It's possible to FSD through the asteroid belt, but is this correct ?

[Alpenniless]

When a galaxy you wish to jump to is blocked by a planet, you need to steer clear before you can FSD.

Just now, as I exited a station, the galaxy is behind a planet's asteroid belt, but I can FSD through it.. just bringing this out.

 

[Patau82]

When a galaxy you wish to jump to is blocked by a planet, you need to steer clear before you can FSD.

Just now, as I exited a station, the galaxy is behind a planet's asteroid belt, but I can FSD through it.. just bringing this out.

Its a star system not a galaxy
yeah you can but you cant super cruise through it

 

[Alpenniless]

Its a star system not a galaxy
yeah you can but you cant super cruise through it

Opps..my bad.. a star system it is..

What I meant is.. if it the ship can't FSD through a planet to a star system, it should also not able to go through the belt right...

 

[Kamiyoda]

Opps..my bad.. a star system it is..

What I meant is.. if it the ship can't FSD through a planet to a star system, it should also not able to go through the belt right...

Depends entirely on why we cant Supercruise through a planet to be honest

 

[Patau82]

You dont travel through normal space when jumping with fsd, you travel through witch space so you dont actually pass through the ring. Maybe our nav computer cant lock through planet but can get a lock through ring?

 

[Vasco Sapien]

You dont travel through normal space when jumping with fsd, you travel through witch space so you dont actually pass through the ring. Maybe our nav computer cant lock through planet but can get a lock through ring?

You jump to the largest mass object in the destination system, but with a planet in the way the FDS has issues. I would guess that a ring does not mass block like a planet does.

 

[Factabulous]

Go to normal space - try and fly through a ring. Now try the same thing with a planet. Now imagine doing this whilst travelling much, much faster

Personally I find the fact I can jump to another system from only 2km above a planet surface while parallel to that said surface to be more of an unlikelihood, but YMMV.

Anyway, if it really annoyed you I'm sure you can get FD to postpone spacelegs, or even Open Only PP, to get this fixed, as it does seem to be breaking yr immersions [up].

 

[Vasco Sapien]

Depends entirely on why we cant Supercruise through a planet to be honest

Alot of peeps have different ideas as to how the FSD functions (geeks will be geeks), i like the idea that the FSD lifts its reference frame from real space placing it within a bubble. Its believed that space itself can move faster than the speed of light (Einstein), its just that Mass cannot and is limited. But if you put the mass inside a little happy bubble of space and then you move that bubble with the ship inside it... you can exceed superluminal velocities as the ship isnt technically moving at all. But we do see from the pilots eye view that the ships in supercruise move around the star system in 3 spatial dimensions relative to the other objects within that system... so when XYZ of a moving ship convene with XYZ of a planet.... at some level an interaction must occur and the FSD pops the bubble and dumps you back into Snail space. Your ship wasnt actually moving inside the bubble so when the bubble pops you are just thrown back into Snail Space with minor damage and you don't have all you atoms Schmeeered across the star system well past ultraviolet.

 

[Jefferson613]

Opps..my bad.. a star system it is..

What I meant is.. if it the ship can't FSD through a planet to a star system, it should also not able to go through the belt right...

An asteroid belt is very much devoid of matter. Technically the belts in the game are far too dense than IRL.

 

[seko]

nope it will drop you out as being too close

 

[Kamiyoda]

nope it will drop you out as being too close

Hes refering to high waking, now low waking. Specifically, that you can high wake with an asteroid field in the way but not a planet.

 

[Lori Jameson]

Alot of peeps have different ideas as to how the FSD functions (geeks will be geeks), i like the idea that the FSD lifts its reference frame from real space placing it within a bubble. Its believed that space itself can move faster than the speed of light (Einstein), its just that Mass cannot and is limited. But if you put the mass inside a little happy bubble of space and then you move that bubble with the ship inside it... you can exceed superluminal velocities as the ship isnt technically moving at all. But we do see from the pilots eye view that the ships in supercruise move around the star system in 3 spatial dimensions relative to the other objects within that system... so when XYZ of a moving ship convene with XYZ of a planet.... at some level an interaction must occur and the FSD pops the bubble and dumps you back into Snail space. Your ship wasnt actually moving inside the bubble so when the bubble pops you are just thrown back into Snail Space with minor damage and you don't have all you atoms Schmeeered across the star system well past ultraviolet.

Either that or "Witch Space" is a plane entirely composed of tachyonic matter parallel to our own plane of baryonic matter and we 'shift' into and out of it.

 

[Tarman]

I like the "vaguely based around planetary-sized mass issues" explanation, without going too far into the realfake science hybrid territory. Plus I remember traveling through planets in EVE and it was a bit disconcerting as a game effect, gives you a bit of paranoia about horrible matter-phasing accidents.