How often do you encounter dangerous binary stars that require heat sinks?

[malenfant]

On my way to Colonia, only needed heat sinks once in 2000 or so systems. And that was a fun one - a close binary and a third star was a few ls away and they were all in a line. As I arrived I shot very close past the third star (fuel scoop on, then off!), then *through* the second star and ended up between the two in the close binary . I fired off a heat sink and got out of there in one piece.

As a suggestion - never bind your heat sinks to a fire group. Just don't - you can so easily fire them off accidentally and then you'll be screwed (I lost so many doing that before). Now I have them bound to a key on the keyboard that I can hit when I need to and that worked well when I needed it.

 

[Chrystoph]

Only once in a round trip to Beagle Point during Distant Worlds 3302.

 

[Andrew Gaspurr]

I'm just wondering what your experiences have been (and I'm a little nervous about being at Beagle Point with no heat sinks).

I never had to use a heat sink on my travels. FDev made space as safe as can be, unless you are very carefree or making a cup of tea while honkscoopjumping

 

[morph113]

In over 17,000 systems I visited I jumped dropped into the system right inbetween 2 close orbiting binary stars only once. But I only lost a few percent of hull and modules, nothing really dangerous. I never carry any heat sinks. They just add weight and lower jump range.

 

[Strangepork]

I accidentally fired off a couple heat sinks trying to figure out my new HOTAS. So now I'm right outside Beagle Point with 0 heat sinks, heading toward Jaques. How often do you encounter dangerous binary stars, where you fly through the companion star? On my way to Beagle Point I only found one dangerous binary star system that started cooking my ship, I'm just wondering what your experiences have been (and I'm a little nervous about being at Beagle Point with no heat sinks).

I hit one yesterday and it overheated my ship, first time there.

The first time, actually my first jump exploring ever, I went through a star. Quite a shocker.

 

[osser]

19687 systems.
just once.
It was a close triple.
In all fairness I likely panicked and turned wrong.
So yeah I may not even take heatsinks next time, just stay cool and fly out.

CMDR Tootiny

 

[bkrownd]

I haven't had any problems in normal travel, but most of my long distance travel happened after passenger missions. HOWEVER, I have crashed into stars and planets when software on my computer wants to update (particularly Windows updates) and launches a pop-over update dialog or closes the ED window and disables my HOTAS controls. Heat sinks are very useful for Windows update induced crashes.

 

[Roqinn]

I've been in over 17,000 systems and only had it happen 3 or 4 times. It is so rare that I am not even carrying a heat sink launcher with me on this expedition. I am carrying an AFMU! I have actually already had to use it /facepalm and I have only been out 3 days. I hit the exclusion zone of a NS and hurt my FSD.

 

[Chrystoph]

There was a strong argument made during the planning for Distant Stars that you should load all of your empty IC with AFMUs so that they can absorb damage during /facepalm events.

If they are not filled, empty ICs cannot be included in the RNG for where to assign damage.

 

[Trinity Star]

Well yesterday in the bubble I arrived straight through a binary star and ended up in the middle, luckily I got 8 heatsink launchers...