EVE General Discussion

In a past version of eve the star map and the solar system map were one map, and you got to one from the other by zooming. You could also warp to a signal found by a scan probe, even if it was less than 100% (you just went to the erroneous location). This made it all look like it would be possible to warp from one solar system to another. So someone tried it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUl3zNiW648

According to the map they got there. But the view from their ship did not show the new solar system. No "session change", no change of solar systems.

afaik there is still no border, the outer limit is where you can save things, but you can still mwd past that border, maybe even warp if someone finds a method to warp in a direction beyond the bm.

I remember the 1000AU TCU, I lol'ed.

/c

Actually any CAP ship that was grandfathered or accidentally put in HI SEC say by a ship reimbursment can CYNO out.

Like others have stated, there used to be ways to...sort of, but not anymore. I don't even know why that kind of mechanic would be implemented

I suppose I could understand the utility of a monstrously huge unarmed ship that was, in a sense, like a Titan only used for massive cargo hauling that used conventional FTL to travel around. It could be used to avoid enemy fleets, or simply work between stars as an untouchable manufactory...but the ramifications would be highly unbalanced and well, just adding something to the game for adding's sake is no bueno

However, I personally would LOVE to have a light hugger to explore space between stars!

This is why:

Let's take a real- world example, say, from Sol to Proxima Centauri. That's approximately 4.243 light years.
One Astronomical Unit is equal to about 5 light seconds, or around 149,597,871 kilometers.
One light year is about 9,460,528,400,000, or just under 9.5 trillion kilometers.
That being said, 1 LY is equal to about 63,240 AU. Ergo, 4.24 LY= 268,136.5 AU.

Here's a fit of a Crusader Interceptor, made for proficiency in warp. We're not even going to consider feeding the crew, or any logistical means, just distance and time spent.

[Crusader, Warp]
'Cartel' Power Diagnostic System I
'Cartel' Power Diagnostic System I
'Cartel' Power Diagnostic System I
'Cartel' Power Diagnostic System I

Small Capacitor Battery II
Small Capacitor Battery II

[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]

Small Warp Core Optimizer II
Small Warp Core Optimizer II

This ship can go 9 AU/s for a total distance of 4,055.2 AU at a time. Of course, the capacitor will recharge by the time it comes out of warp, so let's just assume you instantly go back into warp and there's no period of slowing down and accelerating again.

At 9 AU/s, traveling from Sol to Proxima Centauri would take about 29,793 seconds. That's equal to about 8 hours and 20 minutes, WITHOUT COUNTING STOPPING EVERY FOUR THOUSAND AU TO START AGAIN.

Now, I don't know about you, but I far prefer taking 5 seconds to use a gate, thank you very much.

It might be prudent to point out that the other Interceptor does 13.5 AU/s base.

Yes, in many ways.
Most already listed, I'll add WHs to the list.
There are HS > HS holes, as well as HS > LS/NS ect.

Each system in eve is on its own node. In order to change from system "A" to system "B" you need some way to load the new node which contains all the system info and local.

All the methods already mentioned allow for a node change mechanic to happen.

Just flying from system A to system B on your own navigation will only put your ship in the proper location for system B but not load the node for that location. Thus you will be there but not there at the same time. You will not see any of the stuff in that system because you have not loaded the new node. You still are in the old node. Your local chat will still have all the pilots in it from the previous node system "A".

New Eden is 106 light years long, 90 light years wide, and 25 light years thick. So stars are actually much closer than 1 light year apart in general.

You messed up just a little, bit, 1 AU = 8 light minutes (the time it takes light from to sun to reach the earth).

But your figure of 1 lightyear = 63 239.7263 Astronomical Units is (approximately) correct.

The second miss what that you chose the wrong Interceptor, the speedy ones do (as stated 13.5).

So ignoring serious amounts of canon lore about how warp drives work in EvE and ignoring stops to recharge.

It would take about 5.5 hours in a speedy inty from earth to proxima centauri.

But then as stated, it would break canon and the hamsters would ignore you.