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Tauzer
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Posted - 2006.01.21 22:07:00 -
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While exploring systems using the scanner, I've noticed objects (abandoned ships and such) well outside the system. How did these get there?
To take an example, there is a Probe (the Minimatar ship) in the Hadozeko system that is around 10.5 au away from the outermost planet (in the direction away from the sun). All-inclusive scans reveal nothing around it. Back of the napkin calculations indicate that at 3 km/s it would take 16 or so years to reach there. It falls outside the perimeter formed by all the other objects in the system, so I see no way to get there by dropping a bookmark in warp. Maybe if the planets orbited, it would have been a fair bit closer to an object in the past, but from what I understand they don't.
So how did it get there? The only explanation I can think of is that there is or was some sort of deadspace complex type thing out there. Can anyone confirm this? Other thoughts?
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Dust Angel
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Posted - 2006.01.21 22:09:00 -
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Frezik
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Posted - 2006.01.21 22:19:00 -
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 Originally by: Tauzer
While exploring systems using the scanner, I've noticed objects (abandoned ships and such) well outside the system. How did these get there?
You used to be able to hit "bookmark system" and get a bookmark that was often way out of the normal system radius.
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Tauzer
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Posted - 2006.01.21 22:28:00 -
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Originally by: Frezik
You used to be able to hit "bookmark system" and get a bookmark that was often way out of the normal system radius.
How interesting. I take it this button is gone? Out of curiosity, did everyone who hit that button get the same far out bookmark, or were they different?
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Elve Sorrow
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Posted - 2006.01.21 22:36:00 -
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Originally by: Tauzer
How interesting. I take it this button is gone? Out of curiosity, did everyone who hit that button get the same far out bookmark, or were they different?
Everyone got the same bookmark, but the trick was that the bookmark you got wasnt actually a position, but more of a direction. Ie there wasnt any 'end' to it. I never bothered to try howfar you could actually warp, but even a capsule didnt have enough cap to make it to the bookmark, even using multiple warps. Back in the day, they were referred to as 'deepspace safespots', often 1000+ AU from the sun.
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Intrepid Traveller
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Posted - 2006.01.21 22:45:00 -
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Edited by: Intrepid Traveller on 21/01/2006 22:46:07
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Nekuva
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Posted - 2006.01.21 23:52:00 -
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Edited by: Nekuva on 21/01/2006 23:53:14
Yeah, before Exodus it was possible to make those extrasolar bookmarks. They really did warp you off in one direction forever. I made the mistake of using one once when I was in my pod (with it's incredible warp/cap ratio) and I was stuck in warp for close to 10 straight minutes and popped out somewhere around 3000 AU from the star.
Those were fun times. ha
edit: I can't spell tonight
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Airdorn
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Posted - 2006.01.22 07:35:00 -
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Edited by: Airdorn on 22/01/2006 07:38:52
They were known as the 'uber safespots'. It was a 'bug' in the game that everybody and their dog exploited in order to be truly safe. This was before scan probes and all that. People could smack it up endlessly without a care in the world. Logging there was basically as safe as logging in station.
WHole corps would leave their entire mining and NPC fleets out there with little care of being busted. We DID manage to bust a few of those spots, though, after many hours of hunting with the scanner and fast interceptors with dual MWD.
You would bookmark the solarsystem, and it would give you a 'warp to' option when you right-clicked the bookmark.
I once made the mistake of warping to the bookmark in a pod... 20 minutes later, I was over 1000 au from where I started, and every object in the solar system was piled on every other in the direction of the sun. ;)
I never reached the destination, though. There wasn't one. The distance my pod fell out of warp represented the true capacity of my pod capacitor. If anybody wants to know how far you can warp with a pod's capacitor, its about 1000 au's. :)
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