Engineers Too close!!!

[woodhouse]

As of 2.1, I find myself flying into suns, which I haven't done in ages.
Is this a coincidence or is there a bigger risk of flying into stars in 2.1?

I wonder if this is related to another change: I need to set more deadzone on my controller because the ship steering is more wobbly when close to a star.

 

[kpmop]

Hmmm. I was going to make a facetious comment, but I recall that during beta I was crashing into stars more often than I used to, I think I just wrote it off as me being careless and maybe compensated by paying a little more attention. Yeah it'd be interesting to know if something got tweaked, or it was just random carelessness on my part...

 

[Nerwan]

There has been a change:

1. If you alt-tab out of Elite your ship will no longer automatically go to zero throttle.
2. Even if you throttle back during hyperspace and then alt-tab you still won't go back to zero throttle.

I'm not sure why they did it (alt-tab strikes me as essential for explorers) but that might be your problem.

 

[woodhouse]

There has been a change:

1. If you alt-tab out of Elite your ship will no longer automatically go to zero throttle.
2. Even if you throttle back during hyperspace and then alt-tab you still won't go back to zero throttle.

I'm not sure why they did it (alt-tab strikes me as essential for explorers) but that might be your problem.

Thanks for the suggestion but that's not it. I am not alt-tabbing. It happens when I am flying really close to the exclusion zone line scooping fuel.

 

[Nerwan]

Thanks for the suggestion but that's not it. I am not alt-tabbing. It happens when I am flying really close to the exclusion zone line scooping fuel.

Did you actually get the "too close" message and come out of SC or did you just start getting really hot and then somehow find that you couldn't get away from the star nearly as quickly as you expected. The latter has happened to me a couple of times since 2.1 (both times near large stars now I think about it) and I've overheated quite badly but I just shrugged and thought it was odd...