Hi I'm very new to Elite Dangerous. I'm going through the training missions now. I'm on the travel one and after I used hyperspace it told me to select destination station. So I did that. Then I enabled my fsd drive to travel there but the whole time I'm travelling there it just says 66.7 d with 0 progress being made. I'm next to a sun so I can't go any faster than 30 km/s. Help?
Noob's question about supercruise
- Thread starter BlitzNexus
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There are 3 "speeds" in the game:
Hyperspace/witchspace, that allows you to go from systems to systems
Suprecruise, that lets you go throug a given system
Normal
When hypercruise drop you in a system, you are left in supercruise, so once you pick a target (station, planet, ...) you have nothing do do, just aim at it.
As you "enabled your fsd", you probably dropped back to normal speed..... which would imply days (up to years) to go anywhere.
Solution: just press your fsd button again (when in normal mode) to go in supercruise.
(ps: if i remember correctly, the hypercruise and supercruise are binded to the same button by default, but you can change that)
Hyperspace/witchspace, that allows you to go from systems to systems
Suprecruise, that lets you go throug a given system
Normal
When hypercruise drop you in a system, you are left in supercruise, so once you pick a target (station, planet, ...) you have nothing do do, just aim at it.
As you "enabled your fsd", you probably dropped back to normal speed..... which would imply days (up to years) to go anywhere.
Solution: just press your fsd button again (when in normal mode) to go in supercruise.
(ps: if i remember correctly, the hypercruise and supercruise are binded to the same button by default, but you can change that)
Did you read the manual? Its advisable to do that before even launching the game.
If you are travelling at 30km/s then you have only engaged low wake and not set your throttle to full speed.
So my guess is, you have only hit low wake and you need to high wake.
Check your control bindings. You can either have separate buttons for high/low wake, or a combined button (or both if you really want).
Once you have found your button for high wake, then you should throttle up, and hit that button. You will get a countdown and then will jump.
If you are travelling at 30km/s then you have only engaged low wake and not set your throttle to full speed.
So my guess is, you have only hit low wake and you need to high wake.
Check your control bindings. You can either have separate buttons for high/low wake, or a combined button (or both if you really want).
Once you have found your button for high wake, then you should throttle up, and hit that button. You will get a countdown and then will jump.
Sounds like you have no bindings for throttle in supercruise. Or you're not using the throttle.
Either way, you need to throttle up to travel faster.
If you've not actually jumped to the target system, you need to throttle up, and engage hyperspace, you'll then go through the hyperspace animation, and drop out near a star.
Additionally, After exiting hyperspace, you are already travelling at supercruise speeds, so pressing your FSD binding will actually drop you to drop thrusters.
So you simply need to point at your destination, and throttle up.
Either way, you need to throttle up to travel faster.
If you've not actually jumped to the target system, you need to throttle up, and engage hyperspace, you'll then go through the hyperspace animation, and drop out near a star.
Additionally, After exiting hyperspace, you are already travelling at supercruise speeds, so pressing your FSD binding will actually drop you to drop thrusters.
So you simply need to point at your destination, and throttle up.
Sounds like you have no bindings for throttle in supercruise. Or you're not using the throttle.
Either way, you need to throttle up to travel faster.
If you've not actually jumped to the target system, you need to throttle up, and engage hyperspace, you'll then go through the hyperspace animation, and drop out near a star.
Additionally, After exiting hyperspace, you are already travelling at supercruise speeds, so pressing your FSD binding will actually drop you to drop thrusters.
So you simply need to point at your destination, and throttle up.
It sounds like this to me .. (Even though you say you're traveling at 30Km/s which means you would be in supercruise) don't try looking for bindings for High wake and Low wake, as there aren't any.
you have bindings for Set FSD to Hyperspace or to Supercruise ... If you just have 'set to hyperspace' (default binding 'J') If you have a star system selected you will jump to hyperspace - if not you will jump to supercruise.
Do yourself a favour and buy a cheap Hotas, the Thrustmaster T flight x https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thrustmaster-T-Flight-Hotas-Joystick-PS3/dp/B001CXYMFS. Cheap as chips but the experience is night & day when you get your bindings sorted (plenty online). I have one for over 2 yrs w/o issue. Watch some youtube vids from Obsidian Ant, he has some good starter tips.
I second this idea - I have a thrustmaster t flight X .. had it for almost 2 years no problems and I have every single function I need mapped.. I never need to touch my keyboard.
You're using a shift key then? I never bothered, just have a few keys on the keyboard.
Yeah, just one as well ... R3 (3) works a treat
I may have completely misunderstood your situation OP, if so I apologise. Are you saying that you activated supercruise, but you are still not moving very fast? Elite has an interesting bug where if you have reverse thrust engaged, you slow permanently to 30km/s. If you are not speeding up even a little bit, this may be the issue. Ordinarily you cannot engage supercruise while reversing, but it is quite possible to accidentally knock the button as the drive spins up.
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If you're selecting a destination station, then you're in Supercruise just like you're supposed to be (everybody telling you to "high wake" are wrong in this case). But in Supercruise, unlike in a system-to-system Hyperspace Jump, your throttle still matters. The reason you're going 30 km/s is because you're throttled down - it's impossible to fully stop in Supercruise, so 30 km/s is the lowest speed it's possible to reach and that's the speed you'll reach if you have no throttle. To fix it, just throttle up, and point yourself away from the sun.
