Be Prepared (To Run Like Hell)

[Liberator]

After an incident last night that a few of us still aren't prepared to be 'Brave Sir Robin'.

So, make sure you have done and know the following.

The Frameshift Drive has 2 modes of operation, Frameshift and Supercruise, each have their own configurable keys which you need to make sure you know.

Frameshift
This is the drive which hops you around the galaxy, by pressing this key and having another solar system selected it will jump to that system if:

1. It is in range
2. It is not obstructed visually from your current location.
3. You have everything stowed and are not mass locked.

If you activate Frameshift without a destination set it it will default to SuperCruise mode, a lot of people may just use it like this and not bind a Supercruise button. Frameshift takes a while longer to charge depending on the size of the jump, Supercruise doesn't,  this could mean valuable seconds when escaping or overheating. Do not use Frameshift to escape combat or from dropping into a suns gravity, it could be the difference between life and death.


Supercruise
This is the interplanetary drive which you zip around the system in, make sure you have a key bound to this. Supercruise doesn't care what you have targeted in navigation and as it has fewer calculations it will boot up a lot faster. This will get you out of a suns gravity quicker and the same for combat, only mass and deployed items on the ship can stop it charging. This is your escape drive.

So when you know the cards are stacked too heavily against you.

1. Drop countermeasures, chaff or heatsink.
2. Retract hard-points. (Ignore the noises and animations, once you press to stow them they are done.)
3. Glance at the bottom right of the HUD to check on Gear and Scoop, if any are lit get them stowed. (Ignore the noises, once you press to stow them they are done.)
4. All pips to engines and hammer that boost button and keep pressing it as it ruins down.
5. If Mass is locked then turn away from any large bodies or a full 90 degrees away from the rocks if you are at a resource extraction site.
6. When hard-points are stowed and all the indicators in the bottom right are empty hit the "Supercruise" button, not "Frameshift".


Lick your wounds at the local station.