X3AP Flying -all- the way to the surface of earth!
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X3AP Flying -all- the way to the surface of earth!
I started as a humble merchant, after several hours i had a few mercury freighters automatically making me money all around argon space, but i wanted to start buying some big mean ships, so i had time to kill while the money piled up. Hopped into my tuned up discoverer raider and flew all the way from argon prime to earth. Took a while. So got to earth for the first time and was surprised to find nothing but the planet, and the destroyed ring space station. It was at this time I decided to test whether or not sectors have boundaries, as it turns out. They do not.
About 1925 km from the jump gate to earth I crashed in the pacific ocean, and by crashed I mean slipped through a collision-less facade, So yes, you can fly to earth, no you cant land because its not corporeal unfortunately. the effects of that ring being destroyed were greater than we realized! Earth is a ghost!
Anyway, just thought someone might find that interesting
About 1925 km from the jump gate to earth I crashed in the pacific ocean, and by crashed I mean slipped through a collision-less facade, So yes, you can fly to earth, no you cant land because its not corporeal unfortunately. the effects of that ring being destroyed were greater than we realized! Earth is a ghost!
Anyway, just thought someone might find that interesting
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Actually, sectors DO have boundaries. If you weren't killed then just keep flying and you will end up back where you started. That is if you are flying say, west to east, you will eventually end back up west. Ditto north/south etc.
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@ drediker: This is interesting - "I crashed in the pacific ocean ... I mean slipped through a collision-less facade"
That means that the programmer decided not to give Earth planet an atmosphere boundary beyond which you would be gradually but inevitably destroyed before you got to the 'planet surface' IS in vanilla. I expect that is a legacy of X3TC where there was no need for an atmosphere layer because the Orbital Lasers would get you first if you went 'out of bounds' from the permitted access lane.
A good find!
That means that the programmer decided not to give Earth planet an atmosphere boundary beyond which you would be gradually but inevitably destroyed before you got to the 'planet surface' IS in vanilla. I expect that is a legacy of X3TC where there was no need for an atmosphere layer because the Orbital Lasers would get you first if you went 'out of bounds' from the permitted access lane.
A good find!
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There is nothing really there either, so not many reasons for a player to spend much time there. Most likely wasn't even thought about.Alan Phipps wrote: I expect that is a legacy of X3TC where there was no need for an atmosphere layer because the Orbital Lasers would get you first if you went 'out of bounds' from the permitted access lane.
A good find!
I guess you could build a complex, but without jumpgates, it is to far out.
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Okay, I've got my hammer, screwdriver and wrench. Where do I start?EnderIII wrote:Building a new "Torus" massive complex ringing the Earth would be a neat project.
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