Boost in supercruise

[Mitore]

Anyone else for boost in supercruise? Get more speed for a bit at cost of turning rate, good for escape from deep gravity wells! Boosting helps you escape interdiction when you are at center, just hope it won't move for few seconds or you lose more progress because of slower turning.
Boosting in SC may cause increased wear and tear.

 

[Stellar Gambit]

Don't want to upset the OP - but I can't tell you how much i dislike this idea. space is huge, if when you landin a system you have to travel 300 or 400,000Ls to yoru station then yes, annoying but at the same time inkeeping with the fact space is huge, and distances like that remind us of it too.

But then again maybe I'm the kinda player who likes the occational pain in the to remind me that the good elite givith, and it taketh away.

 

[ChaosCloud]

I'd rather have more accel and decel in SC.
It all feels like a fake artificial timesink when you find out that you can prevent overshooting that USS for which your ETA just went below the magical 6sec by setting the throttle to 0% and untarget it, suddenly you can decelerate faster by a factor of "Screw Logic"

Doesn't work near planets though as there's the gravity wells, but I still can't shake the feeling that SC is too slow.
Space looks big enough when you leave the bubble, no need to spend 20min flying in a straight line at 100% throttle to that station 400k Ls away.
And I'm sadly not kidding with the 20min, in the time between aiming at it (already having the throttle at 100%) and me getting close enough that I could go back to 75% was there so much time to kill that I started PlanetSide2, let it update, went a bit on the forums while that, then played for 15min, checking every now and then so I don't overshoot and yeah, in the end I reached the station after roughly 20min, didn't even overshoot, and played 95% of the time another game because staring at the void for that long doing nothing but going in a straight line is only that interesting.

 

[Mitore]

I'll have to try deselecting target to see how fast i can decelerate lol. Is there a shortcut for that?

 

[SMcA]

Anyone else for boost in supercruise? Get more speed for a bit at cost of turning rate, good for escape from deep gravity wells! Boosting helps you escape interdiction when you are at center, just hope it won't move for few seconds or you lose more progress because of slower turning.
Boosting in SC may cause increased wear and tear.

The game theory is against that. It is the mass you are near that slows down your acceleration. When you are traveling fast in SC zero your throttle. When you are at 30 k/s set it to 100% and you will be traveling above "C" very fast.

 

[ChaosCloud]

I'll have to try deselecting target to see how fast i can decelerate lol. Is there a shortcut for that?

Look at nothing and 'select' that.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

I'd like a boost or something.

Maybe an "overdrive mode", you select from the functions panel.

This allows you to accelerate out of gravity wells much faster, or gain on/escape targets in interdictions.
At the cost of 500% fuel use, 5x heat buildup and 1% FSD drive damage every 1 second (on top of overheat Damage). At 25% it auto cuts out the boost.

75 seconds of boost seems fair.

Also increase FSD repair cost.


I'd like this because my buddy in his vette got interdicted by pvpers, and it took me a full minute to escape my planets gravity well and catch up, just in time for him to go "boom".
Not particularly heroic timing. Lol

 

[Mitore]

Nah, don't damage FSD, i think overheating is good enough to keep you thinking if you really want to push that boost longer or not.

 

[ChaosCloud]

Same, far outside of the bubble is heat alone already pretty dangerous, even if only because you can't repair the reactor (and in case of a single AFMU: that itself).

But I think overall flatout raising the accel and decel for everyone would be the most fair, otherwise would with this choice (heating) people complain that run too hot builts : / and there are already enough that complain when one dares to see SC as imperfect...

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

I posted this somewhere else.
But what about changing or adding the FSD synthesis.
So you basically synthesise "turbo fuel".
More fuel for higher level synthesis.
And turbo fuel adds 100% jump range and a big boost in acceleration until you refuel with regualr stuff.(you'll keep using turbo fuel until its gone,then revert back to normal, refilling or Scooping just add fills the empty parts of the tank, does not overwrite the boost fuel).

That way, you can boost, and jump further. Making FSD boost actually useful.
No penalty for using it. You just need to gather the materials.

Linky, turns out it was my own thread. Lol
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=226846&p=3473253

 

[denisbloodnok]

Doesn't work near planets though as there's the gravity wells, but I still can't shake the feeling that SC is too slow.
Space looks big enough when you leave the bubble, no need to spend 20min flying in a straight line at 100% throttle to that station 400k Ls away.

That's what vexes me - supercruise could be a lot faster a long way from the nearest star and that would improve matters for everyone.

 

[ChaosCloud]

That's what vexes me - supercruise could be a lot faster a long way from the nearest star and that would improve matters for everyone.

It does, except way too little for these more extreme cases and combine that with the fact that there's nothing to indicate that you're moving several thousand times the speed of light (spacedust doesn't count, can't tell 10c from 1000c) then you're feeling like not moving at all.
Well I am atleast, but it seems like I'm pretty alone (out there) with that one.

 

[denisbloodnok]

It does, except way too little for these more extreme cases and combine that with the fact that there's nothing to indicate that you're moving several thousand times the speed of light (spacedust doesn't count, can't tell 10c from 1000c) then you're feeling like not moving at all.

It doesn't, because I mean a lot faster than it does at present. The combination of the 2001c hard cap (I confirmed this yesterday) and the shape of the curve as you transit between stars in big systems makes for long trips that seem to serve no gameplay purpose - and, as in Frontier, make those cool triple-star systems annoyances to be avoided.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

How come this gravity well thing was implemented anyway?
I think it detracts from the huge feeling of space, if you can't zoom last a planet at 300c.
Not sure how emergency drop would work without the slow down, but hey.
I-War 2 somehow made you feel like you was belting along. Even if some things wasn't to scale.
But in ED I can't never tell the difference between 1c and 2000c without a planet or star as reference.

 

[ChaosCloud]

How come this gravity well thing was implemented anyway?
I think it detracts from the huge feeling of space, if you can't zoom last a planet at 300c.
Not sure how emergency drop would work without the slow down, but hey.
I-War 2 somehow made you feel like you was belting along. Even if some things wasn't to scale.
But in ED I can't never tell the difference between 1c and 2000c without a planet or star as reference.

Well, for one would I imagine at 300c is a planet only present for 1~2 frames if you zip by it xD

Another thing that I felt also while I was trying to break my canopy (for science, I'm not bored, not at all) it felt like the damage from emergy drops got bigger the faster I got, or the lower the integrity of the canopy was, or both.

Anyone feeling like forcing a drop at 2001c? :> I surely won't as I'm far from anything currently, exploring for once in a long time now that the repair modules are refillable, even if we still can't fix a broken canopy, the reactor nor the AFMU itself (unless you probably have 2 which I don't), but it still makes me not as crystaline out there as it did the last time I went out to find a wolf rayet, and then be disappointed that it just looks like an A star, big, blue and nothing special about it...

Also there is some point in adjusting the speed, if you ever tried to hit a dropwake during that time where they weren't recognized as targets and therefore did NOT adjust the speed then you know that the lack of the adjustment is actually worse: 0% throttle, ETA 2min, 1% throttle ZIP, and overshot already...
So I'm not saying that the relative capping should be gone, just broadened. God that time back then was horrible... "hey can you follow my wake? I got infos for you." "yeah I would, if I could hit the ****ing thing!!!"