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Tiffy Rando
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Joined: January 19, 2003
Posts: 354
From: Austin, Texas
|  Posted: 2005-06-07 19:57
Well, here's the Data Red,
I crossed 7634709.0 gu.
Between the planet Arges in Kapytens Star, and Nebon, in Struuve.
I did it in exactly 1 hour, 3 minutes, and 25 seconds minus 8 minutes for the stops.
Using a basic ICC engineer with a standard Tachyon drve, and a reload.
Does this prove that Jump Drive velocities need to be faster?
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Doran
Chief Marshal
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Joined: March 29, 2003
Posts: 4032
From: The Gideon Unit
| Posted: 2005-06-07 20:03
that does seem kinda slow, tachy nonwithstanding. and no gates either?
so.. about 3325 seconds jumping.. just under 2300gu/s, thought tachy was up around 2500..
[ This Message was edited by: Doran on 2005-06-07 20:05 ]
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Joined: March 23, 2003
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From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2005-06-08 14:10
yikes thats a long time
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c0ld
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Joined: June 24, 2003
Posts: 342
From: UK
| Posted: 2005-06-08 14:28
Huh? Thats about 350 multiples of c!
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Beast
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Joined: May 27, 2002
Posts: 345
From: Wouldnt you like to know
| Posted: 2005-06-08 21:27
Lots of space out there !!! dont waste it all 
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Antdizzle
Joined: February 07, 2003
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| Posted: 2005-06-08 21:40
I don't think it is too long. Imagine trying to invade a system an hour away, you wouldn't want to lose a ship then.  As long as we have wormholes then we will be find. And if they take away jumpgates and wormholes then we will be invading one system at a time.
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Binks
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Joined: November 28, 2003
Posts: 469
| Posted: 2005-06-08 22:36
It's random math time...lets see, the moon (beta) is what, 100-150gu from earth? I'm going with 100gu...in RL the moon is 384,400 km...that makes 1gu about 384km give or take some...light travels 299792km/s so about 781gu/s should be light speed. So a tachyon drive would then carry our ships at about 3x the speed of light, or for star trek fans warp 1.3 or so (warp 1=light speed, warp 2=8 x the speed of light)...interesting...I personally agree with something trekkie mentioned to me, instead of just upping tachy's speed make it accelerate...like for the first 10-20 sec. of a jump you'd go currest speed (as well as the last 10-20 seconds, all these numbers are first and last) then the next 10-20 seconds you'd go 2x current speed (cut off by the end, as you need to decelerate), the next 10-20 would be 3x speed etc. This should also apply to the other FTL drives...that way small, in-system jumps would be the same time there are now, but system-system jumps would be much faster...oh and btw, my math is probably a bit off...I'd say an error margin of warp 1.2-1.6 or so...)
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Tael
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| Posted: 2005-06-08 23:07
I wanted to do something like that, but not really possible without ramping the speed over a longer time...
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Doran
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From: The Gideon Unit
| Posted: 2005-06-09 10:02
wasnt a suggestion about a variable speed JD tossed around? i recall someone suggesting that short jumps wouldnt be very fast, but the longer the jump the more time's available for acceleration/deacceleration and basically you'd be able to jump faster between systems than intra-system jumping
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ADM Saver
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| Posted: 2005-06-10 19:28
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On 2005-06-08 22:36, Binks wrote:
It's random math time...lets see, the moon (beta) is what, 100-150gu from earth? I'm going with 100gu...in RL the moon is 384,400 km...that makes 1gu about 384km give or take some...light travels 299792km/s so about 781gu/s should be light speed. So a tachyon drive would then carry our ships at about 3x the speed of light.......................
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Interesting idea. Time for more random math. (Yay!)
Ok. So you are saying (based on the accel. idea.) that for a ship to go an ex. 5000 gu, it would take (y) time. To go 100000 gu it would take (y) x acceleraion rate.
This would make long distance travels alot easier yet it would keep short trips in the same amount of time.
I like it!
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