Just totalled my type 9, costing me 5 mil. Dodging another NPC type 9 in the letterbox. Hit boost instead of track left (Q on my keyboard) boost is tab. I got so off, I went and sold the lot and bought my Python back.
What's the dumbest way you've destroyed your ship?
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Since the release of Elite: Dangerous, my World of Tanks clan had missed me loads, although I did still log onto their TS server and played ED with a few clan members too. Only logging into WoT to play Clan Wars and then jump straight back onto ED with clanmates.
Then the release of Grand Theft Auto 5 on the PC happened and I abandoned playing Elite to the point that I could barely recall what my front door looked like.
So just before this evenings outing in CW in WoT a clan member PM'd me to ask for some help in ED to which I complied.
ED loads up (I had no idea where I was in the galaxy) and it turned out that I was at Orrere and he was at Leesti. So over TS I say "I'll come to you" I hit launch and fly straight into the side of the space station. All I hear over TS is "Hahahahahahahaha and to think I asked you for help!" 1 mil rebuy later and a very cautious exit later and we team up. Not my proudest moment in my Vulture for sure!
Druantia.
Then the release of Grand Theft Auto 5 on the PC happened and I abandoned playing Elite to the point that I could barely recall what my front door looked like.
So just before this evenings outing in CW in WoT a clan member PM'd me to ask for some help in ED to which I complied.
ED loads up (I had no idea where I was in the galaxy) and it turned out that I was at Orrere and he was at Leesti. So over TS I say "I'll come to you" I hit launch and fly straight into the side of the space station. All I hear over TS is "Hahahahahahahaha and to think I asked you for help!" 1 mil rebuy later and a very cautious exit later and we team up. Not my proudest moment in my Vulture for sure!
Druantia.
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Yep - done this myself. This time I was showing off and trying to get my ship to go in to the letter box backwards. It went badly. Very badly!
Bringing in my Type 6 at Perez, dog decides to see what's so interesting on the screen, and jumps in my lap. All 85lbs of him, slaps his paw on the keyboard, managing to hit the boost key, and knocks my stick sideways, sending me into a awesome-looking tail-out power drift-spiral into the station. Wrecked my ship and 72 units of Palladium. Wish I'd recorded it. He was thouroughly bad-dogged.
He has mastered that "I sowwy" look.
He has mastered that "I sowwy" look.
You are playing the game wrong!
I have been playing the game since Beta and have 18 insurance claims. Oh wait, I thought most insurance claims wins!!
Playing too late, I zoned a bit while approaching a station. I woke up to the trespass warning at the mailslot. Startled, I hit the boost button instead of reverse. Splatted my Python and a full load of gold at the far end of the station. About 7.5 mil. As the old tombstone reads "Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake - who stepped on the gas instead of the brake".
Now I use a docking computer with doing those late night trading runs.
Now I use a docking computer with doing those late night trading runs.
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I stopped to pick up the gold ....
I had just upgraded to an Adder... It was my first upgrade from my Sidey... I had a full bay of the most expensive ware I could buy and was heading out to sell it. Got excited, thought I was awesome, hit boost... and... smack. Right into the bottom lip of the slot. Awesome. At least I got a second chance to enjoy the Sidey!
Dumbest?
Probably deciding I could fly well enough to attempt a high speed landing with flight assist off ...despite never having even attempted it at low speed.
...can't even say I hit the wrong button or didn't see object X ...I apparently just had a death wish that day.
Luckily I always fly with a good insurance buffer so I didn't permanently lose my $10million ASP.
Probably deciding I could fly well enough to attempt a high speed landing with flight assist off ...despite never having even attempted it at low speed.
...can't even say I hit the wrong button or didn't see object X ...I apparently just had a death wish that day.
Luckily I always fly with a good insurance buffer so I didn't permanently lose my $10million ASP.
Mine was probably about an hour and a half ago:
Just finished some work, and decided I'd at least attempt playing some Elite before turning in for the night. Granted, I would likely have a 45 minute session as a result, and as such I figured there would be no point in getting my flight stick set up. Thought I'd take the chance to try flying with just keyboard and mouse in the combat training, but apparently I don't have that installed, so I figured a simple trade run would be good enough practice just to see what it's like.
Load into the game, fill my Cobra with 32 tons of tea at Noatiaca, intent on taking it to Pienate for a minimal profit. Launch from the docking pad and try lifting off, only to end up with no shields, as well as knocked off the landing pad from trying to find out what key it is to get the ship moving. A few seconds, and keystrokes, later, I deploy my hard points, end up firing my pulse lasers, and am immediately turned to space dust by the station.
Just finished some work, and decided I'd at least attempt playing some Elite before turning in for the night. Granted, I would likely have a 45 minute session as a result, and as such I figured there would be no point in getting my flight stick set up. Thought I'd take the chance to try flying with just keyboard and mouse in the combat training, but apparently I don't have that installed, so I figured a simple trade run would be good enough practice just to see what it's like.
Load into the game, fill my Cobra with 32 tons of tea at Noatiaca, intent on taking it to Pienate for a minimal profit. Launch from the docking pad and try lifting off, only to end up with no shields, as well as knocked off the landing pad from trying to find out what key it is to get the ship moving. A few seconds, and keystrokes, later, I deploy my hard points, end up firing my pulse lasers, and am immediately turned to space dust by the station.
I missed the toaster rack by a few inches while boosting out of a station with a Type 6 full of rares.
i did exactly that myself, but didn't die - i was left with 1% hull - VERY carefully exited the RES and went home to repair
dying in dumb ways? 'pausing' the game to make coffee. i could be forgiven for doing it once, but i did it twice.
When I was new to the game, I managed to get a bounty or something on my head--I think I fired inside the no fire zone near a station-- TBH I'm not sure..at any rate, when I was near the station the cops suddenly shot me out of the sky
Also, not long afterwords I stupidly canceled landing permission while I was inside a station and didn't leave in time---once again they blew my ship to bits LOLOL
Also, not long afterwords I stupidly canceled landing permission while I was inside a station and didn't leave in time---once again they blew my ship to bits LOLOL
Standing in front of the station slot with permission to land WHILE searching the gear down button. BOOOOM! 3,6 Mio. Credits lost as well.
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Flew my fully loaded, with 400 tons of cargo Anaconda, into a space station while turning to the hyperspace jump position, which was behind the letterbox.........................bang, 12million credit lose!
I was insured though, but seriously annoyed at my own stupidity for not concentrating!
I was insured though, but seriously annoyed at my own stupidity for not concentrating!
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Neither have I
I wont mention the (at least half a dozen), times I've smacked straight in to an asteroid and limped away with no shields, no canopy and less than 20% hull.
LOLOL R+ for your persistence...as they say ---"I learn from my mistakes..then I make them again several times more just to make sure"