Is there a way of automatically coming out of super cruise at the intended destination? I've reached a point where I'm absolutely sick of doing it manually. It's always an issue of slowing down at the right time or fly past the location entirely. I can understand why the Devs designed it the way they did, but it becomes a problem when the speed your traveling at is variable. I've been hoping there was a module that could do it, but I haven't been able to find one.
Automatically coming out of super cruise?
- Thread starter Brok3n
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Well theres a way to automatically speed up and slow down. Just set the speed to where the little bar or throttle whatever turns to a blue line. You still have to come out of it by pressing your hotkey (j by default) but at least you dont have to screw around as much. It makes it a lot easier.
Watch the indicators in the bottom left panel and wait for "the three blues": alignment light on, speed <1.0Mm/sec, distance <1.0Mm. If you set your speed in the middle of the blue zone, as noted above, before or at about 10 sec to destination you will never overshoot and arrive with minimal delay. It can't be fully automated anyway as you need to keep the target centred. Over 100s of Ls approach it always drifts around so you will need to keep a hand on the joystick. It is against the spirit of Elite to include "click and you're there" type automation. If you want that there are plenty of games which do it.
When you are in supercruise, do not look at your distance or your speed; look at your time to destination.
At or before you reach 20-15 seconds time-to-target or so, reduce your speed to the blue zone. Your time-to-target will hit 7 or 6 and stay there as your speed adjusts with the closing on the destination.
Using this method you will not ever overshoot.
Then you just have to wait to close within 1Mm and for yoru speed to drop below 1Mm/s and you will be able to use 'safe disengage'.
Once you get the hang of it it becomes second nature.
Also, I will sometimes just intentionally make a close pass to a planet near the target and use its gravity shadow to forcibly slow me to a near-stop, so that I do not overshoot by more than a few lightseconds, and then the trip to close on the target is a lot easier. This is best at the end of a long trip somewhere relatively far, and it is pleasingly similar to me to the method that the hyperdrive uses to pull you out of witchspace by using the star's gravity shadow.
At or before you reach 20-15 seconds time-to-target or so, reduce your speed to the blue zone. Your time-to-target will hit 7 or 6 and stay there as your speed adjusts with the closing on the destination.
Using this method you will not ever overshoot.
Then you just have to wait to close within 1Mm and for yoru speed to drop below 1Mm/s and you will be able to use 'safe disengage'.
Once you get the hang of it it becomes second nature.
Also, I will sometimes just intentionally make a close pass to a planet near the target and use its gravity shadow to forcibly slow me to a near-stop, so that I do not overshoot by more than a few lightseconds, and then the trip to close on the target is a lot easier. This is best at the end of a long trip somewhere relatively far, and it is pleasingly similar to me to the method that the hyperdrive uses to pull you out of witchspace by using the star's gravity shadow.
go under settings look under speed for 75% , bind a key to that and hit it once you go in super cruise. It will approach your target perfectly and you just have to drop out when the prompt comes up
Thank you for the suggestions. One concern I still have is what speed I'm traveling at when I begin this process. Moving at 10c I can see these techniques working, moving at 45c they might have trouble. I just wish the devs would give the option to have an automatic way to drop out of super cruise in exactly the right spot. They way they have designed it, it feels like some horrible mini-game that is well past it's prime. Mini-games work when they are infrequent. This is something else entirely.
Easiest rule I know of is to aim for 0:07 seconds to destination. Full power until you get to that ETA, then blue zone to hold it there until practically at destination.