Missjump

[Skepsia]

Is there a concept of a missjump where you could end up anywhere with lots of little factors adding up to generate a missjump.

So you could end up many light years away from where you are expecting to be?

 

[Eidenm]

I'm sure it was in Frontier and it was a fun concept.

I've never seen a report of it in Elite Dangerous though. They should implement a very small chance of a miss-jump which increases if your FSD has damage. They could do the spinny thing like coming out of supercruise badly and place you in a random location (within limits).

 

[Adam Lusardi]

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5443&p=93106&viewfull=1#post93106

"Misjumps have their own set of rules:
•Misjumps can result from a number of scenarios
•A hyperdrive malfunction can result in a misjump
•A galactic map malfunction can result in a misjump
•Activating the hyperdrive inside certain space phenomena can result in a misjump
•Attempting to tail-gate another ship’s jump can result in a misjump

•A misjump transports the ship to a new destination
•This distance between the new destination and the target destination is a random value based on the distance travelled (the longer the jump, the greater the misjump range potential)
•The misjump destination may be the outer limits of an inhabited system, or a dark system
•Such systems may not yet be in the player’s galactic map

•Very rarely, a misjump can result in turning up somewhere else

•After a misjump, the hyperdrive automatically runs a diagnostics test for a duration before it can be charged again
•There is no way to force a misjump other than directly sabotaging the hyperdrive module to guarantee a malfunction"
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It was planned but now all bets are off.

 

[Eidenm]

Thanks for that, very interesting. There is some cool stuff in there that hopefully they will re-visit when they get chance.