Sometimes when I get near to a station in super cruise my max speed can go no higher than 250 ms/. I am out 0.95 Ls from Beagle Landing 2 station and the approach goes REALLY slow at this speed. What is causing this? Is it a bug? Or is there something I am missing?
Approaching staion VERY slowly in supercruise
- Thread starter Mikkel Toxwenius
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The minimum speed in SC is 30 kms-1, if you're only doing 250 ms-1 that implies you're in normal flight mode.
If you're certain you're in SC, it has to be a bug.
Thanks, I am pretty sure this is what happened. So being to close to the rings/planet causes a max cap on speed, right? It could make sense as a security measure not to travel too fast near planets.
It's actually the gravity well of the planet interfering with your FSD. The closer you get to a planet (or any other gravity well, e.g. star) the slower you'll be able to go.
My tip would be that once you are close enough to the planet (roughly 1 ls) to get its location marker in the HUD to look at it and see if the station you are going to is in front or behind the planet relative to your position. If it is behind fly a wide curve around the planet to avoid getting slowed down to a bog.
Yep.
Your drive is sensitive to mass variations in spacetime i.e. Gravity wells.
The steeper the gravitational gradient in the local area the harder your drive has to work to get you around and so the lower your speed.
In "flat" space the drive can easily accelerate you and much higher speeds are possible.
Been up to 700+c in a Lakon-6 on a trip out out one of the stations in CP Draconis I think.
