Ship speeds up by itself.

[Exist To Resist]

Can anyone tell me why my ship speeds up by itself when I have a target locked?
While it's doing this I'm throttling down but nothing happens it just keeps accelerating and keeps telling me to slow down.
It results in me overshooting the target.
What gives?

 

[AnnuverScotinExile]

Can anyone tell me why my ship speeds up by itself when I have a target locked?
While it's doing this I'm throttling down but nothing happens it just keeps accelerating and keeps telling me to slow down.
It results in me overshooting the target.
What gives?

I assume you are in supercruise? It is the effect of gravity intwerfering with your frame shift drive (and vice versa). Learn to live with it, and you will find it very helpful. And, generally, keep the throttle in the blue area.

 

[Feldspar]

1) If this in supercruise or normal space?
2) Check your bindings on the throttle.

 

[Cmdr Andy B]

look at your speed, not your throttle setting. your nav computer is slowing you down but not fast enough - that's why the throttle goes off the scale.

 

[777Driver]

Can anyone tell me why my ship speeds up by itself when I have a target locked?
While it's doing this I'm throttling down but nothing happens it just keeps accelerating and keeps telling me to slow down.
It results in me overshooting the target.
What gives?

It's not just gravity as others suggest. If you lock a target you are enabling an auto-throttle,the position of your throttle determines the acceleration/declaration curve. 75% (blue zone) is the optimum curve.

The only way to get full control is to have no target locked. Gravity will effect your ships ability to accelerate & decelerate, however that is completely separate from the Auto throttle mode.

I should add that even with a target locked you can still bring the throttle back to idle and slow the ship to 30kms

 

[Darkflame]

Additional with the "gravity"; Pretty sure it happens on things far far too small to generate that kinda gravity (eg, ships)

 

[AnnuverScotinExile]

It's not gravity as others suggest. If you lock a target you are enabling an auto-throttle,the position of your throttle determines the acceleration/declaration curve. 75% (blue zone) is the optimum curve. The only way to get full control is to have no target locked, however gravity will effect your ships ability to accelerate & decelarate.. That is completely separate from the Auto throttle mode.

I should add that even with a target locked you can still bring the throttle back to idle and slow the ship to 30kms

Sure it's gravity. The speed your ship's FSD can faff about with space-time for a given throttle setting is caused by the gravity wells of the nearby objects. That's why you can 'accelerate' (though since you are not really moving, accelerate is the wrong term) up to significant multiples of the speed of light very quickly when you start up from being parked in the middle of nowhere, but cannot do so when you are in an area with several astronomical objects.

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Additional with the "gravity"; Pretty sure it happens on things far far too small to generate that kinda gravity (eg, ships)

Yeah. That's where the 'handwaving' breaks down, but they need the mechanic to work, so they cheat.

 

[777Driver]

Sure it's gravity.
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Yeah. That's where the 'handwaving' breaks down, but they need the mechanic to work, so they cheat.

Hi Annuver, the OP is asking about a locked target. try it with no planets or stars around. An auto-throttle mode engages as soon as you lock a target. This has been discussed in depth many times, and I have also tested it whilst learning the system. I do completely agree with you about how the gravity in game works.