Newcomer / Intro Sad short (gameplay) story

[Joshua Lagrange Calvert]

600+ hours of gameplay and everytime I had to land on a planed at night (that is, 80% of the times) I was cursing the fate as I couldn't see well...
Only yesterday I found out I have "night vision" mode...

The End

(Sharing this mainly because there may be others doing the same )

 

[Achtung-Goomba]

I use night vision for combat visibility, but prefer to approach night-time planetary landings with just the lights on; hooning through the structures of a planetary base with just your headlights is jolly good fun!

 

[Dragsham]

Lol...brave lad admitting this. I'm sure along with forgetting limpets and fuel scoops this is legend!@

Small note. I didn't know about the G reading on the hud displaying the planets gravity till months after I'd started playing...sure I'm not alone on this boop

 

[Northpin]

600+ hours of gameplay and everytime I had to land on a planed at night (that is, 80% of the times) I was cursing the fate as I couldn't see well...
Only yesterday I found out I have "night vision" mode...

The End

(Sharing this mainly because there may be others doing the same )

Yep, that is one of those

Along with the fact that you can sell the limpets in the very same screen you are buying them, instead of destroying them (great source of discontent back then when you could not destroy limpets and people used to jettison them in the stations and were getting fined for it)
And: don't try to manually scoop things in a Python if you have hardpoints out and a big gun dangling right in front of the cargo hatch
Or if you equip missiles dont forget to rearm afterwards (they didnt fixed that, did they?)
Or dont forget your crew after equipping a fighter hangar
If you lose the canopy and the counter down is trying to give you hints that you're going to suffocate, dont despair - you can synth air
Or dont try to neutron boost without a fuel scoop (yep, this is experience talking here)
And the all time favorite, dont forget your limpets

 

[SCiARA]

I never knew I could change the names of my bookmarked locations until very recently..thing is I knew it was a thing for PC, just assumed us consolers couldn't do it

 

[Achtung-Goomba]

I never knew I could change the names of my bookmarked locations until very recently..thing is I knew it was a thing for PC, just assumed us consolers couldn't do it

Alphabetical prefixes are the predictive text console user’s friend!

 

[Para Handy]

So as not to feel left out, here is my most embarrassing one:

It was only after weeks of using the SRV when Horizons was introduced that I first noticed the Board Ship light below the fuel gauge.

 

[Northpin]

So as not to feel left out, here is my most embarrassing one:

It was only after weeks of using the SRV when Horizons was introduced that I first noticed the Board Ship light below the fuel gauge.

Now you really ruined my day
And i play for more than 2 years already

 

[Joshua Lagrange Calvert]

So as not to feel left out, here is my most embarrassing one:

It was only after weeks of using the SRV when Horizons was introduced that I first noticed the Board Ship light below the fuel gauge.

I learned it now...

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

When I first started out, I found I just couldn't land my ship on a planetary surface.

It turns out all ships have landing gear that can be lowered.

 

[Maenden]

My favourite trick is going on ground based planetary missions and forgetting to take a SRV.

 

[Yingnei Gasua]

So as not to feel left out, here is my most embarrassing one:

It was only after weeks of using the SRV when Horizons was introduced that I first noticed the Board Ship light below the fuel gauge.

Wait, so you were ejecting/self-destruct from the SRV?

 

[Para Handy]

Wait, so you were ejecting/self-destruct from the SRV?

No I was fiddling back and forward until the "Board Ship" in the crotch UI panel enabled. Really stupidly frustrating.

 

[Achtung-Goomba]

No I was fiddling back and forward until the "Board Ship" in the crotch UI panel enabled. Really stupidly frustrating.

Cannot lie, I’ve gotta hold my hand up there too✌

 

[Chris Simon]

So as not to feel left out, here is my most embarrassing one:

It was only after weeks of using the SRV when Horizons was introduced that I first noticed the Board Ship light below the fuel gauge.

Similarly to this (as in - initial SRV woes) - it took me weeks to realize that when I'm at a base/city on the surface, I can normally request docking permission in the left panel and it will guide me to my ship's docking bay.

 

[Nightjar]

So as not to feel left out, here is my most embarrassing one:

It was only after weeks of using the SRV when Horizons was introduced that I first noticed the Board Ship light below the fuel gauge.

below the fuel gauge you say?
o7

 

[CMDR Jago Kain]

No I was fiddling back and forward until the "Board Ship" in the crotch UI panel enabled. Really stupidly frustrating.

Same here. I only noticed the light a few months ago. Was it always there or added later?

 

[Para Handy]

Same here. I only noticed the light a few months ago. Was it always there or added later?

It was there from Horizons introduction - it is certainly shown on page 156 of the manual v2.0 (Horizons update) which file is dated Dec 2015 on my PC.

EDIT - redid the crop so the image includes @Chris Simon's point about finding the garage in a port.

P.S. I see their "role switch interface" is rather more polite than "crotch UI panel"?

 

[Joshua Lagrange Calvert]

No I was fiddling back and forward until the "Board Ship" in the crotch UI panel enabled. Really stupidly frustrating.

Man, you made my day - this is what i did until few hours ago

 

[Donaldi]

noticed the Board Ship light below the fuel gauge.

Learned just this week, after almost a year busily collecting mats on the surface including some reckless crash^H^H^Hdriving, that you do not need to recall your ship for getting your SRV hull repaired.