What did I do wrong at Aitkins Hub?? (arrested!)

Piratescribe

Piratescribe
I'm a brand new player, been doing courier missions, accepted one to Aitkins Hub w/o knowing it was a planetary base. So after a while of trying to figure out why I couldn't find it, realized I had to land -- never landed before! But I watched one tutorial.... and after nearly an hour of maneuvering and getting in position LOL (was kinda fun, if tedious) I successfully landed! Like, on the rock JUST outside the base. Nothing happened. So I took off again, and thought I should land on one of the pads I'm seeing other ships land and take off from. As I do, all of a sudden I get a warning about pad loitering! So I try to slide over to another one, but the warnings keep coming, and before I could give up and zip back into orbit, I'm shot down, destroyed, and find myself in prison! :O (I kinda had to laugh -- fortunately I hadn't bought a thing for my ship yet, so I was only out Cr600 in fines!)

So, what did I do wrong? Where should I have landed??
 

[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos

[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos
Piratescribe said:
Uuuugh!! I coulda saved a whole hour of my life in frustrating figuring out landing!!
...but then... I FIGURED OUT LANDING! :D I was SOOO proud of myself for landing my ship on a planet successfully!! :D man I wish I got bonus points for that LOL
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This is a great story. Learning to land is a great thing to do, I don't think anyone reading this doesn't know that relief and pride you're talking about.
 

scadh

scadh
Piratescribe said:
Uuuugh!! I coulda saved a whole hour of my life in frustrating figuring out landing!!
...but then... I FIGURED OUT LANDING! :D I was SOOO proud of myself for landing my ship on a planet successfully!! :D man I wish I got bonus points for that LOL
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Yep, you've got to know how to land manually. Before long, you'll be landing on barren planets where no outpost exists, and building your ships for specific purposes in such a way that you won't want to "waste" one of your precious optional compartments on a docking computer. Both of those situations force you to land manually. Besides, as you noted, it's one of the most immersive (and sometimes stressful) parts of the game. You'll master it soon enough, and be diving at the docking bays with reckless abandon like the rest of us! (especially on the wide-open spaces of a fleet carrier). :)

Welcome to Elite: Dangerous!
 

Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
Piratescribe said:
Uuuugh!! I coulda saved a whole hour of my life in frustrating figuring out landing!!
...but then... I FIGURED OUT LANDING! :D I was SOOO proud of myself for landing my ship on a planet successfully!! :D man I wish I got bonus points for that LOL
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Lorenzo Waringos said:
This is a great story. Learning to land is a great thing to do, I don't think anyone reading this doesn't know that relief and pride you're talking about.
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Achtung-Goomba said:
I still feel that relief every high-G planet when I’m not paying attention!
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Lorenzo Waringos said:
What’s your record?
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2.1g planetary scan mission: Courier with 777 Boost - FA-Off drop to surface... Forgot FA-on bit of the equation... Pulled up to level off - Courier bounced from surface with shields gone and 65% hull loss... Cussed a bit, reboot shields on the way to base, scannned with 50% shields - some popguns from base took down to a shadow before I boosted away..

A fine day's work!
 

Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
Piratescribe said:
I FIGURED OUT LANDING! :D I was SOOO proud of myself for landing my ship on a planet successfully!! :D man I wish I got bonus points for that LOL
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Trust us lot when we tell you that is a great move and an achievement - excellent stuff.
You will now go forward in great leaps, then, after a while start to get lazy (well, I did, you may not) and 'forget' minor things - like slowing down & stuff...
But the greatest thing is that 'buzz' when everything goes just right! Don't worry about losing ships to mistakes, no matter how embarrasing, I'm certain that many of us 'vets' have been 'less than perfect' on occasion 🥳
(Or if they happen to be me, quite regularly!)
 

Bottom Hat

Bottom Hat
I had a really fast landing once in my new corvette next to taine landing in upsilon aquarii. I forgot it was a 2.4g blob.

Requested docking permission, about 5km from the edge of the base. Levelled off to let the DC do the work (because it was a high g planet, stupid), and zeroed the throttle.

I say it was new, I remember well as I'd not engineered anything at this point, apart from reverse engineering my brain.

So I continued on my merry way, feeling all smug. Then the belly flop happened, followed by the rebuy screen.

Oh crap.
 

Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
Bottom Hat said:
I had a really fast landing once in my new corvette next to taine landing in upsilon aquarii. I forgot it was a 2.4g blob.

Requested docking permission, about 5km from the edge of the base. Levelled off to let the DC do the work (because it was a high g planet, stupid), and zeroed the throttle.

I say it was new, I remember well as I'd not engineered anything at this point, apart from reverse engineering my brain.

So I continued on my merry way, feeling all smug. Then the belly flop happened, followed by the rebuy screen.

Oh crap.
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Oh, that is terrible... :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 

Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
Bottom Hat said:
apart from reverse engineering my brain
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Hehe....
That reminds me of asking for docking permission and zooming onto the medium pad of an outpost in colonia...

Having not paid much attention to the screen, and conveniently forgotten the controlling faction was hostile to me, I made an almost perfect super-quick landing before the station and platform guns demolished my FDL... 🥳
 
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