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Stellaris FTL changes are in the warp pipes

Congestion ahead

Paradox is packing everyone onto the space-highway, and reworking how FTL travel works in their galactic 4X game, Stellaris . While you can currently choose either Warp, Hyperdrive or Wormholes as your space empire's means of travel, Paradox have decided that having asymmetrical movement methods - while "an interesting idea on paper" - creates too many problems for features they'd like to implement. Once the Cherryh update hits, every player will start with Hyperdrive technology only. That means every player will (with a few exceptions) be limited to travelling via pre-determined space lanes, which constitutes a major change to the game's core systems. One of those X's does stand for (shudder) Xploration, after all.

Paradox sound like they have solid reasons behind making the changes. In their weekly dev diary post, they highlight how Warp and Wormhole travel allow players to easily circumvent static defences. Once everyone is limited to hyperdrive lanes, empires should have the ability to 'lock down' their borders by placing defensive systems at the natural choke points that those lanes create.

The new system also allows Paradox to introduce 'Galactic Terrain': "systems with environmental effects and hazards that have profound tactical and strategic effects on ships and empires." While they're keen to stress that they're only on the first iteration of the idea, some of the examples they give include black holes that increase emergency FTL drive spin-up time, pulsars that nullify shields and nebulas that block sensors from other systems. That last one will be a tasty way of setting up ambushes, or hiding the extent of your military power.

For people who still prefer the less limiting form of movement that Warp offers, Paradox are increasing the customisability of how those lanes are generated - so you can make a hyper-interconnected galaxy should you choose. The other forms of travel haven't vanished from the game entirely, however. The mid-game technology 'Psi Jump Drives' will remain in a tweaked form, which will let you make occasional Warp style jumps - but those might leave you stranded and vulnerable. You'll also come across natural wormholes, which might connect one side of the galaxy to another. In addition to those, I'm most excited by the introduction of Mass Effect style relays - each galaxy will start with an existing network of 'Gateways' built by ancient aliens, which can be used once you've researched the right mid-game technology.

On their next blog post, Paradox say, they'll talk about the planned rework of the "wargoal" system that's made possible by the FTL changes. There's no release date for the Cherryh update yet, so there's still time to get a few games in with the existing mechanics if you want to.

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Stellaris ftl Console Command

Ftl command.

This command enables or disables (toggles) faster than light travel.

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The ftl command in Stellaris is used to enable or disable unlimited Faster Than Light (FTL) travel.

This means that it allows your spaceships to travel instantly from one place to another without any delay or restrictions.

This command is now obsolete and may not work in the current versions of the game.

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Stellaris ftl Command

This command enables or disables (toggles) faster than light travel.

This is the only way this command can be executed.

Originally posted by Spirit : i will miss the option to choose the weapons ... i want it back ...

Originally posted by Lexite : In the last version you could select weapons and FTL type, and i just got on to try out the new update, i went to select my race and i realised that it didnt tell me my FTL or weapon type. is this new or? is my game broken?

Originally posted by info : "look, it's better now, because we took content out of the game!"

Originally posted by MightyFox : Originally posted by info : "look, it's better now, because we took content out of the game!"

Originally posted by Robbie922004 : Paradox likes Hyperlanes better than the other options, so they removed everything except hyperlanes. All empires get the same weapons now because they couldn't balance a basic rock-paper-scissors dynamic, and wanted empires to be even more homogeneous. All empires have basically the same playstyle now between dumbing down FTL, weapons, and war.

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Exploration

Faster-than-light travel, often abbreviated to FTL , is the method by which ships traverse the vast emptiness of space between star systems. FTL drives are improved with advancing technology, eventually unlocking drives which can "jump", moving from one system to another in an instant.

A fleet will initiate FTL travel when any ship in the fleet reaches the hyperlane jump point or bypass, regardless of the current position of other ships.

• 1.1 Hyperlane travel
• 1.2 FTL Inhibitors
• 1.3 Hyper Relays
• 2.1 Rolling subspace tides
• 3.1.1 Shroud Tunnel
• 3.1.2 Wormhole generation events
• 3.2 Dimensional lock
• 3.3 Gateways
• 4 References

Hyperlanes Edit

Star systems are connected to one another by hyperlanes , safe passages across interstellar space. A star system can either be part of a cluster – highly interconnected with neighboring systems – or a chokepoint – a system which must be traversed to access the systems on its other side. Hyperlane density , how interconnected star systems are, can be adjusted at game start, from 0.5× to 2.75× or Full . Higher density reduces the number of chokepoint systems and vice versa; at the extreme end, Full attempts to connect every star system with each neighboring system – unless that would cross another existing hyperlane – thereby eliminating nearly all chokepoints.

The hyperlane network through the galaxy is not initially visible and must be discovered. Ship, starbase, and planetary sensors detect and reveal hyperlanes during exploration , with the the hyperlane detection range typically twice the regular sensor range. Hyperlanes connecting to unexplored systems are colored pale gray on the galaxy map. Hyperlanes between explored systems are colored light blue , unless the system is owned by an empire with closed borders, then the hyperlane is colored red .

Distances between systems in the galaxy are typically measured in terms of hyperlane connections. The main exceptions are Tactical Jumps and Quantum Catapults , which used a direct distance scale instead.

Hyperlane travel Edit

All ships, unless manually designed otherwise, will have an FTL drive , which allows them to travel along hyperlanes. Within a star system, ships move at sublight speed until they reach a hyperlane entry point (shown as an arrow on the system map). Once at the entry point, the ship or fleet takes 15 days to charge its hyper drive and then travels along the hyperlane to the connected system. More advanced FTL drives have reduced windup times. In addition to regular hyperlane travel, Jump Drives or Psi Jump Drives also allow ships or fleets to perform Tactical Jumps . However, merely researching these technologies risks accelerating the endgame crisis by 25 years.

FTL Inhibitors Edit

Hyper Relays Edit

Hyper Relays can be built from the galaxy view, which places them semi-randomly within the system. In systems with wormholes or existing gateways, it is recommended to instead go into the system view to manually place the Hyper Relay near to the wormhole or gateway to better facilitate travel. However, Hyper Relays cannot connect through wormholes or gateways.

Direct FTL travel Edit

While hyperlane travel is the primary method of traversing the galaxy, there are a few ways to travel between two points more directly. They can be used to travel faster as well as bypass impassable systems, such as those with hostile space creatures, a closed empire's borders, or the galactic core.

Rolling subspace tides Edit

The L-Cluster , galactic core as well as the system housing the Corrupted Avatar guardian cannot be entered via these methods and attempting to do so will show a notification about rolling subspace tides allowing only conventional travel. Direct FTL travel can be used to leave these systems however. Furthermore, the rolling subspace tide around the Corrupted Avatar system recedes once the system has been entered at least once via its wormhole.

MIA, or missing-in-action, refers to any ship or fleet that has been temporarily removed from the galaxy. MIA fleets return to an owned starbase after some time, depending on the hyperlane distance from the system they left and the system they return to. This time can be reduced by various modifiers.

Fleets that are "stuck" can be ordered to go MIA. Additionally, fleets that are defeated in battle and fleets in systems with closed borders (due to decloaking, access change, or first contact made) go MIA. Certain events can also make fleets go MIA.

Fleet reinforcements may go MIA in order to reach their fleet, depending on how far the fleet is from the shipyard.

Bypasses Edit

Bypasses are another alternative to hyperlane travel. There are two basic types of bypasses in Stellaris: wormholes and gateways . Both offer instantaneous travel but require research in order to be usable. The number of wormholes and gateways can be adjusted individually in the settings before the start of a game session. Ships and trade automatically use bypasses – if the route is shorter. Fleet paths through a bypass are shown on the galaxy view by a blue travel line. Inactive bypasses are shown with a red icon in the system and galaxy view, while active bypasses have a white icon. Active bypasses act identically to hyperlanes for most purposes, except that sectors never extend through them.

Wormholes Edit

Shroud Tunnel Edit

Each time a fleet travels through the Shroud Tunnel, the following may happen:

• 74% chance nothing happens.

• 5% chance the fleet is randomly enhanced.
• 1% chance a Corrupted Avatar guardian attacks the Shroud Beacon system.

Wormhole generation events Edit

The Alien Machine event can be triggered by investigating an anomaly with the same name that can appear on asteroids. One of the two event options will lead to the creation of a new wormhole pair, with one end in a system 2-8 hyperlanes away and the other in a system 15-50 hyperlanes away. In addition, if Earth is destroyed with a World Cracker , there is a 50% chance of creating a wormhole in the system leading to another newly created wormhole.

Dimensional lock Edit

The Daedalus Seal also increases the length of the Dimensional Lock astral action by +25% , to 12.5 years.

Gateways Edit

While exploring the galaxy, empires may find abandoned gateways that were once part of a massive, galaxy-spanning network. The number of abandoned gateways can be scaled by galaxy settings . [1]

Gateways allow travel to any other gateway instantly, so long as the borders are open and the destination is not controlled by an enemy empire. As a bypass , Gateways generally act like a hyperlane connection between systems, such that claims and trade can be extended through them, however sectors don't extend through gateways.

L-Gates are a special type of gateway, which have a separate network from regular gateways. Instead of jumping from any to any, L-Gates all jump to the Terminal Egress system in the L-Cluster, then from there to any other L-Gate so long as its borders are open, or you are at war. L-Gates are opened through a special project, and new L-Gates cannot be constructed.

References Edit

• ↑ Setting abandoned gateways to 0 blocks the use of gateway technology as an empire must discover at least one gateway to unlock the research. The Galactic Doorstep origin still spawns a pair of abandoned gateways if the setting is otherwise 0. Awakened Empires always build Gateways regardless of settings.
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FTL travel?

• Thread starter magnusvejby
• Start date Jan 25, 2016

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• Jan 25, 2016
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So if this has bee brought up before im sorry. I also gotta say I have (almost) no idea what im talking about, and I use that littel understanding of physics I have to argument for this thread. I have been seeing some of those science shows about space travel, and I came thinking, in Stellaris you can fly faster than light, but if anything moves faster than light you travel back in time, and the faster you move the slower time goes, until you reach the speed of light. So will this in any way be represented in any way or will there be another way of FTL travel that I don't understand?  

Duke of Awesome

Field marshal.

I recommend watching Star Trek, where time travel is referenced frequently and it's rarely a good idea.  

ParagonExile

The FTL in the game uses exotic physics that are currently not known IRL. The ships are not accelerating past the speed of light, nor are they outpacing their light cone (somehow), so they do not travel in time. They either use a form of warp drive (space moves, they don't), wormholes (they take a shortcut) or they use a hyperlane (abusing a cosmic slipstream). When they are in normal space relativity wouldn't affect how the player sees them (for all intents and purposes). I recommend giving this a one-over http://www.physicsguy.com/ftl/html/FTL_part4.html I imagine for time travel to work well, the entire game would need to be designed around that fact, and we've seen little to suggest it.  

Warpdrive = look at Alcubiere Drive on the Wikipedia. In short, you compress space in front of you and expand it behind you, which makes the space around your ship "travel" faster then light, but not your ship and so enables you to bypass Einsteins Law. Well... at least somewhat like it. Wormhole = You connect two points in space and reduce the distance between them almost to zero. That way you can travel vast distances almost instantly. You did not travel faster then light, but crossed the distance faster then light could, by using a shortcut. Needs a Station that opens these Wormholes on one side of it. Spacelanes = Constructed by... well... no one knows, even if these are constructed or natural. Somewhat like a crossover from Warpdrive and Wormhole between Stars. They are just there. If you like/know Babylon 5, think of it as a passage through Hyperspace or something with fixed entry and exit in every star system. Edith says: Those FTL methods are fiction but (besides Spacelanes) already scientificly described, at least the theory of it. They would consume more energy then mankind ever produced in its whole existence and if I remember correctly, more then our Sun produces in over a year, just for a small jump from the Moon to Jupiter. So... yes, they are "possible", or at least not complete nonsense.  

Duke of Awesome said: I recommend watching Star Trek, where time travel is referenced frequently and it's rarely a good idea. Click to expand...

ParagonExile said: I recommend giving this a one-over http://www.physicsguy.com/ftl/html/FTL_part4.html Click to expand...

Botox said: Spacelanes = Constructed by... well... no one knows, even if these are constructed or natural. Somewhat like a crossover from Warpdrive and Wormhole between Stars. They are just there. If you like/know Babylon 5, think of it as a passage through Hyperspace or something with fixed entry and exit in every star system. Click to expand...

Botox said: I have no idea of any even slight scientific theories that describe Hyperlanes/Spacelanes, but I'm happy if someone else might shed some light on this Click to expand...

First Lieutenant

If I recall my relativistic physics properly if you were, theoretically, to accelerate to the speed of light, time would seem to stand still, not go in reverse. It has been quite some time, so the theories may have advanced some.  

In our universe, it is currently believed that travelling faster than light is impossible (at least, for anything which has positive mass, i.e. which weighs more than a photon). This is because energy and mass are interchangeable, so as you add energy to something you're also effectively adding mass. The closer you get to the speed of light, the more energy is required to keep accelerating (to accelerate the greater and greater mass) until the amount of energy you need curves away into infinity. Thus, to reach the speed of light would require infinite amounts of energy, which is impossible. Because of this, when FTL travel is depicted in science fiction, it normally relies on some principle which allows an object to travel faster than light relative to our universe without actually travelling faster than light in itself, for example by travelling along dimensions which are not visible in our 3D universe. This is the case, I believe, for all of the FTL methods depicted in Stellaris. Thus, you don't have to worry about going backwards in time or spaceships with more mass than the entire universe and all that jazz.  

It's not that time goes backwards, it's that you can arrive at a location which is outside the light-cone of the place you left, so you arrive before the events where you left affect where you arrived. Consider this: You start at earth, and set off a big laser pulse aimed at where you're heading. You travel a light year away in 10 minutes (or whatever). When you arrive, "absolute" time has passed the same as it otherwise would have, but you won't see the pulse happen for another year, since the event can only propagate at the speed of light. The event has still already happened, but it hasn't happened yet *where you are*. In a sense, you have travelled back in time, and would be able to see stuff happening a year ago by observing Earth. If you then travelled back to earth in another 10 minutes, it would only be 20 minutes later than when you left still, and the pulse would be in the "past" again, since you travelled back inside the light cone. Another fun one: Consider being on Earth and observing that spacecraft returning home. First you would see the ship appear near Earth out of nowhere, and another ship would fly backwards away from you until it eventually meets the ship where it flew from just before it went FTL. Because the ship is travelling faster than light, its image has to catch up to where it actually is, and since that light is limited in its speed, the closer light from the end of the journey arrives before the ever more distant earlier light. How much time you personally experience on the journey is affected by the speed at which you are travelling, yes, but it is implied that FTL is a form of bending the rules rather than breaking them - space is warped, points pinched together, moving through a parallel dimension where the speed of light is much higher etc. and that things can't travel faster than the speed of light is never actually violated.  

• Jan 26, 2016

magnusvejby said: I saw the movie, I did not really like it, but I could might give the series a shot Click to expand...

Just random, but neutrinos have been shown to travel faster than light, which is interesting. Hope the Devs weave that information in there.  

Second Lieutenant

Tiaexz said: Just random, but neutrinos have been shown to travel faster than light, which is interesting. Hope the Devs weave that information in there. Click to expand...

Here you can see sort of hyperlane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasnikov_tube  

naisel said: That was an exciting news, but unfortunately it turned out to be just an experimental error. Click to expand...

we already detected few things in the universe that travel faster then light The Big Bang itself expanded much faster than the speed of light Quantum entanglement moves faster than light for communications we discovered it is possible in the future to use Negative matter. The most credible way of sending signals faster than light which could be future space commiunications between ships in time if we survive long enough as a species we will find a way to exploit these theories and make them reality  

consider googling stuff in future before disagreeing with something just because you were thought in elementary that nothing travels faster then light does not mean its true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_mass  

magnusvejby said: if anything moves faster than light you travel back in time, and the faster you move the slower time goes, until you reach the speed of light. Click to expand...

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