If you install something like EDDiscovery then it reads your journal log, and you have the ability to see what you've been up to, where you've been, what you've scanned, attacked, traded, etc.etc.
PSA : exercise extreme Caution when attempting to land at any Planetary Base !
If you install something like EDDiscovery then it reads your journal log, and you have the ability to see what you've been up to, where you've been, what you've scanned, attacked, traded, etc.etc.
Dropbears are terrifying.... and apparently Skimmers too now 
New video:
[video=youtube;XqTU7Wny3n8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqTU7Wny3n8[/video]
This was the second time it happened to me, but only one video. I've opened a ticket concerning both incidents and added my information to the main bug report.
[video=youtube;XqTU7Wny3n8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqTU7Wny3n8[/video]
This was the second time it happened to me, but only one video. I've opened a ticket concerning both incidents and added my information to the main bug report.
I too was wondering about that: [video=youtube;pG8ZkVy3378]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG8ZkVy3378[/video]
This is quite disturbing. Thanks for posting the warnings everyone.
Well I guess I have had a lot of close calls then. I have seen the skimmers dropping but I had no idea they could take out a ship. I have even seen ship parts falling around me and assumed there was a collision above, guess some poor NPC must have taken a bullet for me.
These are the same skimmers that die after a few hits from an SRV's pea shooter? Yet if they hit you they are more powerful than any weapon in the game? What a silly game this is.
These are the same skimmers that die after a few hits from an SRV's pea shooter? Yet if they hit you they are more powerful than any weapon in the game? What a silly game this is.
I've always hated that. "Do it your own way" they say, then rescind by bending the rules of their own game universe.
If they're coming in at the maximum rate of gravity then they're the perfect orbital bombardment tools. It's like the difference between knocking something over into the bathtub and throwing it off a suspension bridge.
Lololololol. So let me get this straight. People were ramming skimmers, so the devs gave skimmers the ability to one-shot cutters?
And now they undetectably spawn 8 km in the air?
And now they undetectably spawn 8 km in the air?
It's a vacuum so classical Newtonian physics with no air resistance. V lethal kinetic energy.
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Got me just now - scanner clear, under 50m/s, let alone the 100 speed limit as I was just crossing the pad threshold at about 20m AGL, then something hits me out of nowhere and my python kabooms...
And it doesn't stop there, because in addition to my 2.95M rebuy there's a "fines" line item on the insurance and a line for "modules" (wth is this?) - when I had no legacy fines or other items outstanding. I rebuy and total up the fines now in my transactions tab for the failed haulage missions and there's over 600k of them and a "dormant bounty" which I've never had.... For a totally clean cmdr prior to the bug bomb that's "throw the HOTAS" level.... I'm calming down some before I write the ticket, since FD support don't deserve the brunt of my current mood.
And it doesn't stop there, because in addition to my 2.95M rebuy there's a "fines" line item on the insurance and a line for "modules" (wth is this?) - when I had no legacy fines or other items outstanding. I rebuy and total up the fines now in my transactions tab for the failed haulage missions and there's over 600k of them and a "dormant bounty" which I've never had.... For a totally clean cmdr prior to the bug bomb that's "throw the HOTAS" level.... I'm calming down some before I write the ticket, since FD support don't deserve the brunt of my current mood.
Definitely a bug that needs to be fixed.
However, I noticed in both videos that the ships were both speeding when the skimmer hit. I wonder if this wouldn't have been a problem at legal speeds (like suicidewinders).
However, I noticed in both videos that the ships were both speeding when the skimmer hit. I wonder if this wouldn't have been a problem at legal speeds (like suicidewinders).
I know of at least one report of Skimmer death that happened at half the speed limit.
Can someone make a nice "Death from Above!" Skimmer meme out of that?
Cue Col Kilgore, and "Ride Of The Valkyries".
In fact, what's happening is : an innocent free falling skimmer collides with a naughty ship cruising below its trajectory. The skimmer is likely to be destroyed by the impact. Therefore the naughty CMDR of the ship is responsible for having slaughtered an innocent skimmer, and as a guilty CMDR the base defense will enforce the standard punishment for such an offense : death.
BTW any advice on how to mitigate the risk of planetary approach before this is finally corrected ?!
Two things come to mind:
- Wait at a high altitiude for all the skimmers to fall before requesting docking.
- Land >2km away, go to the base in your SRV. When departing, drive >2km away in your SRV, then summon your ship.
Not tested either as I'm out exploring right now.
Thanks ! As I removed the SRV bay from my current ship, I need to work out the 1st option. From the 2-3 landings I did today, coming in slowly seems to work. Skimmers popped around the base once I closed to 4km. As they are initially patrolling the surroundings of the base, they went quite far from my bow... So I would also add that glide must be exited in order to gain full control of the ship around 8 km away from the base (and not 5 to 6 as I usually do).
Almost happend to me. Thanks to my Vulture and a lucky reflex I dodged it
FDev, don't fix plz.
It teaches those lazy DC users some flying x)
FDev, don't fix plz.
It teaches those lazy DC users some flying x)