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Side tracked

Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 7:00 am
by darkninjaoffear
Tonight I got bored of the system you start in and of wormholes, so i decided to send my ship out of the system, i got 565,112,120,171,969,904,640 light seconds away from the fighter barracks on the edge of the system. 565112120171969904640 light seconds is 17 trillion light millennia away, and the background hadn't changed a bit. Then my computer froze, fix the bug eh? :evil: :evil: :evil:

Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 9:22 am
by ace123
It has to do with the accuracy of the floating point numbers used for coordinates. Even double-precision (64-bit) floating points have their limitations :-(

Unfortuantely it is not easy to detect what happens when you go off so far into space.
You should still be able to hit "Escape" followed by "q" when it is frozen.

I know

Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 6:12 pm
by darkninjaoffear
I know but i find it funny that you can get that far away.

Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:51 am
by 2asueekim
He is trying to use the inter-system travel option when you can spec from one sys to another. This was billed as a new feature but seems to be turned off. How do you turn it back on? I'd like to do it too.

Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:46 am
by cap601
2asueekim wrote:He is trying to use the inter-system travel option when you can spec from one sys to another. This was billed as a new feature but seems to be turned off. How do you turn it back on? I'd like to do it too.
Check your thread on the topic.