So iv been trading like crazy making my way up the ED ladder, got a Type 7, traded like crazy, pimped it out to what I needed, which left me low on cash. Bought 232 tons of palladium, and off I went to sell it.
(I don't know how many hours it has taken me to get this far, but iv basically devoted myself to this game since launch, even bought a Saitek X55 to play it with. Spent a couple of days of intensive scouting for better trade routes and many, many hours trading).
So there I am in supercruise without shields, nearing my station, and I get interdicted. Ok Iv been interdicted before I know what to do. I almost always can evade. Could'nt evade, So I get pulled out of super cruise, and gunfire POURS down on me, I check the radar, and there about 6 of them, maybe more!! I go into mad evasive action, and realise for the first time that I'm not gonna make it. Then this terrible thought enters my mind....... DID I LEAVE ENOUGH CASH FOR MY INSURANCE (1.7 MIL). I quickly go to my systems panel and Noooooooooo I have 1.68 mil.
I go into even madder evasive action, their all over me, I'v never been hit by more than one guy before. For the first time I eject all my cargo, hoping that will get these guys off me. No such luck.My windshield suddenly cracks, I am sweating now, and I realise that I am going to have to start all over again with 1000 cr and a Sidewinder! Noooooooooooooooooo Nooooooooooooooo, sob, I really don't know if I have the heart to start over. BAMM my windshied gets blown away, fire is pouring into me, can't get away, hull down to 15%. I even considerd coms, and pleading with them, but didn't have the time.
I'm looking at my cooldown rate, so I can re enter supercruise, SLOW, SLOW, I'm not gonna make it. I started to shake with dread, I really mean that I was shaking, and then the cooldown drops to zero and I re enter super cruise, with 6% hull and no windscreen, 4 mins until my air runs out. I re enter normal space, on the far side of the station of course, and tear toward the station, heart beating fast, do the sharpest turn at full throttle, to line up with the slit, quickly get docking permission, and there is a Type 7 inching though the slit, I slam on the breaks, 3 mins and counting. This was so serious that if my messed up, its back to the start. I am shaking so much that I hit the side of the dock. Hull down to 2%, clock ticking. Zoom round the T7 when he finally got in, and shot off to my parking space. Then Red warning comes up...... wrong docking bay, oh for heaven's sake turn around line up with the correct bay (behind me of course) get to the bay turn round again, and YESSS I land.
I MADE IT.
I think I'm going to go lie down in a darkened room now for a while.
(I don't know how many hours it has taken me to get this far, but iv basically devoted myself to this game since launch, even bought a Saitek X55 to play it with. Spent a couple of days of intensive scouting for better trade routes and many, many hours trading).
So there I am in supercruise without shields, nearing my station, and I get interdicted. Ok Iv been interdicted before I know what to do. I almost always can evade. Could'nt evade, So I get pulled out of super cruise, and gunfire POURS down on me, I check the radar, and there about 6 of them, maybe more!! I go into mad evasive action, and realise for the first time that I'm not gonna make it. Then this terrible thought enters my mind....... DID I LEAVE ENOUGH CASH FOR MY INSURANCE (1.7 MIL). I quickly go to my systems panel and Noooooooooo I have 1.68 mil.
I go into even madder evasive action, their all over me, I'v never been hit by more than one guy before. For the first time I eject all my cargo, hoping that will get these guys off me. No such luck.My windshield suddenly cracks, I am sweating now, and I realise that I am going to have to start all over again with 1000 cr and a Sidewinder! Noooooooooooooooooo Nooooooooooooooo, sob, I really don't know if I have the heart to start over. BAMM my windshied gets blown away, fire is pouring into me, can't get away, hull down to 15%. I even considerd coms, and pleading with them, but didn't have the time.
I'm looking at my cooldown rate, so I can re enter supercruise, SLOW, SLOW, I'm not gonna make it. I started to shake with dread, I really mean that I was shaking, and then the cooldown drops to zero and I re enter super cruise, with 6% hull and no windscreen, 4 mins until my air runs out. I re enter normal space, on the far side of the station of course, and tear toward the station, heart beating fast, do the sharpest turn at full throttle, to line up with the slit, quickly get docking permission, and there is a Type 7 inching though the slit, I slam on the breaks, 3 mins and counting. This was so serious that if my messed up, its back to the start. I am shaking so much that I hit the side of the dock. Hull down to 2%, clock ticking. Zoom round the T7 when he finally got in, and shot off to my parking space. Then Red warning comes up...... wrong docking bay, oh for heaven's sake turn around line up with the correct bay (behind me of course) get to the bay turn round again, and YESSS I land.
I MADE IT.
I think I'm going to go lie down in a darkened room now for a while.
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