Neutron star farming scary as hell

Nerwan

Nerwan
So, I'm in the neutron field at the moment and I've been away from the game for a few months so I'm not sure if I know all the details. Two questions:

1. Is it possible to jump straight into the end of a plume? I've jumped into about 20 NS systems so far and one or two of them had the plume at quite an angle with plumes that stretched far behind me. Also, the ones with the wide plumes are scary as hell and there's a horrible optical illusion that can occur where it looks like the thing is rotating towards you.

2. I know that you have to fly into the end of the plume flying away from the star if you want to safely get out again. But what happens if you just fly straight into the star its self (due to inattention after jumping)? Is it instant death?

Thanks!

EDIT: These are the scary kind, the plumes stretch out miles behind you when you jump in.. and this one was rotated so that I jumped in fairly close to the left hand plume:

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Sergio Smegolia

Sergio Smegolia
1. Yes it is. And it currently appears to be bugged. I say apparently because it's never happened to me. Not saying it's not a problem, just never experienced it. I've flown into one and got out, I may have been lucky. Zero throttle for me but others have tried this and still died. Again I could be lucky.

2. Would imagine it is! Difficult enough to handle with normal stars, with an NS? Boom! (IMHO)

Smeg
 
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Some1else

Some1else
Nerwan said:
So, I'm in the neutron field at the moment and I've been away from the game for a few months so I'm not sure if I know all the details. Two questions:

1. Is it possible to jump straight into the end of a plume? I've jumped into about 20 NS systems so far and one or two of them had the plume at quite an angle with plumes that stretched far behind me. Also, the ones with the wide plumes are scary as hell and there's a horrible optical illusion that can occur where it looks like the thing is rotating towards you.

2. I know that you have to fly into the end of the plume flying away from the star if you want to safely get out again. But what happens if you just fly straight into the star its self (due to inattention after jumping)? Is it instant death?

Thanks!
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1. Yes, it happened to me. The reason for it was it was a binary system with the sister star very close to the neutron star. Lost my cutter with that one.

2. My guess would be that you would end up in the bottom of one of the funnels. That's a bad place to be. You won't die instantly, it took about 3 minutes in my cutter. Some commanders have escaped, but you have to keep your wits about you. A good AFMU is a must. You set it to repair your canopy, and then try and high wake out.

Hope this helps.

LLaP

S1E
 

Nerwan

Nerwan
Some1else said:
1. Yes, it happened to me. The reason for it was it was a binary system with the sister star very close to the neutron star. Lost my cutter with that one.

2. My guess would be that you would end up in the bottom of one of the funnels. That's a bad place to be. You won't die instantly, it took about 3 minutes in my cutter. Some commanders have escaped, but you have to keep your wits about you. A good AFMU is a must. You set it to repair your canopy, and then try and high wake out.

Hope this helps.

LLaP

S1E
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Thanks for this. The binary system you jumped into, was the primary star the neutron star? Or was the neutron star a secondary?

Thanks for the tip about the AFMU, I've just turned it on! I'll remember to repair the canopy first if anything goes wrong.
 

CMDR Makaira

CMDR Makaira
1. It may be possible, but I believe FD said it was a bug. I just got back from a trip where I scanned roughly 400 Neutron Stars and didn't drop into the cone once.

2. I hit the exclusion zone on 2 neutron stars (away from the cones) and one black hole. There was hardly any additional heat; just minor hull and module health loss. I was able to SC out from the neutrons with no heat issues, but the black hole was more interesting. I had to select it and plot course directly away from it as the escape vector didn't show up as normal. Jumping out from that was like walking through a curtain. Wish I could've gotten it on video.
 

Bryan K

Bryan K
After riding an impromptu neutron highway to and from Amundsen Terminal in the Lagoon Nebula, I never experienced either of these things.

I've heard plenty of horror stories of inattentive commanders who plowed into the exclusion zone and died. No idea how they managed to actually die, since everyone who goes far enough out to regularly encounter neutron stars should have one or two heatsink launchers installed which always set your heat to zero.

I was almost a little disappointed since after doing over a dozen neutron jumps, nothing exciting happened at all. They recalculated the jump-in trajectory before I made the return trip, so now you pretty much always appear near the star's equator. They're quite mesmerizing to watch in VR, actually.
 
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nosleepdemon

nosleepdemon
I took the highway to and from Colonia and didn't ever get flown into a plume. However the super fast rotating ones definitely are scarey, and that's often magnified by the presence of a smaller buddy star nearby that's causing his mate to flap about like a stellar spaz. Has anyone boosted from these things? I usually just fly away super carefully and replot my course...
 

Some1else

Some1else
Nerwan said:
Thanks for this. The binary system you jumped into, was the primary star the neutron star? Or was the neutron star a secondary?

Thanks for the tip about the AFMU, I've just turned it on! I'll remember to repair the canopy first if anything goes wrong.
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Neutron was primary. I'm pretty sure it was PLAA AESCS SU-D D13-11. I didn't get to honk or scan the star.;)

Best of luck with your farming!

S1E
 
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