Has supercruise or frame shift ever killed you?

stimuli

stimuli
A few minutes ago I came out of supercruise literally a couple meters from being splattered all over the side of a station (not exaggerating). I didn't do anything different from the hundreds of other station jumps I've made. It seems the random nature of coming out of supercruise just decided to give me a heart attack. If I had been just a couple meters to the right I would have lost an expensive ship filled with expensive cargo. This has me worried.

Has anyone ever been killed by something like this?
 

Jockey79

Jockey79
Not been killed but I have had what you had in my Type 6. I had to step away from the computer for a few minutes to calm down.

Turns out, it is not so random how you drop out, the game looks at the angle you come from. I've started to slow right down now and change my approach to come from any near by planet so I'm more in line with the entrance.
 

stimuli

stimuli
You're probably right about the "not so random" part. the fact that these stations (and the planets, moons and stars they orbit) continually move as they would in real life can make every arrival seem random...

...but this was different. Usually we're dropped out of supercruise a good distance from the station. This dropped me right next to it. In fact the tail of the station wizzed right past my right wing and ended up several meters behind me. Was like a sub-light speed battering ram coming out of nowhere and just barely missing me. Scary stuff.
 

Hexen

Hexen
Get down close to a station in SC (but not in a blue zone), drop out. If you see station in a dozen km from you or so - engage SC and get in the station instance back fast. Splat.
 
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talshiarr

talshiarr
If you drop out of SC to one of the long stations when the planet is directly behind it, it can be brown trousers time. I was nearly turned into jelly on one of the large blades at the back of one. Ever since I have learned to approach with the planet behind me.
 

gazzareth

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Came damn close today, coming out of hyperspace at a white dwarf (first one I've seen). Thought "strange to come out that far from the star" followed by emergency stop, runaway heating, managed to turn and drop heatsinks until I got the frameshift up and charged. Didn't think I'd make it, certainly without the heatsinks I would have been a goner.

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Tiamat

Tiamat
gazzareth said:
Came damn close today, coming out of hyperspace at a white dwarf (first one I've seen). Thought "strange to come out that far from the star" followed by emergency stop, runaway heating, managed to turn and drop heatsinks until I got the frameshift up and charged. Didn't think I'd make it, certainly without the heatsinks I would have been a goner.

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I have had this happen too. I had no heatsinks though. My Eagle usually ran at 47% heat but I was at 85% or so. After putting my back to the star and trying to put some distance between me and it to cool down I realised it wasn't working (81% was as low as I got) and I figured I would have to just risk it. Heat went to about 250% I think and I really didn't think I was going to make it but I did and with minimal hull damage too (though I would hate to have seen the lung damage from smoke inhalation!).
 

stimuli

stimuli
gazzareth said:
Came damn close today, coming out of hyperspace at a white dwarf (first one I've seen). Thought "strange to come out that far from the star" followed by emergency stop, runaway heating, managed to turn and drop heatsinks until I got the frameshift up and charged. Didn't think I'd make it, certainly without the heatsinks I would have been a goner.

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Encountered this many times as a dwarf star is on one of my regular trading routes. If i'm not paying very close attention its very easy to get caught in its gravity well. I actually think you would have been fine without the heat sinks or dropping them as long as you stopped moving towards the star.
 

gamecat

gamecat
gazzareth said:
Came damn close today, coming out of hyperspace at a white dwarf (first one I've seen). Thought "strange to come out that far from the star" followed by emergency stop, runaway heating, managed to turn and drop heatsinks until I got the frameshift up and charged. Didn't think I'd make it, certainly without the heatsinks I would have been a goner.

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You would have been ok, happened to me earlier. When you drop out of SC the temp drops. The thing with a white dwarf is when you kick in your SC to jump back out the heat buildup is intense but I got out at 235% so took some damage.
 
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