Yep...alseep at the switch again.

Mxpower76

Mxpower76
Last night after an "intense" session of wake scanning I start dozing off. Since I'm only 4 jumps from home I decide I can make it back. Other then a sleepy overheat, the jumps back where uneventful. Make it to my station drop-in, at some point request docking and then go unconscious. When I wake up I find myself crashed into the side of the station, engines still at 3/4, almost no shields left (my icourier is high speed, low shields) and only mins to dock. I was confused as to why I was looking at a giant red wall. I some how made it inside but unfortunately this isn't the first time I've crashed my ship. I mostly crash into planets and stars.

So any other sleepy pilots out there? I've never lost my ship but seems I've come close. I play in VR and stay up way too late so it's a matter of time before I lose one. Not sure why I just don't log off. :S
 

IndigoWyrd

IndigoWyrd
Mxpower76 said:
Last night after an "intense" session of wake scanning I start dozing off. Since I'm only 4 jumps from home I decide I can make it back. Other then a sleepy overheat, the jumps back where uneventful. Make it to my station drop-in, at some point request docking and then go unconscious. When I wake up I find myself crashed into the side of the station, engines still at 3/4, almost no shields left (my icourier is high speed, low shields) and only mins to dock. I was confused as to why I was looking at a giant red wall. I some how made it inside but unfortunately this isn't the first time I've crashed my ship. I mostly crash into planets and stars.
So any other sleepy pilots out there? I've never lost my ship but seems I've come close. I play in VR and stay up way too late so it's a matter of time before I lose one. Not sure why I just don't log off. :S
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I've engaged in some unscheduled planetary lithobraking due to fatigue.
 

BeDoomed

BeDoomed
Commander, on average a ship, in 3 seconds, will travel 3.5 km or 25-30 ls when in Supercruise after dropping into the system.

Be alert, be safe.

Tiredness kills.


In 3302 more deaths were recorded due to tiredness in space then there were due to drink flying.
 

Flimley

Flimley
There was a quick story here on the forums of one guy who fell asleep with his oculus still attached. He said when he woke up he felt very scared and hadn't a clue where he was, and what was going on.

Flimley
 

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
Back when I was young (about 10 years ago. Lol), I used to stay up until 4am playing games.

I never actually nodded off, but my logic just got more skewed as I got more tired.

I good example, is just the other day (tired from manflu), I was walking along in 7 Days To Die, at midnight, pitch black, just using my flashlight to see where I was going.
I spotted a zombie, and needed to switch to my crossbow, which is just a simple roll of the mouse wheel.

Instead, I pressed G. And threw my flashlight on the ground.
And then I couldn't see to pick it up again.

I ended up walking home in pitch black, just to go get another torch.

At sunrise, I found a small town, with a water tower.
A large water source is good in 7 days to die, I hadn't found a body of water yet.

I climbed the tower, and got on top, and broke in through the roof.
And jumped in.

And drowned.
I didn't have a way out, or materials to construct a ladder. Lol

I gave up after that and took a nap. Lol

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
 

5 Puppis

5
I've definitely dozed off a few times playing in VR. Mainly microsleeps during long supercruise trips, but I've definitely had to snap to attention to avoid stars a couple of times.

The weirdest was during a massacre mission. You know how it sometimes takes forever for mission targets to spawn? I dozed off during one of those lulls. I could've sworn I only dealt with 9 of 12 targets and when I woke up I started to look for targets again only to realize the mission was completed :S
 
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Ranualf

Ranualf
We got you covered mate

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Crank Larson

Crank Larson
When I played E: D from the sofa on the big screen, I'd regularly doze off. Since moving to the Rift, it hasn't happened once (and I'm on just as comfortable a chair :) ).
 

Stealthie

Stealthie
It was a routine thing when I was collecting Thargoid Probes.

Arrive at ammonia-world, enter high orbit, tweak rudder controls so I'm in a gradual downward spiral and then doze off until something gets my attention.
And then I suddenly come to my senses and have to figure out if it's because there's a USS I need to investigate or because I've dropped out of SC cos I'm too close to the planet.

Worst one is when you're doing "just one more run" for a CG and struggling to stay awake.
At those times a DC is well worth the slot it takes up.
Quite often I arrive at the station, engage the DC, doze off and then wake up half an hour later, sitting on the landing pad, when the station has destroyed some wayward Beluga.

None of which is, I suppose, a terrific advert for the game's excitement. [where is it]
 

5 Puppis

5
You know, considering how much super cruising needs to be done in this week's CG, I wager there'll be some sleepy traders who wake up to find they've overshot the station by a Ly or two.

At least their paint jobs will look cool with all that wear.
 

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
Mxpower76 said:
Last night after an "intense" session of wake scanning I start dozing off. Since I'm only 4 jumps from home I decide I can make it back. Other then a sleepy overheat, the jumps back where uneventful. Make it to my station drop-in, at some point request docking and then go unconscious. When I wake up I find myself crashed into the side of the station, engines still at 3/4, almost no shields left (my icourier is high speed, low shields) and only mins to dock. I was confused as to why I was looking at a giant red wall. I some how made it inside but unfortunately this isn't the first time I've crashed my ship. I mostly crash into planets and stars.

So any other sleepy pilots out there? I've never lost my ship but seems I've come close. I play in VR and stay up way too late so it's a matter of time before I lose one. Not sure why I just don't log off. :S
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Yup. Space Trucker Syndrome, just like real-life truckers.

It's why I always use a slot for the DC.
 

Stealthie

Stealthie
CMDR Crank Larson said:
Oh, I dunno. Waking up to lots of alarms and noise and not knowing what is going on can be quite exciting. At least for a few seconds. :D
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True story:-

I'd stacked a bunch of pirate-lord missions in Merope the other night.
They were all in the same system and, when I arrived (in my Anaconda), one was something like 300,000Ls from the jump-point.
I headed for that one, hoping that the others would interdict me on the way.
And then I nodded off.

I woke up to the sound of an interdiction happening.
Throttle to zero, launch SLF, deploy hardpoints and then nodded back off again.

Woke up half an hour later, surrounded by debris and my SLF hovering around beside me.
Sometimes combat isn't as challenging as it could be. :eek:

And then, after waking up properly, and realising what happened, I discovered that I'd only killed 4 out of 6 pirate-lords and I still had to complete the 300,000Ls schlep to zap the last 2. [sad]
 

IndigoWyrd

IndigoWyrd
5 Puppis said:
You know, considering how much super cruising needs to be done in this week's CG, I wager there'll be some sleepy traders who wake up to find they've overshot the station by a Ly or two.

At least their paint jobs will look cool with all that wear.
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On my 51st or perhaps 52nd trip to Hutton Orbital, I took an in-flight nap that put me right at .20 Ly past Hutton Orbital. It's was painfully hard to decide between turning around and heading back and jumping out and back in, as it came down to "Spend 90 minutes getting there from the entry point, or 88 minutes getting there from here."
 
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Koenig

Koenig
Oh yes. Been there, drunk the Horlicks and happily dozed off... Best "max embarrassment - min damage" ratio for tagging planets attached to those second or third stars. Many ls super cruise (setting off grumbling at the distance) only to come round on the far side of the target a good four or five times the original distance... :eek:
 

Darkslayer

Darkslayer
Yeah. At 2 am with the lights off because the wife is asleep and my headphones on. I have smoked enough weed to be cross-eyed. I have flown straight into a star coming out of SC.
 
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