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.

One Astronomical Unit is equal to about 5 light seconds, or around 149,597,871 kilometers.

That's 500 light seconds btw.

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.

480 light seconds.

1 AU is 8 lightminutes last time I checked.

This is why:

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.

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.

We seems to have lost CCP_Diagoras issuing random but canon facts about EvE data.

But at least we have gained CCP_Eterne issuing equally random but even more canon facts about EvE lore ;)

I calculated that for the Lore article originally!

I calculated that for the Lore article originally!

This goes a long way to validating my theory that i am, in fact, the "eternal noob" where this game is concerned...lol.

I always thought it would be cool if we could actually warp from star to star. Things we gain:

Ability to evade a gate camp, get a fleet into an enemy system in a new way.
Add stars to the game. Players could warp to a new star and build a stargate.
The space between stars is not empty. There are rouge planets out there, millions of inert comets and other debris slung out of solar systems. This would give the game new places to be, explore, harvest and build stuff.

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.