[geoschmo]

Originally posted by oleg:
Even though Earth is 3rd planet, one can argue that it is two, not three sectors away from Sol -
Mercury can be modeled as sitting on "top" of star. Thus you can rescale your calculations by 2/3

That is worth noting. It would affect any sort of calculation of the various distances for each sector. But doesn't affect my calculations for the speed of light in sectors. Since my calculations are based on the distance of Pluto to the Sun, and I am of course assuming that Pluto is 6 sectors from the Sun.

Originally posted by PvK:
Actually, you quoted me, not Fryon. I wasn't even addressing Fryon in that discussion, but Graeme Dice, who was saying that SE4 started out with faster-than-light drives (i.e., speed 6 would be greater than light).

This is an interesting academic question, but as long as there is no interstellar movement without instantaneous warp points, it's of course not practical at all, for gameplay reasons. SE4 maps and movement are hugely abstracted, and a ship that could move even 100 sectors per turn would er, change the gameplay quite a bit.

PvK

Sory about the misquote. Fixed it.

Yes a ship that could move 100 sectors would affect the game play just a bit. Assuming of course that the warp points were still there. But a ship capable of 100, or even a 1000 for that matter, sectors per month movement would still take many years to travel between systems without the warp points.

Even Light speed aint all that fast on a galactic scale.

Geoschmo