An unfortunate sequence of events

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That was my Type-9 w/ 5A Shields and 3x 0A Boosters just a few days ago :D
ELITE-DeathByNPC1.jpg

(plus 496tons of Palladium cooking off behind me - had an Imperial Eagle and a Python say "Thanks for dropping by!")

If you need a Trade buddy w/ embedded Escort for a few hours, just fire me a PM ;)
Type-9's with full cargo holds seem to attract a little more trouble than they can handle without a really good Equipment.
Running mine now with 6A Shields and a small Cell Bank. It really needs a small Shield Cell Bank nowadays to survive, otherwise they indeed go down very fast (T9 Shield strength isn't exactly stellar)...
 
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DaveB

DaveB
FalconFly said:
That was my Type-9 w/ 5A Shields and 3x 0A Boosters just a few days ago :D
http://www.falconfly.de/temp/ELITE-DeathByNPC1.jpg
(plus 496tons of Palladium cooking off behind me - had an Imperial Eagle and a Python say "Thanks for dropping by!")

If you need a Trade buddy w/ embedded Escort for a few hours, just fire me a PM ;)
Type-9's with full cargo holds seem to attract a little more trouble than they can handle without a really good Equipment.
Running mine now with 6A Shields and a small Cell Bank. It really needs a small Shield Cell Bank nowadays to survive, otherwise they indeed go down very fast...
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Particularly when you get jumped by a clipper and a python that are both packing railgun loadouts! I've no problem with that, they got me fair and square. The fact that they cost me my insurance and lost me a load of cargo is neither here nor there. I had enough to cope with it and was about to recover it all. The fact that dumping a few dozen tons of baccy ALSO dumped 4 milliion of legitimate cargo when I didnt ask the ship to do that is what gets up my nose.
 

afreeflyingsoul

afreeflyingsoul
DaveB said:
Ok, that's me done playing for today. Yes this is a rant. No it's not seeking sympathy for losing a ship while "trading naked" and getting sidey'd, because that isn't what happened.

Part the first: Space cow with A rated shields and two A boosters, plus a full load of tobacco. Get jumped by an NPC wing and they are ALL rocking railguns. Kaboom before I can even get to the UI to drop them some cargo to appease them, let alone before my FSD has cooled down. Sucks, but it's part of the game and I had enough to cover the insurance. I've still got insurance+cargo funds left so I'll recover that in half an hour or so. Rebuy, restock and off I go again. This time completing the run ok.

Part the second on the next leg of my loop: Load up with Beryllium. Get to my destination, drop at station and get ready for approach. What the heck? Illicit Cargo? Check UI. Darn, I mismoused at the last station and there's still a few cans of tobacco in there. Shrug. I can take the loss of duping these few before I hit the scan zone. Select the tobacco, left arrow to choose to jettison it all, enter... Wait... WHAT???? The game glitched and dumped all my 400+ tons of Beryllium too. Only got a few cans back before the rest despawned. Roughly a 4 million loss. (and before you ask no I didn't mistakenly hit jettison all, (a) that option isnt available from where I was in the UI, (b) that key is unbound in my control configs)

And that leaves me unable to restock cargo without cutting into the insurance budget. Filed a support ticket but if FD don't help out and get me the cargo or credits back I'm going to have to sell the T9 because it's not safe to fly it any more.

Bought a few tons of biowaste and scrap and tried to reproduce it, taking exactly the same actions. No joy so it must have been a glitch rather than a systematic bug but it's still as annoying as heck and between the two events has set me back a lot of play time since I'll be making up the loss in a ship with WAY less cargo capacity. I was planning on playing a lot this weekend too, that's not going to happen now because I've got to wait to give FD time to look at my support ticket before pushing the button on taking the additional millions of loss from selling the T9.

I need a beer.
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Good thing you stopped... you know what happens in threes!
 

DaveB

DaveB
FD comes through again. They corrected the glitch by crediting me the sale price of the cargo I lost in the glitch. OP updated.
 
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