It wasn't easyI guess it takes a certain skill to put your SRV in that place
[Light- Hearted] What was your best rebuy to date?
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I've had that happen to me, and I consider it a bug now as it was impossible to extricate from. It's why I fit a Docking Computer to my Cutter, I just don't quite trust the local architecture.
Well, more likely on the stupid side than funny side, but...
On my return path from my trip Bubble-EA-Colonia-Bubble, i was taking screenshots outside some asteroid base (think it was Attenborough's Watch).
While trying to get best angles with the ship and the base, i probably drifted in the exclusion zone.
Since no warnings get you in the camera mode, the fireworks was as much as impressive as it was sudden. My conda blew in like 3-4 seconds.
I was quite relaxed, not concerned at all about the rebuy costs and being actually glad that i sold the explo data before the shooting session (sic!)
Then it hit me... m y e l i t e s l f c r e w
On my return path from my trip Bubble-EA-Colonia-Bubble, i was taking screenshots outside some asteroid base (think it was Attenborough's Watch).
While trying to get best angles with the ship and the base, i probably drifted in the exclusion zone.
Since no warnings get you in the camera mode, the fireworks was as much as impressive as it was sudden. My conda blew in like 3-4 seconds.
I was quite relaxed, not concerned at all about the rebuy costs and being actually glad that i sold the explo data before the shooting session (sic!)
Then it hit me... m y e l i t e s l f c r e w
The last time I died was in beta before the final reset. I had just worked my way out of a sidewinder. I was sitting pretty on my new ship not more than 15m above the pad when my kiddo sits on my lap and immediately hits the boost button. Turns out I had miscalculated my rebuy, I was shy less than 20cr IIRC. Had to start over.
Took on 5 20,000Lyr passenger missions in my beluga, all no scan, 50mill ones, and made it a sight seeing scan everything map everything mission and was 5,000 or so Lyrs from home with prolly 320mill (with the no scan bonus) in mission rewards plus 100's of mill of exploration data and after a lengthy session thought I would land on a planet for the night.
because of the heat the beluga has I turned off the shield a while back and forgot about it and also forgot to check the g rating...
suffice to say that after exiting glide the speed would not dissipate and I met the ground at a very high velocity and boom... game over
I think I actually cried a little and didn't play again for like 5 minutes!! haha
because of the heat the beluga has I turned off the shield a while back and forgot about it and also forgot to check the g rating...
suffice to say that after exiting glide the speed would not dissipate and I met the ground at a very high velocity and boom... game over
I think I actually cried a little and didn't play again for like 5 minutes!! haha
I guess silent running test while pirate on tail isn't the best idea. On my early days I attempted to do iSlave smuggle run. Found low cost supply and high paying demand, 8 jumps away. Did read how smuggling work, prepared ship, bound silent running, had everything set. In theory. Bought cargo and started to fly. Immediately got pirate tail, no big deal, avoiding them is easy. I was jumping from system to system so fast that pirate couldn't manage to keep up so I forgot about him as I was focused on proper SC drop and silent station approach. 1 jump before destination I decided to perform dry test - dropped from SC, hit silent running (shields dropped to my surprise), watched how fast temp rose (not that bad). At 120% I turned SR off and prepared to make final jump. Test completed, all set.
And then pirate dropped into my instance... still had over 100% heat, no shields and weak hull. Two or three shots after I was admiring rebuy screen.
And then pirate dropped into my instance... still had over 100% heat, no shields and weak hull. Two or three shots after I was admiring rebuy screen.
Went with a Cutter equipped with 6A shields full of tourists to the beacon Strong G for the first time. The first ground contact immediately killed the shields, leaving less then 30% hull. Three seconds later the second contact did the final blow, more than 20 mil rebuy.
Moral of the story: At more than 7g don't even think of a regular approach in a Cutter.
Edit: In case anyone is in the same situation and you ask yourself if you can escape a Medusa in a 483m/s Cutter? You can't! 42 mil rebuy.
Moral of the story: At more than 7g don't even think of a regular approach in a Cutter.
Edit: In case anyone is in the same situation and you ask yourself if you can escape a Medusa in a 483m/s Cutter? You can't! 42 mil rebuy.
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Do seem to be a LOT of Cutter stories don't there?
I had my Cutter loaded with 504T of Palladium I think, just a simple a to b and back again I couldn't resist; but to my eternal shame I forgot to ask for docking permission and between realizing, cursing, then trying to reverse (or is that veeeerssssse) out, BOOM! have a nice day.
I had my Cutter loaded with 504T of Palladium I think, just a simple a to b and back again I couldn't resist; but to my eternal shame I forgot to ask for docking permission
and between realizing, cursing, then trying to reverse (or is that veeeerssssse) out, BOOM! have a nice day.
My turret pranged a police Viper so when I docked I got sent to a prison ship 300 odd LYs from my starting point, I got mad and opened fire on the prison ship.
Lost a 'Dangerous' NPC and still respawned in the prison ship.
Lost a 'Dangerous' NPC and still respawned in the prison ship.
I remember back in the day I didn't know that going into the menu does not pause the game.
I jumped into a megaship, "paused" and went downstairs to make myself a cup of coffee. I remember hearing odd noises upstairs so I went up to investigate, and saw my Anaconda getting destroyed by 2-3 thargoids.
It was too late to do anything; shields down, hull at 15% - I just helplessly watched 40 million go down the drain.
I jumped into a megaship, "paused" and went downstairs to make myself a cup of coffee. I remember hearing odd noises upstairs so I went up to investigate, and saw my Anaconda getting destroyed by 2-3 thargoids.
It was too late to do anything; shields down, hull at 15% - I just helplessly watched 40 million go down the drain.
That too is my DW2, long, long distance from home, awcrap, what have I done now, face-plant and triple summersault, kaboom, rebuy. I use a HOTAS on my PS4, but the button mappings are the same. Hold the "triangle" key in and then press the same key set for "boost" to select gear down - I must've momentarily, spilt-second released the triangle key. Now that I've found out that little gem, I've only done it once...so far... and am definitely more careful with the hold triangle and also the location I use for where and when I select gear down. (Used to be well below 1km altitude above a planet surface that I'd lower the gear, but now it's normally above 2km and then use full thrust until below 1km...)
Best rebuy was my first. I was in my Cobra Mk3 fighting a Python, doing ok - it was almost dead, when I decided I needed to boost, and the Python suddenly appeared right in front of me! I splattered all over it and while I was exploding I heard another explosion.
Once I finished with the rebuy screen, I checked my claimable bounties and found the Python's bounty waiting for me. Very satisfying, even though I died.
Once I finished with the rebuy screen, I checked my claimable bounties and found the Python's bounty waiting for me. Very satisfying, even though I died.
Several of the posts here have referred to admiring the rebuy screen, this is of course only true of the serial rebuy player.
For those players who are infrequent visitors to the screen but have heard the scare stories and know there has been a game update since they were last in this situation, they are actually studying the screen intensely trying to ensure they get back into their fully engineered one of a kind ship and not some E rated free Sidewinder light years from what they were doing.
For those players who are infrequent visitors to the screen but have heard the scare stories and know there has been a game update since they were last in this situation, they are actually studying the screen intensely trying to ensure they get back into their fully engineered one of a kind ship and not some E rated free Sidewinder light years from what they were doing.
My top three, in chronological order:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1HSOYMrp2M
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyX8oPhgPZ8
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kiT84wgmt0
When i first tried to get my head round FA off turns in a FDL
Managed to go to silent running instead
then managed to turn on FA off in a sort of manic button pushing frenzy which also involved a random boost straight at the NPC
Hit the NPC with no shields and under fire, didn't end well
Managed to go to silent running instead
then managed to turn on FA off in a sort of manic button pushing frenzy which also involved a random boost straight at the NPC
Hit the NPC with no shields and under fire, didn't end well
Many to be remembered, but at least I have footage for a couple of them:
Source: https://youtu.be/LwNlvdW7IQs
Source: https://youtu.be/8W4jhfNbLZg
I still have no ideas why this happened, so answers on a postcard.
Lifted off from a planetary outpost. and was just banking for the escape vector when I spotted a skimmer. Being relatively new to the game, and never having seen a skimmer before, I decided to take a closer look. As my Challenger has no downward looking glass in the canopy, I rolled inverted and carefully accelerated over the top of the skimmer to get a decent view of it.
Next thing I know I'm being knocked sideways toward a cliff face. My shields have gone. My HUD is out. The canopy glass is shattered. I have no control whatsoever. All I can see is the canyon wall getting bigger and bigger at an alarming rate and before I can even glance at the message screen to try and make head or tail of what was going on the screen goes black and I wake up in prison somewhere wondering wth just happened.....
No warning, nothing. To this day I believe I was instafragged by a skimmer equipped with an experimental null field cannon (see Jack Campbell's 'Lost Fleet' for details)
Lifted off from a planetary outpost. and was just banking for the escape vector when I spotted a skimmer. Being relatively new to the game, and never having seen a skimmer before, I decided to take a closer look. As my Challenger has no downward looking glass in the canopy, I rolled inverted and carefully accelerated over the top of the skimmer to get a decent view of it.
Next thing I know I'm being knocked sideways toward a cliff face. My shields have gone. My HUD is out. The canopy glass is shattered. I have no control whatsoever. All I can see is the canyon wall getting bigger and bigger at an alarming rate and before I can even glance at the message screen to try and make head or tail of what was going on the screen goes black and I wake up in prison somewhere wondering wth just happened.....
No warning, nothing. To this day I believe I was instafragged by a skimmer equipped with an experimental null field cannon (see Jack Campbell's 'Lost Fleet' for details)
Yaffle
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This is a really great thread - I like the idea that we share our DOH! moments. All of us have them, all of us have done something dumb or funny and it's good to show that. Any new players should probably have a read, to see they are not alone in seeing the rebuy screen. It happens to us all.
Don't remember the specifics, but it involved:
Not necessarily in that order.
- getting destroyed by station security
- boosting inside the station
- trying to get out again
- getting scanned
- being stuck in the toaster rack
- carrying illicit cargo
- forgetting to request docking permission
Not necessarily in that order.