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johnk419

What to do during extended Quantum Jumps?

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As we saw in the demo, it takes several minutes to jump from one planet to another in a system. And for all intents and purposes it makes sense, we're travelling at 0.2c across millions of km. But I am a little worried how quantum travel could be implemented while keeping the player engaged. Quantum interdiction is entirely random, and the mere possibility of it serves as a reason to keep players in their seats doing nothing more than it being an interesting game mechanic.

Especially in a single-seater ship like an Aurora, you really can't do anything other than maybe fidget around on your Mobiglas, and while travelling you can't be alt-tabbed watching Youtube videos because of the possibility of an interdiction.

I don't know. I have fears of quantum travel being tedious, but I have no solution to give. Just wondering if anyone has any ideas on what they could do to make the game mechanic interesting.

Posted Oct 28, 2017, 8:56 AM UTC

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