Is Supercruise Assist slower?

Arkadi

Arkadi
A short anecdote: Pre supercruise assist it happened to me that I overshot my target thousands of light seconds whilest I was doing something else (reading forums). When I was back to screen to turn around to get back to my target, I got bored and overshot it again in the other direction for thousands of lighteseconds, whilst I was doing something else (reading forums)...

This could go on for severalt times. My record of swinging back and forth in this way was about 6 times I think. Thanks to curise assist: no more! No matter if it's a bit faster or slower in speed. It's definitly faster for me.
 

Hooplah

Hooplah
An engineered ship has to modify the approach as the game does not compensate for it. We work the lower part of the blue zone as being in the middle with engineered thrusters always overshoots the destination. Note on a 1G gravity planet how your engineered ship versus a stock version slams down on the landing pad.

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babelfisch

babelfisch
picommander said:
Since your testing distance was much longer than mine I can only conclude that the speed gap between manual an assist increases proportionally to the distance. But one thing is clear: SC assist is slower in all events.
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Yep, acceleration slows down the faster you get. It took me 20 minutes to reach 1000c but 40 minutes more to reach 1300c. If you travel shorter distances you don't reach these ludicrous speeds anyway, so the time difference is way smaller. By the way, normally you reach 1600c at full throttle during the Hutton run before you start decelerating, I only reached 1300c which is pretty close to 75%.
 

Northpin

Northpin
Indeed, but why did you mention engineering in a discussion about supercruise travel? Do i need to quote your first post?
 

Schmack

Schmack
FalconFly said:
Hm, that's a tad unusual to read.

AFAIK the SCA should be significantly slower, the longer the acceleration and cruise phase towards the target takes.
If I was to travel to a 2000Ls distant Station in a System, I'd be at least ~30sec slower limiting myself to the blue zone.

Should there be a Gas Giant the Station orbits around in an unsuitable geometry (reachable but leading close to the Gas Giant's body exclusion zone), the time disadvantage could amount to several Minutes easily.

I guess we need a qualified "Hutton Orbital SCA benchmark".
Any takers? ;)
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Oh I don't mind going out there but is that a long ride back to the star that gets me when I need to refuel in my anaconda.
 

Lightspeed

Lightspeed
Thanks for the quickie test.

Please could you also test the Free Anaconda v Purchased Anaconda, with the same modules and engineering, to see if one is faster than the other ?
 

Northpin

Northpin
I did some tests in Hip 4099 between The Gnosis orbiting Hip 4099 1 A and Hip 4099 7.
Distance 4790ls
Time with SCA ON, 75% throttle: 278s
Time flying manually, 100% throttle: 236s (throttle to 75% at 7s mark)
 

Crank Larson

Crank Larson
Hooplah said:
The difference is an experienced pilot dealing with complex gravity near suns, stations behind planets and other factors that an experienced pilot can do much better than the supercruise assist going for the simplest direct route. Test it yourself and see.
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I did. :) And SCA allows an inexperienced pilot to do what those experienced pilots can do. You just need to leave it late to trigger SCA. I suspect SCA would beat an experienced pilot as it can simply head straight towards the target and ignore effects like gravity completely.
 

Crank Larson

Crank Larson
Northpin said:
I did some tests in Hip 4099 between The Gnosis orbiting Hip 4099 1 A and Hip 4099 7.
Distance 4790ls
Time with SCA ON, 75% throttle: 278s
Time flying manually, 100% throttle: 236s (throttle to 75% at 7s mark)
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Now try with SCA and use full throttle until your timer hits 4 seconds (at which point throttle to blue and let SCA take over). It'll be a lot quicker. ;)
 
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