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[SvennoJ]

The Fury said:

SvennoJ said:

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?

I'm at about that. I went through a black hole once and it said 200000 light years traveled, I thought, awesome. Then realised the 164000, went down to only 162000. I'm generally confused by the distance thing which is why I'm now ignoring it and just heading towards the bright light.

Perhaps there is some gravitational lensing going on and travelling towards the bright light is not actually the right direction. Or some other spatial anomalies are interfering. Black holes can ofcourse go sideways as well as forward, found any that went backwards?

I'm going to experiment a bit later, see what's going on. Or perhaps the game is just screwing with us.