Update on progress!

Well, not been updating the Blog or Forum much recently.

We are at a stage where we can now almost fly directly from one solar system to the next. As we enter the next system, all the new planet data is created. First off is to determine if the system has a local Star/Sun. If so then create upto 50 planets in the system, set the Sun type and colour too.

We also have the Final scale of the players universe finally established. This was impossible to calculate until we had finally decided on Scale Down factors and alike. So basically 1 computer unit = 1 tenth of a km. ie 10units = 1.0km. Therefore our game universe = +/- 1 x 10^35km

ie +/- 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 km

To get an idea of this HUGE size, consider the distance of Earth from our Sun, see below...

= 152,100,000 km Distance To Earth From Sun
= 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 km Distance Across Game Universe

Now consider that the player can move in increments as low as about 10cm per frame, it would take many life times for the player to go from one end to the next at this slow speed! :-)

Luckily for us there is a technology in the game world call M.E.H.O.D (Mass Event Horizon Oscillating Drive) drives which run off Tasnium Cystal Cells as their power source. The Tasnium Cystals can be degraded to pure energy converting almost 100% of their Mass to Energy. This much power allows the creation of small Warps in Time/Space to temperally connect two nearby points in space/time A+B together, which the players ship then travel through. Although each Join in Space/Time is only in the region of upto 1km and is a Micro join and invisible to the naked eye, through the use of the Oscillating drive thousands of these Warps are created per second allowing the players ship to effectively seem to travel Faster Than Light (FTL).

Start At A =A+B+C+D+E+F+G+H+I+J = Destination = 10km in a millionth of a second! Although the actual ship still only moved at Less than light speed therefore obeying the laws of relativity and alike.

I hope this all made sense to you all, I will post more technical details at a later date. This is just a teaser to give you an idea of the propulsion system employed by Space Unlimited Space Ships.