Hello,
First post here, please be gentle!
I've been exploring with my DBX for a while now, currently in the Sagittarius-Carina arm, but so far I've always avoided Neutron boosts. So today I thought I'd try it, just to overcome my fears of entering that jet...
Maybe I did something wrong, I'm not sure. I don't really know how to do it "right" anyway, because I don't read too much about those things beforehand. Let me just explain exactly what I did and what happened:
My question: Did I do something wrong here? Something pretty horribly wrong even, maybe? Everybody told me this was 100% safe, but I feel a bit shaken now, and reluctant to try this again with 1+ billion of data in my shieldless DBX. Should I maybe not have reduced FSD thrust to 0 within the jet?
I am more scared of Neutron stars now than of high g landings, including 9g+...
The star in question sits in Pyraea Eurl AC-B d14-0 and can be reached with one FSD injection (~80Ly) for a base FSD range of 59Ly.
My apologies if this is a stupid and/or already answered question. I googled for it, but couldn't find anything. All info I found was that the FSD can never drop below 30km/s. But mine definitely did just that, even if only marginally... Made me super-scared of dropping out of FSD while close to or maybe even still in the Neutron star's jet.
Let me know what you think, and thanks!
First post here, please be gentle!
I've been exploring with my DBX for a while now, currently in the Sagittarius-Carina arm, but so far I've always avoided Neutron boosts. So today I thought I'd try it, just to overcome my fears of entering that jet...
Maybe I did something wrong, I'm not sure. I don't really know how to do it "right" anyway, because I don't read too much about those things beforehand. Let me just explain exactly what I did and what happened:
- I approached the star, then turned outwards to enter the jet at a steep angle pointing away from the star. Felt safer that way.
- I flew towards the jet slooowly until I got gripped by it and hurled outwards. Scary.
- Immediately reduced FSD thrust to 0 while still within the jet, just before the "supercharged" message.
- Got the "supercharged" message. Flight seemed stable after the hurling around, thrust still 0. Speed 30km/s. Neutron star pretty much to my rear.
- Suddenly get another "unsafe conditions" message from the FSD. Flight seemed stable, unsure what was going on at first.
- Looked at the speed: FSD had started dropping below 30km/s, to 29.9, then 29.8...
- Applied some thrust, and flight became stable again. Applied more, and suddenly I was hurled around a bit again with another "unsafe conditions" message. Couldn't visually confirm whether I was still in the jet though, and my field of vision is quite large, because VR.
- Reduced thrust from ~0.10c to much less and flight became stable once more. Went on like this at I believe (not exactly sure) ~1Mm/s for 1-2 minutes. Then I could accelerate safely.
- Experimented with acceleration and thrust to 0 after getting away from the Neutron star. Couldn't make my FSD go below 30km/s again, no matter how often I tried.
- Really didn't have the nerves to re-try the boost after that. Just happily jumped out of the system.
- (The thrill was awesome though)
My question: Did I do something wrong here? Something pretty horribly wrong even, maybe? Everybody told me this was 100% safe, but I feel a bit shaken now, and reluctant to try this again with 1+ billion of data in my shieldless DBX. Should I maybe not have reduced FSD thrust to 0 within the jet?
I am more scared of Neutron stars now than of high g landings, including 9g+...
The star in question sits in Pyraea Eurl AC-B d14-0 and can be reached with one FSD injection (~80Ly) for a base FSD range of 59Ly.
My apologies if this is a stupid and/or already answered question. I googled for it, but couldn't find anything. All info I found was that the FSD can never drop below 30km/s. But mine definitely did just that, even if only marginally... Made me super-scared of dropping out of FSD while close to or maybe even still in the Neutron star's jet.
Let me know what you think, and thanks!