A tale of disaster, crash landing, canopy breach, a "Light bulb " moment and loneliness
All because of CMDR Lølwut
Rep to him for finding this godforsaken hell hole
His thread : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=210454
I hereby christen this system Lølwut Hell
Part 1
So I decide to go there, in my Asp, after he said he took tons of heatsinks with him in his Anaconda !!! I had 4 heatsinks in 2 launchers, typical explorer bravado "I know what I'm doing" & "Nothing will hurt me, I am British after all" .
With a hip hip and a muffled hooray I take my sidey to Shinrarta, pick up my combat ready Asp , yes you read correctly, combat ready , and head out 1600 LYs towards this explorer magnet, at 23LY per jump (don't ask).
Now guess , apart of not taking a Conda and more heatsinks, what else I didn't take with me ? AFMUs !!!!!! 800 LYs out it dawned on me
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fast forward 1600LYs
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HOLY MOTHER OF GOD !!!!!
Ok, so I get within 500 Ls of the 3rd planet, then go for it, finger on heatsink launcher triggers
I was so nervous & concentrating I forgot to press F10
As I approached I finally realise I am going really really slow Forgot the mass of the star will slow me down on my approach to the planet
The plan was 2 heatsinks to land, and 2 to take off when I leave, nope ! I used 3 just to get down and even then everything went crazy after my temperature hit 150 ish
To top it off I landed on the dark side, HARD
I calculated the circumference at about 58k, and guesstimated I needed around 15k to get near the light side of this planet.So my Asp does about 1000 km per hour, that's 15 hours
No 2 ways about it, point ship to escape vector, fire her up, wait for heat to go above 120 and punch in the last heatsink.
By the time I skimmed the planet at around a height of 800km my temperature was in the high 170s, so I pointed her down and hoped for the best.
Somehow I crash landed without exploding, after half my modules failed or switched off.
I hadn't exploded Happy for 5 seconds until I heard heavy breathing, canopy breached
This is after my crash landing, pointing up (look at radar)
Damaged modules
6 mins to live
I tried to deploy the buggy, but its option was red and wouldn't delpoy
Sat there for 3 more minutes thinking and smiling as to how much I love this game , then a light bulb moment happened.
I am not officially "Landed" , hmmmmm
Tried lateral and main thrusters and they were working, so was the landing gear
I landed and the buggy deployed *dancing banana here *
(I had 3:40 oxygen left at this point)
went to the front and no canopy breach graphics, shame
After 2 mins of messing about in the buggy I thought I should board ship whilst it has oxygen, and see what I can do
So I boarded thinking I have 1 minute of oxygen left, and realised no oxygen had been used.
DUH, I wasn't using any as I was in the buggy, well done FD
Ok, this gave me an idea
How about I dismiss ship, then recall it after a few minutes and see if oxygen is still around the 3:00 mark, where I left it, or will it count down when she is away(possible bug or whatever) ?
This always makes me sad, there she goes
I waited 2 minutes, just to allow time if oxygen depletes in an "away" ship
Recall made, I board and what ? :S
We have a bug, I will be reporting this to FD.
For now I have a ship with limitless Oxygen, as long I spend less than 7:00 in it
To be honest, it is lonely here, and I don't want to self-destruct
If any of you wish to make a 1600LY journey to come keep me company, please do.
I will be here for a day or 2, at least.
HD 49368
Planet 3
-4.9
80.6
- - - - - Additional Content Posted / Auto Merge - - - - -
Bring a conda, at least 2 AFMUs and all the heatsinks you can fit
All because of CMDR Lølwut
Rep to him for finding this godforsaken hell hole
His thread : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=210454
I hereby christen this system Lølwut Hell
Part 1
So I decide to go there, in my Asp, after he said he took tons of heatsinks with him in his Anaconda !!! I had 4 heatsinks in 2 launchers, typical explorer bravado "I know what I'm doing" & "Nothing will hurt me, I am British after all" .
With a hip hip and a muffled hooray I take my sidey to Shinrarta, pick up my combat ready Asp , yes you read correctly, combat ready , and head out 1600 LYs towards this explorer magnet, at 23LY per jump (don't ask).
Now guess , apart of not taking a Conda and more heatsinks, what else I didn't take with me ? AFMUs !!!!!! 800 LYs out it dawned on me
.
.
.
fast forward 1600LYs
.
.
.
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD !!!!!
Ok, so I get within 500 Ls of the 3rd planet, then go for it, finger on heatsink launcher triggers
I was so nervous & concentrating I forgot to press F10
As I approached I finally realise I am going really really slow
Forgot the mass of the star will slow me down on my approach to the planet The plan was 2 heatsinks to land, and 2 to take off when I leave, nope ! I used 3 just to get down and even then everything went crazy after my temperature hit 150 ish
To top it off I landed on the dark side, HARD
I calculated the circumference at about 58k, and guesstimated I needed around 15k to get near the light side of this planet.So my Asp does about 1000 km per hour, that's 15 hours
No 2 ways about it, point ship to escape vector, fire her up, wait for heat to go above 120 and punch in the last heatsink.
By the time I skimmed the planet at around a height of 800km my temperature was in the high 170s, so I pointed her down and hoped for the best.
Somehow I crash landed without exploding, after half my modules failed or switched off.
I hadn't exploded
Happy for 5 seconds until I heard heavy breathing, canopy breached This is after my crash landing, pointing up (look at radar)
Damaged modules
6 mins to live
I tried to deploy the buggy, but its option was red and wouldn't delpoy
Sat there for 3 more minutes thinking and smiling as to how much I love this game , then a light bulb moment happened.
I am not officially "Landed" , hmmmmm
Tried lateral and main thrusters and they were working, so was the landing gear
I landed and the buggy deployed *dancing banana here *
(I had 3:40 oxygen left at this point)
went to the front and no canopy breach graphics, shame
After 2 mins of messing about in the buggy I thought I should board ship whilst it has oxygen, and see what I can do
So I boarded thinking I have 1 minute of oxygen left, and realised no oxygen had been used.
DUH, I wasn't using any as I was in the buggy, well done FD
Ok, this gave me an idea
How about I dismiss ship, then recall it after a few minutes and see if oxygen is still around the 3:00 mark, where I left it, or will it count down when she is away(possible bug or whatever) ?
This always makes me sad, there she goes
I waited 2 minutes, just to allow time if oxygen depletes in an "away" ship
Recall made, I board and what ? :S
We have a bug, I will be reporting this to FD.
For now I have a ship with limitless Oxygen, as long I spend less than 7:00 in it
To be honest, it is lonely here, and I don't want to self-destruct
If any of you wish to make a 1600LY journey to come keep me company, please do.
I will be here for a day or 2, at least.
HD 49368
Planet 3
-4.9
80.6
- - - - - Additional Content Posted / Auto Merge - - - - -
Bring a conda, at least 2 AFMUs and all the heatsinks you can fit
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