So what are your funniest moments in Elite? Things you were doing that ended badly but you just had to laugh and just hoq quickly things escalated. It can be anything, even stuff you just do day to day in Elite. Videos are welcome but if you don't have just write it down. It's always good for a laugh and I'm sure other commanders have had the same experiences at some point.
I have two that spring to mind the first one involved Thargoids or should I still say "Aliens" at the moment? Anyway, I was suffering some hull damage that was getting serious (that's how I roll, uber space warrior) so I was heading to Maia, I also had an UA onboard destroying my modules.
I jumped into a system with my UA, a motherload of cartography data and lots of bounties to cash in, at this point I thought "I really don't need a fight right now". I recharged my FS drive and boom, just before I was about to jump out to Maia I get interdiction from online player "Nope!! not now please GOD not now!!" So I fight my way out of the interdiction and luckily the other player failed (despite the entire affair lasting like 3 minutes).
Ok so I'll jump now....GAH! Fuel, I need fuel, so I run to the nearest sun in the system all the while being persued by the online player and managed to grab enough fuel to jump out. Why I do this sort of thing to myself I don't know. Life on the edge and all that.
BOOM! I managed to jump out.
"Yes, Maia here I come."
"What's that noise...that's quite a haunting sound of a whale"
Computer - "Hyperspace conduit has become unstable"
"................................................".
So after all that I arrived in Maia. I headed to Obsidian Orbital. Interdiction!
"OH COME ON"
I put up a good fight, for 15 whole seconds I delivered a barrage of multi cannons and beam lasers from my tactical war rig (or DBX to be exact) to the Anaconda. I feel I dented something, I'm not sure what but I must have hit something!
I failed, my hull went critial and that was it.....despite my best efforts I never made it.
All I could do was laugh (to avoid crying like a child).
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My second funny moment would be my ever so delicate traversal of a planet surface which escalated to a near death experience. That's normal though right? After all space is big and scary. So I landed on an ice planet with those large crevasse. I landed on the upper surface with a view to take the SRV down.
So I unloaded "super buggy" and headed towards the edge...."gosh that's a long way down" what's amazing about my play style is how it never occured to me to take the ship down, I'd rather try and drive the srv down. It says a lot about how I approach life in general.
So I started my descent, it went really well. Lovely and slow, traversing, finding shallow points that evened out nicely. Steeper and steeper it got. I'm thinking to myself at this point "I need to take the ship down" which is now so far away and high up I can't get back due to the angle of the incline I'm sitting on.
"I'll just keep going" I thought and planned to call the ship once I was down there. I was an a gathering mission anyway so I needed to see what was down there as the scanner was picking a few things up.
The incline got steeper and steeper, traversing was becoming hard and then it happeded...gravity took over.
For reasons best known to themselves the SRV wanted to go down backwards, which it did. I fought hard to turn it around, playing in VR makes this experience quite terrifying to be honest. I turned her around "YES" ...."NO" I see an edge coming up I can't turn from or stop, I threw the SRV into reverse but nothing happened I went over, at this stage the incline was so steep I was on gods humour as to the outcome, the srv started to leave the ground a but from speed and low gravity, I used my boosters to level out. At this stage I'm leaving the ground, facing backwards gaining speed all the time. It occured to me that I really should have just taken the ship down and I started to fantasize about the comfy cockpit.
Then it happend.....I hit a rock and off I went into the fastest spin I've ever experienced, I had to remove my vr headset at this point as it was too much. I watched as I tumbled, spun and smashing into everything. I tried my boosters again to level out, they sort of helped. Eventually after 5 minutes of painful sickness inducing freefall I came to a stop upside down facing the ground with 5% hull left.
I turned over and sat for a moment, I had landed next to one piece of carbon. I colelcted it and called my ship and left.
This is why I can't have nice things.
I have two that spring to mind the first one involved Thargoids or should I still say "Aliens" at the moment? Anyway, I was suffering some hull damage that was getting serious (that's how I roll, uber space warrior) so I was heading to Maia, I also had an UA onboard destroying my modules.
I jumped into a system with my UA, a motherload of cartography data and lots of bounties to cash in, at this point I thought "I really don't need a fight right now". I recharged my FS drive and boom, just before I was about to jump out to Maia I get interdiction from online player "Nope!! not now please GOD not now!!" So I fight my way out of the interdiction and luckily the other player failed (despite the entire affair lasting like 3 minutes).
Ok so I'll jump now....GAH! Fuel, I need fuel, so I run to the nearest sun in the system all the while being persued by the online player and managed to grab enough fuel to jump out. Why I do this sort of thing to myself I don't know. Life on the edge and all that.
BOOM! I managed to jump out.
"Yes, Maia here I come."
"What's that noise...that's quite a haunting sound of a whale"
Computer - "Hyperspace conduit has become unstable"
"................................................".
So after all that I arrived in Maia. I headed to Obsidian Orbital. Interdiction!
"OH COME ON"
I put up a good fight, for 15 whole seconds I delivered a barrage of multi cannons and beam lasers from my tactical war rig (or DBX to be exact) to the Anaconda. I feel I dented something, I'm not sure what but I must have hit something!
I failed, my hull went critial and that was it.....despite my best efforts I never made it.
All I could do was laugh (to avoid crying like a child).
------
My second funny moment would be my ever so delicate traversal of a planet surface which escalated to a near death experience. That's normal though right? After all space is big and scary. So I landed on an ice planet with those large crevasse. I landed on the upper surface with a view to take the SRV down.
So I unloaded "super buggy" and headed towards the edge...."gosh that's a long way down" what's amazing about my play style is how it never occured to me to take the ship down, I'd rather try and drive the srv down. It says a lot about how I approach life in general.
So I started my descent, it went really well. Lovely and slow, traversing, finding shallow points that evened out nicely. Steeper and steeper it got. I'm thinking to myself at this point "I need to take the ship down" which is now so far away and high up I can't get back due to the angle of the incline I'm sitting on.
"I'll just keep going" I thought and planned to call the ship once I was down there. I was an a gathering mission anyway so I needed to see what was down there as the scanner was picking a few things up.
The incline got steeper and steeper, traversing was becoming hard and then it happeded...gravity took over.
For reasons best known to themselves the SRV wanted to go down backwards, which it did. I fought hard to turn it around, playing in VR makes this experience quite terrifying to be honest. I turned her around "YES" ...."NO" I see an edge coming up I can't turn from or stop, I threw the SRV into reverse but nothing happened I went over, at this stage the incline was so steep I was on gods humour as to the outcome, the srv started to leave the ground a but from speed and low gravity, I used my boosters to level out. At this stage I'm leaving the ground, facing backwards gaining speed all the time. It occured to me that I really should have just taken the ship down and I started to fantasize about the comfy cockpit.
Then it happend.....I hit a rock and off I went into the fastest spin I've ever experienced, I had to remove my vr headset at this point as it was too much. I watched as I tumbled, spun and smashing into everything. I tried my boosters again to level out, they sort of helped. Eventually after 5 minutes of painful sickness inducing freefall I came to a stop upside down facing the ground with 5% hull left.
I turned over and sat for a moment, I had landed next to one piece of carbon. I colelcted it and called my ship and left.
This is why I can't have nice things.