From post: 136923, Topic: tid=9187, author=Maarschalk wrote:So traveling from Saphire to Sol on inertia at speeds of around 5000 will take you about half a year real time?
That is relatively short compared to if it was a real life time simulation!....:P
If this was real life, the first thing you'd need to do is find out how you wound up in a star system called Sapphire.
From post: 136934, Topic: tid=9187, author=Marvin wrote:
From post: 136923, Topic: tid=9187, author=Maarschalk wrote:So traveling from Saphire to Sol on inertia at speeds of around 5000 will take you about half a year real time?
That is relatively short compared to if it was a real life time simulation!....:P
If this was real life, the first thing you'd need to do is find out how you wound up in a star system called Sapphire.
That is relatively easy if you ask me! I can't speak for any one else!.....:P
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From post: 136923, Topic: tid=9187, author=Maarschalk wrote:So traveling from Saphire to Sol on inertia at speeds of around 5000 will take you about half a year real time?
That is relatively short compared to if it was a real life time simulation!....:P
Half a year? Nah. I'm 4/5 of the way, and it took me a month (no flying on weekends though). In real life this should have easily taken 30 years (at 1x light speed).
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From post: 136941, Topic: tid=9187, author=Marvin wrote: Well, I've searched the Web over and can't find a star system named Sapphire. Maybe it's been lost, along with the city of Atlantis.
Or more likely, the year is 2400 something, and back in 2012 it wasn't named yet. We can deduce how far away from earth it must be. We could also calculate the speed of our spacecraft quite accurately. We know the distance between Sol and Sirius in real life is 8.6 lj. Set speed to 5000 all the way and find out how long it takes you. Distance/time = speed. So it should be possible to figure out which system sapphire is back in 2012. :oWow I am a NERD.
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Hey Marv; "The stars, when considered as semi-precious stones". Think it was in a sci-fi book, or more probably in a short-story/novella omnibus, way back "when". Main character was a clandestine member of sorts, of the "Thieves Guild". The "Stars-as-stones" theme was the basis of their "communication" system. Had to know the "star/stone-of-the-month" in order to encrypt/decrypt messages. Sapphire, Onyx, Emerald, Agate, and the Pearl all fill the bill, at least in the "universe" we fly here. Just a trivia chunk.
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From post: 137008, Topic: tid=9187, author=MentalParadox wrote:
From post: 136923, Topic: tid=9187, author=Maarschalk wrote:So traveling from Saphire to Sol on inertia at speeds of around 5000 will take you about half a year real time?
That is relatively short compared to if it was a real life time simulation!....:P
Half a year? Nah. I'm 4/5 of the way, and it took me a month (no flying on weekends though). In real life this should have easily taken 30 years (at 1x light speed).
In your previous posts you said you travelled 50 days straight and gone from Saphire through different systems and was almost 33% of your way to Orion or was that Sol? If it was Orion then to Orion it would take you 150 days! If it was Sol then to Sol would take you 150 days. But looking at the Coordinates of Saphire, Orion and Sol none of the calculations seems to make sense!.....:P
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From post: 137014, Topic: tid=9187, author=Maarschalk wrote:
From post: 137008, Topic: tid=9187, author=MentalParadox wrote:
From post: 136923, Topic: tid=9187, author=Maarschalk wrote:So traveling from Saphire to Sol on inertia at speeds of around 5000 will take you about half a year real time?
That is relatively short compared to if it was a real life time simulation!....:P
Half a year? Nah. I'm 4/5 of the way, and it took me a month (no flying on weekends though). In real life this should have easily taken 30 years (at 1x light speed).
In your previous posts you said you travelled 50 days straight and gone from Saphire through different systems and was almost 33% of your way to Orion or was that Sol? If it was Orion then to Orion it would take you 150 days! If it was Sol then to Sol would take you 150 days. But looking at the Coordinates of Saphire, Orion and Sol none of the calculations seems to make sense!.....:P
I can't really remember when I set out exactly. April 9 probably, because I started my journey 3 days after installing the game.
I tend to fly for 17 hours every day (6 at night, 11 during the day). I also tend not to fly on weekends. Too many other games begging for my attention, and several beta weekends of my favorite MMO's. My speed is usually 4500 or 5000 for the duration of a stint. Currently, I'm 4400 sectors out (on the z axis only). Almost there =)
What's weird is that I entered the zone called "Mars" somewhere at SZ:4200, 800 sectors 'north' of the Sol system...
[Edited on 15-5-2012 by MentalParadox]
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From post: 137218, Topic: tid=9187, author=MentalParadox wrote:What's weird is that I entered the zone called "Mars" somewhere at SZ:4200, 800 sectors 'north' of the Sol system...
The changeover point from one star system ("zone") to another is halfway between the two nearest planets. So, for example, if two planets are 1,500 sectors apart (and no other planets are in between or closer), the swap point will be at 750 sectors.
with respect to Dick's quote: "All this writing about space travel is utter bilge."
— Sir Richard Woolley, Astronomer Royal of Britain, 1956
He perhaps wasn't too far off since all we've managed on manned missions is a handful of eye wateringly expensive trips to the Moon (right next door) in 50 years :P:P:P
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From post: 137228, Topic: tid=9187, author=DaveK wrote:Hi Mentalparadox.
with respect to Dick's quote: "All this writing about space travel is utter bilge."
— Sir Richard Woolley, Astronomer Royal of Britain, 1956
He perhaps wasn't too far off since all we've managed on manned missions is a handful of eye wateringly expensive trips to the Moon (right next door) in 50 years :P:P:P
Yep. And the only reason 'we' managed that is because of two megalomaniac superpowers that absolutely wanted to beat one another. Depressing.
\"All this writing about space travel is utter bilge.\"
— Sir Richard Woolley, Astronomer Royal of Britain, 1956
Congratulations - there is a satisfaction in doing something "the hard way" just to show that it can be done!
I like the quote from Neil Armstrong as well . . . "landed on the moon - which looked disappointingly undetailed (and small!!)"
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From post: 137482, Topic: tid=9187, author=DaveK wrote:Congratulations - there is a satisfaction in doing something "the hard way" just to show that it can be done!
I like the quote from Neil Armstrong as well . . . "landed on the moon - which looked disappointingly undetailed (and small!!)"
:P:P
Yeah lol, that one is going down in history as the most depressing famous quote ever.
\"All this writing about space travel is utter bilge.\"
— Sir Richard Woolley, Astronomer Royal of Britain, 1956
:P
If this was real life, the first thing you'd need to do is find out how you wound up in a star system called Sapphire. 
Well, I've searched the Web over and can't find a star system named Sapphire. Maybe it's been lost, along with the city of Atlantis.
:P:P:P
