OK, we all have had that unlucky jump where you jump in and you are literally pinched between A and B stars (or more). It happens. It seems since the carriers patch I've either walked under a ladder or it is making a comeback. These last 5k ly across Acheron I've had to put my AFMUs to work five times. In the previous 60k ly I didn't have to power them up once. So anyone else experiencing this, or is is my luck? These last three jumps the visual as you jump into these systems it is your natural human reaction to duck your head and then scramble to figure the best escape route. Don't get me wrong, it helps with the danger immersion, which is kinda welcome, but geez louise these pinched jumps seem to have come back to rear their ugly heads. 5k to go to a carrier and a good bartender.
Unlucky, or are 'pinched' jump-ins making a comeback?
- Thread starter Rooster Podunk
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I can't say I have noticed an increase.
Keep calm is the most important thing, but first thing to do after pointing your ships nose out of collision danger is immediately shut off your fuel scoop. That is where most of the heat damage comes from.
Keep calm is the most important thing, but first thing to do after pointing your ships nose out of collision danger is immediately shut off your fuel scoop. That is where most of the heat damage comes from.
A few weeks ago I jumped through one and ended up between two others, 3 stars in close proximity, I always enjoy those sorts of encounters. I keep seeing threads about people saying they should make exploration more dangerous by adding random artificial danger factors to exploration, but they removed one of the only real dangers at player request, people are strange sometimes!
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Rarely ever happens to myself, but I was pondering about something else I've noticed.
Being unable to locate the last few bodies in the FSS. Last night I had a system where I couldn't locate the last 33 out of a 66 body system! I exit the FSS, start it back up, and find the missing bodies in a place where I've looked several times, right smack in the orbital plane. I keep thinking I must not have looked very hard, yet this keeps occurring.
Now,everyone else's turn to confirm this has happened too, so I'll know I'm not losing all my cognitive abilities!
Being unable to locate the last few bodies in the FSS. Last night I had a system where I couldn't locate the last 33 out of a 66 body system! I exit the FSS, start it back up, and find the missing bodies in a place where I've looked several times, right smack in the orbital plane. I keep thinking I must not have looked very hard, yet this keeps occurring.
Now,everyone else's turn to confirm this has happened too, so I'll know I'm not losing all my cognitive abilities!
Rarely ever happens to myself, but I was pondering about something else I've noticed.
Being unable to locate the last few bodies in the FSS. Last night I had a system where I couldn't locate the last 33 out of a 66 body system! I exit the FSS, start it back up, and find the missing bodies in a place where I've looked several times, right smack in the orbital plane. I keep thinking I must not have looked very hard, yet this keeps occurring.
Now,everyone else's turn to confirm this has happened too, so I'll know I'm not losing all my cognitive abilities!
Sometimes you need to tune the FSS to the correct value, when you exit and re-enter it resets the tuning to the mid point. If all the bodies left are small rocky bodies and you have it set to GG you may not see the blue blobs at all and think they are missing. I've never had missing bodies that can't be found, but sometimes I miss them until I re-tune to the correct value.
Last time I remember jumping in through a star and hitting the exclusion zone of the one just past it was soon after the meetup at Beagle Point, crossing The Abyss during DW2. I may have hit one more after that, but not sure. I guess they still do happen, but they're pretty rare. It might be more common if you're traveling near the galactic plane too, where it seems stars in systems are more often more densely packed – just a coincidental observation, not sure if generally true or not.
It's happened to me once so far, scared the crap out of me. Having said that I got jumped into the noobhammer of a station yesterday. I didn't fly into it, I was dropped off on the hull (luckily just damaged my shield) but that scared the hell out of me too!