How big are the sectors ?

Big.

like 100.000 meters in diameter ?

That is very, VERY small seeing as the turbo speed of a bus is around 140 meters per second.

due to a bug the other night i discovered that the sectors are really only 800,000 meters, then you either loop or you dont 'really' move any further

I think I just understood what you were asking originally. The sectors are much bigger than you will ever need to venture out. The farthest out I've ever been (some may remember) is 2,500,000 m in sector 40. The only thing that happens out there is that your energy shots wobble. That's it.

Black Omega: that can't be right. What bug, and how do you know for sure? Well, I guess it COULD be right...

Had a speed bug - 5000ms which was cool

A sector's "size" is very large... a couple million meters across, I believe, but that's mostly dead space. If you're talking about how far out you can go before you stop seeing interesting stuff... well, the new sectors vary in scale quite a bit (from only a few asteroids in a small cluster, to grand sweeping chains, bigger than the current sector 9.) This may require some tweaking, as some of the sectors with more extreme sizes might just not be very much fun. We'll have to wait and see though. :)

aren't they 2^32 in size?it's just a matter of being disconnected before you make it that far

Yes.

no, they are floating point so 2^32 is not a limit.

noooooo, our god is wrong! He cannot be wrong!

Ooo, god fight! :P

The farthest I've been out was about 10,000,000 meters, and that was by leaving the client on for two days straight with a fast charge battery and efficient engine and constant turbo... Needless to say, you won't be reaching the outer limits anytime soon. I did make a nice error log in the server for the devs, though... ^_^

Pyro, god fights are BAD! Last time this happened Incarnate and a1k0n had a nuclear exchange and caused MASSIVE collateral damage!

Farthest I been out: 999,000 meters. I left the thing running with FC/Eff for some time (i dont remember, it was about 6-7 hours) I had to issue. Didnt feel like flying all the way back.

IMHO the sectors are HUGE. If you are in s18 you might want to check ik out. If you look at the planet you can see it rotate. If you zoom in on the edge you can de a differance between the texture of the planet and of the starfield beyond. I have checked this with other planets in different sectors. I think that the planets are HUGE roids in de distance. I havn't bothered going out to one but perhaps one you could prove my theory? :)

HT

Well, your skybox is only 20,000m away from you, so it couldn't be THAT far...

Well, theoretically you could move 20,001 meters before the skybox updates and somehow break it... :P

The planets are not asteroids, nor are they reachable. They are part of the skybox (which is also unreachable)

Heh yeah, hate to break the mystique but the skybox contains the stars and planets, and is always centered around your view so you can never reach it.

Also, I think our server kicks you off if you go too far out now. It was like that for a while at least. I forgot if it is still that way.