance (1.6×10m to minus 35th power). So there must be a minimum 'Planck Speed'

@Copps, please continue adding Seatruck modules until you reach Planck Speed, then add one more and report back with the correct number. Thank you.

[Coops]

Planck time (5.39 x 10^-44 sec) is the time required for light to travel 1 plank length in a vacuum. The truck cannot move as fast as light nor is it in a vacuum. Therefore, the time required to travel 1 planck length is much more than 1 planck time. So if the truck is at the point of traveling Planck lengths per year it is still moving. At that point the truck would be so long that it would stretch from Outpost Zero to well past the vent gardens and there would be no way to add another module without being attacked by reapers in the dead zone.

[Sputnik]

I'd test all that to be quite certain. But as a matter of fact I've never been able to leave my base. Every time I get halfway to the hatch, I seem to have another journey ahead of me.

[admiral1018]

I tried testing this and got to about 80 cabs before the game starting running at single-digit frames per second and eventually crashed. A Seatruck this length also causes all sorts of other bugs, like terrain clipping. I'm pretty sure a truck that long has parts being rendered in areas of the game that don't even have terrain loaded.

So, I assume there's no programmed limit, but there is a practical limit in terms of playability.

[Sputnik]

Cool