Newcomer / Intro Why does my ship's speed go up on its own when I get close to my destination after a jump?

[steveyos]

Not every time but too many times I go slow, "slow down" isn't showing up, I'm not hitting accelerate, but when I get close to my target I just go ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM right past it wasting about ten minutes I'm not even rushing in I'm trying really hard to do it properly please tell me this is a bug and not some permanent torturous mini game for the "sake of gameplay"

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DID TOYOTA MAKE MY SHIP *SELF HIGH FIVE MAJOR GOOD ONE*

 

[Skip Intro]

First, bind a key to 75% throttle.

When you get to about 10 seconds away from your target, hit that key and don't touch the throttle again. Keep your target in your sights and wait for the 'safe disengage' message. You will never overshoot your target using this method.

 

[superflyguy]

First, bind a key to 75% throttle.

When you get to about 10 seconds away from your target, hit that key and don't touch the throttle again. Keep your target in your sights and wait for the 'safe disengage' message. You will never overshoot your target using this method.

I've seen this elsewhere and think it's one of the best pieces of advice floating around this forum. Aside from for 'never take off without insurance money' lolz - we've all done it to catastrophic effect!

 

[Nistevo]

good to know

& so much more to learn, I'll be glad when & if I'm good enough to not have to self destruct due to running out of fuel

 

[steveyos]

First, bind a key to 75% throttle.

When you get to about 10 seconds away from your target, hit that key and don't touch the throttle again. Keep your target in your sights and wait for the 'safe disengage' message. You will never overshoot your target using this method.

thank you +rep

I've seen this elsewhere and think it's one of the best pieces of advice floating around this forum. Aside from for 'never take off without insurance money' lolz - we've all done it to catastrophic effect!

I've already got a couple different kinds of spacebills to pay..................................................................................................

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& so much more to learn, I'll be glad when & if I'm good enough to not have to self destruct due to running out of fuel

I can actually help with this sort of you have to buy a fuel scoop then plot your course and you fly close to the sun to refuel I guess our ships are powered by vitamin d, someone will be able to explain this better than me more quicker than me I'm positive I only found it by complete chance in some video that I can't even remmeber

 

[Hardwood]

First, bind a key to 75% throttle.

When you get to about 0:10 seconds away from your target, hit that key and don't touch the throttle again. Keep your target in your sights and wait for the 'safe disengage' message. You will never overshoot your target using this method.

This is definitely the best option. You can engage 75% anytime between 0:16 and 0:06 and it should work. If it hits :05 expect to do a flyby and if you do, just cut the throttle and dive down. When you see/hear the speed drop just circle around and speed up again until you're into that range. 75% is like the magic number (besides 50% for maneuvering), experiment at different distances too. I've engaged close to 0:20 and it still settles in properly.

 

[purf]

I can actually help with this sort of you have to buy a fuel scoop then plot your course and you fly close to the sun to refuel I guess our ships are powered by vitamin d, someone will be able to explain this better than me more quicker than me

Somethingsomething Hydrogen! And let the fuel scoop cost you something. The cheapest one is relatively useless.
The usual procedure: Kill your throttle while in Hypercruise, you'll drop out by the star safely at almost standstill.
Then slowly throttle up into an orbit around the star. Keep it to your left or right for starters. "Fuel scooping engaged"
and thus you'll begin sucking up Hydrogen from the star.
You'll scoop faster when you fly faster but you'll heat up more quickly. Rule of thumb: You are able to maintain
your heat level below 100% (caveat: with most stars So try this. If it rises too much too quickly, it's better to slow
down than to try race away quickly.

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Slowing down: with the numbers counting down I do a "9 and 8 and 7 andCLICK" and then come in at a slight curve.

 

[Danube]

I use Voice Attack to control my ship and have the usual commands for 25% speed etc., and at 75% the ship is usually very stable as regards speed fluctuations. I also have voice commands for "brake" (presses S for 0.2 of a second) to fine-tune my speed.

 

[steveyos]

Unfortunately I just tried this out and 75% speed doesn't even come onto the speed meter let alone go into the blue I mean I'm supposed to be at like 5% speed so I'm confused how to actually do this, I'm using the starter ship

10 seconds away from my target varies depending on my speed, and by the time I get to .20 I'm already past the thing

I just approached the akerman market at about 1% throttle and as I got closer I started automatically speeding up and it said slow down and I just barely managed to make it can I get a video of one of you doing this please

 

[purf]

[video=youtube;LA7Iy5vQm7A]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA7Iy5vQm7A[/video]

First one that came up and looked promising. I hope it's good

 

[Mysturji]

Not every time but too many times I go slow, "slow down" isn't showing up, I'm not hitting accelerate, but when I get close to my target I just go ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM right past it wasting about ten minutes I'm not even rushing in I'm trying really hard to do it properly please tell me this is a bug and not some permanent torturous mini game for the "sake of gameplay"

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DID TOYOTA MAKE MY SHIP *SELF HIGH FIVE MAJOR GOOD ONE*

I get this too, sometimes.

First, bind a key to 75% throttle.

When you get to about 10 seconds away from your target, hit that key and don't touch the throttle again. Keep your target in your sights and wait for the 'safe disengage' message. You will never overshoot your target using this method.

I have done that, and I do do that. Even when I set 3/4 throttle well before, (> 10 secs to dest), the indicator goes into the blue zone, I slow down, I don't touch the throttle, but then I find I'm 4 secs from the target, it's telling me to slow down, and I have to do the "Loop of shame".
Not sure how often, but not much. Maybe <5% of the time.

 

[steveyos]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA7Iy5vQm7A

First one that came up and looked promising. I hope it's good

I just managed to jump twice almost as good as that video long story short I wasn't video gaming it enough, see how he goes to the side of the planet that's not realisms, I was trying realisms I wasn't video gaming it was my bad

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I get this too, sometimes.


I have done that, and I do do that. Even when I set 3/4 throttle well before, (> 10 secs to dest), the indicator goes into the blue zone, I slow down, I don't touch the throttle, but then I find I'm 4 secs from the target, it's telling me to slow down, and I have to do the "Loop of shame".
Not sure how often, but not much. Maybe <5% of the time.

Watch that video but set it to 75% then tap it a couple times slower, that with the other posts in this thread seem to be helping me a lot I was probably trying to approach too fast and you might be too and it seems to matter by like a unrealistic weird window of time to be in the ugh idk just go slower lol


I don't feel like this is how space ships would work I feel like this is just something they did to initiate a loading screen lol they figured they'd give us an annoying mini game to play before we switched instances

 

[Mysturji]

Somethingsomething Hydrogen! And let the fuel scoop cost you something. The cheapest one is relatively useless.
The usual procedure: Kill your throttle while in Hypercruise, you'll drop out by the star safely at almost standstill.
Then slowly throttle up into an orbit around the star. Keep it to your left or right for starters. "Fuel scooping engaged"
and thus you'll begin sucking up Hydrogen from the star.
You'll scoop faster when you fly faster but you'll heat up more quickly. Rule of thumb: You are able to maintain
your heat level below 100% (caveat: with most stars So try this. If it rises too much too quickly, it's better to slow
down than to try race away quickly.

___
Slowing down: with the numbers counting down I do a "9 and 8 and 7 andCLICK" and then come in at a slight curve.

With an A-grade fuel scoop (I don't think the size/class matters) find out what the maximum spooping rate is, then stay below ~90% of that (Your temperature may vary, depending on your ship). e.g. in an Asp with a A3 scoop, the max is 176 thingies/sec, and Iif I keep the scoop rate below 160, I stay steady at ~ 105% heat, but in a Lakon 7 with an A4 scoop the max rate is more like 350 thingies/sec, and I have to stay below 300 or I'll overheat. If you ever go above the safe scoop rate, you'll have to move away from the star and try again, or overheat.
At least, that's how it is in 1.1 - It's changing in 1.2

 

[Mysturji]

I just managed to jump twice almost as good as that video long story short I wasn't video gaming it enough, see how he goes to the side of the planet that's not realisms, I was trying realisms I wasn't video gaming it was my bad

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Watch that video but set it to 75% then tap it a couple times slower

What?
The video - though good and instructional - didn't tell me anything I didn't already know, and don't already do.
I have keybindings for throttle e.g. numpad 3 for 3/4 throttle. Are you saying I need to press '3' more than once to be sure?

 

[steveyos]

another thing I'm realizing is if you're going a long distance you have to manually fly for many minutes before you get where you wanna go you can't just warp speed to a reasonable distance I hope I can avoid this wasted time via new ships or whatever patches whatever it be one day

 

[steveyos]

What?
The video - though good and instructional - didn't tell me anything I didn't already know, and don't already do.
I have keybindings for throttle e.g. numpad 3 for 3/4 throttle. Are you saying I need to press '3' more than once to be sure?

I set numpad 8 to 100% and numpad 5 to 75%, I pressed 8 once from the sun I was at and when I got to 0.07 seconds away I pressed 5 once, and then all I did was keep myself aligned until it was time to press j

I was very far away that's why I made that post about how horribly long it takes, it took so long I made that post and went back and coulda made a sandwich, so try doing it like that going a really long distance where it takes about 10 minutes and as it slowly counts down you'll have enough time at 0.07 to hit 75% then it gets really scary and seems too fast but you actually hit the slower speed before you hit the right distance just do it exactly like that


I noticed during this one that speed even if you don't touch it still varies drastically at random times maybe there's random gravity pockets in space for whatever science reasons so there's a possbility that certain places aren't gonna adhere to the 0.07 rule but so far so good for the ones I'm going to I just really hope we can eventually avoid this I don't mind manually slowly driving around for hours when it's for a reason but all these extra minutes between warps are not cool man

 

[TriumphANT]

Basically in SC your speed is almost never constant. You accelerate to the mid-point of your journey, decelerate towards your end-point, then finally do a sharp decelerate at 75% throttle to the final destination. Your speed is affected by nearby object, especially gas giants and stars. Some people have arbitrary limits to how far they will SC before boredom settles in, e.g. 2000Ls. In a system with lots of gravity-inducing big planets and stars, long SC can be tortuous. Search for "Hutton Orbital" to see how bad it can get at extremes. One full hour in SC isn't any fun at all!

A couple of things I use over and above the "100% to 10s out then 75%" rule. For very short SC travel, e.g. 300Ls or so, you never get much faster than 75% anyway, so going straight for 75% from the word go is easier and more efficient. Secondly, Wear And Tear damage in SC is related to how fast you go as well as distance travelled, so again it's worthwhile using 75% for journeys up to 500Ls if you're doing exploration, as otherwise the W&T damage mounts up more quickly. If you SC at 75% all the time, you just aim and go. Try it!

 

[steveyos]

I was just going to yaping enterprise and for whatever reason I was going towards it and it said something and warped me to this thing where I had to escape to some blue crosshair, but after doing that, I went to 100% from where that put me and started going back towards yaping, got to 0.07 went to 75% and boom it worked again, I cannot tell if I'm getting hit with a ton of bugs or if these are just features or what but I can say now I've done the 100% then 75% at 0.07, four times in a row right away since that video was posted, and the only reason it didn't work so far was because again I have no idea what the heck happened so I'd say that one doesn't count

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Basically in SC your speed is almost never constant. You accelerate to the mid-point of your journey, decelerate towards your end-point, then finally do a sharp decelerate at 75% throttle to the final destination. Your speed is affected by nearby object, especially gas giants and stars. Some people have arbitrary limits to how far they will SC before boredom settles in, e.g. 2000Ls. In a system with lots of gravity-inducing big planets and stars, long SC can be tortuous. Search for "Hutton Orbital" to see how bad it can get at extremes. One full hour in SC isn't any fun at all!

A couple of things I use over and above the "100% to 10s out then 75%" rule. For very short SC travel, e.g. 300Ls or so, you never get much faster than 75% anyway, so going straight for 75% from the word go is easier and more efficient. Secondly, Wear And Tear damage in SC is related to how fast you go as well as distance travelled, so again it's worthwhile using 75% for journeys up to 500Ls if you're doing exploration, as otherwise the W&T damage mounts up more quickly. If you SC at 75% all the time, you just aim and go. Try it!

+rep love this community

 

[Surly_Badger]

Search for "Hutton Orbital" to see how bad it can get at extremes. One full hour in SC isn't any fun at all!

... especially if you are running low on fuel.

I need to go back there and do some screenshots. I want to make a black Tshirt with the target-lock "Hutton Orbital 100,000ls" on the chest, like a corporate logo. That way anyone who sees me and who plays Elite will fall over laughing.

 

[Nistevo]

I hear that, 120,000 LS can take what feels like an eternity to travel.