Love to hear your O.O moments!

[Kael Maliai]

That awkward moment in a CZ when you see a Plasma accelerator shot go whizzing by, and you're not sure if it was friend or foe.

Watching an Anaconda run over an Eagle, on purpose.

Eagle attacks you, you turn to attack, it runs away, you break off to attack something else, Eagle comes back.

 

[HipToss]

I was showing 3 of my mates the game and was docking in a station. Forgot to request docking, entered station, T9 behind me and could not get out of station. Luckily I logged out before trespass warning went to zero. Logged back in and was 10km away from station. Mates were laughing saying "awesome game their bud"

BTW: they all bought the game!

 

[Kayweg]

0.0 moments....for a second i thought i was on the wrong game forum.

 

[The Librarian]

Entering Solo Orbiter in Altair, noticing the Anaconda bouncing of of everything in site within the station just as I popped through the slot, thinking "This looks odd, time for a swift exit", pulling a hard 180 in my Python, hitting full thrust (not boost thankfully), only to be hit by the aforementioned Anaconda (loose about half my outer shield ring, no big deal), compensate for the new vector my ship found itself on, boosted just before the slot and flying out of the station, exchanged pleasantries with said CMDR, and flying off for pastures less funky.

I wouldn't mind, but I'd only popped in for a refuel and some bananas (if they had any).

I think most people can guess the CMDR in question.......

 

[Ancipital]

I think most people can guess the CMDR in question.......

Suffering some skin irritation in the chest area, was he?

 

[The Librarian]

He should really get some cream for that. Even Vaseline would be a start.

 

[Troa Barton]

Got pinned by a type 9 when I was coming through the door in my clipper.
couldn't wedge myself free so I did what any sane person would do and hit boost.
went cartwheeling through the station trying to slow it down.
had a gentle little "boop" on the rear wall.
landed and took a break.

 

[cheekibreekisuka]

had to dodge 4 close asteroids on clipper full boost with no insurance... after that crazy stunt i needed a pot o' tranquilizer pills

 

[Fen Harel]

I'm out exploring and made the usual mistake - forgot to throttle down during a jump. Popped out of SC by a star, heat rising, took a little damage. That part was not too bad, not fun, but I expect it to happen now and then.

The Oh No moment came later. I was using my AFMU to repair thing, including my life support. Again not a big deal.

Then, more by luck than anything else, I popped out of the module screen back to the main view... and saw my Oxygen was going down. I'd accidentally turned off my life support! I had music playing and missed the audio cue.

Aye Carumba, after a month in the deep black, 19,000 ly from home, I was minutes away from blowing myself up. That freaked me out.

 

[Kodiakyuggly]

My best moment so far was when I first got a Cobra, kitted it out for war and headed out. Me being naive decided that an unshield Anaconda was fair game for my very first kill in game. Yeah... not so good. Now I know better! (and am much a better pilot!)

 

[Kyln]

I have quite a few, but the most noteworthy one was when I was flying an Asp.

I was coming through the mailslot, when I noticed that right infront of me, slightly to the left was an eagle. I was really quite close to him. Suddenly all hell broke lose, and the eagle had aggroed the whole station. I suddenly heard: "Shields Lost" and I was panicking. I noticed that the whole station was firing at the Eagle, but because I was so close to it, literaly up its ass, The station was firing on me from behind. The eagle was using me as a shield. "Canopy lost", and I was down at 10% when finally the station killed the eagle. I panicked so hard, that I hit the burst button and proceeded to faceplant the station floor. Needless to say, I died a horrible death.

Damn NPC´s and their schemes!

 

[Tacyon]

Sitting INSIDE the hanger, in commodities looking for where to buy "A" mods for my Type 6. I hear this strange sound like I've bumped the silent running button and the shields are coming back online. So I pop out to the cockpit view and I've got a "Airlock Loitering" count down timer at 24 seconds. No way for me to do anything within 24 seconds as I'm IN the hanger !!

Sometimes "bugs" come in handy. Can you say LOGOUT NOW!

 

[Astronut57]

Suffering some skin irritation in the chest area, was he?

Why hasn't he been banned yet? He's always exploiting to kill CMDR's. Station ramming is the latest thing. Hopefully the new security beef-ups will plug this exploit but he'll just keep finding other loopholes.
Made the naïve noob mistake of running rares into Leesti once in my Cobra and got blown to bits as I was approaching the pad in George Lucas by this tool and his dumbfire missiles (pre 1.1).
No warning at all and had no idea at the time what had caused my ship to instantly explode above the pad. Luckily I had insurance but lost almost 30T of rare goods flown in from afar. I was in the 'less than one million credits to my name' bracket at the time so it was a big loss.
It's made me twitchy every time I see a hollow pip in a station ever since.

 

[Marshall...]

This was a while ago, when i was piloting a Cobra.

Coming out of Supercruise (at a Seeking Luxuries), came face to face with a Type 9 that was literally filling up my entire screen..... I had no time to break or manoeuvre.... SLAM.... canopy gone..... hull down to 20% percent..... the cheeky NPC beggar then messaged me saying that he would "make me an offer i cant refuse!". B**ger that i thought and limped off to find a station!

 

[EddyRockSteady]

When this happened........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2d-eesPtPk

What it not evident in the vid is the lod 'VOOOOOOP' sound that accompanied the anomaly. Shadowplay unfortunately does not record sound for some reason but that 'VOOOOP' accompanied by that whatever that rocked my Conda gave me a heart attack!

 

[DidierDrbois]

My face looked exactly like that when I realised I'm sitting in a Python. Must've sat there like that for 10 minutes.

 

[n1ckmz]

The first time I accidentally flew into a mid-star system asteroid belt, with no planets around, sudden emergency SC drop, scared the crap out of me

 

[William J Smith]

My O.O moment came in the first warzone I snuck into, began dogfighting with cobras etc when the unmistakable (well now anyway) noise of a 'conda going past and blasting 6 different kinds of hell out of my shiny new Asp.
Swung round and began blazing away, along with my green npc buddies when the 'conda went pop.

Since then I've tried to re-create that moment by getting in close to enemy 'condas and giving them some good ol' federation lasers/cannon shells
Sometimes I get too close

Spoiler

Bill

ohhh.. imperial fighter <throws stone out of the window> yay 2000cr more

 

[Bluebird007]

I often wished my Cobra had a sharper turning circle. After clipping a mailslot one time my wish was granted as I span like a fairground waltzer and exploded on the inside in truly spectacular fashion!

 

[Eloy]

Whilst exploring I went far away from a star to surface scan a huge gas giant. Scanner startet his job at 900ls and I wanted to continue to the next object, passing the gas giant but not even closely.
Alarm went off and I was thrown out of supercruise ... whaaaaaa ??? ... found myself in midst the huge asteroid ring around that gas giant. The very big ring system was almost invisibly dark against the blackness and so far out from it´s main star.

Not to forget I lost 3 ships, 2 sidewinder in my first days and later even a cobra due to not being familiar enough with my new HOTAS: Thou shalt not hit the booster button in a station.
Was insured ... (There´s NO EXCUSE for not being insured)
Then read about lowering landing gear as long as in a station as a safety lock. Ashamed about not getting the idea myself ...