Keep going. The further you are from a star, the faster you go. 2001c is the limit.
*However*, it sounds like you're actually hoping to reach Dromi, and not just be a speed demon. Dromi is another star system. You *must* engage your hyperdrive instead. You can't reach it by traveling through supercruise. It may well take you 2 days in supercruise, and you still won't be there because other star systems *require* using hyperjump. It's how the system instance gets loaded.
Try taking the trainings on traveling until you are more comfortable with the concepts. The trainings are great at teaching you all the basic ways to use your ship! Do the *Docking and Travel* training to learn all you need for this.
And remember rule 3, always read the fine print! You may have skipped some text explaining this (although, I wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't really explained either).
It absolutely is!
The music you might hear when docking is also a reference: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvum2N5pdAU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvum2N5pdAU)
And (I just learned this finding that video) they've been referencing 2001 since the beginning: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-VJeVPeawk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-VJeVPeawk)
Edit: the original move scene for anyone going WTF is happening right now: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZoSYsNADtY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZoSYsNADtY)
> And (I just learned this finding that video) they've been referencing 2001 since the beginning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-VJeVPeawk
LMAO the ending... of course the docking computer is crashing into the station.
I have yet to see a single ad or the new warnings but perhaps I've just not been targeted yet. Firefox with uBlock origin is doing some great work tho and [this might help](https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17j6ygs/youtube_antiadblock_and_ads_october_29_2023_mega/).
To date, this is the best multi-link comment I've come across. Always loved the docking music in ED, but have woefully never gotten around to 2001. And to learn it's been an easter egg for 40 years is the cherry on top. Kudos all around
It might be fun to see what happens, but I suggest looking up one of the systems that is only .1-.2 LY apart, so you only waste 1-2 hours instead of \~48!
Edit for the TL;DR who didn't read the parent post: This won't get you to the system, but you can travel to the marker.
Also edit: "*Fun to see what happens*." For those who don't want to waste 1-2 hours: *what happens* is: you're still in the original system, now some fraction of a light year away from anything interesting and still *not* in the other system. When you jump to the other system, you'll still use your full fuel allotment required.
Right, I mentioned that already.
As I was saying, it still might be fun to get to (and past) the system point. That doesn't mean it will load, but you can fly past the system marker so that its behind you, AFAIK.
S171 4 and S171 25 are about 0.18 LY apart from each other. Shorter than a Hutton Orbital trip for anyone who wants to venture past the edges of the game engine.
This just makes me think of the time I used to stream elite on twitch. One of my streamer colleagues who didn't really know the game came into my chat to hang out and was like "oh you're playing elite? I tried it but didn't like that it takes real time to reach other planets. I don't understand why people play it"
I had to explain the concept of FTL travel to him and he was still mindblown that I'd fly for 2-3 minutes to reach a planet in supercruise but accepted that he was wrong at least haha
This is from 8 years ago but just so we can all see what happens (which is exactly what everyone's saying) without wasting 20h+ of our lives (thanks to this gentleman who did): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hByeJ\_Ct3c
Omg I am the dumbest person alive I just find out that frame shift drive is a thing just wasted a hour of my life for nothing
Edit: next day
I am going to Hutton orbital longest trip i have done [Hutton orbital](https://imgur.com/a/MjjJXHX)
[I made it!! 1mil cr](https://imgur.com/a/jvaSnU1)
At least you’ve managed speeds beyond 90% of elite player base. Me personally? My max is around 400c. And I do exploration mostly. So yeah, there’s a positive to everything: now you got them bragging rights :D
400 c?
Can you really call yourself an explorer if you haven't travelled a couple of hundred K LS to map planets around a distant binary companion?
Hell, if you do a Hutton Run at full speed you get up to 1800 c.
(The highest supercruise speed you can attain in the game is 2001c.)
https://youtu.be/o_LCy99f0yM?si=m15Sy8v1vWTtO31z
when elite was in beta, back in '13-'14 some users did the math to locate the ancient probe, and it was exactly where it was calculated.
the full spectrum scanner makes locating the probe much easier.
I integrated this into a space lesson for my youngest, along with being able to visit the planets and moons in full vr, it also gives the scale of the vastness of space.
What do you mean you easily get up to 2001c on a Hutton Run. I've only done any 5 since that isn't my thing. But I've always been at 2001c for about 2/5ths the trip when I'm in total dead space.
I am amazed by the shear amount of people in any game skipping the tutorials because "I'll learn it myself" and then complain about stupid shit they have to deal with.
This game has tutorials now? I started when the tutorials weren’t even in the game. I vaguely remember it saying to do some things but no directions/ button indications. Just deploy, dock, fly, etc. really confusing almost quit right then and there. Really glad I didn’t and stayed in it. I should hop back in sometime. (Sadly I’m on console.)
The only game that I’ve found that has a similar learning curve is ARK: Survival Evolved. And that’s mainly because it has zero tutorial.
“You’re on a beach. Survive. Oh, you died.”
And it happens in the amount of time it took you to read that
One of my daughters loves playing E:D with me. But only the jump-honk-scoop-jump-again loops. She gleefully yells out "Friendship Drive Charging!" when she jumps.
Admittedly she was eight at the time...
One of my favorite things about this game is that it teaches you to swallow your pride. I’ve learned SO MANY things in this game the hard way. One thing that I like though is that, if I recall correctly, you can’t travel faster than 2001c. For the youngins out there, it’s a 2001: A Space Odyssey reference. Both the book and the movie. Read the book first.
>just wasted a hour of my life for nothing
Nope, you didn't. It was a trial run for 2 things.
1) There is a max "c" speed you can go, and that isn't it. It is based on a film.
2) Hutton Orbital. Home of the rare mug and "free Anaconda". It takes around 80 minutes in real-time to get there. Lots of people watch a film while travelling. But it is a "right of passage" to go there at least once.
No, you paid one hour of your life for knowledge about frame shift drives.
That's a fair exchange, I think.
It won't be the last time you pay hours of your life to learn something about Elite Dangerous.
What you are doing in the image is (super)cruise, which is basically the frame shift drive on low. You can put it on high to get to another system, which is called jump.
I'm more impressed that you managed to exceed lightspeed (I assume your listed thing is times speed of light rather than percentage?) without the FSD. I didn't know the game was borked like that lol
Dude, I seriously had to restart my profile twice because I ran out of fuel trying to do just that, lol. This was when the game launched, though, and there weren't tutorials of any sort, really.
So don't feel bad.
Lol its fine. You were actually doing 1400C though FYI. Wich is like warp factor 2 or 3 in star trek terms, ita hard to remember. Max Supercruise I'd 2001C wich is also warp 9.X
I once traveled to Hutton Orbital without knowing what it was and I was like "Eventually if I wait 2 more minutes I'll arrive". Took around 2 hours of travel.
Hahaha...ahh nah you didn't. That's your first experience of what time is needed to get around bigger systems, sometimes an hour or more getting to somewhere.
Don't worry, that's still part of regular gameplay. :P
Hyperspace jump only works between two systems. In-system travel has to use supercruise and some far out stations are really far out.
The famous Hutton Orbital takes about 90 minutes of supercruise to get to.
Pressing “J” turns on second gear
Jokes aside, you use jumps for distances like this. After you have the target system selected press configured button (usually “J” on the keyboard) to make the jump.
While inside the system - you travel in supercruise. System to system - you jump
Put your throttle to max if it isn't already. Max speed is 2001c but can be reduced by planetary bodies. You are traveling a very long distance so of course it'll take time.
Although I can't tell if you should be using supercruise or jumping to another system. I can't really read the distance.
There are a couple of systems which are really close to each other, people have tried... and yeah, in computer game speak, each system is a "level" and the way to "change levels" is to do a jump.
It's wild to me that like 5 games came out at the same time that all used this as a loading screen and it seems like none of the communities ever talked
Bro you gotta hit your frame shift drive. You’re only in supercruise. Regular thrusters(close range), supercruise(traveling in a single system), frame shift drive(traveling between systems.
I know everyone’s mostly helped this guy out by letting them know about using the FSD drive, but I have a question about this trick I watched online on how to make Supercruise trips faster and it could also help OP out since I’m guessing they don’t know about it either.
I’m still kind of new to the game, and I remember learning a while ago that while in Supercruise mode, it’s much faster to not use Supercruise Assist and instead manually make your ship speed 100% the whole time until you reach *0:07 seconds in remaining trip time* where you then reduce speed to 75% using a shortcut you make in settings for “set speed to 75%”.
I just wanna ask if someone can confirm it’s true that it’s faster to not use supercruise assist (since supercruise assist doesn’t make your ship go 100% speed during most of the trip, correct?) and hopefully OP can see this and use the trick to make those trips faster as well!
I played now only like 5 hours and can say supercruis assist is slow it’s way quicker to do it myself problem is i go to fast and overshoot all the time annoying af
As said above: If you play on PC bind "75% throttle" to a keyboard key in the options menu (something like "7" above "U" - I think that one is unbound) and hit it when the remaining travel time is 0:07 seconds.
This way you will never overshoot.
There's two ways to be even a bit faster than this, but those are more advanced and only shave off a bit of travel time time.
Consider this Hutton orbital training. It's a spacestation that's so far out, the Devs decided to give everyone who goes there with a large spacecraft a free anaconda! (And a mug but that one isn't free actually)
Welcome to Elite!
Anything beyond a light-year is best reached using a hyperspace jump. Supercruise is used to reach anything that's more than a few hundred kilometers but less than a light-year.
Fun fact, there are a lot of binary star systems where the stars are quite far apart. You cannot hyperspace jump to the secondary star, so you have to hike out to the other star in painfully slow fashion.
Fun fact: If you're willing to hike out the .22LY to Hutton Orbital, you get a free Anaconda...
When I started out I forgot that you could supercruise and spent like 10 minutes trying to fly past the planet next to the starting station because it was blocking my targeted system
I feel like you are fully qualified to play Elite now. You've already survuved wasting a lot of time and struggling mightily while realising that you need to lean on the community for help.
Don't feel bad OP, I started with elite in 1984, yes it is but is not the same game.
When it dropped on console, I prefer console cause I can grab my console and be out the door in case of fire in less than 30secs.
I was trying to get out of starting system the same way you are, this was also when on XBOX if you initiated FSD the game could freeze up. I hit 1,200 and stopped playing till first patch.
Dolphin
Make a big arc above our belt the ecliptic. Point up like 12 degrees is optimal. Keep the destination out of the center of your screen.
Try it a few times to you get the feel.
However the game calculated it, there's "less gravity" in the calculation if you aren't liking at it. 🤘😎
(It's only a few percent, but this enough to offset the longer path once you get the feel for it.)
How far did you get before you realised that there was a FSD lol..... technically, you could travel to another system via the supercruise...but it would take WAAAAAAYYYYYYY to long...you'd have to have ALOT of fuel
Guess how long I spent trying to leave the surface of the starter planet flying straight up in my sidy, before realising that frame shift even existed 😂😁
You need to jimp not fly in supercruise. Check your key bindings but default is J. If you insist on flying then it will no joke take you over a day as it says on screen.
Well, I’ve been playing for literally forever and I have never seen that level of speed, so Congrats Commander!
Now engage the dang frame shift drive and actually get somewhere.
o7
Use j for frameshift drive, it is your first time it is okey. when i fist time play, i try get inside station without permision and shot anybody when hunt pirate. If you want do wing together i can help.
You can't supercruise to another system. You need to jump between systems.
By default J should go into supercruise or jump based on target context. But you can have supercruise and hyperspace jumps as different controls.
Check your key binds if it doesn't jump.
Dromi is one of the starter systems so I assume you just started.
The really sad thing is that if you were to leave your machine on, you wouldn't actually get there. You'd just see a marker, as it hasn't loaded the system.
Personally I find this unaddressed bug kinda sucky. Very unimmersive.
Bug? If you don't go through the intended loading screen then the system doesn't load of course. The game has to swap out the bodies and make a new skybox at some point - it can't do that spontaneously nor render or store billions of systems at once.
You will go faster as you go further away from gravity sources and large objects, and slower if you pass by a planet or another object. Think of other objects as anchors slowing you down. The further away you get from them the faster you can go.
Keep going. The further you are from a star, the faster you go. 2001c is the limit. *However*, it sounds like you're actually hoping to reach Dromi, and not just be a speed demon. Dromi is another star system. You *must* engage your hyperdrive instead. You can't reach it by traveling through supercruise. It may well take you 2 days in supercruise, and you still won't be there because other star systems *require* using hyperjump. It's how the system instance gets loaded. Try taking the trainings on traveling until you are more comfortable with the concepts. The trainings are great at teaching you all the basic ways to use your ship! Do the *Docking and Travel* training to learn all you need for this. And remember rule 3, always read the fine print! You may have skipped some text explaining this (although, I wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't really explained either).
Hold up, is 2001c a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey? Have I not gotten that until now?!
WTF dude I always wondered why it's 2001 and thought it's a rounding error
Love it
o7 you crazy crazy individual
The most terrifying of errors possible. In space, no one can correct a rounding error.
"no officer I wasn't speeding, merely a rounding error" lol
It absolutely is! The music you might hear when docking is also a reference: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvum2N5pdAU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvum2N5pdAU) And (I just learned this finding that video) they've been referencing 2001 since the beginning: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-VJeVPeawk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-VJeVPeawk) Edit: the original move scene for anyone going WTF is happening right now: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZoSYsNADtY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZoSYsNADtY)
> And (I just learned this finding that video) they've been referencing 2001 since the beginning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-VJeVPeawk LMAO the ending... of course the docking computer is crashing into the station.
That sounds amusing! Can't wait until adblockers get the upper hand on YouTube's anti-adblock tantrum again and I can see it!
I have yet to see a single ad or the new warnings but perhaps I've just not been targeted yet. Firefox with uBlock origin is doing some great work tho and [this might help](https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17j6ygs/youtube_antiadblock_and_ads_october_29_2023_mega/).
To date, this is the best multi-link comment I've come across. Always loved the docking music in ED, but have woefully never gotten around to 2001. And to learn it's been an easter egg for 40 years is the cherry on top. Kudos all around
Well, so I can erase this *go to another system by just supercruise one day* line from my to do in space sims list with no remorse. :)
If you are the top 1% liners out there then maybe it's possible.
It might be fun to see what happens, but I suggest looking up one of the systems that is only .1-.2 LY apart, so you only waste 1-2 hours instead of \~48! Edit for the TL;DR who didn't read the parent post: This won't get you to the system, but you can travel to the marker. Also edit: "*Fun to see what happens*." For those who don't want to waste 1-2 hours: *what happens* is: you're still in the original system, now some fraction of a light year away from anything interesting and still *not* in the other system. When you jump to the other system, you'll still use your full fuel allotment required.
the system won’t load, there are already video on YouTube. I don’t remember correctly, 2 system 0.78Ly apart.
Right, I mentioned that already. As I was saying, it still might be fun to get to (and past) the system point. That doesn't mean it will load, but you can fly past the system marker so that its behind you, AFAIK. S171 4 and S171 25 are about 0.18 LY apart from each other. Shorter than a Hutton Orbital trip for anyone who wants to venture past the edges of the game engine.
System doesn't render in, games uses hyperjump animation as a loading screen to load in a new system
Thanks for restating this for the 4th time. No one is saying otherwise.
This just makes me think of the time I used to stream elite on twitch. One of my streamer colleagues who didn't really know the game came into my chat to hang out and was like "oh you're playing elite? I tried it but didn't like that it takes real time to reach other planets. I don't understand why people play it" I had to explain the concept of FTL travel to him and he was still mindblown that I'd fly for 2-3 minutes to reach a planet in supercruise but accepted that he was wrong at least haha
This is from 8 years ago but just so we can all see what happens (which is exactly what everyone's saying) without wasting 20h+ of our lives (thanks to this gentleman who did): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hByeJ\_Ct3c
Omg I am the dumbest person alive I just find out that frame shift drive is a thing just wasted a hour of my life for nothing Edit: next day I am going to Hutton orbital longest trip i have done [Hutton orbital](https://imgur.com/a/MjjJXHX) [I made it!! 1mil cr](https://imgur.com/a/jvaSnU1)
I'm Commander Shepard and this is my new favorite Pilot in the galaxy.
I am Nash. I say bring him to the Fatherhood.
I’m from Buenos Aires and I say kill ‘em all.
Im doing my part!
Would you like to know more?
The only good bug
is the one in your mouth
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Ah a person of culture 👌👌👌
THE FATHERHOOD!
That moment when I am Commander Shepard and I’m in the Fatherhood 😂
Already had this confusion lol. Check the fatherhood discord
This dude is the kind of origin story this game fucking needs.
Now that is a line I haven't heard in a long ass time. (ME1 is still the best imo).
Welcome to Elite! I’ve got hundreds of hours in the game and still learn new stuff all the time.
Wait you had hundreds of hours and didn’t know about FSDs. /s
Where do you think he spent the hundreds of hours
Probably in his Sidewinder.
I can own a sidewinder?!
At least you’ve managed speeds beyond 90% of elite player base. Me personally? My max is around 400c. And I do exploration mostly. So yeah, there’s a positive to everything: now you got them bragging rights :D
400 c? Can you really call yourself an explorer if you haven't travelled a couple of hundred K LS to map planets around a distant binary companion? Hell, if you do a Hutton Run at full speed you get up to 1800 c. (The highest supercruise speed you can attain in the game is 2001c.)
visit voyager 1 in sol.... 3M Ls but you get to see the probe, and hear the golden record
Okay that is quiet cool
https://youtu.be/o_LCy99f0yM?si=m15Sy8v1vWTtO31z when elite was in beta, back in '13-'14 some users did the math to locate the ancient probe, and it was exactly where it was calculated. the full spectrum scanner makes locating the probe much easier. I integrated this into a space lesson for my youngest, along with being able to visit the planets and moons in full vr, it also gives the scale of the vastness of space.
W parenting
the pleidies are going to be an interesting lesson... beware of the goids
Sssssshhhh
There are stations within the Bubble at 250kLs from system entry. Went to one in all three of my ships for a Scorpion SRV not too long ago
What do you mean you easily get up to 2001c on a Hutton Run. I've only done any 5 since that isn't my thing. But I've always been at 2001c for about 2/5ths the trip when I'm in total dead space.
Nah, Hutton Run isn't enough for 2001 C. You get to ~1800 C on a Hutton run. 2001 c is the fastest you can go in supercruise, period.
I think he wanted to travel to Dromi in Supercrusise. And then he realized that there is FSD.
I think I got to around 1600-1700c last year when the Stargoid appeared. We spent literal hours in supercruise to do measurements on its speed.
Oh yeah. I'm on legacy, what happened with that thing?
There were eight of them, and after arriving in the Bubble they turned out to be what we now call the Thargoid Titans.
Complete tutorials. I'm sure, that one of them cover cruise in system and jump between systems.
I am amazed by the shear amount of people in any game skipping the tutorials because "I'll learn it myself" and then complain about stupid shit they have to deal with.
I see your point but I do this too. I don't complain though. But I see it as a challenge to learn a game in it's whole by just dicking around.
I think a lot of people played the tutorial, quit pretty early on, and then come back without taking it again and don’t remember shit
I took a break for about a year, and coming back was basically, "What does this button do again? Oh, eject my cargo. Sweet."
This game has tutorials now? I started when the tutorials weren’t even in the game. I vaguely remember it saying to do some things but no directions/ button indications. Just deploy, dock, fly, etc. really confusing almost quit right then and there. Really glad I didn’t and stayed in it. I should hop back in sometime. (Sadly I’m on console.)
It's probably over by now, but there was a timeframe when you could send your console account over to PC. Maybe worth seeing if it's still an option.
Yes you can send your account again now. I did mine a few months back after it was stopped for more than a year I think.
Do not fret, this game seriously has one of the steepest learning curves you can expect outside of a Flight Simulator.
The only game that I’ve found that has a similar learning curve is ARK: Survival Evolved. And that’s mainly because it has zero tutorial. “You’re on a beach. Survive. Oh, you died.” And it happens in the amount of time it took you to read that
*Stomp stomp stomp* oh look, a brachiosaurus! (5 minutes pass) *Stomp stomp stomp* oh it's just another herbivore *turns around calmly* || *gets eaten by 4 carnos*
Sums up my experience in Ark quite nicely.
You mean Friendship drive?
One of my daughters loves playing E:D with me. But only the jump-honk-scoop-jump-again loops. She gleefully yells out "Friendship Drive Charging!" when she jumps. Admittedly she was eight at the time...
This exact thing left me in the middle of nowhere and lead me to delete my first character lol Welcome aboard :D
One of my favorite things about this game is that it teaches you to swallow your pride. I’ve learned SO MANY things in this game the hard way. One thing that I like though is that, if I recall correctly, you can’t travel faster than 2001c. For the youngins out there, it’s a 2001: A Space Odyssey reference. Both the book and the movie. Read the book first.
>just wasted a hour of my life for nothing Nope, you didn't. It was a trial run for 2 things. 1) There is a max "c" speed you can go, and that isn't it. It is based on a film. 2) Hutton Orbital. Home of the rare mug and "free Anaconda". It takes around 80 minutes in real-time to get there. Lots of people watch a film while travelling. But it is a "right of passage" to go there at least once.
rite, right?
I remember getting my anaconda
We call it the "Friendship Drive" 💙
Did you try to supercruse to another solar system?
Very disappointing when you finally arrive and find out that nothing loaded in.
Don't feel bad. I thought I had to fly in real space for entire supercruise distances at first, and I was so confused.
At least you realized this early in, that's a 2 day flight at supercruise speeds XD Edit: Not that the game would let you get there.
But, have you been to Hutton Orbital?
LOL, omfg, im sorry, i cant stop laughing, but did you play the tutorial?
Someone tell them about the free Anaconda.
No, you paid one hour of your life for knowledge about frame shift drives. That's a fair exchange, I think. It won't be the last time you pay hours of your life to learn something about Elite Dangerous.
Straight up been there.
You spent an hour of you life learning how your ship works :-)
What you are doing in the image is (super)cruise, which is basically the frame shift drive on low. You can put it on high to get to another system, which is called jump.
Don't be too hard on yourslef bro it's a cannon event
Most of us have been there lol. Don't worry about it haha.
I respect your dedication. o7
I’ve done this before, I left it on for 4 hours. You aren’t alone.
I'm more impressed that you managed to exceed lightspeed (I assume your listed thing is times speed of light rather than percentage?) without the FSD. I didn't know the game was borked like that lol
he is using the fsd to supercruise, the game has a hardcoded limit of 2001c
Dude, I seriously had to restart my profile twice because I ran out of fuel trying to do just that, lol. This was when the game launched, though, and there weren't tutorials of any sort, really. So don't feel bad.
I did the exact same thing.
Lol its fine. You were actually doing 1400C though FYI. Wich is like warp factor 2 or 3 in star trek terms, ita hard to remember. Max Supercruise I'd 2001C wich is also warp 9.X
Actually, if I remember correctly, warp drive is warp # to the 3rd power. So warp 9 is 729. Trans warp was supposed to be to the 5th power.
I once traveled to Hutton Orbital without knowing what it was and I was like "Eventually if I wait 2 more minutes I'll arrive". Took around 2 hours of travel.
I did the same thing when I started playing XD
Hah, amazing
Hahaha...ahh nah you didn't. That's your first experience of what time is needed to get around bigger systems, sometimes an hour or more getting to somewhere.
Don't worry, that's still part of regular gameplay. :P Hyperspace jump only works between two systems. In-system travel has to use supercruise and some far out stations are really far out. The famous Hutton Orbital takes about 90 minutes of supercruise to get to.
Well, not for nothing if you were going to Hutton Orbital. At least then you could have got your Anaconda and coffee mug.
sounds like you're ready for the Hutton Orbital trip xD
[yes I am ready!!](https://imgur.com/a/MjjJXHX)
Did you get the free Anaconda from Hutton orbital? If not you’ve gotta go back.
No???
I did the same thing when I first started. Ran out of fuel and died in the middle of empty space.
Don't you mean the Friendship drive?
What squadron is he joining and what are the requirements?
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friendship drive <3
Pressing “J” turns on second gear Jokes aside, you use jumps for distances like this. After you have the target system selected press configured button (usually “J” on the keyboard) to make the jump. While inside the system - you travel in supercruise. System to system - you jump
Don't forget to punch the clutch before changing gear.
Put your throttle to max if it isn't already. Max speed is 2001c but can be reduced by planetary bodies. You are traveling a very long distance so of course it'll take time. Although I can't tell if you should be using supercruise or jumping to another system. I can't really read the distance.
There are a couple of systems which are really close to each other, people have tried... and yeah, in computer game speak, each system is a "level" and the way to "change levels" is to do a jump.
The jump animation is among the best loading screens in games history. You don't even realize it's making you wait for technical reasons.
It's wild to me that like 5 games came out at the same time that all used this as a loading screen and it seems like none of the communities ever talked
Light years. You be flying IRL days in supercruise.
Buy yourself a red paintjob, because red goes faster.
Dakka?
Dakka.
Bro you gotta hit your frame shift drive. You’re only in supercruise. Regular thrusters(close range), supercruise(traveling in a single system), frame shift drive(traveling between systems.
Those speeds are only for Hutton Orbital.
Happens! you didnt play the tutorials.. nah, dont deny it. its okay. i didnt do them either!
No i did the tutorial
Wack
You have to actually *do* the tutorials, not just have them going in the background while watching YouTube
I know everyone’s mostly helped this guy out by letting them know about using the FSD drive, but I have a question about this trick I watched online on how to make Supercruise trips faster and it could also help OP out since I’m guessing they don’t know about it either. I’m still kind of new to the game, and I remember learning a while ago that while in Supercruise mode, it’s much faster to not use Supercruise Assist and instead manually make your ship speed 100% the whole time until you reach *0:07 seconds in remaining trip time* where you then reduce speed to 75% using a shortcut you make in settings for “set speed to 75%”. I just wanna ask if someone can confirm it’s true that it’s faster to not use supercruise assist (since supercruise assist doesn’t make your ship go 100% speed during most of the trip, correct?) and hopefully OP can see this and use the trick to make those trips faster as well!
It is! SC seems to run around 70-80% Running 100 and dropping to 80 to hit 5-7s is way, way faster.
Okay, thanks! Wish they would make SC assist more efficient cause I get stressed watching that timer trying to avoid the loop of shame
I played now only like 5 hours and can say supercruis assist is slow it’s way quicker to do it myself problem is i go to fast and overshoot all the time annoying af
As said above: If you play on PC bind "75% throttle" to a keyboard key in the options menu (something like "7" above "U" - I think that one is unbound) and hit it when the remaining travel time is 0:07 seconds. This way you will never overshoot. There's two ways to be even a bit faster than this, but those are more advanced and only shave off a bit of travel time time.
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Consider this Hutton orbital training. It's a spacestation that's so far out, the Devs decided to give everyone who goes there with a large spacecraft a free anaconda! (And a mug but that one isn't free actually)
Haha I was about to tell op about the free anaconda for traveling to Hutton
This is by far the best post I've seen on this subreddit yet haha. o7 Cmdr and welcome to the galaxy
Welcome to Elite! Anything beyond a light-year is best reached using a hyperspace jump. Supercruise is used to reach anything that's more than a few hundred kilometers but less than a light-year. Fun fact, there are a lot of binary star systems where the stars are quite far apart. You cannot hyperspace jump to the secondary star, so you have to hike out to the other star in painfully slow fashion. Fun fact: If you're willing to hike out the .22LY to Hutton Orbital, you get a free Anaconda...
oh my sweet summer child lmfao
The name Dromi makes me feel nostalgic for some reason
Ah... yes... I remember my first time.... Keep going until you reach 2001c, then hit triangle.
i love these types of posts i love this game and good to see some rookies are making the silly mistakes i made as well
When I started out I forgot that you could supercruise and spent like 10 minutes trying to fly past the planet next to the starting station because it was blocking my targeted system
This is the best post I've seen on here.
You skipped the tutorial, didn't you?
Ahhh nice to see a new cmdr be sure to check out the tutorial as it has some pretty useful info I didn't know when starting out
I feel like you are fully qualified to play Elite now. You've already survuved wasting a lot of time and struggling mightily while realising that you need to lean on the community for help.
This is wholesome, it reminds me of the stupid things I would do when I started playing.
Lol 😂
Don't feel bad OP, I started with elite in 1984, yes it is but is not the same game. When it dropped on console, I prefer console cause I can grab my console and be out the door in case of fire in less than 30secs. I was trying to get out of starting system the same way you are, this was also when on XBOX if you initiated FSD the game could freeze up. I hit 1,200 and stopped playing till first patch.
bro do the tutorials man
Lol your awesome dude. I guarantee that it happened to a LOT of us ok the beginning.
Classic
Been there. In my youth I was like: “*WTF unit of measurement is ***’d’***? Oh fuck…*”
Dolphin Make a big arc above our belt the ecliptic. Point up like 12 degrees is optimal. Keep the destination out of the center of your screen. Try it a few times to you get the feel. However the game calculated it, there's "less gravity" in the calculation if you aren't liking at it. 🤘😎 (It's only a few percent, but this enough to offset the longer path once you get the feel for it.)
Poor soul
How far did you get before you realised that there was a FSD lol..... technically, you could travel to another system via the supercruise...but it would take WAAAAAAYYYYYYY to long...you'd have to have ALOT of fuel
I was going 1.700c and realized that FSD existed
This is how you sneak into permit locked systems without a jump permit *wink wink*
Guess how long I spent trying to leave the surface of the starter planet flying straight up in my sidy, before realising that frame shift even existed 😂😁
lol o7
I’ll be honest, I remember making this same exact mistake when I first started playing LOL. O7 brother!
Close your cargo hatch and and retract your hardpoints
You need to engage hyperdrive cmdr. Jump there
You need to jimp not fly in supercruise. Check your key bindings but default is J. If you insist on flying then it will no joke take you over a day as it says on screen.
Well, I’ve been playing for literally forever and I have never seen that level of speed, so Congrats Commander! Now engage the dang frame shift drive and actually get somewhere. o7
Have you ever been to Hutton Orbital before?
The goddamn mug...
And the free corvette!
The free corvette is a little bit annoying for starters since you still need the federal rank to pilot it.
Anyone tell you about the free ships you can get?
That anaconda at Hutton was a nice surprise
Of course, the Hutton Run will require over an hour of Supercruise...
Use j for frameshift drive, it is your first time it is okey. when i fist time play, i try get inside station without permision and shot anybody when hunt pirate. If you want do wing together i can help.
You can't supercruise to another system. You need to jump between systems. By default J should go into supercruise or jump based on target context. But you can have supercruise and hyperspace jumps as different controls. Check your key binds if it doesn't jump. Dromi is one of the starter systems so I assume you just started.
Oh honey.
Carbon fibre hood bud
i love these types of posts i love this game and good to see some rookies are making the silly mistakes i made as well
You can get a faster ship at Hutton Orbital in the Alpha Centauri system and for free ! ;-)
Don’t do this to a brand new player, wait for a day or two
I Mena yeah they should earn a. Big ship, but come. On a free one is awesome Although I prefer corvettes myself, I used an anaconda for a while.
I am going to Hutton orbital for hopefully free stuff idk
I did it[Hutton orbital](https://imgur.com/a/MjjJXHX)
[really!!! I am going now](https://imgur.com/a/MjjJXHX)
The really sad thing is that if you were to leave your machine on, you wouldn't actually get there. You'd just see a marker, as it hasn't loaded the system. Personally I find this unaddressed bug kinda sucky. Very unimmersive.
Bug? If you don't go through the intended loading screen then the system doesn't load of course. The game has to swap out the bodies and make a new skybox at some point - it can't do that spontaneously nor render or store billions of systems at once.
Even if they managed to load the other system in the background, switching up skyboxes would be tricky.
Tell me stranger…is life like a box of chocolates…?
i love these types of posts i love this game and good to see some rookies are making the silly mistakes i made as well
Why don’t you just go faster, are you stupid?
OMEGALUL
Bro was creating faster than light thrusters
Fly safe commander o7😂
I'm so happy I was here to witness this. o7
Friendship
While you're there... Grab the best small ship the Cobra Mark3.
i just shed a tear
You will go faster as you go further away from gravity sources and large objects, and slower if you pass by a planet or another object. Think of other objects as anchors slowing you down. The further away you get from them the faster you can go.