Post by: Untelligent on April 13, 2010, 09:26:22 AM
Anyway, what confounds me is the vast distance at which New York B and C orbit the main star. The system view says it's 9200, which doesn't mean much to me, but this image shows an interesting comparison:
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff76 ... 8c078e.png (http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff76/untelligent/Aurora/3f8c078e.png)
That little blue ring in the middle is the orbit comparison of ten times the distance of Pluto. It takes 30 years for one of my cruisers to get from the inner region to New York C (and about 15 years for my survey vessels), where there's at least one potentially habitable world there and lots of potential mining colonies.
Mind you, I've just started playing, so maybe several decades from now I'll have the technology to reach the place. For now, I'm renaming this system Olympus, being beyond the reach of mortals.
Also, it says there's asteroids, but I can't find them, and it gives me an error message when I click on "asteroids" in the All Bodies menu. Presumably they're all farther out than the system map can zoom out to.
EDIT: I just found another system, a binary one, whose lesser star is just as far away, so I guess it's not that uncommon. At least this one has intra-system Lagrange points.
Post by: The Shadow on April 13, 2010, 09:27:46 AM
It's frustrating to have good planets out of reach. Then again, I've seen systems that have Precursors far out of reach too.
Post by: Beersatron on April 13, 2010, 09:34:51 AM
Post by: The Shadow on April 13, 2010, 09:51:55 AM
Post by: UnLimiTeD on April 13, 2010, 09:56:23 AM
Maybe you'll find another way into the system later from another jumppoint^^
Post by: The Shadow on April 13, 2010, 10:03:31 AM
Quote from: "UnLimiTeD"
Maybe you'll find another way into the system later from another jumppoint^^
I don't think it works that way. All the jump points have to be inside the survey ring, which clusters around the A component.
Maybe it would be a good idea for far components to have their own jump points, but I don't think the game currently allows it.
Post by: Beersatron on April 13, 2010, 10:53:02 AM
Quote from: "The Shadow"
Quote from: "UnLimiTeD"Maybe you'll find another way into the system later from another jumppoint^^
I don't think it works that way. All the jump points have to be inside the survey ring, which clusters around the A component.
Maybe it would be a good idea for far components to have their own jump points, but I don't think the game currently allows it.
You can SM a JP into a position near the distant component, but it will over time be left behind as the component moves. I did it for an NPR that was generated about 60 billion away from Component A.
Post by: The Shadow on April 14, 2010, 12:01:24 AM
Quote from: "Beersatron"
You can SM a JP into a position near the distant component, but it will over time be left behind as the component moves. I did it for an NPR that was generated about 60 billion away from Component A.
Yeah, but it'll probably be a *really* long time.
Granted that you can put it there, but how can they find it without being able to reach the survey points?
Post by: Beersatron on April 14, 2010, 09:03:07 AM
Quote from: "The Shadow"
Quote from: "Beersatron"You can SM a JP into a position near the distant component, but it will over time be left behind as the component moves. I did it for an NPR that was generated about 60 billion away from Component A.
Yeah, but it'll probably be a *really* long time.
Granted that you can put it there, but how can they find it without being able to reach the survey points?
I 'gifted' the NPR knowledge of the JPs in that system. Not sure if you can do it as SM when playing your own race or if I had to cheat a little. This was a few versions back.