Once again, the boost exponent is your warp or hyperdrive throttle.
Step 1: Select target.
Step 2: Click on "hyperjump to" autopilot.
My list is a lot shorter than yours.
Oh... Step 3: Enjoy the trip.
Mind you, I don't bother with long intergalactic trips. I see no point to it. Takes too long, nothing to see.
Edit: Speaking of autopilot glitches, check out how long it will take me to orient myself prograde. :o
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Intergalactic trip in preparation
Whats the purpose of all these "grades"? I think it would be easier just to orient the ship manually and select what direction you want it to go in. With boost that's exactly what I was doing, I used it to throttle my speed so I could spend more time when in the target galaxy to enjoy the view. What did you think of the screenshots?Once again, the boost exponent is your warp or hyperdrive throttle.
Step 1: Select target.
Step 2: Click on "hyperjump to" autopilot.
My list is a lot shorter than yours.
Oh... Step 3: Enjoy the trip.
Mind you, I don't bother with long intergalactic trips. I see no point to it. Takes too long, nothing to see.
Edit: Speaking of autopilot glitches, check out how long it will take me to orient myself prograde. :o
Also, I thought you spend half the journey accelerating and the other half decelerating? My next project after this is to do an orbit around a supermassive black hole and later an orbit between two rings of a ringed planet. Too bad there are no collision algorithms programmed into SE, I'd love to see if I can avoid crashing into ring particles! Is going into Orbit pretty straightforward too? I think I might have inadvertently done it already when I stayed at around 15 km altitude for 48 hours lol. I guess you can go into orbit in Hor mode too?
I have less than 3.5 hours before I reach the target galaxy. Zooming right along lol.
Intergalactic trip in preparation
Wow that's the largest number I've ever seen in SE! Can you even accelerate time to a fast enough speed to get there in your lifetime?!Once again, the boost exponent is your warp or hyperdrive throttle.
Step 1: Select target.
Step 2: Click on "hyperjump to" autopilot.
My list is a lot shorter than yours.
Oh... Step 3: Enjoy the trip.
Mind you, I don't bother with long intergalactic trips. I see no point to it. Takes too long, nothing to see.
Edit: Speaking of autopilot glitches, check out how long it will take me to orient myself prograde. :o
Intergalactic trip in preparation
That's a lot of zeroes, isn't it?
Intergalactic trip in preparation
Looks like you need to invent a new number for it. Instead of a Googleplex why not call it an Alexplex?That's a lot of zeroes, isn't it?
Also, what is this burning hellscape I see to my left in this galaxy? Is this actually a nebula? It looks like it's on fire!
I tried to click on it to see what name came up in the HUD, however only the names of stars in the vicinity of it appeared.
Intergalactic trip in preparation
By the way you'll be happy to know my procedure worked to perfection today, I was able to exactly replicate the process needed to get everything lined up in preparation for going into warp! So glad I finally got the knack of it. Is getting into a stable orbit quickly as tricky as this or is it simpler? I actually love challenges so I like starting with more difficult things first. Besides these long intergalactic trips remind me of long plane trips I used to take with my parents when I was little, we would fly to Asia and Africa from New York and my longest plane trip was 30 hours! (We had to make an emergency landing right after takeoff because one of the engines was smoking in Amsterdam.)
Intergalactic trip in preparation
Hey fellow Alex, I guess I have no choice but to wait for Synch Velocity to line these markers up on the target? Or at least wait until they're closer together? Even though efficiency is already at 100%? I did a Rotate to Target yesterday when they weren't completely lined up (but they were close.....like a millimeter off lol.) And that was good enough for it to line everything up and I could Hyperjump. But when I tried it a little earlier than I did yesterday (by about an hour) even though the efficiency is at 100% instead of lining everything up, Rotate to Target switched off the target galaxy and onto where the Boost marker is! So I have to wait until the markers are closer than they are now but don't have to wait for them to be exactly superimposed? I guess I wait another hour then. I dont wait for them to be completely superimposed because they move slower the closer they get to each other lol.
Intergalactic trip in preparation
If you like a challenge, then ignoring what the numbers mean is a good way to go about it. The autopilot is trying to change the velocity of the ship with 12.2g engines by 32.62 light-years per second. That is not going to happen in your lifetime.
Intergalactic trip in preparation
Yeah but that's a bug lol, it's always like that right from the outset. Yesterday Rotate to Target fixed it when the two markers were approximately adjacent to each other.If you like a challenge, then ignoring what the numbers mean is a good way to go about it. The autopilot is trying to change the velocity of the ship with 12.2g engines by 32.62 light-years per second. That is not going to happen in your lifetime.
Intergalactic trip in preparation
This is what I have right now.... it doesn't matter if they're not parallel?
Intergalactic trip in preparation
The purple bug shows the direction you are travelling through space. Where you point your nose has no bearing on this (other than hyperdriove efficiency, or unless you are actively changing your vector). If the purple velocity vector bug is not on your target, you will miss it. Depends how close you want to get to it.
Intergalactic trip in preparation
The purple bug is on my target though. It's the pink that isn't So when I have just Sync velocity turned on I'm centered on the purple. But when I do Rotate to Target I'm centered on the pink marker. I'm in retrograde too. So should I just keep Sync Velocity selected and keep it centered on the purple marker or should I also select Rotate to Target which will center me on the pink marker?The purple bug shows the direction you are travelling through space. Where you point your nose has no bearing on this (other than hyperdriove efficiency, or unless you are actively changing your vector). If the purple velocity vector bug is not on your target, you will miss it. Depends how close you want to get to it.
The two seem to be getting closer with just Sync Velocity selected and being centered on the purple marker, so maybe just keep it there?
Compare the previous image to this one-- they are getting closer.
And why do I always start with this -32.62 ly/sec warp bug?!
Intergalactic trip in preparation
Pink? Maybe that's the problem... I see blue and purple. You see pink?
Intergalactic trip in preparation
Yeah Boost Factor 1 lol see it just to the right?
I figured it out I need to remove Rotate to Target from my process when the two circles aren't touching. I wasted so much time getting them to overlap. So I lost patience and went straight into Hyperjump and that removed the bug automatically AND rotated to target all on its own too.
I figured it out I need to remove Rotate to Target from my process when the two circles aren't touching. I wasted so much time getting them to overlap. So I lost patience and went straight into Hyperjump and that removed the bug automatically AND rotated to target all on its own too.
Intergalactic trip in preparation
edited to reflect changesLong intergalactic voyage procedure
1- aim ship engines at negative velocity vector bug until the markers move into alignment and it becomes positive and 100% efficiency is reached
2- select sync velocity to get the above markers to move closer to the target
3- select rotate to target to get all markers lined up on the target
4- select hyperjump to fix negative warp vector bug and recenter the target with all the markers and go into warp
5- select main engines as needed to accelerate to target
when approaching target hyperjump will turn off automatically but main engines will stay on......
6- slowly increase Boost exponent value to desired speed to journey through the galaxy
Doing the above my voyage from Earth to NGC 300 (6.70 MLy) yesterday took about 14 hours (getting all the markers lined up on the target was the first hour, warping there took an additional 13 hours.)
And then I spent another 4 hours or so journeying through the galaxy.....there was no central black hole but it was quite densely packed with stars!
I fell asleep around 2:30 AM again while it was still touring the galaxy, so I have to remember to end my trips before then.
*dispose of Step 3, and go right to Step 4 after Step 2, since Hyperjump will do both 3 and 4 together and from a greater distance than Step 3 will.
*dispose of Step 3, and go right to Step 4 after Step 2, since Hyperjump will do both 3 and 4 together and from a greater distance than Step 3 will.
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