Frame shift drive online!
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The ship you're attacking, or a nearby NPC is trying to frameshift out before their ship is destroyed.
No, that would be "Frameshift charge detected" and is a voice message. What OP is referring to is a text message on screen that says "Frameshift drive online". I, too, have wondered why that arises. I have my priorities set so that as soon as weapons are deployed FSD goes offline. After all, who needs FSD when weapons are deployed and we are engaged in combat. So why that message should appear is beyond me. I thought perhaps it was because weapons had overheated and shutdown thereby allowing for FSD to come back for a short time until weapons came back.
That message is refferring to your target's FSD status. Your ship (can apparently) detect whether or not your target's FSD is malfunctioning or not. Dealing damage to a target's FSD can knock it offline temporarily or, if destroyed, permanently.
So, if you see this message during combat, it means that your target has regained capability to use their FSD.
So, if you see this message during combat, it means that your target has regained capability to use their FSD.
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That is completely different. That has to due with FSD Cool-Down, not FSD status. The warning message you get appears on the info-log. Besides, the message the OP is referring to has to do with targets, not your own ships
The message does not refer to your ships FSD status. It refers to your target's FSD status. This is why you're seeing the message when you are not altering your ships power management.
You sure it is the same message? I've never experienced this during scooping, and i've done quite a few exploration forays, so I know my scooping.
This is not a bug, from my experience. I have been seeing this message since beta. I am going to reiterate, and hopefully people read it this time, what I said before. This message is referring to your target's frame shift drive status. It appears when their ship's FSD recovers from a malfunction or is returned to operational (repair or power disabled) status. At least, from my experience, this is what it means. It may be buggy, but that's what I understand it to mean.
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The pic FalconFly posted is the message I see.
I was wondering if it was for the target, but thought it would indicate "target FSD online". The quandary is if this subsystem is reported for the targeted ship, why not others?
It's not like I have FSD targeted. Hence the seeming illogic of the alert message.
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You cleary missunderstood what she said, it's not frameshift drive online, it's friendshift drive online, it means stop shooting and hug him =)
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Nope, this type of central, large Font message you only get for Modules of your own Ship.
Any Target's Ship status will be given voice-only, with the only exception of "Surge Detected" in small Font below the Target's Status.
And "Frameshift online" (or Offline for that matter) of a locked Target is not triggering any such Display or Voice Msg. You'd have to manually check your Target's SubSystems to find out...
http://www.falconfly.de/temp/ELITE-CannonMalfunc.jpg
That's obviously my Cannon that malfunctioned - not the Target's one, if it even carried one (which is doubtful)...
Would be insanely confusing otherwise anyway
THe thing is, I've had times where I've damaged a target's FSD significantly, while they are charging. By the time that they should have jumped away they didn't, then suddenly I've seen "Frame Shift Drive Online" on my middle HUD. My FSD was fine, no damage, not turned off by power management, nothing. When the message appeared they suddenly started to charge again and jumped away.
I just had a proof of concept occur to me just now. I specifically targeted my opponent's FSD and held fire after dealing a significant (50%) amount of damage. Low and behold the "Frame Shift Drive Online" message appeared before me after about 20-50 seconds. This message appeared significantly after the FSD Cooldown timer ran out. My FSD may be damaged, but has not taken enough damage (all from interdiction damage) to malfunction. Even if it can at this damage level, I did not receive a malfunction message.
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I'm still getting these in the current version of Horizons, both while flying in supercruise and near RES, outside of SC. Sometimes two in a row, within seconds.
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