Done with ED

Colpocentisis

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I'm just not going to be playing anymore. The other day I went out in my Anaconda to screw around in the HasRes for a bit and ended up getting my butt handed to me, so I bugged out with 30% hull left. I made it out no problem, SC'd my way to the nearest station, got docking access and headed in for some repairs. When I tried to lower my landing gear (down on D-pad + B) I guess I must not have been authoritative enough with my D-pad and ended up boosting into the damned landing pad (B). That knocked my shields down to nearly nothing and somehow I was now STUCK under a freaking gantry or something and literally NOTHING I did would get me out of it. Unfortunately for me, that gantry just happened to be close enough to another pad that I got blown out of the goddamned sky by the station defenses while I was impotently trying to get my ship free of the stupid freaking jitterbug clippy trap I had somehow gotten myself into. Bam, Anaconda destroyed.

Now I get it, I made a mistake by not devoting 100% of my attention to properly and authoritatively depressing the D-pad button. My fault, right? Better be perfect every time or risk getting mercilessly and inexplicably stuck in a place the game will unquestionably kill you for being stuck in, got it, no problem. Except this isn't the first time this has happened to me, this exact same scenario, where I CAN'T GET FREE to clear the damned pad no matter what I do.

Now the last couple of times this happened, I just muttered some expletives, paid my rebuy, and continued on my way. This time though, I can't make that money back. I have enough for a rebuy, sure, but it'll literally wipe me out to where I have to fly a freaking Hauler if I want to survive the next rubbish trap and I can never make that money back because I have a real life to live outside of the game and after the nerf on mining there's just absolutely zero possibility I'll spend 50+ hours mining enough random metals hoping for some that are worth anything useful.

Anyways it just isn't fun anymore. I don't play video games to do work, I have enough work to do in real life. I play video games to relax, but this game is work. In fact it's so lame now I'm literally playing MechWarrior 5 instead. If you know anything about MW5 you know how damning a statement that is.

I hope you all fix this thing so that it's worth my time again, but my understanding from reading other posts here is that you won't, so unless anything changes I'm out. Y'all have fun with your Odessy release.
 

Ettanin

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You shouldn't be in an anaconda if you didn't figure out how to land safely or to handle exceptions.

Menu logging is always fine if something during the procedure goes haywire.

Also:
Rule #1: Never fly without rebuy.
Rule #2: If you can't afford a potential rebuy, fly another ship you can afford a rebuy with.
 

Colpocentisis

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Ettanin said:
You shouldn't be in an anaconda if you didn't figure out how to land safely or to handle exceptions.

Menu logging is always fine if something during the procedure goes haywire.

Also:
Rule #1: Never fly without rebuy.
Rule #2: If you can't afford a potential rebuy, fly another ship you can afford a rebuy with.
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Thanks for your extremely helpful response. Being that this is a simulator and not an arcade game, I'll make sure to log out next time I'm flying a helicopter in real life instead of performing an auto rotation.
 

Deleted member 254248

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Heh, I don't mean to laugh, I really do get your frustration and your need to vent. I'm not entirely sure you thought it through enough when you posted here expecting sympathy for the unfortunate event, let alone the rant about quitting the game entirely. Busting your ship up inside a station because you're not focused is the game's way of reminding you to pay more attention.

P.S.-You could always install a docking computer, it's not like that single class 1 optional internal slot is really useful for anything on a combat Anaconda anyway. Then just think of the frustration you'll get to experience when the computer gets you stuck under the same pylon and you get blown up again!
 

Batterby76

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I'd recommend the OP stays away from the Beach. So many gantries. It's like landing in a game of kerplunk (reference for aged gamers)
But yeh try fitting a docking computer. No shame in that..... or is there?
 

oblivionmanman 2476

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no one has said it i dont think 07 cmdr can i have youre stuff haha its a game not real life if stuck as said by others log out in a situation i have to do it it quite often, dont bin the game for that
 

Mavsy 81

Mavsy 81
Could've been worse.
Could've got 87 kills into a 90 kill Massacre contract with 1hr 30 mins left only for the war to end 😒
 

BloodyFingers23

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CMDR Jorval said:
P.S.-You could always install a docking computer, it's not like that single class 1 optional internal slot is really useful for anything on a combat Anaconda anyway. Then just think of the frustration you'll get to experience when the computer gets you stuck under the same pylon and you get blown up again!
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This crap right here. What is the point of a module specifically for automatic docking if it just flings you for no good reason into a wall inside the station? Happened to me, and I wasn't even in a large ship either. I didn't die thankfully but I had to disengage/reengage it twice after the collision to get it to do its job properly. I was so utterly baffled that I had xbox record it.
 
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