Newcomer / Intro Qestions from a noob.

[kinnu]

Hi guys,

Just started playing Elite Dangerous and can't put it down. But I have a few questions.

1. I have been trading around LHS 3447, which has a twin sun, but whenever I fly back to 3447 I always end up orbiting the twin (Gliese 748.2b), then have to haul ass over to the other one. Is there a way to select which sun you want when choosing destination?

2. When coming up on a planet/station too fast, and your console shouts at you to 'SLOW DOWN', why does my speed always go to max causing a massive overshoot, even though I cut power on my throttles?

3. Is there any way to get your spare ship/ships delivered to another spaceport, or do we have to fly out to where it is stored and change ships?

Thanks for any advice on what I am doing wrong.

 

[azdour]

Hi guys,

Just started playing Elite Dangerous and can't put it down. But I have a few questions.

1. I have been trading around LHS 3447, which has a twin sun, but whenever I fly back to 3447 I always end up orbiting the twin (Gliese 748.2b), then have to haul ass over to the other one. Is there a way to select which sun you want when choosing destination?

2. When coming up on a planet/station too fast, and your console shouts at you to 'SLOW DOWN', why does my speed always go to max causing a massive overshoot, even though I cut power on my throttles?

3. Is there any way to get your spare ship/ships delivered to another spaceport, or do we have to fly out to where it is stored and change ships?

Thanks for any advice on what I am doing wrong.

1. Not at the moment but I believe they are looking at this
2. I believe the acceleration may be due to the gravity well of the nearest body, kind of like a sling shot, but maybe I am wrong
3. At the moment you have to fly to the station where your ship is stored - hopefully they will introduce a way to pay to get the ships moved

 

[Csabo]

Hi Kinnu,

For SC tips, please read this guide: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=44946

 

[OamodSias]

Adding to this:

1. Not at the moment but I believe they are looking at this
2. I believe the acceleration may be due to the gravity well of the nearest body, kind of like a sling shot, but maybe I am wrong
3. At the moment you have to fly to the station where your ship is stored - hopefully they will introduce a way to pay to get the ships moved

1. Your FSD drive throws you towards your destination, locking onto the largest mass in a solar system; which is always a star. (Our sun makes up something like 90% of the mass of our solar system); this is why you always appear at a single point of entry.
2. When you approach a body, make sure the speed indicator on your speedbar is highlighted. You're overshooting because your ship isn't auto-adjusting it's speed. Make sure the indicator is lit and your ship will auto-slow to the correct speed for you.

 

[Zylark]

1: I'd recommend trading somewhere else than the starter system - especially if playing in open (as all self respecting proper Space Pilots do). Roam around, and find yourself a nice quiet corner of civilized space to call home until you are ready to spread your wings more effectively. Your new home, and surrounding systems you trade with, should all have a station or outpost within 1500ls of the jump-in point. To save time. The shorter the distance, the better obviously.

2: Keep time to target at about 7-10 seconds by adjusting your speed when approaching. With large stations, the proper way to approach is to position yourself between the planet and the station orbiting it. This should prevent overshoots for one thing, and for another you'll drop out of SuperCruise facing the entry-slot, or at least from at 90 degree or less angle.

3: No. I keep a souped up Adder for taxiing around to and from my other ships that are strategically parked around the Galaxy. A transport service may be added in the future though. Either by you employing a player or NPC to ferry you around or pay someone or an NPC to fetch your ship for you. Though I would trust no-one with the keys to my precious ships

 

[Evyl Minkey]

Your speed doesn't actually go to max, although it does look it. Your speed indicator will slowly drop. The bars that catch your eye do go up though. I think that is your revs, like dropping from 4th to 2nd gear in a car without giving it time to slow down.

 

[DarQik]

2. When coming up on a planet/station too fast, and your console shouts at you to 'SLOW DOWN', why does my speed always go to max causing a massive overshoot, even though I cut power on my throttles?

Keep the throttle in the blue. This happens plenty to me when I'm trying to hurry it up.

You may have noticed there are blue circles around the nearby planet. This indicates gravity well effects. Being closer to the planet will force your ship to move slower. When you are between the planet and the station, heading toward the station, you can experience a sudden acceleration when gravity effects drop off as you get farther from the planet. Keeping the throttle in the blue should keep you from suddenly overshooting.

 

[kinnu]

Thanks for the advice guys, much appreciated. Thought it might be something to do with gravitational pull, but it seems to take forever to reach stations staying in the blue.

 

[YoBuck]

Your speed doesn't actually go to max, although it does look it. Your speed indicator will slowly drop. The bars that catch your eye do go up though. I think that is your revs, like dropping from 4th to 2nd gear in a car without giving it time to slow down.

My impression is that as you close distance and it "over revs" for want of a better word the over revving is just closing distance/speed soaring out of control.
Like if you catch it dead early it's less.

Think of it as breaking distance in a car. You are doing 30 at say 200 meters out from a mark and you would be in the blue zone on ED throttle. As you get close to minimum breaking distance from 30mpg to the mark then it will show you speed creeping up. i.e you are to close to stop at this speed. Then say another 5m closer to the mark that margin would grow exponentially the closer you got to the mark.

I hope that makes sence. 12hr day at work my brain is fried.

 

[Hell Razor5543]

I have had several occasions where the supercruise HAS overspeeded, despite having the throttle indicator in the blue 'sweet spot' zone. I have had to pull radical turns to get my ship back under my control. Yoyo-ing the throttle has no effect. I have ticketed this.
Welcome aboard, Kinnu. This game can be hard work, but it is also great fun when you get going. Safe flying, and see you out amongst the stars.

 

[cmdr lowest]

Thanks for the advice guys, much appreciated. Thought it might be something to do with gravitational pull, but it seems to take forever to reach stations staying in the blue.

The trick is to go to the blue zone when your time-to-arrive speed hits 0.07. Ship will do the rest until you get the "ready to disengage" message. Stay full throttle until that point.

Sometimes if the starport is particularly close to a plant the gravity will slow you down and the TTA time will go up to 10,11,12,13 secs. I just stay in the blue and ride it out until I'm past the planet.

 

[DarQik]

The throttle is sort of auto-magical in SC. There are a few spots where blue isn't good enough at the deceleration. There's also points where you can safely max it out while it tells you to slow down. You'll find these with repetition. For example, when travelling 1500ly, even in the blue all the way you will usually not slow down enough about 180ly out, so max it until about 200ly out, then drop below blue until 150ly out. There's also some audio cues that hit before it shows on the display, but usually you still end up looping when the deceleration misses. I've taken to planet skimming and using the gravity well to slow me down quickly when I'm only a bit over speed--I prefer to run a bit too hot.

While not perfect, the blue range is a good guideline, and it will save you from the nasty, last second over-accelerating launch from 400 to 4k on station approach as you get away from the planet's gravity.