This thread makes me wonder if it was actually a good idea to have training wheels a.k.a. docking computer as default on every ship, and especially for new players. The game needed a tutorial by all means to make the entry a little bit easier, but it should have been a tutorial on how to fly your ship and not how to not fly it. Docking computer should have remained an optional later purchase, after you learned how to fly and when and when not to go AFK. If then you want to be a little lazy and fit one, by all means. At least you might be more aware and ready to take over when things go wrong by then.
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Newcomer / Intro Ship Destroyed due to spontaneous "Criminal Activity" | Rage-Quit
Well yes, docking computer is an aid, but without supervision it really can destroy your ship. Better have basic flying skills before using it.
And good old Sidewinder is easy ship to master, for example it does not have thing like inertia of big ones...
Quite possibly... my only sin has been to not cut my speed once I have positioned myself at least in view of the letter box...... and even then you just get a message saying to slow your speed down before auto dock can proceed... so I cannot even fathom how you can queue for that long to get IN...
Well if the OP was at for example Coelho Station in Open then there could be a large number queuing to get out and in - if they are all using the ADC that is. Lots of hollow icons in that station most of the time. However, as I said - the OP overriding the DC by applying a bit of throttle and then engaging again would probably mean them continually going to the back of the queue (just a guess).
In fact you can dock at any speed, they just nag you about speed, plus if you hit anyone while speeding especially if your speeding destroys other ship, you are bad criminal....
Except now I have an ear worm ... “You’ve been hit by... you’ve been hit by... a smooth criminal” ....
I rammed into the landing ramp for a month before I figured out my thrusters were backasswards. Steep learning curve makes the game worth it now after 5000 hr.s
o7 Dub!
And to OP welcome to ED, likely we all had our own "ragequit" moments. Mine was when I first bought Anaconda after painstaking credit earning, no rebuy, and managed to jam it to station exit. Got my ship destroyed by station. That really brought me nearest point of ragequit 
Kind of easier to have that moment while still flying Sidewinder
Kind of easier to have that moment while still flying Sidewinder
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The closest I've been to ragequitting was when, at around patch 1.3, I was pursued into a conflict zone by police for the faction I was fighting for in the CZ!
If course, if I hadn't gotten myself wanted in the first place, I wouldn't have had that issue.
If course, if I hadn't gotten myself wanted in the first place, I wouldn't have had that issue.
OP here.
I appreciate all the experiences every is sharing!
To all those that drop in to say in so many words "get gud" and think that passes as advice; you're not helping. Share an anecdote, a rumor, or move on. Please don't be toxic.
I'm getting the hang of it bit by bit. having fun. I think I may remove the docking computer module, maybe get some more Cargo space.
But I must say I've just now experienced another instance of lack of detailed info.
Fail a Mission and I've got no clue why the mission was failed!
Okay I'm sourcing 4 units of basic medicine, already delivered two, when I dropped off 6 Animal Monitors on the last run. I'm flying around looking for the other two, as i'm going to contact to request docking permission I see the hard to miss bright red FAILED stamp on the mission in the Transactions menu. I docked[manually; thnx trolls for making me mention this] before investigating, because I've learned that lesson once this week already.
Transaction window has no explanation.
Got a message from the Mission provider Subject: Mission Contract Rescinded. From Kayleigh Valdez. Body: BLANK
Not showing what crime was committed felt like an F You. This one feels just Lazy.
Come to find out I was promoted to Peddler, and I am no longer welcome in the starter systems, so they pulled my district permit. Okay that's perfectly reasonable, bigger and better systems on the horizon, sounds like I won't need that mission anyway.
However my sentiment still stands. Why the goose chase? The mission is designed appropriately to get rescinded when the district permit is pulled, and furthermore to send a message. But its blank. My ship is the only hand I have with which to reach out and interact with the galaxy, why does it keep leaving me in the dark?
This might be a bit harsh of a statement coming from a noobie to a bunch of 100-1000hr+ players. But I didn't know I was buying an early access game, wait lemme just... Well I just read that its been out 5 years now
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How many more continuity errors, and incomplete features are there? And why do you put up with them? I'd love to hear from you all.
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I appreciate all the experiences every is sharing!
To all those that drop in to say in so many words "get gud" and think that passes as advice; you're not helping. Share an anecdote, a rumor, or move on. Please don't be toxic.
I'm getting the hang of it bit by bit. having fun. I think I may remove the docking computer module, maybe get some more Cargo space.
But I must say I've just now experienced another instance of lack of detailed info.Fail a Mission and I've got no clue why the mission was failed!
Okay I'm sourcing 4 units of basic medicine, already delivered two, when I dropped off 6 Animal Monitors on the last run. I'm flying around looking for the other two, as i'm going to contact to request docking permission I see the hard to miss bright red FAILED stamp on the mission in the Transactions menu. I docked[manually; thnx trolls for making me mention this] before investigating, because I've learned that lesson once this week already.
Transaction window has no explanation.
Got a message from the Mission provider Subject: Mission Contract Rescinded. From Kayleigh Valdez. Body: BLANK
Not showing what crime was committed felt like an F You. This one feels just Lazy.
Come to find out I was promoted to Peddler, and I am no longer welcome in the starter systems, so they pulled my district permit. Okay that's perfectly reasonable, bigger and better systems on the horizon, sounds like I won't need that mission anyway.
However my sentiment still stands. Why the goose chase? The mission is designed appropriately to get rescinded when the district permit is pulled, and furthermore to send a message. But its blank. My ship is the only hand I have with which to reach out and interact with the galaxy, why does it keep leaving me in the dark?
This might be a bit harsh of a statement coming from a noobie to a bunch of 100-1000hr+ players. But I didn't know I was buying an early access game, wait lemme just... Well I just read that its been out 5 years now
.How many more continuity errors, and incomplete features are there? And why do you put up with them? I'd love to hear from you all.
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Typically mission fails because you were destroyed while running it and having mission specific cargo on board, or you ran over mission time limit. But I really cannot so why your mission failed. And that answer comes from guy having over 1000 hours in game...Edit, of course your mission failed because you could not anymore deliver it, due to you being kicked out of starter region. (When I started there was no starter region)
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This not saying "git gud" and I am not trolling you but...
You failed the mission because you lost the starter-area permit - by being docked outside the starter systems (you were at Noriega Port in Arare) and promoted.
So basically coming on here and moaning about it just illustrates that you failed to exercise "the little grey cells" as m. Poirot would put it.
The game didn't have a brain-fart, it was just the result of pilot misunderstanding what was going on. Really smart to criticize a game when it was actually your fault.
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I am aware of why the mission was failed, I reiterate where I acknowledged this below your comment above. It also mentions how I believe its perfectly reasonable that the mission was rescinded. I go on to give comments on the user interface, or lack thereof. In that I had to investigate a completely separate and seemingly unrelated system message about a district permit (also something that, at this point I'd never heard of) where I had to look up in the pilots manual what it even was. I agree there was no brain fart, but my opinion is that the user interface (the way that the galaxy interfaces with me, the pilot) could use some polishing, in that the game sent me a story headline, and I had to be the investigative reporter, and follow breadcrumbs to figure out why. The criticism is that the game sent me system message with no body, which to me; always has and always will look like a program bug.
But, you popped in, offering no constructive thoughts, having you yourself deemed that sentence to be about you, you defined your own comment as "git gud". You return to defend your unhelpful comment calling it constructive, ignoring whichever portions of my comment you need to, to support your rhetoric. I understand that you clearly have a deep emotional connection to the game. That's great! It's an awesome game! I'm not trashing it. I have some criticisms sure, but doesn't everyone? If your reasoning for being so combative to is along the "who does this guy think he is" line. Then well, I read the forum rules, and I don't think you're here for the right reasons. If you've got some other reason for ignoring the entire second half of my last comment to come back and insult my intelligence, keep it to yourself.
All I am looking is for constructive discussion about Elite Dangerous, have you heard of it?!
" I do not understand this comment, therefore I will ridicule it, if people laugh, maybe they will like me. "
How so? I was promoted for completing missions, lost the newbie island permit, the final subsequent mission was failed because I lost access to the system. Clearly paying attention.