What a heart-attack looks like..

who?

who?
You can imagine the scenario.. Distant Worlds explorer, meandering his way home. Getting nervous now.. the insurance covers any rebuy but nothing could replace the on-board thumb stick with thousands of systems' worth of data. I park the ship up in high-orbit over a star, scooping nice 'n' leisurely like the manual says. Alt-tab to view some historical por.... photography from the 21st century while I wait. And get distracted.

"Aw, crap!" I clumsily stab the alt-tab buttons to take me back again to my ship's controls. What am I going to see*?? (* for some reason, a pilot needs to check his screen to see if his ship has been destroyed, rather than.. you know.. looking down to see if his limbs are still attached and not vaporized)

And I see this:

DAMMIT! The ship's burning up! How much hull strength have I lost? Noooooooo. I'm more than red hot, more than white.
7uos03S


I'm pink hot!

.... pink hot? Damn you, Frontier. Damn you. I have another month's flying to do before I can change these pants...
 

Darrett

Darrett
When Horizons came out, I decided to learn to land with 2 months of exploration data on board. My first attempt was on a 2G world.

Pretty much the same reaction you had, and another month with 12% hull!
 

Pumabear8

Pumabear8
Someone posted a similar image in another thread, I've also had the same, the only other time I'd ever experienced something like this was a texture loading issue, but that was when I only had a 1GB card, but I've also experienced this in Elite with a 4GB card, GTX770.
 

PhanttoM

PhanttoM
Chris Simon said:
Yeah, "Don't fly and browse" is my new mantra in 2.1

How much damage did you suffer?
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Yeah, we actually have to pay attention to the game while 'playing' it now. :D

Lost a Clipper last week to an NPC FDL when I was tabbed out after leaving a station. Tabbed back in to find my engines disabled. [haha]
 

Bran Tse Mallory

Bran Tse Mallory
Fenric said:
Nice build up.

Can you describe the picture?
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It looks like a landscape with either a white snake on it or the picture has been torn, not sure how it relates to Who's story but then I can never understand much of what he says anyway! :D

Good luck with those Pants Mr. Who! :D
 

Kzak

Kzak
If you have to fly and browse, make sure you have two display devices and set Elite to run in borderless windowed mode, that way it's far easier to keep track of what's going on if you alt-tab out to something non-Elite. :)
 

who?

who?
Fenric said:
Nice build up.

Can you describe the picture?
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In case you can't see it (or I messed up the upload), it's a view of an Asp facing towards a star, with the interior of the ship glowing a very, very bright shade of pink. When you're sleep deprived (because of distant worlds), and a little drunk (also 'because of distant worlds') and you really, really don't want to lose the last 6 months of play/money/tags/rank; then things like this make you really jumpy.
 

lysan

lysan
who? said:
In case you can't see it (or I messed up the upload), it's a view of an Asp facing towards a star, with the interior of the ship glowing a very, very bright shade of pink. When you're sleep deprived (because of distant worlds), and a little drunk (also 'because of distant worlds') and you really, really don't want to lose the last 6 months of play/money/tags/rank; then things like this make you really jumpy.
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MS Paint, it never fails :D sorry but I can't see it.
 

Avago Earo

Banned
Avago Earo
I like the cartoon glitch I got a few days back:

[video=youtube;fmPTkMGpAxM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmPTkMGpAxM[/video]
 
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