Are you aware that Obsidian Ant is beating the "supercruise toakes too loonnnggg...!" drum?That's an idea by a player. Tag me when Frontier make a change to how supercruise works.
Are you aware that Obsidian Ant is beating the "supercruise toakes too loonnnggg...!" drum?That's an idea by a player. Tag me when Frontier make a change to how supercruise works.
Nope and don't care. If people want to try to go full throttle until 7/6/5/4/3/2 or 1 seconds, that's up to them. I keep the throttle in the blue zone (or sometimes use Supercruise Assist) because that's how I choose to play. As long as you are still able to drop into the station/whatever that's all that matters.Are you aware that Obsidian Ant is beating the "supercruise toakes too loonnnggg...!" drum?
Now try the same thing with the docking computer, and watch it go "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"The best way is with SC assist. Power through SC assist until the last possible second, then power down and let it take over. It literally never fails.
Bravo sir, you get it! Riding those screaming sub-0:06 eta death spirals into last minute safe drops at stations is the only way to fly. I don't think I've not approached a station that way in over 4 years. Sooner or later we must get you in to a Buckyball Race. If you can do sub-0:04 then you have the makings of a champion!If you get in the right spin, it's not hard at all to zip in at 5 seconds.
4 takes a bit more effort, but is doable. I'm working on riding 3. Nearby planets and moons make an optimal approach wildly more complicated, and are a blast.
Is it faster? No idea. Judging off CG trade runs last night though, it's not noticably slower. And it's way more fun and takes a lot more piloting to come in hot like that vs just coasting in, dull as toast, at 7, posting forum-complaints about what's ultimately your own flying style - how it's boring, unengaging and makes you easy prey for interdictions.
Supercruise has far more gameplay around gravity wells than people give it credit for.
Can you hold a three-second spiral in towards a station? Less? Let's see your boasts!
For the record that does genuinely concern me. If Frontier decided to listen to OA and change supercruise it would utterly invalidate the scoreboards of every single Buckyball race we've ever staged over the last 6 years, including the Sagittarius A* run (not to mention the numerous time trial races that have been organised by other groups), and would mean that nobody could ever legitimately try to beat any of the thousands of times recorded in those scoreboards. We'd have to wipe the slate clean. Now I know Buckyball Racing isn't for everyone but that still seems like an awfully high price to pay!Are you aware that Obsidian Ant is beating the "supercruise toakes too loonnnggg...!" drum?
I'm on your side with that Alex, buckyballing is part of elite's heritage, and supercruise is part of the game's DNA, yet there is an upswelling of misinformed people who are expressing it as their opinion that supercruise is boring so it needs changing, with a lot of those people desiring intra system jumps. So according to them flying the spaceship is boring, but spamming "j" is A-OK? Whatevz... I'm convinced a lot of those people do not fully understand interplanetary distances and what speed they are actually doing in supercruise, but are instead merely echoing the opinions of an "influencer" - in this case Obsidian Ant.For the record that does genuinely concern me. If Frontier decided to listen to OA and change supercruise it would utterly invalidate the scoreboards of every single Buckyball race we've ever staged over the last 6 years, including the Sagittarius A* run (not to mention the numerous time trial races that have been organised by other groups), and would mean that nobody could ever legitimately try to beat any of the thousands of times recorded in those scoreboards. We'd have to wipe the slate clean. Now I know Buckyball Racing isn't for everyone but that still seems like an awfully high price to pay!
Count me in. I am not a fan of people lobbying to change the game just because it suits them better.I'm trying to draw attention to this before OA and the others persuade FD to change supercruise "coz its SO bbbooorrriiinnnnggg!!!" Every time OA mentions decreasing supercruise travel times I hit him with a dislike, and on the forum I'm trying to defend supercruise.
Not necessarily. I like supercruise and avoid an stupidly long journeys.No matter what you do, the SC travel in Elite is long and boring as hell.
Not necessarily. I like supercruise and avoid an stupidly long journeys.
You can do that if you so wish, but it uses up much more fuel, which you then need to spend time fuel scooping.Starting from say an innermost moon of a gas giant to another planet is usually faster by jumping to another system and back. If the other planet is on the other side of the star, this is always true. I can't take this for good gameplay.
Yup, long distant journeys can be tough, but they are still a choice. Nobody forces you to go there. There have been many times I have passed over one thing I would like to look at because of the distance, but if someone wants to do that, all the power to them. I don't see an issue with that.Naturally, going to a far-away secondary star is worse by an order of magnitude. I regularly do that as often there is something worth seeing/exploring at the secondary star. My exploration time of actual playing (doing something with the ship or SRV) is probably shorter than the time I spend watching movies while waiting to arrive at the destination. This is a sad excuse for gameplay.
All true, I just have the misfortune that some aspects of the activity I love in Elite, exploration, are boring as hell.It's what I like about ED. The game is as boring or fun as you make it. It's all about choices. You choose to do something boring, you've only got yourself to blame.