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Interstellar travel possible?
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Brumortateu Rhadoshm
Iota Piscium
#1 - 2014-10-31 00:57:10 UTC
Is interstellar travel possible in EVE, or is the game not set up technically for that to be possible?

By interstellar travel I mean travelling through space to go from one star system to another. If I were to set a course and speed, and AFK for a few centuries, would I eventually arrive in another system? Can this be accomplished with jump drives? Can you use a jump drive to arrive in the middle of nowhere?
Abrazzar
Vardaugas Family
#2 - 2014-10-31 01:02:06 UTC
Not with the game mechanics. Every system is in it's own space. And even if it were, you'd take a long while to go from system to system, even on warp speed.

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R0mparkin
Th3 Illuminati
#3 - 2014-10-31 01:20:22 UTC
they are on different nodes
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#4 - 2014-10-31 02:42:44 UTC
Even if you were able to do this.. the session would never switch over, and you would be unable to do anything in system... ANYTHING!!!!!



It would be like finally getting to spend the night with Jessica Alba.. but being a blind quadruple amputee eunuch.

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DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#5 - 2014-10-31 02:45:15 UTC
Someone did this to get to jove space a long long long time ago, they burned in one direction for a while, technically would up in the system they were going to, but as the session never changed they never got anywhere.

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Square PI
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2014-10-31 10:16:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Square PI
Lets say you have a speed of 40 km/s (i know that you could be faster in the old days of EVE).
It would still take 43 days to travel 1 AU.

1 Lj is around 63000 AU.

So you need only 7450 years to travel 1 Lj.


Even IF eve still exist at this time, it would have been faster to warp back after half the time, get a faster engine, and start again....


Just a little compare. The closed known Star to earth is still 4 Lj away. I dont know how close some stars are in EVE. But even with an average distance of 1/10 Lj, it would still take way to long.


In the end it does not matter if it is technical possible to travel from one star to the next within eve. It would be total impossible from the time it takes.
Yarda Black
The Black Redemption
#7 - 2014-10-31 10:40:22 UTC
What you need is warp speed.

In EVE you need to warp to "something". That something has to be selected. Since you can't select a sun (or any object) from a different solarsystem or warp in a random direction in general; interstellar travel requires gates, wormholes or jumpdrives.
Sol Project
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#8 - 2014-10-31 10:44:26 UTC
The EVE Gate finally can be seen from every system again.

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Gallente Federation
#9 - 2014-10-31 11:43:45 UTC
Square PI wrote:
Lets say you have a speed of 40 km/s (i know that you could be faster in the old days of EVE).
It would still take 43 days to travel 1 AU.


With the old probe system you could warp to basically any direction, negating the necessity to travel this kind of distances at sub-warp speeds. I believe it was attempted to travel to another system, but game mechanics happened.
Adela Talvanen
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#10 - 2014-10-31 13:56:38 UTC  |  Edited by: Adela Talvanen
Abrazzar wrote:
Not with the game mechanics. Every system is in it's own space. And even if it were, you'd take a long while to go from system to system, even on warp speed.


Not so, IRL you could reach the Alpha Centauri system in a Eve rookie ship in 48 hours.
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#11 - 2014-10-31 14:05:10 UTC
Sol Project wrote:
The EVE Gate finally can be seen from every system again.

Mr. Data... set a course!
Warp 9!

Engage!


Thanks Sol. I did read this in Picard's voice.

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Jenn aSide
Soul Machines
The Initiative.
#12 - 2014-10-31 14:11:42 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Even if you were able to do this.. the session would never switch over, and you would be unable to do anything in system... ANYTHING!!!!!



It would be like finally getting to spend the night with Jessica Alba.. but being a blind quadruple amputee eunuch.



I'd still find a way.
Yourmoney Mywallet
Doomheim
#13 - 2014-10-31 14:43:28 UTC
No session change - no getting to a different star system.

Here is a video of a dude (Not Identified) flying to Jove space years ago. Thread is here: http://www.eve-search.com/thread/427523-0/page/1
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#14 - 2014-10-31 15:59:56 UTC
Technically we already have interstellar travel.

Each system is a different solar system and we can travel between them.

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Esan Vartesa
Samarkand Financial
#15 - 2014-10-31 17:46:13 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:

It would be like finally getting to spend the night with Jessica Alba.. but being a blind quadruple amputee eunuch.


I could still smell her...
Paynus Maiassus
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#16 - 2014-10-31 22:00:24 UTC
Brumortateu Rhadoshm wrote:
Is interstellar travel possible in EVE, or is the game not set up technically for that to be possible?

By interstellar travel I mean travelling through space to go from one star system to another. If I were to set a course and speed, and AFK for a few centuries, would I eventually arrive in another system? Can this be accomplished with jump drives? Can you use a jump drive to arrive in the middle of nowhere?


Every time I log into the Eve client I find myself 420 light years from Uranus. Does that count?
Vincent Athena
Photosynth
#17 - 2014-10-31 22:15:46 UTC
There was a time in Eve where you could deploy a scanner probe, have it find your own ship with a huge scan deviation, then warp to the spot it found. With sufficient warps, you would get to "Another star". At the time the solar system map opened by zooming in on a star from the star map. You could actually follow your progress as you flew from one star to another.

Someone did this (it took a long time) but when they got to the location of the other star,as shown on the star map, there was nothing to see in space. No session change, no new solar system. They made a video of it:

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

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Serene Repose
#18 - 2014-11-01 00:15:15 UTC
Is this the "There are no stupid questions, just stupid people who ask questions" thread?

I'd love to own a computer and monitor that would generate a map with this sort of capability. However, the walls of my vaulted ceiling home aren't large enough, and we need room inside the house for furniture, washer & dryer, that sort of thing.

As far as server side...maybe if we commandeered the NSA's mainframes we could loop them into one ...

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Adira Nictor
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#19 - 2014-11-01 11:50:15 UTC
Vincent Athena wrote:
There was a time in Eve where you could deploy a scanner probe, have it find your own ship with a huge scan deviation, then warp to the spot it found. With sufficient warps, you would get to "Another star". At the time the solar system map opened by zooming in on a star from the star map. You could actually follow your progress as you flew from one star to another.

Someone did this (it took a long time) but when they got to the location of the other star,as shown on the star map, there was nothing to see in space. No session change, no new solar system. They made a video of it:

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


A long long time ago, you could bookmark the system you were in, and warp to that bookmark. It would warp you in the direction you were facing for the total of your cap, people used to make some truly deep safe spots like that back then.
Harrison Tato
Yamato Holdings
#20 - 2014-11-01 12:11:36 UTC
Space is really big.
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