Newcomer / Intro What is the meaning of the white circles around bodies in supercruise?

eliteqs

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Do they have more precise meaning or usefulness other than that the encircled body exerts gravity? Does the number of them and how they grow and fade away mean something?
 

Dommarraa

Dommarraa
They dont indicate any specific quantity of gravity well, they are simply there to give a sense of movement towards them.
 

JetsonRING

JetsonRING
eliteqs said:
Do they have more precise meaning or usefulness other than that the encircled body exerts gravity? Does the number of them and how they grow and fade away mean something?
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I believe FDev calls them "range markers". I wish they could be turned off ...
 

d8veh

d8veh
The coloured ones do have some meaning. If you go inside the ones around stars, you fall into the star. The blue ones around planets show the zone inside which you get orbital cruise data. Other ones have other effects.
 

Krieger

Krieger
eliteqs said:
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Could they be used to more optimally approach the body or an orbiting station in supercruise?
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In general approaching a planet is quicker by flying straight at it because your maximum speed gets lower the closer you are. If you go to a station in orbit or a settlement on the surface you may have to fly around the planet to reach it. In that case a (steep) spiral inwards will be the quickest. Someone wrote a paper on optimal trajectories to approach planets. Maybe I can find it...

--edit: Got it. On Canonn's site of course. PDF download link at the bottom of page.
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Optimal Supercruise Flight Paths | Canonn Research Group

We are privileged to have been asked to host Cmdr Heisenberg6626's study of the Optimal Supercruise Flight Paths, which examines this key element of space travel in detail
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