When you land on a BH system at 0 throttle, you have about 3 minutes before getting too close. That's enough to blow the horn, scan the BH, give a look at system map, open the gal map and target next system of interest, realign and jump away. BH does not generate any heat, so worst case scenario you hit the body exclusion zone and get dropped from Supercruise. If your throttle was 0, you get 0 dmg and you can boost toward the BH up to 20ish Km. After that you can get closer by Flying tangential to it.
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When you land on a BH system at 0 throttle, you have about 3 minutes before getting too close. That's enough to blow the horn, scan the BH, give a look at system map, open the gal map and target next system of interest, realign and jump away. BH does not generate any heat, so worst case scenario you hit the body exclusion zone and get dropped from Supercruise. If your throttle was 0, you get 0 dmg and you can boost toward the BH up to 20ish Km. After that you can get closer by Flying tangential to it.
No, it's fine for Ns, it's the 'always' that grinds my gears. That's an Explorer that doesn't know where he is going.
I always zero throttle. Guess what, in the time i honk the horn, realign and accelerate the FSD countdown is not reset so i wouldn't have gained a nanosecond doing differently. And, unless you check gal map before each jump wich is a tremendous waste of time, you never know when you are jumping in a NS. I'm out since July 1, why i should take uneccessary risks playing piloting metagames when i don't have too?
please tell me, where am i gonig since i always 0 throttle on countdown?
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I'm right with you. I grumble at my monitor every time I read that on these forums (outside of the Newcomer's forum, where that advice belongs).
I zero my throttle when I have reason to (like I'm jumping into a NS system, or some other system with a main star I intend to scan).
If I'm traveling with a quickness then I've looked ahead, to see if there are any systems I want to divert to between my start point an ~1000ly destination. I know there won't be any NS or black holes along the way, so I know there will be no reason to zero my throttle. Further, I keep the throttle at full because if it's at full when I enter then I get much more fuel scooping done before the FSD completes cooldown... and being at full throttle the entire time means I can activate the FSD immediately upon cooldown from within the star's corona, and exit the corona quickly enough to avoid risky amounts of heat.
Generally speaking, full throttle allows me to minimize the time I spend scooping and maximize the distance I travel during those periods of time when traveling quickly is my objective.
I was out from March through August, and not once did I take damage because I jumped with my throttle at full.
Risks? Really??
Setting the throttle to zero when jumping is simply best practice.
Plus, in transit there is no time to look at the star map and figure out the next star ahead.
Looks more like "training wheels" than "best practice" to me.
So what? Who cares?
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It IS a risk and one that you clearly manage (yay you) but it does not negate the fact that it is safer not to use your method. I'm afraid a fact does not require your belief or agreement to remain a fact.
It is best practice to be at zero throttle as it minimises the risks associated with jumping into an unknown system. If YOU choose not to use this method then fine but please don't besmirch those who do.
A Best Practice at any given moment would be determined by the pilot's primary objective at that point in time, as well as an objective appraisal of the risks. The fact is that the combination of those things does not line up in favor of cutting the throttle during hyperspace in every single scenario. You can take that personally if you really want to, I guess.
If you pay attention the moment you jump in, and have a button for zeroing the throttle, you should be mighty fine pressing it only when necessary. There is about a second, or maybe even two when you see what's around but you are busy dropping out of hyperspace. I always make the decision right there and then.
My 2 cents anyway.
My 2 cents anyway.
The RL issue is that jumps are micropauses. People fetch coffee, load the next movie, surf the forums etc. during jumps. Since the jump duration is variable, there is a risk that the ship is already on its way into the sun, once the pilot resumes helm control.
On the other side, there is only the binary star scenario that requires immediate throttle up (if nothing is in front!), which is very rare. Had two incidents last flight, which is less than one incident per 100k LY flown.
Just for scooping, you can throttle up immediately after dropping out - the loss is miniscule. Just bind a full throttle key.
So my recommendation to throttle zero stands - but of course every pilot can fly as he/she likes.