White dwarfs, compared to neutron stars, are riskier while offering far less reward.
Neutron stars feel just about perfect*, overall. But there's no reason to go for a WD boost.
Please make WD exclusion zones a bit smaller relative to the jets, and/or make the jets less overwhelming on your controls so that if something goes wrong it's at least more manageable to recover.
Making the boost kick in a bit faster would also help. I find that for WDs I sometimes have to make multiple passes, very carefully due to the small area of cone extending past the exclusion zone.
[SUB] * The one caveat to neutron stars feeling perfect is that if something does go wrong and you end up in normal space inside the cone, there's basically nothing you can do to save yourself except hope your ship eventually points in the same direction as the current, or (worse yet) for both to line up with an escape vector if you got too close. I like the "oh crap, I'm in trouble now" aspect, I just wish the loss of control wasn't so absolute that there's essentially no action you can take to recover. Being able to retain some control over attitude thrusters would go a long way. [/SUB]
Neutron stars feel just about perfect*, overall. But there's no reason to go for a WD boost.
Please make WD exclusion zones a bit smaller relative to the jets, and/or make the jets less overwhelming on your controls so that if something goes wrong it's at least more manageable to recover.
Making the boost kick in a bit faster would also help. I find that for WDs I sometimes have to make multiple passes, very carefully due to the small area of cone extending past the exclusion zone.
[SUB] * The one caveat to neutron stars feeling perfect is that if something does go wrong and you end up in normal space inside the cone, there's basically nothing you can do to save yourself except hope your ship eventually points in the same direction as the current, or (worse yet) for both to line up with an escape vector if you got too close. I like the "oh crap, I'm in trouble now" aspect, I just wish the loss of control wasn't so absolute that there's essentially no action you can take to recover. Being able to retain some control over attitude thrusters would go a long way. [/SUB]
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