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Runnybabbit

Runnybabbit
Urbanski101 said:
Congrats on hitting elite explorer...when it happens.
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Thanks kindly, I'm nearly home after my last expedition, which netted me 95% on Pioneer, so I'm confident (wait for the big crash and bang!) that I've got it finally, this time.. As for your comments on discussing your situation with your wife, my own is actually very impressed with the game, and is never negative about it (2 Uni degrees, 1 in Arts, and 1 in Science). In fact, after bringing me numerous mugs of tea, her common parting comment is "To Infinity, and Beyond!".

Wait for my "if only I hadn't pushed myself when feeling very tired, I'd be Elite now" moment...:p
 
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Nick Sticks

Nick Sticks
Sorry to hear this, did you keep any records of the ELW's etc?
Chances are you can still get them later, making it a special kind of exploration mission.

I've been caught out by high G planets and very close binary suns but so far I've got away with it - but it sure makes you sweat.

o7 Cmdr
 

Red Anders

Red Anders
Ouch. I've never actually blown a ship up on landing (although as one of the players who suggested the tourist beacon on HD 148937 3, I've probably been indirectly responsible for a few hundred other people doing it :D) but I feel your pain. That data loss must be a massive kick in the teeth.

I came very close to a self-inflicted ship destruction on a trip out about a year ago, hadn't been out anything like as long as you but it was one of my first really long distance exploration sessions. I was messing about in a canyon in my Asp, totally misjudged speed/distance/climb and basically boosted it right into the lip of the canyon trying to climb out of it, ended up with my hull at about 25% and a far more accurate understanding of both my ship's abilities and my own.
 
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Cageman

Cageman
Ouch... :(

Reminds me of getting my first Anaconda; flew it with no insurance, managed to get killed; ended up in a Sidewinder with 200k Credits (and I had sold all my other ships in order to get the Conda). :D

You will rise again, and learn from the misstake... Stay positive and it will happen. :)
 

Gamatech

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Sometimes I feel I had it hard when I lost 5 hours of grinding to a player who role-played as a Thargoid in a human ship, picking off random commanders at a station. Then I read threads like this and I count my blessings!

My heart goes out to you o7
 

Lightspeed

Lightspeed
A good thought is, if you decide to retrace your path in a few weeks, the planets will be a lot more interesting to look at [yesnod]
 

Zeeman

Zeeman
Oh man, sorry to hear that CMDR, but you seem to be taking it reasonably well. Do you have EDDiscovery (or similar) with a record of where you've been? May be a good way to re-discover some of those ELW's at a later stage? Much easier when you know where they are...

Z...
 

sb413197

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Totally feel ya bro. I once met my untimely demise with many an unclaimed ELW at the hands of a sloppy Type9 barreling into a station, when I was in my exploraconda. Ever since then I've held a certain animosity towards the type9 and let's just say I don't try to preserve their big fat fragile hulls when leaving a station in my prismatic cutter...

Interesting side note - I recently flew the AspX again, and MAN are the directional thrusters (particularly reverse) on that thing weak, it's a real death trap if you're going too fast and can't boost! Heck even if you CAN boost its dangerous!
 
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Pumabear8

Pumabear8
Urbanski101 said:
I just pancaked my ASPX onto a metallic world at the core, 2000ly from SagA and I want to cry [cry]

I've been exploring for more than a year although actual playing time was not that long...been taking long breaks.

Still, a dozen ELWs discovered, hundreds of neutron stars, black holes, white dwarf stars, countless water worlds...all lost. Probably 50-100m by the time I got back but the money is incidental.

I've been so careful as well, not overtaxing the engines, making regular repair stops.

Totally my own fault, coming in to land on a 2g world, I'm tired, got distracted. I've landed enough times on worlds like this and much higher g but this time I didn't notice my speed until too late.....boom.

On the plus side...I was getting very tired of exploring and was making my way back which at my rate of play would have taken weeks...so that's taken care of.

With the new exploring stuff coming out in a year+ I might venture out again and I've got my markers for the important discoveries.

But right now....just gutted.

Thought I'd share [sad]
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Condolences and welcome to the club.
It's loss of time that gets my goat, I was almost to Colonia when boom, I'm right back at SOL, same as you, distracted, not paying attention, like after the 1000th beige planet scan, my eyes begin to gloss over, my attention span is almost zero at that point.
 

Stealthie

Stealthie
sb413197 said:
Interesting side note - I recently flew the AspX again, and MAN are the directional thrusters (particularly reverse) on that thing weak, it's a real death trap if you're going too fast and can't boost! Heck even if you CAN boost its dangerous!
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I've noticed that too.

I built one AspX which was a proper combat ship and that wasn't too bad because it was pretty heavy.

More recently, I built another one which is, basically, a super lightweight explorer ship but with top-end thrusters, PP and PDist as well as some defensive weapons.

That thing is seriously fast and agile but, lordy, the brakes are terrible.
It just doesn't want to stop, even with the gear down.
I've overshot landing pads in that more often than I have in my Corvette, Anaconda or T9.
 

Schmack

Schmack
I went 8K LY out scanning a lot of stuff and then decided I didn't want to be out there with nothing to do so I self destructed. I didn't look back or think about the credits, not nearly as many as you but that's as close as I can get to empathizing. It's why I don't explore, that I would rather give up my progress than deal with the many jumps to return to "something else to do".
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
sb413197 said:
Interesting side note - I recently flew the AspX again, and MAN are the directional thrusters (particularly reverse) on that thing weak, it's a real death trap if you're going too fast and can't boost! Heck even if you CAN boost its dangerous!
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I don't really like AspX, though I do own an exploration fitted one (from before there was the DBX - my current main exploration vessel) She's an unwieldy cow. One of the first things I've done after Horizons came was I started using A rated thrusters, again. Unlike, for example, Anaconda, that handles pretty well even with undersized thrusters, Asp can really be a deathtrap. :/
 

varonica

varonica
I just did something stupid 1200ly out from Lagoon Nebula and accidently flew into a into a white dwarf, yes I know, I know, big twirly things, can't miss them, that's why it was so stupid, still I had docked at Amundsen Base so really only lost 1200ly of data and some self respect. I would regret it if exploring was made completely safe, that would be the wrong way to go, it should always be possible that a careless CMDR can get himself killed! Having said that, emergency data drops would be nice, so you could hotfoot it back to your data pod and collect it!

Oh yes in case someone else collects it stolen data would attract money but negative rep!

Oh yes, and no naming right at all, just money! The systems would show as unvisited still.
 
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Micha

Micha
Urbanski101 said:
Thanks for the support guys...I had to post, no one else would understand.

I can't imagine telling the Mrs.....I think the words 'up' and 'grow' would feature heavily in her response.

It's been years since I've seen a rebuy screen, in my grieving state I nearly clicked the wrong thing....but I didn't thankfully.

Well there's lots of new stuff to see and do now I'm back, I left just before engineers dropped so everything has changed.....'I remember when all this was asteroid fields'

Ho hum
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Hehe, yeah, I get the "up" and "grow" regularly. Apparently men my age shouldn't be playing games for children.. they never understand, do they?

As for engineers - I have yet to see one! I left with DWE3302 (so just after horizons, at least I had an SRV!) and only recently got to Colonia on my way back home. So another 20kLY until I get to see most of the new content. At least I got to repair my hull now - was a bit scary at 39% (I left Beagle Point at 42%), but several other Commanders returned with less than 10% hull!
 

Micha

Micha
varonica said:
...emergency data drops would be nice, so you could hotfoot it back to your data pod and collect it!

Oh yes in case someone else collects it stolen data would attract money but negative rep!

Oh yes, and no naming right at all, just money! The systems would show as unvisited still.
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Yeah, this idea has been mooted several times for various reasons.

Mainly of course so that death doesn't mean the loss of potential hundreds of hours of gameplay.

But it would also allow for more gameplay options - returning to pick up your data pod before someone else finds it for one, but also it would legitimise piracy of returning explorers - kill the explorer for their exploration data! Not that I condone piracy, but what I dislike even more is killing for absolutely no motive other than to kill.
 
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