What a stinker!

S.H.A.D.O

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What a real stinker of a night I've had.

I've gone from having over 220,000 credits to under 7,000 credits after a series of poor trades, bad choices, bad purchases and lost ships due to asteroids and the action of others.

I guess I'm two steps away from the poor house right now, you can't believe I had over a million credits 4-5 days ago. Guess I'm having a run of bad luck.

Pointless thread perhaps, just wanted to moan at someone as the wife's eyes glaze over when I mention Elite :D
 

HappyMonday

HappyMonday
S.H.A.D.O said:
What a real stinker of a night I've had.

I've gone from having over 220,000 credits to under 7,000 credits after a series of poor trades, bad choices, bad purchases and lost ships due to asteroids and the action of others.

I guess I'm two steps away from the poor house right now, you can't believe I had over a million credits 4-5 days ago. Guess I'm having a run of bad luck.

Pointless thread perhaps, just wanted to moan at someone as the wife's eyes glaze over when I mention Elite :D
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Commiserations. Had one like that a couple of nights ago...The accidental boost button of death with a full hold whilst docking set me back from and to about the same amounts of creds.

Elite: Unforgiving...I'm about back where I was though, there's always that.
 

Rall

Rall
S.H.A.D.O said:
What a real stinker of a night I've had.

I've gone from having over 220,000 credits to under 7,000 credits after a series of poor trades, bad choices, bad purchases and lost ships due to asteroids and the action of others.

I guess I'm two steps away from the poor house right now, you can't believe I had over a million credits 4-5 days ago. Guess I'm having a run of bad luck.

Pointless thread perhaps, just wanted to moan at someone as the wife's eyes glaze over when I mention Elite :D
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Lets start a "It happened to me thread".

I had 300k of bounties to cash in and was just chasing another on full boost down when it decided to run cold, I lost it off my sensors. Didn't see it again until it was too late, it'd come to a complete stop - hit it at over 400 m/s. Why wife actually came to check on me because of the loud exasperated exclamation of frustration and hand waving.

That one Cobra cost me close to 500k.
 

Protoplasmic traveler

Protoplasmic traveler
I had a Lakon 6 filled with platinum and gold two nights ago... It had been a long night of mining and as I entered the letterbox I accidentally hit boost. Can you imagine the horror of knowing as I rapidly ran out of space that easily well over two million CR is about to dispear in a flash of fire and ship parts.

it was a pointless but heroic gesture but I did try to turn the ship (Lakons don't turn well) as it headed for the rear end of a star port but of course it was futile.

I was very upset but now I have made up a lot of the difference I can laugh about it but at the time I was being very creative with the sexual expletives and I'm sure my neighbours heard me lol
 

shrinkshooter

shrinkshooter
Look at the silver lining: if ED was totally safe all the time and it became yet another 'safe' game of Watching Numbers Going Up, it'd be pretty dull, wouldn't it?

(inb4 someone responds with a comment about the game already being dull, whatever, just stay on topic)
 

S.H.A.D.O

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shrinkshooter said:
Look at the silver lining: if ED was totally safe all the time and it became yet another 'safe' game of Watching Numbers Going Up, it'd be pretty dull, wouldn't it?

(inb4 someone responds with a comment about the game already being dull, whatever, just stay on topic)
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I totally agree, yes it would. I'd just like to make it clear I'm not complaining one bit about the game.
 

Rall

Rall
shrinkshooter said:
Look at the silver lining: if ED was totally safe all the time and it became yet another 'safe' game of Watching Numbers Going Up, it'd be pretty dull, wouldn't it?

(inb4 someone responds with a comment about the game already being dull, whatever, just stay on topic)
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Agreed, we keep coming back - even after plowing into an astroid chasing a 200 credit bounty on a Novice Sidewinder. (I fly a bit slower arround giant space rocks now)

The trill seekers can alway pick a fight with a wanted Elite NPC Anaconda at an extraction site while already fighting two Pirate cobra's off, that didn't end well for me either.
 

shrinkshooter

shrinkshooter
Nah I didn't think you were, sorry if it seems like I implied that.

I've definitely had a few stupid deaths myself recently...both times wiped several hundred thousand credits worth of bounties from my transactions. I was not a happy camper, but no use crying over spilled milk and all that.
 

TerrorTrooper

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I had a similar experience with a lakon 6 full of 104 tonnes of imperial slaves. Got interdicted by a competent eagle, not a huge problem in a lakon 6 so I decided to engage. After some serious fat freighter dogfighting it decided to run, I followed, I got momentarily distracted by a phone call, I didn't see it turn, and I slammed into it full boost.
Cost me about 1.2 million. Was a seriously bad night...

Still.. I do enjoy the risk and the adrenaline.. And I suppose I can take some consolation that the 104 tonnes of the empires finest indentured servants huddled like sardines in my hold had a far worse evening than I did!
 

Memnoch

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S.H.A.D.O said:
I've gone from having over 220,000 credits to under 7,000 credits after a series of poor trades, bad choices, bad purchases and lost ships due to asteroids and the action of others.
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Asteroids are hunting bounties now!? That must have been an Anarchy system then? ;)
 

Anopheles

Anopheles
Opposite for me today, fell towards 12k, two deaths off a begin from scratch. Was pretty discouraged, then *bam* 2 big bounties and finished on 100k.
 

evoelise

evoelise
When I first traded up to my Asp I sunk all my money into buying it - but had some spare for insurance. Unfortunately as I left the station I somehow hit the side of the letter box (still no idea how even today) and took my brand new Asp down to 11%. After re-entering the station and paying for repairs I was without insurance for my first trading haul in my new Asp. Took it really slowly and carefully into the next station and completely forget to ask for docking clearance....
 
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