@OP - 100% in agreement, we should be able to get closer to stars, and have a bit more risk in game.
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Actually I dare to ask: why?
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I mean, the ship automatically drops out of SC when you get too close to a star. It does so when you reach a certain minimum safety distance. The ship decides to rather take some damage from emergency drop out of SC than to fly closer to the star. Considering the technology of this game, it's a very logical thing to do.
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- Of course, in pure theory things could break. But implementing something like this only for ships which are badly worn down also seems like a waste of effort to me.
- Somebody could tinker with the system, override it, etc. But why would he? What would he gain from that? I just don't see why anybody would want to do it.
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For me, the whole thing is like "hey, we could replace the seat belts material with some wool strings" and "we could add a 10 seconds delay when triggering the airbag". The whole goal would be "increasing the risk", without any actual benefits gained. Indeed these things could be done. But it requires excessive levels of stupidity to actually do that.
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I think what we have currently is fine. It makes perfect sense for the world of ED to have these safety features. You can override them sometimes, e.g. when entering cones to get bigger jump range. You take a risk, but you can also get a benefit from it. That actually makes sense.
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You also can still drop into a system and be wedged between two very close stars. Here we see a limitation of the navigation system: it doesn't know enough about a destination system to completely avoid these situations. This again makes perfect sense when jumping into unexplored systems. If this happens, you better be quick to get out of there and best have some heat sinks at hand. Traveling is not completely risk free. While the chance to end up in such a place is low per jump, the high number of jumps for a longer trip adds up to some risk.
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The game has other things which can use a lot of improvement. Just making traveling more dangerous for the mere sake of making it more dangerous doesn't seem the right way for me.
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I have already read threads here about people limping back 20k LY on a broken FSD, which they only kept operational via repair and reboot. You don't feel the danger when just jumping through the bubble and fixing things up when arriving. You don't get hurt much when you have experience and know what to do. But there are other people out there, who apparently are not that proficient yet. The game already has a steep learning curve. Its player retention rate seems to be not all that great already now. Making it even worse isn't the way to go.
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