Avoiding Star Bumps

kastia

K
I suspect I'm not the only one who this happens to, and yes I know it's technically my fault but that doesn't stop me from at least asking :)

I play over two screens, Elite running full screen on one display and a browser (often with Discord and other DW2 related things open at the moment) in the other screen. I'll often hit the jump key, then move the mouse over to the other screen whilst the FSD spins up.

What sometimes happens is that I don't quite get the mouse over to the Elite window quickly enough, so that I boop the star, or I do get the mouse over quickly enough but in my panic I hit the left mouse button which causes the FSS to open (doh!) with subsequent panic trying to exit and steer away from the star. This seems to happen even if I set the joystick throttle to zero when switching to the other screen.

I suspect changing the angle that you come out of witchspace at so you're not pointing directly at the star is too drastic a change, so I'd like to suggest that if the game does not have UI focus that the throttle defaults to zero, instead of full throttle? I don't think that's too drastic a change, and would certainly reduce the number of incidents.

Either that or allow repair limpets to repair the power plant! :)
 

Lestat

Banned
Lestat
Why not use a Table or Cellphone and plug it into your Secondary monitor. So the game Not fighting with the secondary screen. It not hard to Throttle down.

You can also plug a keyboard and mouse into the monitor and should be able to work.
 

Firebeard

Firebeard
No pay attention to the flaming game. Travelling is supposed to be risky - if I had my way crashing into a star or planet wouldn't be an emergency stop it'd be an explosion.
 

Screemonster

Screemonster
Before I got myself a hotas and controlled my speed that way, one trick I found is that if you have FA off before you jump into supercruise, your throttle defaults to zero upon entering a supercruise instance, including after each jump. Don't know if this is still the case, this was back in 2.4.
 

saicoth

saicoth
There is a script made for autohotkey which immediately switches focus to game window if the joystick is moved. I found it to be very usefull, it's better than nothing for the time being. Check it out.
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
kastia said:
I suspect changing the angle that you come out of witchspace at so you're not pointing directly at the star is too drastic a change, so I'd like to suggest that if the game does not have UI focus that the throttle defaults to zero, instead of full throttle? I don't think that's too drastic a change, and would certainly reduce the number of incidents.
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That suggestion is already there for entering supercruise from normal space (and is generally just annoying there) so I'd support adding it as an option just so I can turn it off!
 

kastia

K
Looks like you're right... no sign of that menu option here - great for everyone out in the black on DW2 right now :(
 

Exeider

Exeider
Screemonster said:
Before I got myself a hotas and controlled my speed that way, one trick I found is that if you have FA off before you jump into supercruise, your throttle defaults to zero upon entering a supercruise instance, including after each jump. Don't know if this is still the case, this was back in 2.4.
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question, does this trick still work?
 
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