Relativistic frame of reference (very minor issue)

Just to be pedantic :-)

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One of the artifacts allows ships to be constructed faster by building them in a "relativistic frame of reference". Unless I'm mistaking then doing that would cause the ship to be built slower.

If you are moving at relativistic speeds then time slows down for YOU and NOT the observer. So building ships in such a frame would actually cause the build time to be longer.

/Michael
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
I never understood that artifact...
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
It slows time allowing more work to be done (assuming that the workers are not effected by the slow-down)
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Well if it should work then it should actually speed up time in the factory so that when they worked for 2 days in the factory then only 1 day would pass outside the factory.. (The downside of this would be that the workers would age twice as fast as everybody else) My only (maybe silly) gripe is that the description is wrong. If the factory was accelerated to near light speed then the exact opposite would happen. For every 1 day in the factory, 2 days would pass outside the factory.. So they would lose a days work every single day .


/Michael
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
Relativistic frame of reference would pretty much mean a different time speed (caused by relative velocity)... how they get that speed to be faster rather than slower is why its an artifact, not a general construction option