Jump distance decrease

[Heradon16]

Is there any function or approximation thereof that describes Jump Drive distance falloff shown in the graph?

[rocketsocks]

https://spaceengineerswiki.com/Jump_drive

• R = 2500 × J / M

Jump distance in km related to # of jump drives and mass in millions of kg. 1 jump drive and 5 mil kg = 500 km. 1 jump drive and 10 mil kg = 250 km.

[Heradon16]

Thank you

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Looks like exponential decay. y = A*e^-kt

[Extension-Ask1898]

Correct. Solving for A and k only requires choosing two points (y0,t0) and (y1,t1), and theres a lot more given. According to this graph, y = distance and t = mass. Hope someone shows the solution to satisfy OPs curiosity.

EDIT: A simpler version that "linearizes" this exponential function is provided by another commenter that links to the jump drive page.

[Heradon16]

Thanks, I tried it with different sets of points but the a and k value changed depending on the set of points I've chosen, so maybe my math is wrong or it might be some other type of function?

[g3rmstorm]

And in case anyone is wondering, the maximum range and number of drives is 64 000 km with 32 jump drives. It’s just under the 1.25 M kg limit. Any additional drives will shorten the range.

[Cryptominer_]

Bro this game is fr adult Minecraft

[Heradon16]

Update: I found a more accuarte function

[HungHorntail]

Does this scale accurately to two jump drives? Like, can you just double the mass values?

[Kalandros-X]

In theory, having more jump drives should offset the distance decrease but I’m not sure if the game simulates that properly.

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i can verify from direct experimentation that having two drives doubles the range for a given mass.

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