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Newcomer / Intro I have dropped too close and I cannot get out!
- Thread starter KulKulcan
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dropped too close to the gravity well of the star? are there other objects there? An asteroid belt?
Put the star directly behind you and boost away until you can SC.
Oh I have definitely tried boosting for a few directions. A couple of interesting things.
I did get attacked but it was only a ping or 2 on my shields then the foe disappeared.
When I try to boost out, I see some cross dust that is not in the direction of my nose.
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Ah the star must have a very large and very thin accretion disk, invisible from the angle I was at, So now I am flying in normal space through an asteroid field, hope I can fly through it.
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And after a few minutes of fun flying I am out... Yippy!
I did get attacked but it was only a ping or 2 on my shields then the foe disappeared.
When I try to boost out, I see some cross dust that is not in the direction of my nose.
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Ah the star must have a very large and very thin accretion disk, invisible from the angle I was at, So now I am flying in normal space through an asteroid field, hope I can fly through it.
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And after a few minutes of fun flying I am out... Yippy!
Sounds interesting, I've never seen a star with rings so far. What system is that?
Many systems have brown dwarves with rings as secondary stars, you might have to get out of the core regions to find them, though.
If you're caught in the gravity well, check your targeting scanner (or whatever that little square box is called) and get that little white dot centered. This will show the escape vector, when you see it hit boost. It can be slow escaping and if you're in seriously deep you may be wishing you had a heatsink or two or three to deploy. I believe damage starts around 145% heat so start tossing them out each time you reach 140ish.
I think ED is the sequel to A Million Ways to Die in the Old West. (A Million Ways to Die in Outer Space)
Sounds like you got sucked into the gravity well of the star.
You may want to unlock your target destination, as i'm superstitious as to this preventing you from seeing escape vector, but general MO is to fly directly away, consider removing non-critical systems in Modules RIGHT UI to buy yourself some more time not melting your face off, then when you're out of FSD cooldown just engage hyperdrive by aligning with Escape Vector (found through compass indicator middle/left bottom screen) and engaging throttle to SC out.
Or if you fell into an accretian disk and you're not taking heat, just move away from the plane of the disc and then you're not mass locked: boom outa there.
You may want to unlock your target destination, as i'm superstitious as to this preventing you from seeing escape vector, but general MO is to fly directly away, consider removing non-critical systems in Modules RIGHT UI to buy yourself some more time not melting your face off, then when you're out of FSD cooldown just engage hyperdrive by aligning with Escape Vector (found through compass indicator middle/left bottom screen) and engaging throttle to SC out.
Or if you fell into an accretian disk and you're not taking heat, just move away from the plane of the disc and then you're not mass locked: boom outa there.
