Good day, commanders.
Sometimes something happens that's enough to put a smile on your face and I've just had such an encounter. There's so much vitriol and discontent floating around at the moment I thought I'd share a brief but more positive story
Having recently returned from a sightseeing trip to the core I decided to be a good Federal pilot and pledge to Herr Hudson. Team mates have helped explain exactly what I should be trying to do so after a few runs back and forth to take garrison supplies I then entered the fray in a system that we're fighting for control over with Old Hag Torval. I'm not much of a PVPer but try not to shy away from fighting so when a player appears on my radar I dutifully swung around to identify them.
An Imperial, deadly rank, in a Clipper. Commander Darrax. (Hope it's okay to name as it's a thoroughly positive encounter)
He fired the first shot and I lazily heaved my ship around to bring my guns to bear, at which point I realised I had some problems.
You see, yesterday my laptop (my main platform to play ED on) died. I've set up my PC and updated Elite but the last time I played on here I was using my X52. "I'll deploy chaff," I thought to myself. ...but the keybinding is missing. I kept fighting and took the Clipper's shields offline but my own were faltering, "I'll deploy a SCB," I thought to myself. ...but that keybinding was missing as well.
Darrax was clearly of the same fight-or-die mentality as me and we continued fighting, our hulls becoming increasingly battered.
I then suddenly realised that my ship had stopped responding to all pitch, roll and fire commands. My PC's mouse batteries had died, protesting at having not been used for ages.
"I yield." I typed, "But you can kill me."
The firing stopped, so I carried on typing. "My mouse has died." I explained. To paraphrase, I went on to say "I don't mind you killing me, you won the fight."
Darrax asked me to stay behind him so he did not shoot me - I believe that means he had turrets and, with my hull at 1%, he did not want to accidentally kill me after being a gentleman.
Federal forces jumped in to the instance and I believe Darrax began to engage them, as they began protesting. "I'll log off to fix my mouse but out of respect for your win I'll leave the system for a few hours" I said.
Suddenly, "Ship scan detected." followed by "You've committed a crime!" (I had garnered a bounty by virtue of trying to prevent the Old Hag's ships doing their work).
One shot later, with my shields about 70% ready to come back online, I'm facing the insurance screen and a six million credit buyback.
So thank you very much to Cmdr Darrax, I don't know if you're on the forum but you behaved like a true gentleman and thank you very much to the Federal security forces that killed me when I was working on behalf of the Federation
EDIT: PS: If Cmdr Darrax isn't on the forum but someone knows him, please send him my thanks
Sometimes something happens that's enough to put a smile on your face and I've just had such an encounter. There's so much vitriol and discontent floating around at the moment I thought I'd share a brief but more positive story
Having recently returned from a sightseeing trip to the core I decided to be a good Federal pilot and pledge to Herr Hudson. Team mates have helped explain exactly what I should be trying to do so after a few runs back and forth to take garrison supplies I then entered the fray in a system that we're fighting for control over with Old Hag Torval. I'm not much of a PVPer but try not to shy away from fighting so when a player appears on my radar I dutifully swung around to identify them.
An Imperial, deadly rank, in a Clipper. Commander Darrax. (Hope it's okay to name as it's a thoroughly positive encounter)
He fired the first shot and I lazily heaved my ship around to bring my guns to bear, at which point I realised I had some problems.
You see, yesterday my laptop (my main platform to play ED on) died. I've set up my PC and updated Elite but the last time I played on here I was using my X52. "I'll deploy chaff," I thought to myself. ...but the keybinding is missing. I kept fighting and took the Clipper's shields offline but my own were faltering, "I'll deploy a SCB," I thought to myself. ...but that keybinding was missing as well.
Darrax was clearly of the same fight-or-die mentality as me and we continued fighting, our hulls becoming increasingly battered.
I then suddenly realised that my ship had stopped responding to all pitch, roll and fire commands. My PC's mouse batteries had died, protesting at having not been used for ages.
"I yield." I typed, "But you can kill me."
The firing stopped, so I carried on typing. "My mouse has died." I explained. To paraphrase, I went on to say "I don't mind you killing me, you won the fight."
Darrax asked me to stay behind him so he did not shoot me - I believe that means he had turrets and, with my hull at 1%, he did not want to accidentally kill me after being a gentleman.
Federal forces jumped in to the instance and I believe Darrax began to engage them, as they began protesting. "I'll log off to fix my mouse but out of respect for your win I'll leave the system for a few hours" I said.
Suddenly, "Ship scan detected." followed by "You've committed a crime!" (I had garnered a bounty by virtue of trying to prevent the Old Hag's ships doing their work).
One shot later, with my shields about 70% ready to come back online, I'm facing the insurance screen and a six million credit buyback.
So thank you very much to Cmdr Darrax, I don't know if you're on the forum but you behaved like a true gentleman and thank you very much to the Federal security forces that killed me when I was working on behalf of the Federation
EDIT: PS: If Cmdr Darrax isn't on the forum but someone knows him, please send him my thanks
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