I almost died in a new ship just now lol, the T-9 Jumpstart. I think I accidentally hit boost at a star while in SC. I am not sure.

Aaron T

Aaron T
I am on a brand-new Throttle and after it all happened I am quite sure I hit the boost button, but I have never done that while staring at a star before.

I pulled my throttle back and hit the X key during a jump to bring my ship to a stop at the star because as long as I have played ED, I have never used a Type 9 more than 2-3 times, so it feels very sluggish to me right now and I have to get used to it. Although with this ship coming engineered like crazy, it handles much better than a stock or even A-rated Type-9.

Back on point; when I dropped out at the star I nosed down some and started a scan to honk the system for cartographic data as always and gave it full throttle and did not mean to but hit my boost button and all of a sudden I was hotter than a $2 pistol, I was turning black, bells, whistles, and alarms were sounding.

I fired off a heat sink and it went from about 390 degrees to about 155 and shot back to 375 or so and I fired off another heat sink. By this time I had limped far enough from the star to cool down to normal temps.

I did a repair/reset and made it to a station safely to fully repair the ship.

I had no other incidents and made a huge sell profit.

I had no idea the boost would do anything during SC.

All I can think is that I boosted myself too close to the star.

But in 8-10 years or however long I have played ED, I have never done this.
 
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Aaron T said:
I had no idea the boost would do anything during SC.
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There is a new Frameshift drive that can boost in SC. It makes you very fast and very hot. It also does not work like normal boost.

Normal boost is tap it and you boost for a fixed duration.
SC boost is a toggle tap once to engage. Tap again to turn it off. Make sure to turn it off once you start cooking or you'll keep gaining heat at an isane rate and eventually explode.

The T9 has the turning ability of a static object try not to be pointing at anything you don't want to hit when you boost.
 

aRJay

aRJay
That is the SCO version of the FSD it is basically like the old fashioned afterburner on jet fighters switch it on and turn large quantities of fuel into heat and speed, it will also make your ship much more unstable.

As has been said it is set to your boost control by default and is a toggle switch, when you do shut it off you will get a Gravity Well warning and will need to count to 10-12 before you can SCO again.

On the new generation ships SCO is much more refined.
 

Aaron T

Aaron T
That was it, the SCO. I did not even realize it had one, and I did not realize it was set to my boost button by default that I manually set on my Winwing Orion 2 throttle. I accidentally hit it and was pointing just below the star so boosted with SCO right into the heat and managed to run away some before it dropped out. I thought I was a goner for sure. I went down to 5% fuel left also in the process.
 

DjVortex

DjVortex
Yeah, all the old ships will overheat very quickly when in SCO mode (and also consume fuel very fast), so it should only be used sparingly (unless you have a copious amount of heatsinks).

From the new ships the Python Mk II and Type-8 also overheat in SCO, but much more slowly. The other new ships don't overheat in SCO at all. All of them consume significantly less fuel in SCO mode than the old ships.
 

Kira Goto

Kira Goto
DjVortex said:
Yeah, all the old ships will overheat very quickly when in SCO mode
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The T9 is just especially bad at it because of its - for a “large” ship - already atrocious heat handling/performance. Out of all the ships I’ve used yet it has to be the worst one (I never went through a T7, but hear it is also not exactly great in that regard)…

… I suppose T8 technically also isn’t a great heat performer but since it is SCO optimized that matters relatively little outside of the ridiculous close to star placement of just about everything colonization.
 

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
Aaron T said:
I am on a brand-new Throttle and after it all happened I am quite sure I hit the boost button, but I have never done that while staring at a star before.

I pulled my throttle back and hit the X key during a jump to bring my ship to a stop at the star because as long as I have played ED, I have never used a Type 9 more than 2-3 times, so it feels very sluggish to me right now and I have to get used to it. Although with this ship coming engineered like crazy, it handles much better than a stock or even A-rated Type-9.

Back on point; when I dropped out at the star I nosed down some and started a scan to honk the system for cartographic data as always and gave it full throttle and did not mean to but hit my boost button and all of a sudden I was hotter than a $2 pistol, I was turning black, bells, whistles, and alarms were sounding.

I fired off a heat sink and it went from about 390 degrees to about 155 and shot back to 375 or so and I fired off another heat sink. By this time I had limped far enough from the star to cool down to normal temps.

I did a repair/reset and made it to a station safely to fully repair the ship.

I had no other incidents and made a huge sell profit.

I had no idea the boost would do anything during SC.

All I can think is that I boosted myself too close to the star.

But in 8-10 years or however long I have played ED, I have never done this.
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Welcome to the new SCO drive. :)

Incidentally, the T9 jumpstart is probably the best value proposition of all the pre-built ships. Guardian jump boost, engineered everything. I've even held off NPC pirates, and gotten kills with the missiles.
 

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
DjVortex said:
Yeah, all the old ships will overheat very quickly when in SCO mode (and also consume fuel very fast), so it should only be used sparingly (unless you have a copious amount of heatsinks).

From the new ships the Python Mk II and Type-8 also overheat in SCO, but much more slowly. The other new ships don't overheat in SCO at all. All of them consume significantly less fuel in SCO mode than the old ships.
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The Cobra 5 and Mandalay can run all day in SCO- until the fuel runs out. Like my old F-4D. :)
 

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
Kira Goto said:
The T9 is just especially bad at it because of its - for a “large” ship - already atrocious heat handling/performance. Out of all the ships I’ve used yet it has to be the worst one (I never went through a T7, but hear it is also not exactly great in that regard)…

… I suppose T8 technically also isn’t a great heat performer but since it is SCO optimized that matters relatively little outside of the ridiculous close to star placement of just about everything colonization.
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The T9 does handle better than the stock T9, since it has engineered dirty drives. It also has additional engine cooling- except when using SCO to explore stars.
 
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