How come I can fly across the galaxy in 8 seconds but when i come close to a planet my speed drops to 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000001 km per second and it takes me 45 minutes to fly around to the other side of the planet so I can continue on my way. How do I avoid this happening? it's extremely frustrating.. as is almost every aspect of this game I've encountered so far. I am trying desperately to like this game but it keeps throwing things like this at me.
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Newcomer / Intro Flying around planets
- Thread starter RandomSanity
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Well every time I plot a course there ends up being a planet in my way, and it blasts me out of the warp speed thing, I end up so close to the planet even if I fly away from it at my top speed it took me almost 45 minutes to make it far enough away that I could go more than 100km/s.. I left my computer and had a shower and I still wasn't even far enough.
The answer would be don't go so close to a planet. If you are coming to the station, then you will slow down that way as you get near, but since you wanted to be around it and on your way, just aim away from it, then angle back in to your destination.
EDIT: And have never seen 45 minutes, what system, what planet?
EDIT: And have never seen 45 minutes, what system, what planet?
Sounds like you got too close to planet and it dropped out of supercruise.
As far as I know Supercruise does not go as low as 0.01km/s
It should not take more then a few minutes using boost and full pips to engines to get away from planet if point directly away from it.
In future just steer around planets and stars if they are between you and your destination, it's much quicker.
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Minimum supercruise is about 30km/sec. The speed/distance units units are kilometers, Megameters, Light Seconds, Light Years, and fractions of Lightspeed ("c").
One tip to avoid all of the planets: duck up or down, away from the plane of the system.
One tip to avoid all of the planets: duck up or down, away from the plane of the system.
You'll see, drawn around all planets, stars and larger bodies, a green circle making a "bubble" around the object in question.
Flying inside this bubble will disrupt your frame shift drive and it will cause you to dropout of supercruise, into normal flight. Sounds like this is what's happening. It's kind of a "safety" feature to avoid flying into a planet
Best way to avoid it, is simply not to fly into the green bubble... however, if you do end up doing so (I've done it plenty of times myself ), wait a little while for your frameshift drive to cool down, then engage it again... you will be asked to follow the escape vector... simply steer the ship to align with the escape vector (same as you would with a star if jumping to hyperspace), and hit full throttle... you will reenter supercruise and be able to fly quickly away from the planet.
Then you just have to circumnavigate the planet till your chosen star is no longer eclipsed by the planet, or the green bubble.
Flying inside this bubble will disrupt your frame shift drive and it will cause you to dropout of supercruise, into normal flight. Sounds like this is what's happening. It's kind of a "safety" feature to avoid flying into a planet
Best way to avoid it, is simply not to fly into the green bubble... however, if you do end up doing so (I've done it plenty of times myself
), wait a little while for your frameshift drive to cool down, then engage it again... you will be asked to follow the escape vector... simply steer the ship to align with the escape vector (same as you would with a star if jumping to hyperspace), and hit full throttle... you will reenter supercruise and be able to fly quickly away from the planet. Then you just have to circumnavigate the planet till your chosen star is no longer eclipsed by the planet, or the green bubble.