Annihilated by a neutron star jet. C'est la vie.

About a week of traveling towards the core, was more than halfway there. Many great and valuable systems. Took a bad angle on a neutron star jet, even though I thought I had process nailed down after hundreds of neutron stars. Three minutes of struggle, and then rebuy screen. I sat there for about 5 minutes contemplating what happened, and then I remembered a story of a friend coming back with 4 months of exploration data and getting killed in a bubble. Compared to that my cute little tour accounts for nothing. I laughed. I'm heading out again. Stars are calling to me :)
Moral of the story - failure is always an option.
 
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I admire the positive spirit of the Op. I would have rage quited for a week at least! And I despice the treacherous White Dwarfs... Such a beautiful, yet deadly creatures
 
Sorry to hear it op. Was it a neutron star indeed, or a white dwarf? I think I've managed to escape newton star jets, but lost my ship once to a white dwarf. Was under the impression that you can stabilize and realign the ship enough to jump in a neutron star jet?
 
Sorry to hear it op. Was it a neutron star indeed, or a white dwarf? I think I've managed to escape newton star jets, but lost my ship once to a white dwarf. Was under the impression that you can stabilize and realign the ship enough to jump in a neutron star jet?
Neutron star. Even despite the fact that white dwarfs are way more dangerous from my experience. You can escape from both of them, but it's not a sure thing. I've managed to do it on few occasions, but this time luck wasn't on my side :) If you are dropped from supercruise in a jet your best bet is to immediately drop throttle to zero, which helps with reducing shaking somewhat. Try to align yourself away from the star while charging your FSD. As soon as FSD is charged catch a moment when you are closest to escape vector and boost. You pretty much only have one shot at this, because if you don't snap to that vector and jump away it will be nearly impossible to realign.
 
Jumping into a White Dwarf system right into it's cone is my biggest fear in Elite Dangerous. Happened once and they've been filtered off ever since. I've also seen quite a few CMDRs lost to White Dwarfs, especially on Distant Stars.
 
I thought they fixed that, with that ship repositioning thing on hyperspace exit? You can't end up inside of stars anymore either. At least that's what I read. So jumping right into a jet cone shouldn't be possible anymore?

Or am I wrong there?
 
I don't know if it's possible now to just drop into a system right into neutron star jet. But it's possible to mess up your FSD boosting approach :)
 
Sorry to hear of it OP. All we can do is look it over and figure out what we did to screw up.

I thought they fixed that, with that ship repositioning thing on hyperspace exit? You can't end up inside of stars anymore either. At least that's what I read. So jumping right into a jet cone shouldn't be possible anymore?

Or am I wrong there?

I've had some super close calls. Pinched between stars mostly, but all in all most of the going-where-no-(living)man-has-gone-before hasn't been an issue, but it does still rear it's ugly little head at times.
 
You know the actual worst thing about dying midst long exploration trip? Your paint will get restored after rebuy...meaning that your ship will no longer look like a rugged vehicle weathered by your long journey. But like one of those enormous Toyota Land Cruisers with off-road tires and a winch that are filling up parking lots of luxurious hotels and never seen a patch of dirt.
 
Commiserations, OP. And admiration for taking it on the chin.

Funnily enough, just this evening I was thinking that exploring in ED is the most dangerous profession of all. If you're a combat pilot, you leave the station, fly to a res and if you're unlucky enough to die you've lost, what? 10 minutes of gameplay? If you're a trader or mission-runner, same maybe - or 20 or 30 minutes. But if you're an explorer, you can lose days or weeks or months of gameplay.

Exploration puts the 'Dangerous' in ED.
 
You know the actual worst thing about dying midst long exploration trip? Your paint will get restored after rebuy...meaning that your ship will no longer look like a rugged vehicle weathered by your long journey. But like one of those enormous Toyota Land Cruisers with off-road tires and a winch that are filling up parking lots of luxurious hotels and never seen a patch of dirt.
Actually.. I think my DBX looks too polished, even at 0%... I could do with less paint and some dents and scratches here and there... ;)
 
Neutron stars, black holes and white dwarfs I always throttle down during approach, point away from star and run FSS, scan if any bodies, then select next target and hit max throttle when it asks to throttle up. Interesting things is you can jump directly through the jet during the 5 seconds countdown, it will warn you the FSD is overcharged, but it will still jump just like normal. Of course I carefully map any interesting bodies, only ever lost one ship to a jet cone, not going to happen again. :)
 
Both have happened to me this year, so I'd say not 100% fixed. ;)

My mishap was when it went live, so it was awhile ago. Been overly cautious ever since.


Neutron stars, black holes and white dwarfs I always throttle down during approach, point away from star and run FSS, scan if any bodies, then select next target and hit max throttle when it asks to throttle up. Interesting things is you can jump directly through the jet during the 5 seconds countdown, it will warn you the FSD is overcharged, but it will still jump just like normal. Of course I carefully map any interesting bodies, only ever lost one ship to a jet cone, not going to happen again. :)

You mean like this? :ROFLMAO:

 
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