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Bloodburn	Posted - 2007.06.22 20:06:00 - [1] Is it possible to manually fly from one station to another. Or are space areas more like arenas. For example: if I was at an asteroid belt, and decided to just start flying in one direction torward a station, would it be possible, or would I hit an invisible wall and be forced to warp there?
Greel Driscol	Posted - 2007.06.22 20:12:00 - [2] i believe you would make it, but it will take a lifetime to do it.
Simon Jax Gallente Battlestars GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.06.22 20:15:00 - [3] Edited by: Simon Jax on 22/06/2007 20:14:02 You can do just that. However, it will be a very long boring trip. 1 AU is 14.5 million kilometers. At a speed of 5,000 m/s (5km/s) it will take you over 800 hours (14,500,000km / 5km/s * 3600s/hr) to fly just that 1 AU. Seems to me like I can find a better way to spend 33+ days. --Wherever you go, there you are.
Bloodburn	Posted - 2007.06.22 20:19:00 - [4] Thats good to know. I wanted to make sure that this game was really open and free, not just a bunch of invisible dungeon rooms in space. I like the realisim of knowing that if you wanted to fly manually somewhere, as if you were flying a shuttle of today. you could. This also means that ships can be any size, they might even make ships bigger than titans if there is no real size limit in space!
Simon Jax Gallente Battlestars GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.06.22 20:25:00 - [5] Well, there is somewhat of a limit. While there are no 'walls' per se space is broken down into grids. A grid is something like 250km wide. If you drop a jet-can and fly directly away from it, after a while it will disappear from your overview (and space). Grids tend to center themselves around the first object spawned, so it's not a true 'grid'. If you are flying with someone, it's pretty much impossible to end up in different grids unless you are around 250km apart. --Wherever you go, there you are.
Bloodburn	Posted - 2007.06.22 20:30:00 - [6] Well yea, it would have to dissapear from your view, like in any mmo it cant display everything everywhere. So what you are saying is they will never be able to create a ship bigger than 250km wide? cause if it did it would take up 2 grids?
Simon Jax Gallente Battlestars GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.06.22 20:46:00 - [7] Originally by: Bloodburn Well yea, it would have to dissapear from your view, like in any mmo it cant display everything everywhere. So what you are saying is they will never be able to create a ship bigger than 250km wide? cause if it did it would take up 2 grids? Never say never. They probably couldn't with their current setup, due to the grid thing. But in theory it would just be a matter of resetting the 'draw distance' sometime down the road. Of course, 250km would be one ****-all big ship and the Titans are rather oppresively large as it is, y'know! --Wherever you go, there you are.
Bloodburn	Posted - 2007.06.22 20:49:00 - [8] if a grid is 250km, how big is a titan length wise?
balrus	Posted - 2007.06.22 21:47:00 - [9] Around 15-20 km
Billy Sastard Amarr Life. Universe. Everything. Hydra Alliance	Posted - 2007.06.22 21:50:00 - [10] I think that the grids are actually closer to 500km across (maybe even 600). To see this, get into a really fast ship, go to some gate and fly away from it till it disappears, then fly back toward it until it re-appears. Drop a jetcan there, then fly past the gate in the other direction. Your can will dissapear at something like 500km i think? I remember messing with this a while ago, but cannot remember what i came up with for the actual size, but i do belive its larger than 250 by quite a bit. As for the size of a titan? I think they are like 30-40km? -=^=-
Tamaara Amarr East Khanid Trading	Posted - 2007.06.22 22:12:00 - [11] Originally by: Simon Jax Edited by: Simon Jax on 22/06/2007 20:14:02 You can do just that. However, it will be a very long boring trip. 1 AU is 14.5 million kilometers. At a speed of 5,000 m/s (5km/s) it will take you over 800 hours (14,500,000km / 5km/s * 3600s/hr) to fly just that 1 AU. Seems to me like I can find a better way to spend 33+ days. After 90 years you could get beyond 999 AU from the system. That would be a really good safe spot! Recruitment Thread EKT Website
Laurens Boekhorst Interstellar Shipyards	Posted - 2007.06.22 22:19:00 - [12] Selling bookmarks of those SS'ses would be a billion ISK business! -- A little trust goes a long way - the less you trust, the further you'll go.
Sandeep	Posted - 2007.06.23 01:41:00 - [13] Originally by: Bloodburn Is it possible to manually fly from one station to another. Yes, tried and true between the two Jita 4-4 stations. ----- Tip #2: Space is not safe, no matter where you are.
Gaius Sejanus Gallente Federal Navy Academy	Posted - 2007.06.23 08:33:00 - [14] Edited by: Gaius Sejanus on 23/06/2007 08:33:14 Quote: 1 AU is 14.5 million kilometers. At a speed of 5,000 m/s (5km/s) it will take you over 800 hours (14,500,000km / 5km/s * 3600s/hr) to fly just that 1 AU. Seems to me like I can find a better way to spend 33+ days. Actually, 1 AU is just short of 150 million kilometers. So, going 1 AU at 5 km/s would in fact take over 347 days....and that's factoring in a 24 hour travel time, which is impossible in EVE. Since you lose an hour a day to downtime, you'd be looking at adding at least a few extra days on top of that to compensate.
Falka Lakadaka	Posted - 2007.06.23 11:36:00 - [15] Originally by: Gaius Sejanus Edited by: Gaius Sejanus on 23/06/2007 08:33:14 Quote: So, going 1 AU at 5 km/s would in fact take over 347 days....and that's factoring in a 24 hour travel time, which is impossible in EVE. Since you lose an hour a day to downtime, you'd be looking at adding at least a few extra days on top of that to compensate. Not to mention the fact that you'd warp off each DT and come back to where you were.....you'd have to log in right after DT to start your journey again. And as to the question of "How big is a Titan?" Ask BoB, the answer might be "not as big as it used to be".
Easy Target Minmatar Black Nova Corp Band of Brothers	Posted - 2007.06.23 11:45:00 - [16] You cant manually fly to a different solar system though They are effecively a different server, so need to "load" via using a gate You used to be able to randomly warp direction and on the map you would appear in another system, but because you hadnt loaded it you were still in your original system. Other than that, knock yourself out. i would probably recommend another PC and account though. :) ----------------------------------------------- No i'm not good... but i have never claimed to be --------------------
bellator militaris	Posted - 2007.06.23 12:14:00 - [17] Reflecting on Time and Space here is a good place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-year The Andromeda Galaxy (IPA: /ˌµnˈdrɒmədə/, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224; This Galaxy is the closest to our Galaxy a mere 2.4 light years away. So get out your Slide Ruler and figure how long in years it would take you to get to the Andromeda Galaxy at say the "Speed of Light" Good Luck. Bellator Militaris SPQR
Barashi Nugan	Posted - 2007.06.23 15:19:00 - [18] Originally by: bellator militaris Reflecting on Time and Space here is a good place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-year The Andromeda Galaxy (IPA: /ˌµnˈdrɒmədə/, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224; This Galaxy is the closest to our Galaxy a mere 2.4 light years away. So get out your Slide Ruler and figure how long in years it would take you to get to the Andromeda Galaxy at say the "Speed of Light" Good Luck. Bellator Militaris SPQR I'm going to go out on a limb here and say, "2.4 years?".
Gaius Sejanus Gallente Federal Navy Academy	Posted - 2007.06.23 20:03:00 - [19] Quote: Reflecting on Time and Space here is a good place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-year The Andromeda Galaxy (IPA: /ˌµnˈdrɒmədə/, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224; This Galaxy is the closest to our Galaxy a mere 2.4 light years away. 2.4 light years would be closer to Earth than Alpha Centauri is...and Alpha Centauri is the closest star to our system, at aproximately 4 light years. Andromeda is actually 2.5 MILLION light years away. Quote: So get out your Slide Ruler and figure how long in years it would take you to get to the Andromeda Galaxy at say the "Speed of Light" Good Luck. Yea, that's a toughy...2.5 million light years, and the speed of light. Could it be, 2.5 million years? At the above hypothetical 5 km/s however, this would take quite a bit longer. 1 light year is 9,460,528,400,000 kilometers. So Andromeda is 23,651,321,000,000,000,000 kilometers away. That's 149,897,131,300 years. By the time you made that trip, earth would cease to exist, having been absorbed into the mass of the Sun when it turned red giant, 144 billion years before.
Stan Smith	Posted - 2007.06.24 04:15:00 - [20] i once flew in my raptor with a microwarpdrive (3 some odd km/s) from one station to another station 20,000km away... it took about 3 hours. it's possible, and very boring.
Umamasyean	Posted - 2007.06.24 04:31:00 - [21] Can you make a POS somewhere in between objects to "hide" it? What if you make somewhere in the middle of a "standard warp path", will a warping player see it as he zooms past? Or will it just not show because it won't "load"?
Project Viper Caldari The Stoned Hippies	Posted - 2007.06.24 04:48:00 - [22] Originally by: Umamasyean Can you make a POS somewhere in between objects to "hide" it? What if you make somewhere in the middle of a "standard warp path", will a warping player see it as he zooms past? Or will it just not show because it won't "load"? No a POS can only be anchored at a moon. And its still limited to one certain warp in point, you can't warp to a moon and then fly up and above the moon to place the POS. I tried and it would not let me. And no when in warp, its the same as stations, you'll go right by it and never see it. Your signature exceeds the maximum file width of 400px - Tallan ([email protected])
Jack Rowanburn	Posted - 2007.06.24 10:10:00 - [23] Also it's worth noting that with this openness you can explore to find hidden belts etc, or try to find that pesky pirate who's sitting on his safe spot in the middle of nowhere.

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