Oolite Bulletins

Is it my imagination, or are the chances of a misjump greatly reduced if you jump from inside the atmosphere of a star? I seemed to have a lot of misjumps a while ago, all of them happened when I jumped from near the Coriolis station, none from inside a star.

ffutures wrote:

Is it my imagination, or are the chances of a misjump greatly reduced if you jump from inside the atmosphere of a star? I seemed to have a lot of misjumps a while ago, all of them happened when I jumped from near the Coriolis station, none from inside a star.

It's just a fluke, or they were scripted (OXP induced) misjumps. The only thing that increases the chance of a misjump is time since your last maintenance overhaul, and even that isn't enough variation to actually notice.

Note also, that installing the Misjump Analyser actually significantly increases the chance of a misjump..

I don't have misjump analyser installed - tried it briefly, but it felt like cheating (and I thought I was getting a lot of false alarms) so I removed it.

Might be something to do with Thargoid Wars - I was running cargo in galaxy 6, along the Rabian Spur, a run of seven or eight jumps with no alternative route, and got the "Thargoid Invasion" message in a couple of the systems. The big string of misjumps happened on the return journey and afterwards. Maintenance was probably also a factor there.

ffutures wrote:

I thought I was getting a lot of false alarms

Heh.. had you ignored the alarms, you'd have found out they were real.. albeit artificially induced..

I hacked together a Misjump Analyser that didn't artificially induce misjumps, but it can only detect certain misjump conditions.
Which is none of the totally random you-need-to-do-maintenance-more-often ones.

ffutures wrote:

I don't have misjump analyser installed - tried it briefly, but it felt like cheating…

You won't cheat when using it. I wrote it to experience more misjumps as they were to rare in my opinion. And as mentioned above, it can only warn you for misjumps it is generating itself.

The bluepring of the analyser was left in the najort nebula on purpose by the thargoids for a reason…

Sneaky buggers!

DEFINITELY better off without it!

Well, I got a definitive reason why I don't want to have more misjumps tonight - came out of hyperspace with my fuel scoops running because I'd missed the witch-point so badly that I ended up in the star, heading down, and about a gnat's hair above the red level on the altimeter.

That is NOT something I want to do more often... Especially since I had some very expensive cargo to deliver at the Coriolis station and I had to go around the blasted sun to get there!

ffutures wrote:

Well, I got a definitive reason why I don't want to have more misjumps tonight - came out of hyperspace with my fuel scoops running because I'd missed the witch-point so badly that I ended up in the star, heading down, and about a gnat's hair above the red level on the altimeter.

Do you use Distant Suns, and if so, which system was it; that sounds like a bug of my causing?

Yes, I have distant suns installed. Can't remember which system, somewhere near the middle of galaxy 8. Sorry, I didn't think to take notes.

I really wouldn't waste time trying to fix it, this has happened to me once in years of play, and seems plausible enough as a fluke misjump, the sort of thing that might happen once in a lifetime if you're really unlucky.