No Man's Sky owners chat - Park up your starship and drop anchor!

[SvennoJ]

SWORDF1SH said:

SvennoJ said:
I'm confused, can the game not do math or what is going on?

I was wondering why it's taking so long to get closer to the center. When I jump 1600 ly towards the glowing center, I actually only get 400 ly closer according to distance to center. It's the same when I check along the path to the center. The distance only decreases by 1/4th of what I would jump. Anyone else have notice the same thing?

I think the distance they show is the distance as the crow flys. I think when you actually travel, you follow the longer route from star to star that is shown on the star map. It's stupid but that's my guess.

That doesn't make sense unless they have it backwards. If the distance to center is calculated along a path it should be decreasing faster since it says linear distance when I select a star. But yeah, maybe linear distance is distance to the center and what is stated as linear is actually along a path. That's a very inefficient path. I'm at 162,400 ly distance to center atm. Maybe black holes are better for traveling?