Death after 6000ly of exploration,

[Dr Roly]

+1 out of sympathy and for handling it well. I've never lost exploration data, but have lost 2mil in bounties from losing a single ship and about the same from ramming a gold-laden T7 into a station wall.
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I feel for you, but personally I like the frisson of danger this injects into the game - loosing a ship can have real and significant consequences.

 

[Genar-Hofoen]

Commiserations.

Such is the risk for galactic explorers - and some people think Exploration is too easy and/or too simplified and needs more of this that and another module or software plugin expansions! This just proves my point otherwise.

Take a short break, pick yourself up, then roll your pilot suit sleeves up and get back out there into the Unknown.

 

[Thetele]

Go back there

After exploring for many days discovering countless black holes, ammonia worlds, earth like worlds, water worlds and neutron star I died from hitting and asteroid to hard. Losing probably many millions of credits worth of data.
I wonder if anything like this has happened to anyone else here?

Now you just have to go back there and mine that rock to get your revenge

 

[Cmdr Pli55ken]

Hope you at least got some screenshots along the way. I'm looking forward to going exploring and getting a bunch of them for a windows screensaver. I know there are agazillion of them already posted, but nothing like getting your images of sights only you have seen (and probably will ever see in game).

 

[shadragon]

I'm only three days into my expedition and have surveyed roughly 100 systems. Each additional one and the further I travel will give me more "Gethomeitis" I'm sure.

 

[Cmdr Lassan]

Congratulations for not rage-flailing!!!!

That must have been a heart-stopping moment of "OMG NOOOOOO!!!"

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Lol
The cartoon though..... :-D

 

[Kzak]

Condolences to the OP!

When I took a trip down into an asteroid field for a photo opportunity 20,000 LY out from Sol, I took care to always move slowly. Nothing gained from going full-tilt in an asteroid field.

 

[S~P]

My sympathies, I've come close a couple times so I feel your pain. Binary stars can be a real threat sometimes, especially when you drop in between the two stars. That's happened a couple of times to me, got quite toasty.

 

[QziQza]

Sorry for getting dead on your journey Commander, sharing your woe is the best way forward, knowing you are not the 1st, or the last, makes all the differance in dusting off and planning your next mission. Gain and Loss are 2 sides of the same coin, you may have lost the flip this time on a bit of a gamble, next time, just make sure you use a weighted coin. Some good screenshots there, thanks for sharing, dont forget there are so many more for the taking.

Fly safe Commander

 

[TrapArecev]

The game is testing, and like everybody else here I would like to express my well-meant condolences. What I think would be a fitting addition to the game is that the wreckage of a perished explorer should form a permanent ISS in the location of the fatality. In that way the explorer involved would still leave a mark on the galaxy, albeit in a different way than intended...

 

[Gudjon262]

Sorry to hear about your loss. Mind if I ask why would you go anywhere near an asteroid while exploring?

simply just for nice screenshots

 

[Jack Luminous]

I flew into a sun last weekend...it warmed be a bit to think that my data was now securely stored in a beautifully bright place with no chance of anybody stealing it ever.

 

[Sloppy Pilot]

Something i wish they would add to the game is discovering the wreak of dead npc and players.
Then you could relive them of their exploration data.
Something else that would be great is salvaging dead ships.
imagen finding a asp that ran out of fuel or something and then borrow it

 

[graeme.firth]

Scariest thing about exploring . . . The voyage home.

Bad luck fella.

 

[Pilot Mark]

We've all done it at some point, sorry for your loss of data. I crashed into a planet at high speed, was aiming to pull up at the last minute but wanted to complete a scan.

 

[mw_aurora]

Ouch, that must have hurt - at least you got the experiences and pictures (try not to think of the money...).

I destroyed my cobra yesterday on the way back in, but I had only been out for a week with a meandering trip down to the edge of the stars to stare at the empty void. I then decided I had to get back in before 1.2 released and got caught out by what I thought was a binary. Saw one star shoot past as I came in, thought "that was lucky", didn't kill the speed as I normally do and banked to start scooping...that's when I found the third, very close, star. End result - blind panic, bad flying and one crispy cobra.

I had wondered what the fuss was about binaries, having already encountered a few in my travels...I now know. And I now know which button triggers my heat sink, just wish I had remembered that yesterday

Lessons learnt and I am already half way back to the bottom edge for a trip out where there aren't many stars but plan to make it back this time

 

[mossfoot]

I must say, I'm 5000ly out from Sol and heading back, and down to 67% hull due to stupid sun-related mistakes as well as stupid auto-repair related mistakes (never take your thrusters offline while in supercruise, kids!). This just reminds me NOT to go into any rings while scanning

 

[bofhenator]

After exploring for many days discovering countless black holes, ammonia worlds, earth like worlds, water worlds and neutron star I died from hitting and asteroid to hard. Losing probably many millions of credits worth of data.
I wonder if anything like this has happened to anyone else here?

Don't You know what the odds are for successfully navigating an asteroidfield?
;-)


I did something even more foolish... Fell asleep mid-jump, before i had throttled down and got cooked by a black hole...
That whas my last trip, this time I'm 15000LY from sol and still 90% hull, with fingers crossed and all that jazz...

 

[WiseDuck]

Where is Nelson from The Simpsons when you need him ?

 

[thehairymob]

I must say, I'm 5000ly out from Sol and heading back, and down to 67% hull due to stupid sun-related mistakes as well as stupid auto-repair related mistakes (never take your thrusters offline while in supercruise, kids!). This just reminds me NOT to go into any rings while scanning

When in Hyperjump hit the "X" key to cut your speed on leaving Hyperjump. Stops you every time from hitting the stars