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Petteri Emiliko Anderiuss
Norwegians On Mining
#1 - 2013-01-26 00:50:49 UTC
hey, was just wondering if there is a way to tweak the autopilot, so that it chooses other ways of traveling..

such as setting it to only warp and not use the jump gates?

and just make it go in and out of warp to cool of and then move on until I reached a destination..

Thanks :D
Renzo Ruderi
Doomheim
#2 - 2013-01-26 01:03:42 UTC
Nope.
Karak Terrel
Foundation for CODE and THE NEW ORDER
#3 - 2013-01-26 01:09:58 UTC
It would take you hours or days to reach the next star system at warp speed. One light-year is about 63*10^3 AU, with the distance from the map and the warp velocity from your ship you should be able to calculate how long you would fly.
Cowboy Nuggets
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2013-01-26 01:10:21 UTC
Friends don't let friends use autopilot.
Anell
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2013-01-26 01:13:39 UTC
When you are warping you are traveling inside a solar system over a relatively short distance (galactically speaking)

The jump gates move you much much quicker between star systems.

To be specific, 1 Astronomical Unit (AU) = 149,597,870,700 meters

1 Light Year = 9,460,730,472,580,800 meters

This means there is roughly 63,241 AU in a Light Year.

If your warp drive moves your ship at 3 AU a second that means it would take roughly 5.8 hours to travel 1 light year which is by no means the farthest a star system might be from another star system, actually that is one of the closer distances. And that is assuming you were traveling all out the entire time not taking into account cap recharge times.
Merouk Baas
#6 - 2013-01-26 01:21:26 UTC
3 hrs per light year at 6 AU/s warp speed. Problem is you come in and out of warp and that can easily quadruple the time.

In any case, CCP keeps saying that everything is connected, but nobody has tested whether trying to enter another solar system without being handed-over through the gates actually works. The gates don't just transport your internet spaceship across internet light-years, they also transfer your character from one server to the next in a controlled manner, switch the Local channels, market range, etc.

Mass Effect: if you turn on no-clipping and fly around through walls, and decide to go up, you can't actually get to the next level unless you take the elevator. You can't enter your ship by flying through its walls, etc.

Same principle.
Karak Terrel
Foundation for CODE and THE NEW ORDER
#7 - 2013-01-26 01:37:38 UTC
Merouk Baas wrote:

In any case, CCP keeps saying that everything is connected, but nobody has tested whether trying to enter another solar system without being handed-over through the gates actually works.


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Petteri Emiliko Anderiuss
Norwegians On Mining
#8 - 2013-01-26 01:55:13 UTC
wow! what a great response! :D

thanks for the in depth answers :)

maybe it's time to test the boundaries then :)) someone has to do it eventually anyways..
Merouk Baas
#9 - 2013-01-26 02:01:55 UTC
To me it looks like he went the distance to the other solar system and arrived in the vicinity of planet 2, but the destination system did not load for him. He couldn't see the nearby planet or the nearby sun; all he could see was the sun of his origin system.

So, at least in 2006, gates were needed to hand you over into the destination solar system and load up the local objects.
Karak Terrel
Foundation for CODE and THE NEW ORDER
#10 - 2013-01-26 02:35:23 UTC
Merouk Baas wrote:
To me it looks like he went the distance to the other solar system and arrived in the vicinity of planet 2, but the destination system did not load for him. He couldn't see the nearby planet or the nearby sun; all he could see was the sun of his origin system.

So, at least in 2006, gates were needed to hand you over into the destination solar system and load up the local objects.

Yeah, i think that is exactly what happened. IIRC the solar systems of EVE are placed on different virtual servers to distribute the load of new eden over a cluster. The transition from one solar system to another needs some handover which is initiated by a jump (gate, jumpdrive, wormhole, clonejump or death).

It seams back then it was possible to see the location on the star map and somehow create something similar to the deep savespots that where possible not long ago. Today it may be impossible to repeat that, but who knows.