Pilots do the dumbest things - post your screw ups

Mrat13

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liquidphantom said:
So what are the dumbest moments in Elite, that are totally your fault.

I've been running some passenger trips lately as the money is good, last night I checked one out at the station viewed the destination on the galaxy map plotted the route then took off. Few jumps later I'm in the system and check with the contract to see the final destination.... the contract ain't there!! I had totally forgot to accept the passenger after plotting the route.

Actually that happened twice last night. [wacko]
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Just flicking through the forums, then I see this. Oh, go on, I'll spare a moment, this looks like fun.

Stupidest thing? Well, I keep flying ships that are small enough sideways through the mail slot out of sheer laziness. Of course in a type 6 or a keelback that can very bad, very quickly. And people complain about getting big ships stuck in the slot.....at least big ships make sense. In a smaller ships, it's just embarrassing.....
 

JS Cosmic Malfunction

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Binding jettinson all cargo on a controller, being a player who never surrenders cargo to pirates, while carrying the rare goods my friend needed for an engineer.
Seriously, never bind that thing on a controller, it's not worth the risk.

Getting a fuel scoop in a Sidewinder to save credits when I didn't even understanded how heat worked, ending up wasting a lot of credits on repairs. Same for a minning laser and power capacity. Most things I did on my Sidewinder actually, I had no idea of how anything worked so I just kept screwing around.

Getting killed while carrying escape pods on my first CG after shooting a ship that, looked liked a pirate for me. It wasn't. I know it's just a game but, I still feel so bad for those people on the pods.
 

biohazard15

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Forgetting about landing permission.

While flying drunk.

While flying Beluga.

...no rebuys involved - managed to free myself from grill's clutches...
 

Mrat13

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NecasekO said:
On my trip to Sagittarius A*, which was around 1000 jumps, the only damage I took was because I accidentally performed an emergency drop from SC. I tried to engage FSD but didn't have my next system selected so it did nothing. I tried again and ended up in normal space with damaged hull and a long FSD cooldown.

On that same trip I was really close to running out of fuel. I had some extra fuel tanks so that I could jump 8-10 times before needing a refill and once I just kept jumping without checking the fuel gauge. When I finally checked it it didn't show anything at all - as in not even a single pixel, the main tank was completely empty. I felt VERY relieved when I found my current system had a scoopable star.

Once I was backing out of a station slot in my Cutter (I had the bug where there was a NPC ship on my assigned pad) and managed to collide with and destroy another CMDR flying a T7. The station didn't shoot at me (maybe it was anarchy or just because I wasn't going fast) so I survived without any damage but felt really bad about it. Not sure how to prevent that without a rear view mirror though :-(
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Sometimes elite can seem so simple you let your mind wander. I did laugh at the cutter part though. Not becuase it was actually stupid, but becuase I need to see a cutter trying to reverse out a station now lol. I also hope they add a vehicle reversing sound to ships going backwards as well. That combo would entertain me for days as I record and rewatch it. I'm doing that in my mind right now and I didn't even witness the event lol.
 

Threeofseven

Threeofseven
On the way back from an exploration trip, only 1000yl from home, I face planted my Clipper into a a planet. I only noticed the 3.5G reading about 4 seconds before impact.
 

CMDR Eryn Liamson

CMDR Eryn Liamson
Loaded up my passenger Anaconda with 6 groups of tourists and headed off towards Sag A*. Completed the passenger missions to the core and surrounding sights and started on my way back to collect my sweet 220M payout. Along the way I hit a patch of unscoopables (as it often happens) and diverted to an F-class to refuel. As I was sitting next to the star, throttle idle, the phone rang and I got up to answer it.

Got back to my ship at 65% hull, temps at 200%, modules either failed or under 40%, and 6 very unhappy passengers who very quickly jumped ship. Used the AFM to repair critical systems and then had to limp back 20,000ly for repairs.

Exploration data payout was still good though, but really, I should know better than that!
 

Spacecat

Spacecat
Well, the dumbest one was losing 5 ships in one afternoon trying to assault planetary bases for modified embedded firmware based on outdated information.
 

sPeaRr

sPeaRr
Landed at a barnacle site and dismissed my anaconda ... directly into the Farragut capital ship above me. Took 5 or 6 terrifying bounces til she got around the side. No hard feelings from the Feds thankfully.
 

crushdepth

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Descending to a planetary base and handing off to the docking computer while I went to get a drink.

Forgot I'd turned the computer off, didn't I? Came back to find my ship in a ditch.
 

Watcher

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I've made a few silly mistakes here and there but my most daft was out doing the Guardians ancient ruins mission.
I've been scanning obelisks at various sites.
Now, while doing this and when done I like to take a few photos.
Having finished at the current site I take off and hover over the ruins.
I switch to the external camera (the old camera), repositioning it to get a couple of good shots.
Ready to leave, I nose up to the space and max the throttle...
Which would be fine except that with the old camera it doesn't flip back the directional thing on the throttle control for you (if you are using a full range throttle with a reverse toggle)...
With no real reference points and not paying attention to the altitude indicator I only realise a moment before the impact what is about to happen..
Ship slams in to the ground under close to full acceleration. Oops.. Can I get away with this..
Hey, at least I brought shields... So only down to about 13% hull... Maybe I can get away with this?
Or not, since the canopy just popped... Can I get back to a station in 5 minutes?? That seems far fetched.
I'm saved pondering the possibility of getting away with this mishap by bouncing along the ground and the ship finally deciding it has had enough and exploding.

Finding myself back at the starting point I vow to be more mindful of the altitude indicator and far more careful with the external camera.
But hey with a new camera this sort of thing wouldn't happen now... Except for that odd unexpected full acceleration kicking in while using it in super-cruise (fun when trying to take pictures near stars) or in the SRV... I'm sure it'll be fine.
 

Dirtbird

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For me, it's the number of times I've been in combat and not noticed that I'm going backwards instead of forwards (throttle's in reverse mode). It was getting annoying seeing those big ships always managing to sit in front of me and I would have to boost to get past them... I thought they were going backwards. Sometimes I still win, other times I lose :)
 

OHMSS

OHMSS
sPeaRr said:
Landed at a barnacle site and dismissed my anaconda ... directly into the Farragut capital ship above me. Took 5 or 6 terrifying bounces til she got around the side. No hard feelings from the Feds thankfully.
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At least it got round. I thought you were going to say you lost it.
 

Paige Harvey

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While attempting to use the new camera suite to take some shots of my dolphin gliding along the surface of the planet, I somehow missed the giant mountain of rock infront of me until I got "connection lost!". I jumped out of the camera suite to find myself smashed into a mountain and facing the rebuy screen...



Fantastic.
 

punkerich

punkerich
Horizons release: wanting to demo planetary landing to wifey.
She got impatient, so i boosted towards the surface.
In a 720t Cutter, laden with Imp. Slaves...
:eek:
 
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