Do you use FSD Boost?

Happy Daze

Happy Daze
Does anyone use FSD Boost with the Pre Engineered FSD, Engineered FSD and Guardian FSD Booster?

Personally I'd use Neutron Stars more for out-of-bubble travels, and my AspX or DbX in-bubble. I was just wondering what others did...
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MVBanks

MVBanks
Happy Daze said:
Does anyone use FSD Boost with the Pre Engineered FSD, Engineered FSD and Guardian FSD Booster?

Personally I'd use Neutron Stars more for out-of-bubble travels, and my AspX or DbX in-bubble. I was just wondering what others did...
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I regularly use FSD Boost outside the bubble, and then when I come back I forget to turn off that function, so the route often directs me over white dwarfs, so I don't remember that I then have to enter the beam for charging, so it starts to annoy me and I turn off FSD Boost.
 

Kira Goto

Kira Goto
I’ve used neutron boosting a fair bit to cross the distance going out of the Bubble to get to unexplored space faster, here and there. Or to come back to it. Sometimes, for those journeys to the crystal shard sites(which is a rare visit in and of itself anyway). And, once, the ‘highway’ when I went to Colonia for a second time prior to… what was it? Might’ve been update 15, or just after it. Don’t think I went anywhere pre-U16.

In the Bubble? Only very rarely have I used white dwarfs(so far, if I did, without getting myself killed). On some occasions, FSD synths, but the only time I’ve actively relied on them was visiting some giant stars underneath the Bubble, or going through the weird low star density border region of Kepler’s Crest and the Sanguineous Rim.
 

Helmut Grokenberger

Helmut Grokenberger
When I need to travel large distances by ship, I pretty much always check with spansh if a neutron route is faster or not; my metric is the number of jumps. If a neutron route only saves me a handful of jumps, I don't bother.

Having said that, I regularly use Jackson's Lighthouse and 98k Tauri as springboards towards Guardian space and the Pleiades respectively, they are quite handy.
 

WILLIAM BILL ADAMA

WILLIAM BILL ADAMA
Some systems on edge of galaxy can be reached only by using FSD injection or Fleet Carrier. But I think FSD injection is useless in bubble or on route to Colonia.
 

aRJay

aRJay
I tried boosting* a couple of times 5 more likely 6 years ago but as apart from the one trip I rarely went more than 1kLy from the bubble so I never needed it. I have synthesised and used Jumponium a few more times. All my long distance travel has been since I got my FC so I doubt I will be using it in the future.

*Pretty sure all attempts failed.
 

Unknown Zombie

Unknown Zombie
I've used it a few times, but not on a regular basis.

Most memorable time I had to use it was getting to Semotus Beacon in my T-10. To get there I had to burn a bit over half my fuel tank and then use FSD injection boost.

It was cool, took some strategy in that low star density area, getting the fuel tank down low enough to give me the smidge extra range that I required.

Edit:

Oh, did you mean the map mode option? Yes, I've used it on a couple of trips to Colonia and back. I only have one monitor, and alt-tabbing back-and-forth between the game and Spansh sucks, so I lean on the in-game option, and it works well enough.

Couldn't give a direct comparison in effectiveness, though, because I've never done a whole trip using Spansh because of the aforementioned alt-tabbing.
 
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HRDiagram

HRDiagram
I use whichever means is convenient, which translates into:
  • neutron star if I really need to go fast and there is a high star density, so it doesn't matter where I end up
  • injection if I really need the distance and nothing else is available.
 

Happy Daze

Happy Daze
I was thinking of FSD Boost as in using Jumponium. Some call using Neutron Stars as FSD Supercharging. I do supercharging but never bothered to collect Jumponium for FSD Boost. I didn't think the work was worth the added LYs.
Unknown Zombie said:
I've used it a few times, but not on a regular basis.

Most memorable time I had to use it was getting to Semotus Beacon in my T-10. To get there I had to burn a bit over half my fuel tank and then use FSD injection boost.

It was cool, took some strategy in that low star density area, getting the fuel tank down low enough to give me the smidge extra range that I required.

Edit:

Oh, did you mean the map mode option? Yes, I've used it on a couple of trips to Colonia and back. I only have one monitor, and alt-tabbing back-and-forth between the game and Spansh sucks, so I lean on the in-game option, and it works well enough.

Couldn't give a direct comparison in effectiveness, though, because I've never done a whole trip using Spansh because of the aforementioned alt-tabbing.
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There's a Plugin for EDMC; SpanshRouter that allows you to import a .csv file and when you jump, EDMC copies the next system into the clipboard for you to paste into your System Map. No need to Alt-Tab anymore! I wrote a How To if you're interested.
 

Unknown Zombie

Unknown Zombie
Happy Daze said:
I was thinking of FSD Boost as in using Jumponium. Some call using Neutron Stars as FSD Supercharging. I do supercharging but never bothered to collect Jumponium for FSD Boost. I didn't think the work was worth the added LYs.

There's a Plugin for EDMC; SpanshRouter that allows you to import a .csv file and when you jump, EDMC copies the next system into the clipboard for you to paste into your System Map. No need to Alt-Tab anymore! I wrote a How To if you're interested.
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That's good to know. I run EDMC but didn't know about the plugin.

Actually, after looking up the plugin, I see it was released in 2019. I think the last time I went to Colonia the plugin didn't exist yet! lol

I'll keep it in mind if I ever go back, though. Just to try it out.
 

Happy Daze

Happy Daze
Unknown Zombie said:
That's good to know. I run EDMC but didn't know about the plugin.

Actually, after looking up the plugin, I see it was released in 2019. I think the last time I went to Colonia the plugin didn't exist yet! lol

I'll keep it in mind if I ever go back, though. Just to try it out.
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There is an updated plugin. Took a while to figure that part out.

I use it in-bubble too. If I have to visit 4 systems to run missions, I put them through Spansh Tourist to get the fastest / closest systems to go to then enter the resulting .csv file into EDMC and viola. eazy-peazy

BTW I like your signature file. DW2. Great Trip
 

Kissamies

Kissamies
I use the jet cone boost all the time, even with white dwarfs in the bubble. It's a matter of pride, though even I might back off when it's those very short tailed ones. I'm very stingy with synthesis, so I use jumponium only when I have to, which is those sparse areas of the galaxy near the edges or sometimes between the arms. Haven't been on a proper exploration trip for a while, so that hasn't happened recently.
 

Greasetrap42

Greasetrap42
Before getting a fleet carrier I would use FSD boost (jumponium) in deep space when:
  • Crossing very sparse areas, like between the galactic spiral arms.
  • Galactic outer fringes to visit systems otherwise out of reach.
  • A few times I used it when I accidentally let my fuel get to low and I needed to jump to a star I could scoop.

Now that I have a fleet carrier I use it very seldom. Galactic outer fringes to visit some systems.
 

Mrc_NorthEast

Mrc_NorthEast
Yes the guardian FSD booster is very useful. I do not use other FSD boosts, jet cone boosts, or jumponium all that often, but I have tried them as well
 

Northpin

Northpin
I may use the FSD boost (injection) in the bubble - if i need to shave a jump or two either because i'm in a hurry or because i may may have plotted a destination too far and I cba to dock midway to refuel

else, while travelling outside the bubble, i always check to see if the neutron highway is faster (significantly less number of jumps)
 
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