I would like to raise some discussion of FTL travel. I admit (again) that I'm not that practiced with the game, but I was trying to work through some voyages, and some things jumped out at me. Please correct me where I'm wrong, as I walk through this from KH.<br /><br />How long does it take to travel between systems? I was looking at Lossend to Clarion, and I see the following. It's 10 LY between them, so the navigator has to spend 10 10-hour shifts working out the route. <br />- really? That long?<br />- Can he be assisted? Can an assistant work the 10-hour shift when the astrogator sleeps?<br />- Can he turn the whole thing over to a computer, assuming it has a big enough program?<br />- Can he work on this while speeding up to jump speed, and does he have to be in his origin system to do it?<br />- How much of this could be automated? Can the astrogator just pay for a supercomputer at a spaceport to do some or all of the work, and just upload the data?<br /><br />How long to get into Void speed? At ADF 1, reaching 200 hexes/turn will take 200 turns, or 33.33 hours. Then the ship will be in Void space, for "a few seconds" and then need 200 turns to decelerate in its origins system. That's a bit more than 3 standard days, and certainly not 1 day per LY. With these numbers, it's irrelevant how far the distance is, it's all dependant on the ADF of the ship.<br /><br />As I see it, the most time-consuming element of FTL travel is the number-crunching before the ship even leaves dock.<br /><br />Opinions? Information?<br />
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