I'm just implementing Warp speeds into my Star Trek game - basically, for the plotting of courses to different star systems - to show the time it will take at whatever Warp speed and to actually achieve this passage of time in game (simulated).
It takes 365.25 days to travel at Warp 1 over a distance of 1 light year.
I assumed that to travel at Warp 2 over the same distance would be half the time - because it is twice the speed. It isn't - it takes 45.65625 days.
Warp 10 over the same distance is 0.36525 days.
When I first started to calculate them - I knew a base figure and did the old doubling and halving to achieve the various speeds and then realised this simply didn't work.
Anyway, I have it all sorted now - but it all seems a bit bent to me.
I don't understand the formulae, or how to implement it in Blitz; however, I can work it out based on faffing with a base number for each Warp speed:
warp 1 to a destination 1 light years away would take 365.25 days
warp 2 to a destination 1 light years away would take 45.65625 days
warp 3 to a destination 1 light years away would take 13.527777777777779 days
warp 4 to a destination 1 light years away would take 5.70703125 days
warp 5 to a destination 1 light years away would take 2.922 days
warp 6 to a destination 1 light years away would take 1.6909722222222223 days
warp 7 to a destination 1 light years away would take 1.064868804664723 days
warp 8 to a destination 1 light years away would take 0.71337890625 days
warp 9 to a destination 1 light years away would take 0.5010288065843621 days
warp 10 to a destination 1 light years away would take 0.36525 days
Seems to work.
It takes 365.25 days to travel at Warp 1 over a distance of 1 light year.
I assumed that to travel at Warp 2 over the same distance would be half the time - because it is twice the speed. It isn't - it takes 45.65625 days.
Warp 10 over the same distance is 0.36525 days.
When I first started to calculate them - I knew a base figure and did the old doubling and halving to achieve the various speeds and then realised this simply didn't work.
Anyway, I have it all sorted now - but it all seems a bit bent to me.
I don't understand the formulae, or how to implement it in Blitz; however, I can work it out based on faffing with a base number for each Warp speed:
warp 1 to a destination 1 light years away would take 365.25 days
warp 2 to a destination 1 light years away would take 45.65625 days
warp 3 to a destination 1 light years away would take 13.527777777777779 days
warp 4 to a destination 1 light years away would take 5.70703125 days
warp 5 to a destination 1 light years away would take 2.922 days
warp 6 to a destination 1 light years away would take 1.6909722222222223 days
warp 7 to a destination 1 light years away would take 1.064868804664723 days
warp 8 to a destination 1 light years away would take 0.71337890625 days
warp 9 to a destination 1 light years away would take 0.5010288065843621 days
warp 10 to a destination 1 light years away would take 0.36525 days
Seems to work.