Tradelane speed

[Luis]

Last time i was checking in the files. Is 3,000 km/s

I agree with Equanimitee.

[jxie93]

Last time i was checking in the files. Is 3,000 km/s

I agree with Equanimitee.

Damn that's fast. So it's still sublight speed then, because I've heard other wise.

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[Sprolf]

No.
It's supraluminal. Just check the infocard.
It is supraluminal speeds... which would obviously entail that the "k" of Freelancer - which has never been clearly defined! - is not equal to a kilometer.


Your HUD speed indicator goes --- at 1000 k/s.
I'd assume that's because 1000 k/s is supraluminal. After that, it can't measure speed because it's going over the speed of light, which would probably make your average speed indicator not work well.

So, with that, we can imagine that the k refers to the fact that each k is one one-thousandth of the speed of light.
So... from here on out, we'll call "k" "Freelancer-k" so we don't get it mixed up with Kilometres.



Speed in Freelancer is measured by the time traveled in a second.

Tradelanes reach 3000 Freelancer-k a second, and that is supraluminal speed. (Above "c"... which is the abbreviation for "Speed of Light.") The measurement in the HUD cuts out at 1000 Freelancer-k.

This is a sketchy reason here, but given the k - which easily means one thousand - and this fact about the speed measurement, I'm going to assume that 1000k is the speed of light. (Which would consequently mean that certain projectiles can't exist, but that's another topic, hehe. There was nothing that fast in Vanilla, perhaps for a reason - we're shooting 800 speed projectiles that are lasers and whatnot, so that would be near lightspeed. Logical? I think so.)

Time to crunch the numbers and find out what Freelancer's "k" really means...


Given:

c = Speed of Light
k = Kilometre
m = Metre
fk = Freelancer's "k"

Also given that:

c/s = 299,792.458 k
...... c/s = 299,792,458 m
c/s = 1000 fk
...... (c/s)/1000 = fk



( c/s = 299,792.458 k/s = 299,792,458 m/s = 1000 fk/s )

So.

( c/s = 299,792.458 k/s = 299,792,458 m/s = 1000 fk/s ) / 1000/s =
( [c/s]/1000 = 299.792 k = 299,792.458 m = 1 fk )

1 fk = 299.792 k




Non-Math-Person-Version:

Given:

The speed of light per second (c/s) = 299,792.458 kilometres per second (k/s)
...... So, the speed of light per second (c/s) = 299,792,458 metres (m/s)
The speed of light per second (c/s) = 1000 Freelancer-k (1000 fk)
...... So, one-thousandth of the Speed of Light Per Second ( [c/s]/1000) = 1 Freelancer-k


The speed of light per second = 299,792.458 kilometres per second = 299,792,458 metres per second = 1000 Freelancer-k per second.


(Dividing all by 1000 per second)

One thousandth the speed of light (which we can remember is equal to 1 Freelancer-k) = 299.792 kilometres = 299,792.458 metres = 1 Freelancer-k.

One Freelancer-k is equal to 299,792.458 metres.
(If the speed of light is 1000 k/s.)





Also Given:
It's an established fact that Freelancer's scale is borked.

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[Grimly]

2500 clicks a second.

If you need to get an average with entry (acceleration) and leaving (deceleration) the lane, go for a 2000 clicks a second.

Given the "click" is the name of the standard space size unit in Freelancer.

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