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Treena_Daal wrote:
To many people who refuse to wait, even when it can really add to the game experience.

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i like the EVE online system.

in eve, you ship had a warp drive that took you to just under the speed of light, and then there were jump gates that transported you between systems (some ships could have jump drives though)

the star systems were HUGE, spanning many astronomical units (one AU is the distance from theearth to the sun), and if you wanted you could travel with normal propulsion at about 3km/s (in a REALLY fast ship), but it would take you forever. to get around, you would hit your warp drive and move from one side of the system to the other in under a minute, watching as the stars and its planets fly past.

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Wulfman_GA wrote:

Well, space could be a bit bigger (and now there are all these mining asteroids as well). EReally weird to see them around Tatooine, even though movies never show them there ...

As for the hyperspace wait time, it would be cool, but of course I was also one who always liked the shuttle wiat times when they were 5 min as it was always good to have a chat at the starport ... oh well, I guess we will never see that hyperspace time, but if they follow the original post suggestion we could at least travel between stars for a lot longer if we wanted too

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Aserhe wrote:

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Wulfman_GA wrote:

Well, space could be a bit bigger (and now there are all these mining asteroids as well). EReally weird to see them around Tatooine, even though movies never show them there ...

As for the hyperspace wait time, it would be cool, but of course I was also one who always liked the shuttle wiat times when they were 5 min as it was always good to have a chat at the starport ... oh well, I guess we will never see that hyperspace time, but if they follow the original post suggestion we could at least travel between stars for a lot longer if we wanted too

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No no, not a bit, a lot bigger... I want to be able to go to another system through just driving on and on for 30 minutes... They could put in loading sectors in it but forcing everyship to hyperdrive is absurd...

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Not really absurd, but rather realistic. I don't know how far Naboo is from Corellia in the official Star Wars universe as envisioned by Lucas, but even if it were right next door on the galactic scale,it would still take impossibly long to travel from one system to another with justsublight engines. The McGuffin that Lucas uses for inergalactic travle (to get around the Einstienian model ofour physical universeas we know it) is the hyperdrive engine, and since we are playing in his universe, we play by his rules; We don't have Trekesque warp engines.

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Aserhe wrote:
Hyperdrives aren't supposed to be equipped on all ships are they?
That is if we go back to the Star Wars theory...

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