"Align to Escape Vector"

Bokugo

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"Ok ship, I have aligned to the vector..............when does the escaping happen?............Still waiting for that escape ship............Oh just ignore that guy back there lighting you up like a rave party.................Alright serious ship whe-Oh FINALLY! Thank you ship..​piece of junk"

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Is this being looked at or is it intended "realism" for when your ship AI hates your guts?

Also, I wrote this in a Spaniard's voice. I have absolutely no idea why, but i feel it adds a little something special.
 
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Bokugo

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Fully charged FSD is the only time, I believe, that message pops up. Also this happens with no target selected, just trying to jump into SC.
"What freaking vector ship, where are we going?"
 
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Dogthinker

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Bokugo said:
Fully charged FSD is the only time, I believe, that message pops up. Also this happens with no target selected, just trying to jump into SC.
"What freaking vector ship, where are we going?"
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If you are too close to a planet / star / planetary rings / rocks then you will get this. Were you trying to escape a pirate at an extraction site?
 

Bokugo

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Dead middle of nowhere. Got interdicted by a python coming into a USS. I like hunting out there as speed isn't hindered too much.
And I have had this near a gravity well before and held onto the vector for quite a while. Plus the vector was parallel to the gravity source instead of away, but maybe this is like with water and current. Better to swim with than against.
 
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Irritant

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Are you sure it was asking you to align to an Escape vector and not to align to the ship's direction vector (can't remember the exact wording of that one - align with ship trajectory, or similar)?
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When you are about to SC, particularly if you are evading enemy fire whilst moving quickly, particularly if you are in a bigger ship with thrusters that can't handle its mass too well, you will find that you can be pointing in one direction, but travelling in another. You either need to stop turning and let the thrusters move you in the direction you are pointing (assuming flight assist is on) - boosting can help, or you need to turn the ship to point in the direction that it is moving (not much help if you are doing a Hyperspace where you have to point at the system you are travelling to).
 

OnePercent

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if your FSD doesn't say you were mass locked then you need to also line up your heading with your ships actual velocity vector too.
 

Bokugo

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Irritant said:
Are you sure it was asking you to align to an Escape vector and not to align to the ship's direction vector (can't remember the exact wording of that one - align with ship trajectory, or similar)?
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When you are about to SC, particularly if you are evading enemy fire whilst moving quickly, particularly if you are in a bigger ship with thrusters that can't handle its mass too well, you will find that you can be pointing in one direction, but travelling in another. You either need to stop turning and let the thrusters move you in the direction you are pointing (assuming flight assist is on) - boosting can help, or you need to turn the ship to point in the direction that it is moving (not much help if you are doing a Hyperspace where you have to point at the system you are travelling to).
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Usually I fly straight while charging doing the "spin of ehhh" and the enemy is directly behind me but the vector pops up somewhere else not in front of me. Plus my biggest issue is how long do I have to stay aligned? I sit there staring at it for 30 seconds sometimes. Other times it's shorter. It's pretty inconsistent and I just want to know if this is a bug, or if it's intended and is there any remedy?

And my ship velocity is most certainly lined up within that time frame. The particles are a good give away.
 
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teaurn

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I agree...

If it's 'escape vector', find the blue thingy(!), and aim at it (this usually happens close to objects)

Or else stop steering and hit boost to align your ship orientation with the velocity vector. :D
 
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Bokugo

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teaurn said:
I agree...

If it's 'escape vector', find the blue thingy(!), and aim at it (this usually happens close to objects)

Or else stop steering and hit boost to align your ship orientation with the velocity vector. :D
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Honestly I don't really pay attention to what kind of escape vector it is. They are all vectors that let me escape in my eyes. It's just they only let me escape after a good long stare at it, going directly at it after boosting like always. And this doesn't always happen. In fact it's pretty uncommon. Most of the time, it just insta jumps no matter direction or ship angular velocity (barring reach certain speed)
 

Hell Razor5543

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If you had set up a stellar jump you need to point your ship towards that star system in order for the full FSD jump to start. An interplanetary jump (into supercruise FSD) does not normally need you to aim at the target before it initiates the jump.
 

Bokugo

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Hell Razor5543 said:
If you had set up a stellar jump you need to point your ship towards that star system in order for the full FSD jump to start. An interplanetary jump (into supercruise FSD) does not normally need you to aim at the target before it initiates the jump.
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It's usually always super cruise. But I have been interdicted before while lining up for a system jump. On one side I can immediately ignore their attempts for them to pull my out of SC and just immediately jump even if I'm going perpendicular to the velocity as told by the blue waves. The other side is me sitting there again staring at the vector going nowhere.

And I appreciate all of the civility. It's a nice breath of fresh asp.
 
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merlin851526

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Constantly this getting while trying to leave a planets surface. Sometimes in open space as well. Ship is lined up with vector, not mass locked, throttle at full and yet nothing happens. All the while I hear the humming of the jump drive at full power and it keeps telling to align with victor. On several occasions I have to shut down the jump drive least I suffer heat damage from the build up. This doesn't happen all the time to me, just randomly. However it's enough to be rage inducing.
 

Loskene

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Just being at full throttle doesn't cut it if you still have lateral velocity from your previous manoeuvres or gravity drag, that can take quite some time for the ship to correct by itself. Always boost to make sure the ship is actually aligned with its velocity vector if you ever get that message.
 
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Mostly Hamless

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I get this too.

No I am not mass locked. FSD fully charged, throttle at 100%. Pointing dead centre of the vector.

I can only assume the game is waiting for something to load in.
 

Quester91

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Bokugo said:
"Ok ship, I have aligned to the vector..............when does the escaping happen?............Still waiting for that escape ship............Oh just ignore that guy back there lighting you up like a rave party.................Alright serious ship whe-Oh FINALLY! Thank you ship..​piece of junk"

:(


Is this being looked at or is it intended "realism" for when your ship AI hates your guts?

Also, I wrote this in a Spaniard's voice. I have absolutely no idea why, but i feel it adds a little something special.
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Probably your ship vector wasn't aligned with the destination, your nose was only pointing at it but you were moving in a different direction.

That's one more reason why we always asked frontier to give us a basic vector indicator in our futuristic space ship game and two years later we're still relying on fantasy space confetti.
 

Kaltern

Kaltern
Definitely sounds like your ship's direction of travel isn't towards the escape vector.


Maybe an idea for an extra HUD section, a vector indicator perhaps - the 'space dust' usually gives it away, but y'know, even SUV's have g-force indicators these days... :D
 
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bubbabenali

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Getting this roughly 1/3 of the time, wether it's a low or high wake on planet surfaces or in the midst of a star system.

Funnily mostly while low waking from an uss with a starport locked on.
 
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