Unable to power FSD bug?

[Shaamaan]

So, I've signed up as a fuel rat, and one client was in bit of a hot-spot near a star.

Me and some other rats went to try and help. Obviously upon arriving I'd get some heat damage - it went to my cargo hatch, and I think I dropped some limpets. No biggie. But then I couldn't leave. My cargo hatch was closed (at least that was shows on the UI), my hardpoints were retracted, landing gear was up... but I couldn't power up the FSD as I kept getting the error that the cargo hatch is open / landing gear is down or hardpoints are deployed.

Eventually I exited the game and came back, and the problem was sorted.

But later on it happened again - while traveling I arrived in a system with one of those really really small stars and made a bit of a hard turn, forcing an emergency exit. Again, I cooked up a bit, but was otherwise fine... except once more, I could not leave due to the same issue which was resolved, again, by logging out and back in.

Is this a known bug? I don't think I did anything wrong - as far as UI is concerned, everything seemed in order...

 

[sp0q]

Stupid question but: are you 100% sure the FSD cooldown was up?

 

[Lunchmoney]

Have you considered reporting this possible bug in the bug reporting forum?

For the record, I've not encountered any problems like you describe.

 

[DragoonKnight]

Check your modules screen. Maybe your FSD was disabled for power priority reasons.

 

[Shaamaan]

Stupid question but: are you 100% sure the FSD cooldown was up?

I think so, aye. Before I tried to engage the FSD I was looking for the client without fuel for a while (instancing issues caused us to be separated). I think the message is also different when the FSD is on cool-down (but don't quote me on this ).

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Check your modules screen. Maybe your FSD was disabled for power priority reasons.

I did - my discovery scanner was completely destroyed, but otherwise things were powered on (at least the first time the problem happened - the second time I rolled my eyes and just relogged).

I'll make a few more tests when I get back home. If I can reproduce it, I'll bug-report it.

 

[GeoFalke]

I think so, aye. Before I tried to engage the FSD I was looking for the client without fuel for a while (instancing issues caused us to be separated).

The instancing can be really annoying. I was browsing Funnyjunk and stumbled on some ED content and in the comments section there was a dude by the name of Criticality who said he was near the sol system and wanted to team up to go kick some ass. I shoot him a reply and we try to meet up at my home system, Hel. We both land in Jones Orbital, but we cant see each other and we figure out that we got instanced into different servers. We both had to shut down ED and relog to get it to work.


But on your issue finding the client, I think if you send a wing invite you two get earmarked for the same server so you don't get separated. Maybe you can try that next time you get a client who needs help so you can get to them faster.