Will Supercruise toward another system reduce total jump distance

Club79

C
Greetings CMDRs,

I have been out exploring for a month and bit now and made the fatal mistake of using a Neutron star to jump into a system which I now cannot jump out of. The nearest system is about 179LY away and even with a premium FSD injection I only have 155LY jump range.

My question is if I travel in supercruise toward the nearest system will the required jump distance decrease. So far I have been in supercruise for around 12 hours and the distance shown in the ship is decreasing however the distance shown on the galaxy map seems to remain at 179.84.

I'm aware that you cannot travel in supercruise all the way to another system and I also realize that less weight carried in fuel will change how far I can jump. I just specifically want to know if supercruise toward next system will reduce total jump distance.

My plan is to start a new CMDR, build another exploration ship with extra fuel. Head out to where I'm currently stranded, meet up with and refuel my first ship allowing it to super-cruise long enough to reduce jump distance. I've roughly figured out I need about 96 hours total in supercruise to make this work.

Any thoughts would be welcome. Fly safe CMDRs!
 

Sun Muncher

Sun Muncher
Not sure, It will however run your fuel out which might let you squeeze a few extra LY jump range out if you run your tank next to dry
 

Neutronium

Neutronium
You'd need to travel at least 25LYs in SC. Unless you have some extra fuel tanks and a low fuel consumption rate I don't see how else you could do it... Ask the Rats and another CMDR (which I can;t remember his name) who's been stranded in the other side of the galaxy (and was in the process of being rescued by the rats) for help. He and the rats will give you invaluable advice and assistance.
 

Codger

Codger
No. The jump distance is fixed, and you have to jump to get to another system (because it's really the loading screen). Even if you flew all the way there in Supercruise, there'd be nothing there to see.
 
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Avengerus

Avengerus
What distance your nav panel is showing? Is it still the same 179.84? Or decreasing as you go further in SC? Try plotting the jump in the nav panel instead of GM.

About a year ago I tried to SC for a few hours to see if I can jump back to the central star... The answer was "NO"... for some reason.
The underlying story was as follows:
My friend SC'd quite a few LYs from the central star and ran out of fuel and we were wondering why I cannot high-wake to his location. We have figured that the hyperjump requires a target star for routing...
Ok, but how about jumping from outer space TO the central star?... logically, this should be fine! you can SC any distance and then hyperjump to another star regardless (within capability limits) of distance to it.... BUT NOT TO THE ONE YOU JUMPED LAST TIME!!! Even if it's further away from your current location than the other system star...

IMO, This has no reasonable/viable explanation!!!
 
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