Newcomer / Intro My First PvP Kill...

[[VR] Zakk]

Yup, lost my virginity today. Shot down another Commander. It wasn't even intentional, or at least I didn't realize I was firing at another player until later on.

And I didn't really 'shoot him down', as his ship was parked on a planet.

I had received a tip off message to look for a smugglers' cove on some planet and recover some data there. Flew to the system, approached the planet and found the location, which turned out to be a crashed ship. Right next to it was a landed ship, and an SRV firing at the crashed ship.

I had been interdicted by NPCs twice on the way to the planet, so I immediately figured that this was somehow part of the mission. Tried to target the SRV, but that one wouldn't lock on as target (I hadn't landed and was still in my ship). The ship, however, would, so that's what I shot down then.

After that, I made sure the vincinity was clear, and landed. However, I did not find a way to interact with the downed ship. Read later on that apparently I was supposed to scan its data beacon with my SRV, but when I locked it as a target with my SRV, no scanning would commence. Guess I did something wrong.

So I left the planet, and on the way out, saw the last message from that pilot whom I had believed to be an NPC, before I had blown his ship to smithereens.

And saw that the name had a 'CMDR' in front of it. :O

Oopsie.

Cmdr <edited out> , if you read this, sorry 'bout that. Guess I owe you at least a round of Lavian brandy, and then some.

More often than not, I have not bothered myself to dismiss my ship after disembarking, thinking 'what could possibly go wrong'. Well, now I know what can go wrong: some like me might show up and blow it up, mistaking it for some sort of covert mission target. [redface]

Still haven't figured out what to do in order to finish the tip-off mission, though.

 

[xondk]

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If the square is hollow, its a player, just fyi.

 

[[VR] Zakk]

Never saw him on my radar - maybe because he was landed?
Or maybe I was too determined to find what I was looking for, don't know.

 

[Chris Simon]

lmao

You destroyed that poor soul's ship and left him stranded on a planet?

 

[[VR] Zakk]

Hadn't even thought of that yet - guess I did.
What do you do if that happens to you? Can you still self-destruct?

If not, I should probably go back and give that unfortunate commander a ride to the next station. Even though he would probably be one disgruntled passenger... [big grin]

But I still feel kinda bad about it. Especially since it was a completely senseless kill. It didn't earn me anything, he wasn't even wanted. And I didn't even manage to finish my mission.

 

[Pyrotiger]

Disgruntled wouldn't be the word!!!

This happened to me a while ago. I was out bobbing along in the SRV buggy thingy, then I decide to head back after another fruitless Polonium hunt.

Soon, the ship was 2km away. And then the ship wasn't there there.

I drive for ages and ages, log in, log out, nothing. Nada. Hours pass.

I finally submit a ticket. A cheerful reply comes back, oh don't you know your ship was destroyed.

WELL THANKS FOR THE INFO. Why didn't the game tell me?!?

I kicked off because the game should have told me I was killed, so I said it was a failed mechanic and had my ship replaced pronto. If the game had told me I was destroyed, then I would have been narked but accepted it.

Yes, you can self-destruct. But the driver of the SRV could still be down there, oblivious to your evil deed.

 

[[VR] Zakk]

Nah, he was right next to the ship, so at least he was very much aware of what was going on.

He's probably back in the skies as we speak, trying to find out where I'm based at... [sour]

 

[Pyrotiger]

Probably back in the free Sidewinder...oops haha

 

[Codger]

To complete the mission you must target the ship's data core, and scan it by using your SRV scanner. You have to actually press a button to scan, it's not automatic. Check your fire groups.

 

[aRJay]

Hadn't even thought of that yet - guess I did.
What do you do if that happens to you? Can you still self-destruct?

If not, I should probably go back and give that unfortunate commander a ride to the next station. Even though he would probably be one disgruntled passenger... [big grin]

But I still feel kinda bad about it. Especially since it was a completely senseless kill. It didn't earn me anything, he wasn't even wanted. And I didn't even manage to finish my mission.

Self destructing an SRV takes you back to your ship.

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To complete the mission you must target the ship's data core, and scan it by using your SRV scanner. You have to actually press a button to scan, it's not automatic. Check your fire groups.

Mind you I would be very cautious there might be an SRV waiting in ambush for you to be sat there while the scan crawls its way to completion.

 

[[VR] Zakk]

To complete the mission you must target the ship's data core, and scan it by using your SRV scanner. You have to actually press a button to scan, it's not automatic. Check your fire groups.

There's my mistake... thanks!

As I said, when I found that unfortunate commander, he was in his SRV, firing at the derelict ship. Guess he didn't know what to do, either.

 

[[VR] Zakk]

While we're at the topic of my cluelessness when it comes to SRVs:

The other day, I was on a cargo salvage mission, with the target cargo being on a planet surface. I found the site, landed next to it and disembarked. The target cargo came in regular cargo canisters, so I had no idea how to salvage them. I did open the cargo scoop of my SRV, but nothing happened. Which might have something to do with the canisters being almost as big as my SRV, or so it would seem.

At the end of the day, I went back to my ship, retracted the landing gear, lowered the scoop, and flew towards the canisters with my cargo scoop scraping across the planet surface.

That got the job done alright, but I was wondering if that was the way I was supposed to do it, or if there is another way to salvage cargo canisters with SRVs?

 

[Chris Simon]

While we're at the topic of my cluelessness when it comes to SRVs:

The other day, I was on a cargo salvage mission, with the target cargo being on a planet surface. I found the site, landed next to it and disembarked. The target cargo came in regular cargo canisters, so I had no idea how to salvage them. I did open the cargo scoop of my SRV, but nothing happened. Which might have something to do with the canisters being almost as big as my SRV, or so it would seem.

At the end of the day, I went back to my ship, retracted the landing gear, lowered the scoop, and flew towards the canisters with my cargo scoop scraping across the planet surface.

That got the job done alright, but I was wondering if that was the way I was supposed to do it, or if there is another way to salvage cargo canisters with SRVs?

You can fit two canisters into the SRV.
But you have to TARGET the canister first. Then you can scoop it up. Same as in ship or with the material chunks.

Then you can drive under your ship and instead of boarding choose "Transfer Cargo" and it'll be transferred into your ships hold and you can go look for another canisters.

 

[aRJay]

While we're at the topic of my cluelessness when it comes to SRVs:

The other day, I was on a cargo salvage mission, with the target cargo being on a planet surface. I found the site, landed next to it and disembarked. The target cargo came in regular cargo canisters, so I had no idea how to salvage them. I did open the cargo scoop of my SRV, but nothing happened. Which might have something to do with the canisters being almost as big as my SRV, or so it would seem.

At the end of the day, I went back to my ship, retracted the landing gear, lowered the scoop, and flew towards the canisters with my cargo scoop scraping across the planet surface.

That got the job done alright, but I was wondering if that was the way I was supposed to do it, or if there is another way to salvage cargo canisters with SRVs?

You have to target the canister, hold the cargo scoop open (it is by default a trigger switch not a toggle), drive right over the canister, stop, turn round, adjust your alignment and start again, do this at least 3 times. Other peoples experience may vary.

Your SRV can manage 2 canisters of cargo.

 

[BigBANGtheory [VR]]

I thought your ship flew into orbit to 'stay safe' after a short time? Need to watch out for that...

 

[[VR] Zakk]

You have to target the canister, hold the cargo scoop open (it is by default a trigger switch not a toggle), drive right over the canister, stop, turn round, adjust your alignment and start again, do this at least 3 times. Other peoples experience may vary.

Your SRV can manage 2 canisters of cargo.

Thanks!

I had the canister targeted, and was aware of the trigger/toggle trick with the SRV scoop, so I guess it was the alignment that was wrong. Are you saying I need to back up into the canister with my SRV?

I thought your ship flew into orbit to 'stay safe' after a short time? Need to watch out for that...

Only if you actively dismiss your ship once you're in your SRV. I didn't do that myself more often than not. I knew my ship was defenseless while I was in my SRV, but always thought the risk was too minimal for the effort. Ironically, I proved myself wrong.

 

[xondk]

Never saw him on my radar - maybe because he was landed?
Or maybe I was too determined to find what I was looking for, don't know.

He would be on radar, probably tunnel vision happens until you get used to it.

 

[Zeeman]

And this is why one should dismiss one's ship.

Z...

 

[aRJay]

I thought your ship flew into orbit to 'stay safe' after a short time? Need to watch out for that...

The ship only flies away by itself if you drive more than 2km away.

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Thanks!

I had the canister targeted, and was aware of the trigger/toggle trick with the SRV scoop, so I guess it was the alignment that was wrong. Are you saying I need to back up into the canister with my SRV?
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No just trying to say that the alignment can be tricky sometimes.

 

[CMDR Mr. Boombastic]

I would use that big search engine (forget it's name now ) to check for that CMDR name (incl. the word 'CMDR') as you may have actually dished out some deserved karma. Although of course we don't know the full story/details leading up to the findings.