On http://www.junholt.se/evoschool/index.htm I saw a chart with all 5 Fulcrum Drivesplus the Mantis.
If I look at the Fulcrum C5 it says "Max Range : 5 Sectors " .
Does that mean I can jump 5 sectors away from my curent position? For eg., jumping from Sapphire directly to Aquila?
How do you do that?
Yesterday I tried a thing; I set my destination to a distant sector and activated the autopilot; what it happened it was that my autopilot started to do jumps in that direction setting waypoints at the max. range my fulcrum allowed, and jumping piece by piece each time the energy was at full.
After about 10 jump I found myself out in the dark,nothing around and when I saw the navmap,i was somewhere between two sectors.
As I was running low on fuel,I just loaded my last save.
You planned ahead well Sectors are the square 'sections' of space you see on the nav map (which are actually three dimensional cubes of space). You start in sector SX=0,SY=0,SZ=0 and when you move 'right' one square on the nav map, you are then in sector SX=1,SY=0,SZ=0 and so on. Solar systems are different and can take up several entire sectors. You can travel all the way from Sapphire to Aquila, but it will take a very long time using autopilot with a C5 jump drive. There are jump gates that help make travelling from charted solar system to solar system much faster, you just need to follow the gate network to the destination you want. Gates are represened by purple X's on the map, you can zoom in on them and hold the mouse pointer over their icon to retrieve their destination.
If you do wind up lost in deep space, another player can come rescue you online and bring fuel to you.
No you can't jump between systems in one jump. Thats far more than 5 sectors.
Check the Quadrant map. (You can fly all the way, but it takes many jumps)
Use the jumpgates (pink on map) instead. Instant jump between systems.
The C5 is a 5 sector jump drive.
When you do that kind of exploring, I suggest a big fueltank and a Build constructor/Deploy Constructor
so that you can refuel whenever you need to. It is VERY big and dark out there and many
things to discover.
When you talk about "Sectors" you mean Systems. Different thing.
A system has many sectors. About 200x200x200 sectors, but it varies.
Hope this helps a bit.
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You can configure how you want, but my exploring setup might help. I tend to use a Leviathon (just because I liked it Evochron Legends) with at least these equipment items:
This setup means that you can siphon free fuel off of stars and nebulas, or deploy a fuel processor, or build your own gas station/leave a marker of your travels.
I am not a great explorer like Seejay or Marvin, but I never run out of gas. That is the first thing to always remember!
Life is an illusion. Only shooting red things is real.
Thank you all for your quick and clear answers!
Now I understood that I was mistaking by not knowing what a sector is and what a sistem is.
Thank you again.
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