Dog Ate My Homework

Sorry Cmndr, but I've never understood that thinking. My asp has shields and over sixty jump range. With engineering and guardian boosters there is no need to strip your ship down to a flying gas can anymore. I've never boosted into a mountain but I've landed pretty hard on high G planets when not paying attention and been fine.
 
Sorry Cmndr, but I've never understood that thinking. My asp has shields and over sixty jump range. With engineering and guardian boosters there is no need to strip your ship down to a flying gas can anymore. I've never boosted into a mountain but I've landed pretty hard on high G planets when not paying attention and been fine.
Willing to bet my firstborn that if you boosted into a mountainside like I did at a zillion miles per hour, even Imperial Star Destroyer-level shields wouldn't have kept you away from the rebuy screen.
 
Willing to bet my firstborn that if you boosted into a mountainside like I did at a zillion miles per hour, even Imperial Star Destroyer-level shields wouldn't have kept you away from the rebuy screen.
No thanks, what would I want with your firstborn? Lol
 
I've had my share of close calls out in the black with (too) thin shields that were really just meant to prevent fender-benders while landing.

One thing I have to remind myself of regularly out there is that the power distributor exists. After hopping from system to system for a few month, with the power permanently set to 2/4/0 and the keys for changing that covered in dust... IF you see the impact coming (and you usually do,) put four pips into systems just before you hit dirt. It really makes a huge difference, especially with weaker shields.
 
I can fat-finger keyboard controls all by myself, I don't need animal assistance. One day maybe I will find an alternative keyboard binding for opening the system map than the backtick key, which is right next to the 1 key.
 
Remember that excuse from when we were kids?

Well, I was thousands of light years into my exploration trip, looking for new biologicals to scan on a moon, and my little pup jumped up on my recliner and his paw landed on the TAB button

<SMASH>

Careened my Mandalay right into a hillside ... thought I might pull out of it and survive, but spinning ...

<CRASH>

Hello, rebuy screen.

Oh well. XD
I had a high school teacher in college writing class. I brought in my homework one day and the bottom half was chewed up by my mother's cat. It happened that day so I had no time to redo it on new paper.
The teacher asked me what happened and I told her she would not believe me. She never did get to know.
 
I have no idea how many rebuys I would have had if I didn't have shields in all my ships. I like to invent new, interesting and stylish ways to faceplant into planets (and space stations, mailslot and occasionally other ships)

For me weapons are optional, shields are essential.
 
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