Hello, how far can you go with Orbiter?

[Lunar Pilot]

Does anyone know how far you can go in Orbiter, and how far has anyone gotten?

 

[tl8]

Does anyone know how far you can go in Orbiter, and how far has anyone gotten?

You can't travel to other star systems at the moment, but I think the distance is infinite, or seems to be.

 

[Lunar Pilot]

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Well, I know that they don't know how far you can go, I was just wondering the speed and distance records of other people. And surely, there has to be a limit, I mean, I doubt a computer could simulate an infinite space.

 

[James.Denholm]

I don't think it would need to, it might just keep on adding to the figures and so on...

Until you run into the sky-box. Or should I say star-box?

 

[Lunar Pilot]

Star-box

But the question is, how far away is the star-box, or is it even there?

 

[Quick_Nick]

I've gone out many GPc (gigaparsecs) and beyond before. Same for velocity. I used ScnEditor to add more and more velocity while using time acceleration. After a while it would sometimes go back to some earlier velocity but I think I did manage to get it extremely high and it started using scientific notation. I think at some point Orbiter 'broke' and there was no real velocity or distance(too close to infinity? messed up in it's large math?) and Orbiter CTDd later on.

 

[Lunar Pilot]

I guess I can't say much, I haven't made Orbiter crash yet. There is a reason I'm called lunar pilot. The reason why I'm asking is because I'm doing it right now, I've gotten to about 59154.12 light years. And the best part, it's taken less than fifteen years.

Does anyone know exactly what model they plan to add new solar systems to the basic Orbiter program? I mean, we can only fly around Sol for so long.

 

[Kyle]

I think I might hold the speed record..
I went 391 AU and I flew out of the solar system in half a second, And I did so, so correctly that I flew very close to jupiter, And Neptune. enough for Each for Atmospheric Heating.

 

[Lunar Pilot]

Wow

That must've had a very short launch window. I mean, aerobreaking Jupiter and Neptune?

 

[Tex]

Lunar Pilot,

Please title your thread with something more than "Hello" in the future and post in the proper forum. I have changed this for you now and moved this thread to the Orbiter forum. Also, do not create more than one thread per topic.

Review the forum rules HERE.

 

[Ursus]

The theoretical maximum distance you can get from the sun would be bound to the limits of the double floating-point number data type, which according to MSDN is
1.7976931348623158e+308 (So 1.7977 * 10^308 meters). The further you get out, though, the less precisely your position can be calculated.

I don't believe there really is a "star box". The stars are just drawn relative to your viewpoint, no matter where it is in the solar system.