X3: What is SETA

Bernt · Post by **Bernt** » Thu, 28. Sep 06, 19:45

Hi

what is SETA? is it an acronym? How/why do i use it?

Thanks

Bernt

Post by **Nanook** » Thu, 28. Sep 06, 19:47

Singularity Engine Time Accelerator. It's a device for compressing time and speeding up the game. The 'J' key activates it.

Charlie Whiskey · Post by **Charlie Whiskey** » Thu, 28. Sep 06, 19:49

Put it more simply, SETA = Fast Forward.

fiksal · Post by **fiksal** » Thu, 28. Sep 06, 19:50

Bernt wrote:Hi

what is SETA? is it an acronym? How/why do i use it?

http://www.egosoft.com/support/faq/faq_ ... &version=8
SETA Singularity Engine Time Accelerator

It's a extension that can be added to any ship (pretty cheap too).
The purpose of it to speed up the passing of time around you. It doesnt make you ship go any faster - just makes everything go faster.
Useful when traveling over long distances... or if you are really impatient, like me:)

Be careful when using it together with autopilot though.

Post by **Nanook** » Thu, 28. Sep 06, 19:50

And Salvage Insurance = Rewind.

fiksal · Post by **fiksal** » Thu, 28. Sep 06, 19:52

Nanook wrote:And Salvage Insurance = Rewind.

in that case :

silly Autopilot + SETA = Eject ?

fud · Post by **fud** » Thu, 28. Sep 06, 20:06

I don't hardly use it anymore. Occasionally, if I'm being impatient, I'll use it to speed up the run to a station, but beyond that, it's seldom used anymore.

I guess after 10 months of playing, I'm just not in as big of a hurry as I used to be.

Bernt · Post by **Bernt** » Thu, 28. Sep 06, 20:20

Thank you all VERY much.

Bernt

Stormwinds · Post by **Stormwinds** » Thu, 28. Sep 06, 20:38

lololol

i use SETA for about 90% of my playing time

when its not fighting or telling my ship where to go, it's SETA time!

Mazer · Post by **Mazer** » Thu, 28. Sep 06, 20:45

be careful when using SETA though. if you leave it on to long your race ranks and fighting rank will begin to drop.

just a little tip to all those who dont know.

fud · Post by **fud** » Thu, 28. Sep 06, 20:55

Not to mention it's a great way to lose all your possessions.

Mazer · Post by **Mazer** » Thu, 28. Sep 06, 20:57

fud wrote:Not to mention it's a great way to lose all your possessions.

haha yes this is also true. try not to be in crowded sectors when using for a long period of time or even a short time.

fiksal · Post by **fiksal** » Thu, 28. Sep 06, 21:06

Mazer wrote:be careful when using SETA though. if you leave it on to long your race ranks and fighting rank will begin to drop.

and apperantly that happens anyway, if you dont do any fighting or trading for a LONG time. But with SETA the effect becomes noticable that much faster.

By the way, in Options, you can set SETA to be faster than the default value. You can run it at 10x, if your system can handle it.

esd · Post by **esd** » Thu, 28. Sep 06, 21:11

fud wrote:Not to mention it's a great way to lose all your possessions.

Plus you seriously stress your PC for quite a while, as well as wasting electricity.

fud · Post by **fud** » Thu, 28. Sep 06, 21:11

fiksal wrote: and apperantly that happens anyway, if you dont do any fighting or trading for a LONG time. But with SETA the effect becomes noticable that much faster.

Exactly. SETA will just "amplify" this affect. If you value your ranks, and the time/effort it took to gain them, leaving the game sit unattended for hours would be ill-advised. More so leaving it unattended for hours with the J key pressed.

esd · Post by **esd** » Thu, 28. Sep 06, 21:13

Actually no. The game has a built-in penalty for long periods of unattended running. After 10 ingame minutes (iirc) the ranks start to drop unless there's an input by the player detected. If you're running SETA X10, that's only 1 minute realtime before the effect starts to kick in.

fiksal · Post by **fiksal** » Thu, 28. Sep 06, 21:16

well
this (all the posts here) is a quite lengthy answer to the question

esd wrote:Actually no. The game has a built-in penalty for long periods of unattended running.

Yeah. I think that's what me and fud were saying.
I dont think when he said "SETA will just 'amplify' this affect" - he actually meant that the penalty itself will 'increase'.

fud · Post by **fud** » Thu, 28. Sep 06, 21:27

Precisely.

Bernt · Post by **Bernt** » Thu, 28. Sep 06, 21:54

fiksal wrote:well
this (all the posts here) is a quite lengthy answer to the question

i certainly got more than my money's worth. Its much appreciated!

Stormwinds · Post by **Stormwinds** » Thu, 28. Sep 06, 22:00

hush, we're not done yet

i run my SETA on 10x always, and for easily more than two mins at a time without fighting (i do trading though) SETA x10 isn't that much of a drain on the comp really (hey, i only have a geforce 6200 and i'm usually playing on med textures and high shader, so i might be used to a little lag

)

and what about losing possesions? so far i havn't lost didly squat and i've used SETA longer in real time than not in my game =/ (maybe the ranks only start dropping when you reach a certain level?)

one thing's for sure, i couldn't go through X3 without SETA

and it sure isn't fun when your teladi falcon maxes out on 93 km/h and the gate is still 50+ km away @_@

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