I got a question, are there any boundary's to the space of a star system?

I mean can i use my impulse engines to move from one star-gate to the other?

Not that i would do this cause i would take extremely long to get there. But is this actually possible? Or do star systems have a boundary, an edge of a map of some sort?

There are no boundries persay. Some people use to have bookmarks in a system that in theory took them to the middle of jovian space. However because you couldn't effect a session change without jumping a gate they never left their own system, even though they warped multiple light years.

You would never actually be in the system. In other words, because of the session change mechanic every solar system is effectively the only solar system in the universe without session changes. The things that systems have relative to each other is the stars in the background and the new nebulae. Before those were implemented each system essentially worked independently from all the others with the only things tying them together being the old, constellation wide nebulae, the constellation attribute itself and the region attribute.

Now, after Crucible, it seems the systems communicate with each other more, or at least have the illusion of being connected by the devs having used a script to generate star positions and gate angles and the whole system is just a list of static data for each solar system. But on the other hand we now have jump drive effects that shoot you off in the direction of the target system.

Either way my point is that without session change your solar system might as well be alone in the universe so without it you'll only ever see the stuff in your system.

Now, after Crucible, it seems the systems communicate with each other more, or at least have the illusion of being connected by the devs having used a script to generate star positions and gate angles and the whole system is just a list of static data for each solar system. But on the other hand we now have jump drive effects that shoot you off in the direction of the target system.

Either way my point is that without session change your solar system might as well be alone in the universe so without it you'll only ever see the stuff in your system.

(this is majorly simplified so dont take this as me saying it was easy)

for alinement of stargates and the placement of the new nebulae, CCP just used the existing co-ordinance system of their universe and scaled and placed the images accordingly. my only gripe about the nebulae is that you can never get "behind" them, you see the same side regardless of location, the scale is all that changes.

but the others are right, you might as well be in a different universe without a session change. would be super cool if you could slowboat your way to another systme

It's only an immersion breaker if you make it one, really. With the limit of 20 AU on bookmarks, it would take a very very long time to actually get to where another system should be.

Also, if you want a lore reason... how about the long trip there, time dilation happens, you've 'traveled' 500 years in the future, star has exploded because of falcon. Or nova-bombs. Or nova-falcons.

Reminds me of the guy who slowboated to jove space
and even provided screenshots of it ...

Thx for the info.
Not that i was planing on doing such a thing. because the distances are huge. and time is short.
And time dilation should prevent warping to a noter solar-system in the first place. because everybody will be 500 years dead by the time you'd get there. So it is kind of logical that the system is empty then.

Hmmmm kind of imersive when you think of it that way.

I know back in the day you could stack MWD's and get some insane speeds but are you sure this was a slowboat? Originally you also used to be able to manually make bookmarks by right clicking in the map, are you sure this wasn't the actual method?

Hmmm. thx for clearing that up. bit of a immersion breaker tho....

O well....... it is just a game

There is now a limit on bookmarks at 20AU farther from the star than the farthest celestial object. But once you go to that BM you can point away from the star and keep slow boating... forever. You will never get to anther star though, the game does not have code for slow boating or warping to another star.

But it would be interesting if it did, at least for warping. Say you wanted to warp to another star. You select a planet or bookmark in that system, warp. You get a warning "Commit to xx hour long warp? You cannot undo this". select yes and off you go. Once you are outside that 20 AU boundary, you are removed from the starting system, and are not added back into the new one until you cross the 20AU boundary of the destination system.

Why? It allows a new way to invade a solar system that needs neither gate or cyno, but instead commitment of time.

Also CCP could add new solar systems and have us players warp to them and set up the stargates. Actual discovery, exploration and settlement of new stars.

There is now a limit on bookmarks at 20AU farther from the star than the farthest celestial object. But once you go to that BM you can point away from the star and keep slow boating... forever. You will never get to anther star though, the game does not have code for slow boating or warping to another star.

But it would be interesting if it did, at least for warping. Say you wanted to warp to another star. You select a planet or bookmark in that system, warp. You get a warning "Commit to xx hour long warp? You cannot undo this". select yes and off you go. Once you are outside that 20 AU boundary, you are removed from the starting system, and are not added back into the new one until you cross the 20AU boundary of the destination system.

Why? It allows a new way to invade a solar system that needs neither gate or cyno, but instead commitment of time.

Also CCP could add new solar systems and have us players warp to them and set up the stargates. Actual discovery, exploration and settlement of new stars.

While this would indeed be very neat, there's another in-game obstacle.

Warping requires cap, where the longer the distance of the warp, the greater the cap needed. With good skills this is rarely an issue when warping within a solar system, but most ships won't get you further than about 100AU even on a full capacitor.

So you'd still have to align, warp, stop, recharge cap, and repeat. This would drastically increase travel time, not to mention preventing you from doing it AFK.

There is now a limit on bookmarks at 20AU farther from the star than the farthest celestial object. But once you go to that BM you can point away from the star and keep slow boating... forever. You will never get to anther star though, the game does not have code for slow boating or warping to another star.

But it would be interesting if it did, at least for warping. Say you wanted to warp to another star. You select a planet or bookmark in that system, warp. You get a warning "Commit to xx hour long warp? You cannot undo this". select yes and off you go. Once you are outside that 20 AU boundary, you are removed from the starting system, and are not added back into the new one until you cross the 20AU boundary of the destination system.

Why? It allows a new way to invade a solar system that needs neither gate or cyno, but instead commitment of time.

Also CCP could add new solar systems and have us players warp to them and set up the stargates. Actual discovery, exploration and settlement of new stars.

There is now a limit on bookmarks at 20AU farther from the star than the farthest celestial object. But once you go to that BM you can point away from the star and keep slow boating... forever. You will never get to anther star though, the game does not have code for slow boating or warping to another star.

But it would be interesting if it did, at least for warping. Say you wanted to warp to another star. You select a planet or bookmark in that system, warp. You get a warning "Commit to xx hour long warp? You cannot undo this". select yes and off you go. Once you are outside that 20 AU boundary, you are removed from the starting system, and are not added back into the new one until you cross the 20AU boundary of the destination system.

Why? It allows a new way to invade a solar system that needs neither gate or cyno, but instead commitment of time.

Also CCP could add new solar systems and have us players warp to them and set up the stargates. Actual discovery, exploration and settlement of new stars.