Quadrant placing?

[Shendemiar]

Does anyone know how the qads are located in relation to each other? I mean are they like in 3-d universe, cubes laid next to eachother. If so, what are the dimensions? 1,1,3,1 (Andautonia prime), would it be like X, Y, Z, and planet number. This would mean that its the third box on the pile at origo, as the 1,1,2,x would be the second box?

Has anyone seen any reference to this issue?

Has anyone taken notes of flight times from quadrant to another?

Or maybe the f**king irritating coord-system is just a fake, and the quadrants float in unidimension jelly with eqal distances to everywhere?

If its resonable, does 0 exisit or do we go from 1 to -1 ? [Edit: No 0, no minuses]

There would be three different distance classes to a quad next to any given quad. (And and infinete number of distances to a quad further than 1 difference in coords)

If i number the (surrounding quads of quad 5) quads in one layer like:

123
456
789

then

in the layer the point of origin is, closest (class 1) would be 2, 4, 6, 8 and as close would be 5's on the layer below and top.

Next closest (class 2) would be 1, 3, 7, 9 on the same layer and the 2, 4, 6, 8 on the layers below and top.

Furthest "close" quads (class 3) would be 1, 3, 7, 9 on the layers below and top.

If distance to (class) 1 is 1
Distance to (class 2) would be 1.41
and (class 3) would be 1.68


Or is it?


My *1,1,3* closest would be

(Class 1)
1,2,3 North
2,1,3 East [Doesnt exisit YET]
1,0,3 South [Doesnt exisit]
0,1,3 West [Doesnt exisit]
1,1,4 Top (this would be ideal stronghold for us, since its close to void, and midnight, and far from creators)
1,1,2 Down

(Class 2)
0,1,3 North-West [Doesnt exisit]
2,2,3 North-East [Doesnt exisit YET]
0,2,3 South-East [Doesnt exisit]
0,0,3 South-West [Doesnt exisit]

1,2,4 North-Top (Midnight)
2,1,4 East-Top [Doesnt exisit YET]
1,0,4 South-Top [Doesnt exisit]
0,1,4 West-Top [Doesnt exisit]

1,2,2 North-Down
2,1,2 East-Down [Doesnt exisit YET]
1,0,2 South-Down [Doesnt exisit]
0,1,2 West-Down [Doesnt exisit]

(Class 3)
0,1,4 North-West-Top [Doesnt exisit]
2,2,4 North-East-Top [Doesnt exisit YET]
0,2,4 South-East-Top [Doesnt exisit]
0,0,4 South-West-Top [Doesnt exisit]

0,1,2 North-West-Down [Doesnt exisit]
2,2,2 North-East-Down [Doesnt exisit YET]
0,2,2 South-East-Down [Doesnt exisit]
0,0,2 South-West-Down [Doesnt exisit]

I suggest you consider you location with similiar intrest or youll get confused ;D

I just hope its (X, Y, Z, planet) and not something else ;D ;D



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[Shendemiar]

So its a "creators corner" so this galaxy started inhabiting from corner...

Alas, no minus coords...

[Matija]

I suppose you don't need to think in those terms. All travel time are calculated only on basis of same or different

- quadrant
- galaxy
- universe

You will see that ship stats give four travel times: within quadrant, between quadrants, between galaxies, between universes.

[Harlequin]

Go and have a nice cup of tea and a little lie down.

[Shendemiar]

So its not coordinates?

Its

a) very confusing as they speak of cordinates
b) very stupid to to use un-userfriendly coordinates system if they doesnt matter anyhow
c) you cant get edge over your enemies if everything is simplified



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[Perun]

You're becoming moaning old git, you know that, Robert?

Just like the rest of us old farts.

;D

[SkulkrinBait]

I think the current system is fine, 3d space would blow my mind.

[inyati]

From Nebula Forum:

This is how the coords break down...
Cluster/Galaxy/quadrant/Planet

There are 36 planets in a quadrant - 12 homeworlds and 24 free to colonise.
There are 4 quadrants in a galaxy.
There are 30 galaxies in a cluster.
There is currently a limit of 999 Clusters

QTT - Quadrant Travel Tme, the time taken to travel from planet to planet.
GTT - Galaxy Travel Time, the time taken to travel within the 4 quadrants of a galaxy.
CTT - Cluster Travel Time, the time taken to travel within the 30 galxies of a cluster.
UTT - Universe Travel Time, the time taken to travel between planets in different clusters.

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