Space white van men. Also, please remember the bindings on your hotas......

Chemicalgibbon

Chemicalgibbon
I recently purchased a Cobra after what felt like an eternity. I promptly upgraded said Cobra, and then set about the seedy task of hanging around at nav points, looking for cheap targets (which sounds like a space based version of kerb crawling, maybe an idea for an expansion? ).

Anyway, I've had good success up to this point, with the odd Dangerous ranked npcs falling to my "mad skillz yo", as todays yoof call it, and then I see it....

Floating along haphazardly and somewhat drunkenly was a "Dangerous" Hauler. I could just picture this futuristic P reg rusty Transit van of the space lanes, complete with copies of the Daily Sport and Ginsters pasty wrappers strewn all over the dashboard.

Right, I thought. Well these buggers are probably making their way home after ripping off some old lady, no doubt after shoddily resurfacing her space driveway for an extortionate amount, so I'm going to give em' a hiding.

I fumbled with the switches of my X55 hotas which I had just rebound all of the controls on in order to bring up my weapons. Then I hear a rapid "kerthunk", "kerthunk", this goes on for quite some time.

Now there are contacts all over my radar, so many that it looks like it's snowing. "Bloody hell, they've bought the boys along, I'm in for a pasting here", I thought to myself.

Then it dawned on me.

The contacts were white, not yellow.....

I had forgotten what switch was bound to what, and had just jettisoned all 40 tonnes of cargo in one go.

Insert a very loud random naughty word here.......

After several minutes scooping up what I could, 21 tonnes of cargo.......and the space pikey Transit....were never to be seen again.

So if someone driving a space Transit with a dogeared copy of Readers Wives on the dash knocks on your door and offers you some Gallite that fell off the back of a lorry, please do me a favour.......

Shoot them in the face. Repeatedly.

Ta.
 
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LXIV

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I think we've all done something similar; keeping track of which buttons do which (and whether it is button presses sent straight to the game or key presses managed in the HUD software) is a non-trivial task.

As an aside I'll shoot the next Hauler I see, or just plain ram them with my Space Cow.
 

Yabba Addict

Yabba Addict
My best one was setting up a macro to switch off all my systems for cooldown. But one time I looked at my cargo screen then forgot. Then hit the macro. It then proceeded to drop my landing gear, open the cargo scoop, turn on my lights and initiate self destruct :D
 

The Gael

The Gael
"Pikey" is a derogative and generalizing term towards Irish travellers living in the UK. I suggest changing the word to something else.
 
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NoiseCrime

NoiseCrime
Ouch, painful learning experience there.

Best thing to do in my opinion is simply unbind 'jettison cargo' completely. After all is there any reason for Jettison all cargo? I can't think of any, other than if you are in a small ship with cargo hold < 16t (maybe even < 8t) and are willing to dump it all to the request of a pirate. For any other ship you'll be dropping a portion of your cargo from the systems panel instead. Would much rather Jettison Cargo was designed to eject a specific or user set amount of cargo (e.g. 4t at a time). Would be far easier for traders to use to pacify pirates ( can quickly eject some cargo for them, instead of messing with systems panel) and would avoid these 'accidents' of ejecting your entire cargo hold.
 

Dissentient

Dissentient
I once ejected 16 tons of metals and minerals I mined when I wanted to deploy a cargo scoop. Spent a few minutes picking up the stuff. Removed the binding afterwards.
What's the point in even having that button? Why would you ever want to use it?
 

Psicorp

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White van men :

Did you know that's a derogatory name for ppl driving around , pretending to work while cutting up old ladies in glasses / old men in hats , jumping red lights, speeding and leering at young women!

Oh hang on , that's me .......
Nm, carry on , nothing to see here....
 

jgm

jgm
Try using the link in my signature to give you a printable reference sheet for your X-55 bindings.
 

xythum

xythum
LXIV said:
I think we've all done something similar; keeping track of which buttons do which (and whether it is button presses sent straight to the game or key presses managed in the HUD software) is a non-trivial task.

As an aside I'll shoot the next Hauler I see, or just plain ram them with my Space Cow.
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Just not mine, please :D I quite like my trusty ol' van!
 

Phoenix Silver

Phoenix Silver
Chemicalgibbon said:
Then it dawned on me.

The contacts were white, not yellow.....

I had forgotten what switch was bound to what, and had just jettisoned all 40 tonnes of cargo in one go.
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Yeah, that's a facepalm moment if ever there was one! Recommend you unbind the controls for Jettisoning and Abandoning cargo. If you ever really need to do it, you still can through the right-hand UI panel.
 

Stench

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Maybe I am missing something - but why would you want a button on your main controls bound to jettison your cargo?

My Jettison cargo is safely unbound!
 

Stench

S
It is not racist, it is derogatory. Travellers, Gypsies, whatever you want to call them are not a Race. They are Caucasian.
 

epoch71

epoch71
Stench said:
It is not racist, it is derogatory. Travellers, Gypsies, whatever you want to call them are not a Race. They are Caucasian.
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I said "widely regarded". Just as the widely known derogatory (as you put it) terms are for Italians, French, Germans, Irish etc. It's not about skin colour. It's still considered by many to be a racist slur. So yeah - not humour. Not even when Chubby Brown uses them.
 
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