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cliveindyHere's an interest file, how accurate the info is I have no idea, big pinch of salt required.Cliveindy

<t>cliveindyWhen I first started playing Frontier the Stardream timer caused me most problems, crashing into planets etc, until I came up with a rule of thumb, Keep the 2nd Digit from the left of the Distance ticking over at about one a second. This works even better in Pioneer, very smooth flight ...

<t>cliveindyGood point. That capturing, to complex for the lone pilot.It was just a few musings around the in system jumps. Which seems to me remove something of the space flight part of things.I would have no problem flying out to the jump in point, to make a jump out of the system, same gravity ...

<t>cliveindy If you jump inside a system the gravity well of the main body would affect the results, in the same way as jumping into the system from another star system. How about some form of interplanetary drive booster with x2? x4? acceleration, it would use huge amounts of fuel, and an advanced ...