Whaaa?
Been offline since March and have completely missed Engineers. Is this Neutron/FSD boost something you need to acquire via Engineers before you find Neutrons, or is it somehow retroactive?
Thanks!
To neutron boost you don't need any engineering. find yourself a NS, travel in SUPERCRUISE to the END of one of the emission cones. Remeber to have your FUEL SCOOP active. You will see a message your FSD is operating outside stanrds, your ship will be kicked by turbolences, keep the nose away from the NS itself and wait for a message that your FSD got boosted.
Now travel AWAY from the emission cone, and manual plot your next jump. You can get 4x normal jumprange, but depends on the NS power. White Dwarves charges you too, but to a lesser degree.
Don't exit supercruise while in the cone, that's a death sentence in 99% of scenarios, especially if you are flying a brick (Anaconda).
Even if the procedure will be faultless, your FSD will get damaged by 1% or 2%. If you neutron boost a lot it will add up and eventually your FSD will start to malfuction. For these reasons AMFU is highly suggested.
There are entire routes to jump from NS to NS (but remeber to refuel becouse you can't scoop NS), that can cut travel times when you get good at it.
If you get a disconnect while in the NS system, a bug will place you out of Supercruise in the emission cone. If this happens immidiatly log out and make a ticket to have your ship moved to a safe place.
I hope i summarized everything.
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...is there any more distant outpost around the galaxy or just these on the way into Colonia ?
At the moment they are the only ones. For old explorers they are very handy, we were used to not have the conf of a station outside the bubble.