maximum warp, 20ish according to the gui,
in sector space im covering 5ly in about 16 seconds
at full impulse, 170ish according to the gui,(what does that even mean?)
in system space im covering 10km in about 3.2 seconds
946'073'047'259.8km (lightyear)
x 5
=4'730'365'236'299km
/ 16 (32 for w10?)
=295'647'827'267 km/s for warp 20
(=147'823'913'634 km/s for warp 10)
147'823'913'634
/ 299'792.5 km/s (being the speed of light)
493'087 c for warp 10
so, unless i screwed up with my very rusty maths, warp 10 in game is just shy of 500000 times the speed of light

10 km
/3.2 sec
=3.1 km/s
mach 1 = 1'235 km/h / 60 / 60 = .343 km/s
3.1km/s
/
.343km/s
=
170 impulse(full impulse) = mach 9.2?
38 impulse(not full impulse) mach 2?
probably messed something up, been years since i'v had to do more than grocery maths.
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I used to really like that show when Joel was the host. I didn't like his replacement as much.
"There is no problem in the universe that can't be solved with a bribe, a paid assassin, or an overpowered fighter." - Chubain from Jumpgate Evolution
At this point, if you were still holding onto some semblance of reality, drop it now. :P
And yeah, Warp 10+ shouldn't be possible in the first place, but even the shows had problems with that, just remember Threshold, one of the most awful episode of any ST show.
As for actual speeds in terms of c, at least for warp drive I've been doing some calculations on that for my monthly articles on the 12th Fleet blog based on tech manual formulas and one I derived a few years back based on Star Trek magazine quotes about Threshold, but it probably won't run until the end of April.
If you actually break 10, it switches to a transwarp scale.
Threshold was the only episode that treated what the TNG tech manual said about warp 10 as true - most episodes it was just a speed (most TNG and later episodes at least acknowledged it as impossible to attain, but still just a speed, one which the Enterprise broke three times, not counting All Good Things). Two episodes of TOS and one movie acknowledged it as something special, but not explicitly infinite.
The show skirts this issue by using the Warp bubble to suspend space around the vessel while moving well beyond the Light speed limit.
Easiest (Though faulty i'll admit) comparison is.
You're in your car going 30MPH.
YOU are not moving 30MPH but the thing wrapped around you IS.
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At least that's how I try and justify it. This doesn't recognise the fact everything is in 2409. :rolleyes:
We are not starting a Joel vs Mike argument on this forum again. :P
So basically what your saying is the powers that be should be implementing Intergalactic Exploration divisions immediately.
If we can travel end to end in our galaxy 26 times in a year(100,000 light years x 26) then surely we can traverse the 25,000 light years to Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy frequently. or even the Sagittarius Dwarf Eliptical Galaxy at 70,000 light years away.
Perhaps we should approach the other powers that be, and suggest a United Federation of Galaxy's.
I thought WoW's forums had angry elitist snobs, but I never could have imagined the level STO forums has.
Would it suck? :P
And the Warp 10+ theory not being possible is irrelevant, as in real life, noone has even ever achieved Warp 1 to see what would happen.
I thought WoW's forums had angry elitist snobs, but I never could have imagined the level STO forums has.
WIth speeds like that we should be able to explore other galaxies... :eek:
Yeah, taking a week to get to DS9 would suck
'Ok, now to do the Cardassian missions! Course plotted to DS9. Wait, a week!?! A WEEK!?!?!? FFFFUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!"""
You go from cadet to vice-admiral in one year. Breaking the record of JJ Abram's Kirk who took the title formerly held by Johnny Rico.
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Actually, has anyone taken a log of the Stardates? It's possible the game has it's own mechanics for telling time. I'll check it out when I get back on if nobody has tried it yet.
Yeah, I know. It would have probably been quite confusing for the average audience, if the faster ship does now Warp 9,9995 instead of 9,6 and that that is somehow twice as fast or whatever. :rolleyes:
...or traverse the milkyway galaxy in 2 weeks
Yeah I think your best bet here is to take it as being a slight time lapse, it isn't actually taking you five seconds to travel 16 light years, it takes you 5 days, but it's scaled down for you to avoid boredom ;-)
Anyways, the idea of capping speeds at Warp 10 was bonkers.... but we're stuck with it. (for reference, TOS, TAS, and some TNG eps use a more linear warp scale where speeds are measured more logically as a function of the speed of light rather than "infinite" velocity.
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That is not the way that it would work. It is more like this:
Set your Destination.
Deposit your Travel Marks.
Insert your Shield Generators
Apply your Expertise
Add some Dilithium
Come back tomorrow and you will be there.
so warp 19.8 should be 0.0014 LY a sec.
29.7 should be 0.0021 LY a sec.
if you want another way of saying it about 4 billion miles a second for warp 9.9, so 12 billion miles a second at warp 29.7.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Oh, the rage I felt when I saw that happen.
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What is the actual speed? Dunno... don't really care...
Remember that it's just a show~