Super Cruise Question

Telarian · Nov 22, 2014

Hi all,

I am new to this so please be gentle

My question is does it take a while to reach your destination when you Supercruise travelling? What I mean is that I will set a location, go toward it, but the distance number does not seem to change. I was going to a location to deliver some goods, and I let it go for about 15 minutes and nothing changed.

I noticed when I had it lined up and did the jump, my screen would freeze a second and flicker, then go. I do see starts moving by, and feint yellow lines moving by the sides of my HUD, but it never seemed I was going anywhere.

Am I just impatient and need to let it go until it get there?

Thank you for any insight you may have!

Telarian

searlecom · Nov 22, 2014

Are you sure you are in SC? What is your speed?

Dissentient · Nov 22, 2014

Are you sure you are not trying to supercruise to another star?

Midnight_Sun323 · Nov 22, 2014

You need to jump to other systems, not super cruise. Check your key bindings.

Telarian · Nov 22, 2014

Thanks for the response folks, I am sorry if I do not have all the details, but here is what I was doing.

I was just starting out at the spaceport that they started me on and I took a mission to I Bootis to deliver some goods to the Research Lab. I target it, and initiated supercruise. After a few, I mass locked and was kicked out of SC. So I realigned and did SC again.

As for speed, I do not remember exactly what it was except it was in blue and much faster than my regular cruise. I literally was going for 15 minutes and the distance never got shorter. So after a bit, I stopped and decided that I was going to abort the mission and go back to the dock. When I lined that up and hit SC, the distance counted down to about 147.5 days, but never got closer either after that. So I just saved and exited thinking there could be an issue or something.

Sorry I do not have more, but I hope this helps.

T

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Midnight_Sun323 said:
You need to jump to other systems, not super cruise. Check your key bindings.

When I would try and jump it did nothing, so I assumed I was in the same system at the time. I did re bind my keys in the tutorial because they wer not bound, and it worked in there just fine. So, when I try to jump it literally does nothing....

Thanks for the response!

T

Bareknuckle McGee · Nov 22, 2014

You might be in a gravity well if you're close to a planet or star, this will slow you considerably until you get away from it. Make sure your throttle is at full and keep it there until you are roughly 250ls from your destination, then reduce to 75% throttle (you can bind this to a key) to avoid overshooting.

Dissentient · Nov 22, 2014

If you need to deliver goods to another star system, you need to hyperjump, not supercruise. You do it by locking destination system in your navigation menu, aligning your ship to it and pressing J.
The right control scheme looks like this:

Telarian · Nov 22, 2014

I will look into what exactly I may be doing wrong. I do have a key bound to that, but it does not do anything when I hit it. It did do it in the tutorial, but not in game at the point I am at.

Thank you all for the responses, and I will post the results if I get it working right.

Real quick, so does it take a while in game when you do jump? I know it is distance based, but does travel take 15+ minutes at times?

ChromolyRex · Nov 22, 2014

Jumps take like 30 seconds.

Supercruising within the same system can take lots of time, depending on the distance involved.

I actually have my Jump set to J and Supercruise set to C.

Dissentient · Nov 22, 2014

Telarian said:
Real quick, so does it take a while in game when you do jump? I know it is distance based, but does travel take 15+ minutes at times?

When you do a hyperspace jump, you see drive charge progress bar (takes around 5 seconds to charge), then it takes you to hyperscace animation and then you exit near the star of the system.
When you supercruise, you travel at speeds of 30km/s (0.0001c) to hundreds of c, and you spend most of the time accelerating and decelerating, not covering the distance at top speed. In general, a supercruise takes from under a minute to several minutes depending on distance.

Telarian · Nov 22, 2014

Dissentient said:
When you do a hyperspace jump, you see drive charge progress bar (takes around 5 seconds to charge), then it takes you to hyperscace animation and then you exit near the star of the system.
When you supercruise, you travel at speeds of 30km/s (0.0001c) to hundreds of c, and you spend most of the time accelerating and decelerating, not covering the distance at top speed. In general, a supercruise takes from under a minute to several minutes depending on distance.

That is exactly what I was wondering..... If I remember right, I did jump until I mass locked. Then once I was past the planet, I went to SC and then tried to jump again and it will not work. The system shows 1 year away, so I am assuming I need to jump again to it. Whatever reason, it just will not jump and I thought it was because I was in the system already..

Sorry for all this newby confusion...haha