Horizons How to remove the slow down alert?

[Zeromancer]

For example when you enter a system and lock on to a star port. You're heading towards it in a nice increasing speed. Then suddenly your speed shuts down and a red alert show below your radar. SLOW DOWN! But there's nothing ahead of you for miles. And nothing that you certainly can't avoid if it happens to be in your path.
Can this feature be removed/turned off? I want to have the control of my ship and not be told what to do by some 'autopilot' that override my flying.
If I want to crash, let me..

 

[Bortas]

For example when you enter a system and lock on to a star port. You're heading towards it in a nice increasing speed. Then suddenly your speed shuts down and a red alert show below your radar. SLOW DOWN! But there's nothing ahead of you for miles. And nothing that you certainly can't avoid if it happens to be in your path.
Can this feature be removed/turned off? I want to have the control of my ship and not be told what to do by some 'autopilot' that override my flying.
If I want to crash, let me..

It's actually just an information that your ship is currently slowing down, because it's too close to a disruptive gravitational force (i.e. a planet) to maintain or increase its speed.

 

[Zeromancer]

It's actually just an information that your ship is currently slowing down, because it's too close to a disruptive gravitational force (i.e. a planet) to maintain or increase its speed.

I can understand it when I'm close to a planet and its gravity. But this alert and slow down happends when I'm not even close to a planet aswell.
It's kind of 'there's something way ahead of you that you might crash into, so we better turn off your throttle' type of thing..
And if I take a dive, and then aim back at the designation, the alert goes away.

 

[edgar]

As Bortas says, it is not an "auto pilot" actively reducing your throttle - rather it is the local gravity interferring with your drives, causing your ship to suffer a "slow down".

If you are not near a planet or a star when this happens perhaps you are near to something like an asteroid cluster, or perhaps the gravity of nearby objects is greater than you appreciate and is slowing you down from larger than expected distance.

 

[Space Pigeon]

I always interpreted it as a warning. When you come in too fast and risk overshooting your destination, the "Slow down" message appears. When you dive your nose down and come back up, you basically slowed yourself down and are back in the 'ideal' speed for the approach to the station (or whatever destination you have).

...right?

 

[Jon flint]

99% of the times I experience this its because of asteroid belts that don't show on the radar.

Sometimes if you're very unlucky they will actually knock you out of supercruise.

As others have said, the slowing down is due to passing through the gravity well of these objects.

 

[Bomba Luigi]

Jupp, thats probably Asteroid Belts, they do that and unless you have target them you won't see where they are.

 

[777Driver]

I always interpreted it as a warning. When you come in too fast and risk overshooting your destination, the "Slow down" message appears. When you dive your nose down and come back up, you basically slowed yourself down and are back in the 'ideal' speed for the approach to the station (or whatever destination you have).

...right?

Bortas summed it up perfectly. It is merely an advisory message, the ship's FSD is being affected by a gravitational force, the ship is being slowed down by that force.

 

[Space Pigeon]

Bortas summed it up perfectly. It is merely an advisory message, the ship's FSD is being affected by a gravitational force, the ship is being slowed down by that force.

Wow, I really mixed things up in that case!

Just seemed so logical in the station approach situation. When you reached the ideal speed and hit the sweet spot of 6 seconds of travel time left, the "Slow down" appears when you speed up past 6 seconds, which eventually leads to overshooting the station.

Oh well!

 

[Dannyc]

Hav to admit I had never realised this.. I thought it was telling me to slow down and could never understand why it came on when I wouldnt have expected it to

 

[ZygoUgo]

This is why I want masslock represented in %, so you can see it actively working

 

[Kayweg]

The problem is that it is displayed in both cases.


1.) When you're being slowed down by a bodies mass, and

2.) when you approach a target marker (i.e. station, USS, etc) too fast.

And the warning means the complete opposite in each scenario.

1.) is a status message that you are BEING SLOWED down, and 2.) is an advisory that you're going too fast and SHOULD slow down to prevent overshooting.

Yet the message is the same for both, it's nonsensical. Just like "save and exit" and "pause" (that's removed now), it's misleading/confusing phrasing by FD...yet again.

2.) is plausible, 1.) should be renamed "slowed down", "mass", "gravity" or suchlike.

 

[Windscreen Smudge]

I can understand it when I'm close to a planet and its gravity. But this alert and slow down happends when I'm not even close to a planet aswell.
It's kind of 'there's something way ahead of you that you might crash into, so we better turn off your throttle' type of thing..
And if I take a dive, and then aim back at the designation, the alert goes away.

It can happen near asteroid clusters too. You're flying through a dense belt.

 

[Terry Bruge-Hiplo]

The problem is that it is displayed in both cases.


1.) When you're being slowed down by a bodies mass, and

2.) when you approach a target marker (i.e. station, USS, etc) too fast.

And the warning means the complete opposite in each scenario.

1.) is a status message that you are BEING SLOWED down, and 2.) is an advisory that you're going too fast and SHOULD slow down to prevent overshooting.

Yet the message is the same for both, it's nonsensical. Just like "save and exit" and "pause" (that's removed now), it's misleading/confusing phrasing by FD...yet again.

2.) is plausible, 1.) should be renamed "slowed down", "mass", "gravity" or suchlike.

That was always my impression of it, even though Bortas is probably correct. In the case of approaching too fast, the warning is too late for throttle to do anything, which is, and always has been, really irksome to me. I've since learned to do the dip-and-realign technique, as already described, if I come in too hot, which works most of the time. One of the issues with having a forward-only supercruise - not that the ship should fly backward (even though, one time, during a failed interdiction, it did! and it was hilarious!), but it'd be nice if putting 'er in reverse gave you extra stopping power. Guess that'd make it too easy to 100% up to 0:03 and then reverse thrust to a safe speed

 

[Mysturji]

I can understand it when I'm close to a planet and its gravity. But this alert and slow down happends when I'm not even close to a planet aswell.
It's kind of 'there's something way ahead of you that you might crash into, so we better turn off your throttle' type of thing..
And if I take a dive, and then aim back at the designation, the alert goes away.

This occurs when any body massive enough to produce a gravitational field is in your general vicinity (mass and range are linked in these cases). e.g. an asteroid field causes similar disruption as a planet, but on a smaller scale.