Newcomer / Intro Odd warning message about FSD?

[Rooster Podunk]

After a year and a half out in the black I'm back in the bubble waiting on Odyssey to drop and jumping around scavenging and lite trading. Twice now I've received the following message from my ship. Both times I was in the system scanner screen.

"Warning. Frame Shift Drive is operating beyond safety limits."

It is a 5A FSD in a Krait MkII. Power demand for the entire ship's modules is just 78% (if all powered up) but cruising at a power demand of only 62%. Heat? Nope. Heat is 32% at the time of the message. I go to view all modules and all at 100% integrity. Both times I'm in low wake, all but stopped (30 kms), and just scanning planets and POIs.

It has me scratching my head as none of my instruments indicate anything abnormal. Did I miss something in that year and a half out along the rim?

 

[Chrystoph]

Normally, that message shows up as a result of neutron star boosting.

 

[Horse372]

I'm pretty sure that's an effect of being in proximity to a particular star type, neutron, i think but could be a few others like white dwarfs (blue ones with the the jet cones at the poles) and not your ship "per se". It can be used to overcharge your FSD for a longer jump or it can degrade your FSD if you stay in the effect too long.

Here's a thread on escaping them as you can get stuck in cone: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...ron-cone-data-with-escape-information.567513/

 

[Rooster Podunk]

Thanks fellas. The first system was a plain old M class. The second was a blue but again, nothing special about it. I'll just continue on picking up aluminum soda cans and see if I can recreate it. I'm done a fair share of boosting out in the black, but this time the message caught me completely off guard. Cheers.

 

[Ashnak]

Did any of the two systems contain a seconadry NS/WD somewhere? From my experience, that's an old bug (certainly older than 1.5 years) that this message pops up whenever you cross the cone of one of these stars - no matter wether you're actually in boosting range or not.

 

[Vetinari]

I get it occasionally randomly, just seems like a bug, no NS or WD in systems. Often in the middle of nowhere or in SC between 2 planets far apart.

Annoyingly it never charges the FSD so I just ignore it

 

[McGyverCP]

I had received that same message several times...The first time I thought my FSD was going to blow up or something. After the third or fourth time, I figured it was an game bug and ignored it. None of the times I got the message was I in proximity or even in a system with a WD or NS.

Haven't had it do it in quite a while, maybe like 6 or 7 months...So if your instruments are looking good, and your ship is flying as it should, then I would chalk it up to being a Ghost in the Machine and carry on!

Take Care and Check Six Commanders o7

Michael Charlie Golf signing out...

 

[aRJay]

I was getting that message a while ago in the Sirius system near Sirius A and its planet it is to do with how you are lined up with the White Dwarf star also in the system and at that range is a bit of a bug.