I just wanna say Thank you

[S. Belmont]

I don't get why he didn't pay insurance and just carry on?

Unless he had 4 months of cartography still to cash in? But that would be very very dumb.

He had spent last four months out in the deep, no spacestations or anything where to "cash in". I'm sure he was heading right in, but couldn't make it. Returning from long exploration trip is hair rising experience even in solo, you can lose it all...

My sympathies to OP!

 

[excalibus]

You encouraged him to bounty hunt, regardless of the medium, that is against the TOS.

Your fig leaf of just suggesting he do it is not big enough to cover it.

Is it really against the TOS? I have announced a bounty on a commander more than once (without giving the actual commander name) here on the forums before and have never had an 'infraction' for it, it depends how you go about it I guess...

 

[metatheurgist]

I am constantly left scratching my head as to why the punishment for death is so astronomically, disproportionately higher for the lowest paid profession which demands that you run a skeleton loadout even on exploration dedicated ships. There is no way to not be easy meat on your way back, you have no integrity, you have no way to know what to expect, you have no way to equip sufficient defense unless you happen to be flying an anaconda for exploration kitted out for combat that may or may not happen the 0.01% of your time you'll spend exposed to it and you are faced with a complete and total loss of everything, not just the money, the data, the rank progress, all of it.

I went exploring for 4 months in a fully A-rated Combat Asp. I think I'm an OK pilot. I still made the last 5 jumps in solo. I dumped all my data at the first station I docked in, which I picked carefully. it's all about choices.

 

[excalibus]

Where, 10,000Ly from the bubble, was he to stop and cash in exactly?
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OP, I am so sorry, that must be devastating, and I honestly wouldn't blame you one bit for not coming back to the game if that is your choice.
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I am constantly left scratching my head as to why the punishment for death is so astronomically, disproportionately higher for the lowest paid profession which demands that you run a skeleton loadout even on exploration dedicated ships. There is no way to not be easy meat on your way back, you have no integrity, you have no way to know what to expect, you have no way to equip sufficient defense unless you happen to be flying an anaconda for exploration kitted out for combat that may or may not happen the 0.01% of your time you'll spend exposed to it and you are faced with a complete and total loss of everything, not just the money, the data, the rank progress, all of it.
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Good thing we never lose all this phosphorus and sulfur, that would be really punishing....yeah right...

Umm... I thought from reading the OP was back inside of civilised space after a 4 month journey...

I too feel a lot of empathy for the OP, it's not the ship rebuy nor is it the credits that would be on the OP's mind and I think anyone who thinks thats all it is has never done any real explorering...
It's the lost time, its the loss of first discoveries, its the loss of rank that impact the most on explorers who get killed before being able to sell their data...

There is zero reason to need to run a skeleton loadout, people that choose to do this... I feel, make a rod for their own backs...

My Asp Explorer has shields, weapons, and some defenses (chaff and pdt), AMFU, heatsinks, ADS, DSS, Scoop, and has had that loadout since I built the ship many months ago, as well as now having an SRV Bay and cargo space since horizons release... There is no reason not to carry these items beyond trying to 'maximise' jump range and that is a choice some people make.

Me, personally, I feel that if I am to invest time in an exploration journey, then I want to ensure that I have a chance of survivablility when I am heading back into civilised space after my journey out into the black has concluded, weather it be from PC or NPC as both can be equally dangerous when returning due to not engaging in 'combat' for quite some time when on extended trips...

 

[CMDR Byr Goefin]

Is it really against the TOS? I have announced a bounty on a commander more than once (without giving the actual commander name) here on the forums before and have never had an 'infraction' for it, it depends how you go about it I guess...

If no one reports it, why would a mod respond unless they happen to trip over it.

 

[Abomination]

Damn man, that sucks big time.
But to be honest, this could also have been the outcome of a badly rolled NPC encounter.
If you go out for that long (respect!) with who knows how many scans.. make sure you have some people on your friends list and ask them for help when returning to the bubble.
Or post a message on the forums, there are a lot of good players willing to help out others if they can.
A lesson learned the hard way (and believe me, you're not the first).
Still.. don't delete your commander data.. file in a ticket, maybe they grant you a rollback if possible.

 

[Collider]

I just wanna say Thank you guy who almost 10 minutes ago destroy my Explorer in Gateway system, after 4 month journey around galactic... Even when i beg him on chat, he just shoot me... after all i can only delete my game. I can't play this anymore after this, 4 month of live destroy one angry kid. Thank you sir, happy new year!

Uninstall game. Ask for refund. Play Witcher.

 

[excalibus]

If no one reports it, why would a mod respond unless they happen to trip over it.

ahh the threads where it was posted... at the time... were being moderated to a degree... as there were some heated discussions lol

Posting a commanders name is against the TOS, witch hunts / inciting a mob against a 'forum' members name is against the TOS.

As we cannot mention a commanders name in part one then the second part has to be against forum members...

And again I have not been infracted and that is probably due to the 'way' I went about it...

 

[GluttonyFang]

It is a dangerous universe. It's just a shame that the risk is so lopsided when it comes to exploration.

Exploration is definitely the most demanding and ballsy profession that the game offers and anyone doing it full-on, as the OP had been, gets my respect well above and beyond everyone else. No other profession even comes close, really.

Risk wise... I would probably agree in the sense that a lot of data can be lost by one mistake.

Effort wise, I have better candidates.

 

[Starlanced]

Terrible loss, but say what you will I never return from a long trip in open for exactly this reason, there are people out there who's only mission is to ruin yours, I don't get it but it's too true.

On that note, we need player placed bounties!

 

[Sole Hunter]

I bet you can stop laughing and I bet the only reason you said that was to make the OP feel worse than he does already.

Im laughing because he should have known from the moment he clicked on open play he was subject to such risks. Im not laughing at him i am laughing at the stupidity behind the post he made.

 

[Ixnatifual]

I just wanna say Thank you guy who almost 10 minutes ago destroy my Explorer in Gateway system, after 4 month journey around galactic... Even when i beg him on chat, he just shoot me... after all i can only delete my game. I can't play this anymore after this, 4 month of live destroy one angry kid. Thank you sir, happy new year!

Well, that's a crappy thing.

The only bright side is that since you were doing exploration, you probably wouldn't have made that much money off of what you'd done in those four months anyway.

 

[Patrick_68000]

And well, the OP is added in the long list of the brave explorers who were annihilated by the dangers of the expeditions in the deep space. Hard work

 

[okiimatsu]

Well, that's a crappy thing.

The only bright side is that since you were doing exploration, you probably wouldn't have made that much money off of what you'd done in those four months anyway.

I wouldn't say that. I made fifty million in two months. If he doubled the exploration time in comparison to my own, he would have lost upwards of a hundred million or more in an instant. A horrible blow in time and money.

But of course we all know the explorers favorite meme of all time, " I don't do it for the credits". A statement always worth a laugh.

 

[Zed]

It happens, he had every right to hijack you, thats what the game is about for some people. Rebuy your ship and get over it. Its just a game. I honestly dont know why people are so precious of their game lives that they cannot possibly continue if someone does something unwanted to them? Do they actually live in the real world. Its a hell of a lot crueler out there.

I'd have expected a little more sympathy from someone who got upset just because their in game life was frustrated by the inability to use the same key to get their buggy back into their ship as they used to get it out. However I'll explain what's been lost here:

"Everything that the OP achieved in the last 4 months of game play"

The risk for explorers is huge, which is why I'm either in a private group or solo when I return. There is no other profession in game where the cost of death can such be a huge amount of your own time.

 

[Some1else]

To OP,
I'm not gonna do the shoulda, coulda, woulda thing, or berate the player who did this.

Simple answer is, You quit playing, he wins.

LLAP
S1E

 

[Noddie]

I think the answer here is that exploration data should go with the commander on ejection.

After all, a bunch of collected resources inexplicably do.So I don't see why a hard drive wouldn't be built into the micro jumping ejector seat to recover exploration data.

Never been able to understand that one, actually.

 

[Calaban]

Unfortunately, the OP not only fell victim to a "you mad, bro?" Troll, but then came to the Forum and FED THE TROLL.

Never. Feed. The. Trolls.

After the Troll killed you, possibly knowing full well that he was ruining your time and payment for an long time abroad... after cackling to himself, he went directly to this forum, hoping against hope that the pilot he ganked would pour his hard feeling out to the public for him to personally bask in.

That's "feeding the troll". never do it. It only encourages their sociopathic behavior. Its a negative reward, but a reward that they crave (no one ever said sociopaths made sense).

Such "emotional distress" is what gives those kind of players the tinglies as they lie in bed that night grinning in the dark at what they had done- reliving every ghastly detail, and re reading this topic again and again.

Better to have just never acknowledged their existence... they hate that!

 

[Burtonias]

I think the answer here is that exploration data should go with the commander on ejection.

After all, a bunch of collected resources inexplicably do.So I don't see why a hard drive wouldn't be built into the micro jumping ejector seat to recover exploration data.

Never been able to understand that one, actually.

That sir is a very good idea!

*tips hat*

 

[Swift]

My golden rule: Never play games with other people unless you are married to them, it can only end in tears.