You can usually avoid this by zeroing your throttle while in Witchspace (warp between systems) - after the countdown begins, you don't need any throttle. If you zero before exiting, you'll pop out and essentially stop - you'll be going 30 km/s, but in SC this is basically sitting still. Pitch until your pointed away from the star, then throttle up and head out.
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Newcomer / Intro Can anyone shed light on this? Ship destruction question.
- Thread starter WesBrook77
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Lol. Yes, something like!
Clearly my error, so I'll be sure to keep a larger distance from stars in future. I think in this case, the station I had locked was on a flight-path that took me too close, and I got drawn in, with no experience of how to there-after recover. In my attempts to escape the heat quickly, I failed to get the ship cooled sufficiently before re-engaging the FSD.
Still learning the ropes of ED (obviously), but must say, enjoying pretty much every minute
I normally throttle down to 50% while in hyperdrive. That allows me time to swerve as soon as I've come out of the jump, take the shortest route directly away from the sun. Having 50% throttle also gives me time to get far enough away before I turn and start looking for my target planet/station. As soon as I turn away from the sun, I look for the orbit lines of the planets and head toward them, that ensures I am flying directly away from the sun.
Since I've gotten so used to which planet number the stations I visit are orbiting, I fly with the orbit lines below me and nose up until I find the planet I want. If that takes me too close to the sun again, I keep flying toward the orbit lines until I am past the sun far enough to line up with the planet properly. Once lined up, I set my nav target and throttle up to 75% (to avoid overshooting the target). Throttle to 100% if it's a long trip like LHS 3447.
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White Dwarfs are nasty, you only have to look in their general direction to start cooking.
Don't be too afraid if your heat rises above 100% - you won't start suffering significant damage till 130%.
So long as you travel away from the star you will start to cool down without needing to shut anything down or whatever. Once down to 75-80% heat it's safe enough to engage FSD and fly towards the Escape Vector.
Don't be too afraid if your heat rises above 100% - you won't start suffering significant damage till 130%.
So long as you travel away from the star you will start to cool down without needing to shut anything down or whatever. Once down to 75-80% heat it's safe enough to engage FSD and fly towards the Escape Vector.
It just doesn't make sense to me that the game would drop you out of hyperspace so close to a star, that you immediately start taking damage. That's what happened to me. I escaped ok, but why does it happen in the first place?
if you continue to fly towards something hot you fry
hotter things fry you quicker
what's hard to understand ?
frying or the method of not frying (zero throttle)
^This...
It's pretty rare that you immediately take damage unless you've jumped in right between a close binary pair. If you're throttled down to 0 when you emerge you're usually safe. A white dwarf doesn't give you much leeway, though, and they always look farther away than they are because they're so small.
Nutter just posted a nice video guide about jumping into potentially dangerous systems… Here it is: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=110152
Nutter just posted a nice video guide about jumping into potentially dangerous systems… Here it is: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=110152
Really? Boost? Isn't that a surefire (pun intended) way to heat up?