Horizons Neutron Star now too much of a crap-shoot.

[DanTheMan]

I fully understand the mechanic and why you would want to trade-off the FSD-boost available with some element of FSD damage,

But!

Randomly dropping the player into the Neutron Stars cone (whether they wanted to go there to gain FSD boost or not) rather than the player having the choice whether to take this risk or not seems a bit punitive to me.

It is never less than 1% damage to the FSD and AMFU's are limited.

Just a personal view but while it is very pretty and has an upside you can choose to take advantage of, the random "hit" is a poor design decision. IMHO.

 

[Caramel Clown]

I quite like it. Going out into the black should have some danger.
What's the issue I don't understand - exclude neutron stars from your route planner with a filter and never worry about it again.

 

[Ian Phillips]

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Just a personal view but while it is very pretty and has an upside you can choose to take advantage of, the random "hit" is a poor design decision. IMHO.

* Sigh *

If you read the patch notes (Ok - they are long ) you will see that this IS NOT a poor design decision, but a bug. It is not intended behaviour as far as I can read out of the patch note entry.

Hyperspace

- When hyperspacing to a star with jet cones, avoid potential danger regions at the poles

 

[Shadowdancer]

It may be related to the other change they made to hyperspace arrival, you now always seem to enter a system on a straight line from your departure system instead of some random/pre-set/divined location. That could override the safeguard.

 

[CMDR_UKmouse]

I fully understand the mechanic and why you would want to trade-off the FSD-boost available with some element of FSD damage,

But!

Randomly dropping the player into the Neutron Stars cone (whether they wanted to go there to gain FSD boost or not) rather than the player having the choice whether to take this risk or not seems a bit punitive to me.

It is never less than 1% damage to the FSD and AMFU's are limited.

Just a personal view but while it is very pretty and has an upside you can choose to take advantage of, the random "hit" is a poor design decision. IMHO.

Hey OP, when you entered the system in the jet cone, did you automatically drop out of SC?