Not fit for purpose
- Thread starter Maximillian Forrest
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I never said you said it was an autopilot.
I said it's NOT an autopilot. You are LOOKING for something that will fly your ship and avoid obstacles etc, that would be an autopilot.
We don't have an autopilot.
My reaction to you using my fav image/meme right now....
Nice to see my confession of being wrong has been warmly accepted by many rather than ridiculed. Next time I’ll consult Wiki before venting my frustration.You are most welcome - we all make mistakes, it is in our nature
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We all created accounts on here for a start.
Seems you get top marks for your speedy graphical response
Where's the forum fun in that !!?
SCA might not be totally intelligent but can be useful. Wouldn't ditch it forever until getting to know it a little bit.
^^^ This!Where's the forum fun in that !!?
SCA might not be totally intelligent but can be useful. Wouldn't ditch it forever until getting to know it a little bit.
It does have its uses, just take a mission (usually well paid) to one of the Scylla stations...
My favorite thing about it is that without SC Assist your ship tries to hurl itself into a fireball of death after every jump
I think it works more like a cruise control in a car in that you still have to have a certain amount of control/perspective of the car and where you're headed, to ensure you don't crash. (At least with the Supercruise assist it stops rather than keeps going expecting you to steer to avoid objects like with a car). <O
OP, I get it. Note that it's OK to moan about the game, which many folks on this thread who are criticizing you do without ceasing. You just didn't moan about the game in the right way.
Note also that the OP did not ask for an autopilot - that was a thread hijack by someone else. He said he installed it thinking:
Which would be a perfectly reasonable expectation of something called supercruise assist, were this not ED. This being ED, while the ship's computer is smart enough to navigate perfectly to a star system dozens of light years away, it's not smart enough to sense a planet-sized mass in the way and steer around it. Makes perfect sense, and anyone who questions this is clearly an idiot. /sarc
Note also that the OP did not ask for an autopilot - that was a thread hijack by someone else. He said he installed it thinking:
Which would be a perfectly reasonable expectation of something called supercruise assist, were this not ED. This being ED, while the ship's computer is smart enough to navigate perfectly to a star system dozens of light years away, it's not smart enough to sense a planet-sized mass in the way and steer around it. Makes perfect sense, and anyone who questions this is clearly an idiot. /sarc
Sometimes the planet / moon / station orbits behind the orbiting body during the SCA journey....20% is a bit high but probably a run of bad luck or something
One for the loading screen there.
As a professional SCA user I can say it saved my sanity and my eyestrain. Its not perfect but even an adorable puppy has accidents now and again.
One for the loading screen there.
Best leave it to the professionals
As a professional SCA user I can say it saved my sanity and my eyestrain. Its not perfect but even an adorable puppy has accidents now and again.
The route plotter selects jumps on a mass per fuel basis, lightyears ahead sure, but the actual jump navigation just aims at the first heaviest object it can find on your heading and dumps you there, so it's not THAT sophisticated (apart from being warp capable).
Really the truth is in the name. Supercruise assist, easily mistaken for an autopilot maybe but definitely not one even if 9/10 it seems to behave like one. Most useful as a throttle control imo but like your docking computer, fail to monitor it and you'll end up face first in an ice ring somewhere.
+1 Fanstastic for exploring and mapping in conjunction with Orrery Map and handy for material scavenging between signal sources too.
I'm virtually never afk so I don't worry about accidental drops with SCA. For me it's more about frustration with a promising feature that turns out to be pretty useless. Even if you do have clear line of sight, it will happily fly deep into a grav well and triple time to destination. Working as intended, I know. I wish "as intended" was more useful. As is, it works about like the cruise control on my car. Except my cruise control is smart enough to apply more throttle when going uphill.
True but even a slower point to point journey can have it's trade offs (light a candle rather than curse the dark). Set the auto, then concentrate on contacts for highwaymen. Not saying you should fly like that (or stay on the orbital plane at all) but it is an assist and if i'm listening to Galnet sometimes I don't want to arrive too fast.
The algorithm your talking about is a pretty sophisticated one and a botting threat does exist. I doubt it's beyond Frontier but I can see why it's not a high priority.
Hmm... I've not done something that stupid for days...My favorite thing about it is that without SC Assist your ship tries to hurl itself into a fireball of death after every jump ☠
Thank you, another use I'd not considered - but happily admit I've only recently added SCA to a couple of ships