But I didn't listen!!!!!

Cybindis

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So.

Whilst I was messing around near Sol, doing whatever I wanted, and trying to get into bed with sirius corp so I could get access to qwent.

I felt like I did a while ago.
I felt frustrated. I felt annoyed. I felt crummy. I felt like I just stopped caring. I felt ground out.

What happened a while ago when i felt like this?

I dropped everything, went to a shipyard, got a DBX, outfitted it, then went to Sag A*

That took a few months. And I didn't really get back that long ago. I got back a month or so after 2.1 dropped. Or at least it seems like it. That was my first proper trip into the black. I almost turned back at 3K LY out, but I pushed forward, and after some dithering I got to Sag A*. Then I started back, this took longer because I burned out from doing too much exploring too quickly, and I missed my Federal Corvette something fierce. So I did a mad dash back to the bubble, and that was that, I was then fresh, and eager to check out Engineers.

Not to say I didn't enjoy the trip, it was great. I loved it, all alone, no one but myself, and that other guy, he's pretty cool. Just cruising along seeing the sights, catching a system that I'm so proud I got my name stamped on. All the other junk, I also felt a sense of achievement. I went 52K LY because "Screw society."


I've done it again. I'm currently on my way to Beagle, but not a straight shot to Beagle. Not like those wusses. I'm planning to take a spiral arm there, and a spiral arm back. THE GRAND TOUR! And depending on how it goes 3 things are likely to happen:


1. I see a lot of good stuff, and come back fresh, but this time It was the other side of the galaxy instead of the centre.

2. I go completely crazy on the return trip and no-one hears from me again (I searched some threads about a loop route of the galaxy. A CMDR called HowardHughes and another one called Djotic or something. It was the only thread I could find on the subject, and so far it only seems like there are only a handful of CMDRs that would consider something so stupid, and now I count myself as one of them.

3. I come back in a state of shock, and vow never to go that far again just because "Why not?"


That was until today. I opened the launcher and that Galnet story caught my eye "Explorers urged to be cautious!" it said.

"Hah!" I thought. I'll be fine, if anything does happen I'll be nestled in a sea of stars so far from anything there's not much point coming after me!


Then stuff started getting weird.

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I was minding my own business, checking system maps, charging my FSD, and preparing to move on to the next system. When I came out of the interface and was greeted with this.

It was odd. But I had an eerie feeling that it was something to do with that galnet article. I mean I was on the wrong side of where all the "Spoopy Aliyuns!" stuff was hinted to be going on. But I was an explorer, and I was about 12K LY from Sol at this point after a good day's jumping the day before.

But I pressed on. Onwards with my grand tour. I was still 18K LY from my first checkpoint I had set myself, and although I wasn't going to burn myself out doing it all in one day, because it's a hell of a trip, burning myself out now wouldn't help.


And all seemed to be going well, until I reached a stopping point and went to have my dinner. It was modest, the ship's galley is pretty much stuffed with MRE boxes. I mean, it's not the best food. But it works.

It fills you up, and handily, it stops you from crapping your suit when you're in the middle of a critical fuel scoop. I'm already down to 97% hull from some quite frankly silly mistakes.

So I decide to have a break. Land on a planet. Dismiss the ship, and go and find a nice picnic spot that happened to be in a crater, I mean, hey, meteors rarely strike the same place, what's the harm.

Eat my picnic and I must've dozed off. Or maybe I'm still asleep.

My SRV seems to be tumbling through a fog, but I can still see the stars.

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Should I call for help?

I don't even know where I am anymore. all I know is that it's hazy, there's no floor, and I can hear wind, for some reason.........


Maybe I should've stayed at Daedalus.......

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My fuel reserve warning keeps beeping at me.....



At least I have something for company during my descent into the abyss......

There's sombre piano music being piped in from somewhere.... Am I doomed to this free-fall forever? Is the universe aware of my demise and this is some cruel joke to play music to accompany me? Or maybe I've been removed from this plane of existence and I'm experiencing purgatory.

It's..... It's cold.....
 
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aRJay

aRJay
Once you have fallen past the centre of the planet you should start to slow down and eventually come to a stop near the surface on the other side, given enough fuel you could try boosting up to get above the surface and then laterally to try and find solid ground.

Perhaps they have laid a trap by shooting a hole through the planet then covering the ends with something that sublimes away under any pore pressure than the camouflaging dust.

Immersion spoiling content!
Log out then log back in the non Horizons version of the game, that should get you back in your ship in orbit.
 
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Red Anders

Red Anders
Imagine what I thought when I exited the galaxy map whilst scanning a black hole a couple of months back to this:

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I've tried to block the whole episode out of my mind but some nights I still wake at 3am shaking. I genuinely think I may have let out a strangled scream when it happened. Just a small one.
 
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Cybindis

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Wh1teReaper said:
For some strange reason your ship looking pink like that reminds me of a video card going bad.
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I had another one yesterday where it went green. And to be honest I'm not really going to blame my computer, it's already in its second year and during that time it's had some very hard hours including playing through 28 - 32 degree summer days in the UK with no A/C, and the only problems I've had with it were a defective HDD that I got sorted ages ago. But yeah, I'm not going to lie, if it's a bug great, but this computer has seen such heavy usage I wouldn't be surprised if things really start failing soon, I mean I payed good money for it, and so far I believe I've gotten respectable mileage out of it. It's done me well. It'll be a shame when it does happen though, I wouldn't know what to fill my time with instead..... maybe that "Job" thing that I'm supposed to be looking for now that I graduated......


aRJay said:
Once you have fallen past the centre of the planet you should start to slow down and eventually come to a stop near the surface on the other side, given enough fuel you could try boosting up to get above the surface and then laterally to try and find solid ground.

Perhaps they have laid a trap by shooting a hole through the planet then covering the ends with something that sublimes away under any pore pressure than the camouflaging dust.

Immersion spoiling content!
Log out then log back in the non Horizons version of the game, that should get you back in your ship in orbit.
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I mean it's always worth a shot..... I already tried boosting down/up? But you know how it is with gravity, you can only fall so fast, and I'd rather be using the hours productively instead of falling to the other side of a moon in just to the right, on a spiral arm of nowhere.

Although maybe this is purgatory. Some sort of simulation where I'm living the life I've always wanted through some archaic technology. Maybe that's what it is and I'm being sent back for some reason?


Yeah at first I didn't want to try re-logging because you know it's not every day you fall through a planet, I didn't want to risk ending up at LHS in a sidewinder leaving my Bumble Bee coloured anaconda with perhaps the best Engineer roll component I'm ever going to get, left idle in orbit of a distant world until it either freezes over or explodes. I also didn't want to be dropped into a ravine. But in the end I did man up and try the server re-log. And I was back on the surface, or well above it.... It scared the crap out of me because I thought I had actually been dropped from something like 5km up retaining all the speed of the fall, and I was upside down. Turned out I was only about 3m above the surface so I bumped my noggin and then I was fine. Recalled my ship and I'm calling it a night there. Only got 4-5k travelling done, but it's more than enough. Although the odd thing was it appeared that th game had logged my location, but kept it as a constant point above the surface, because when I did come back, I wasn't in the spot that I left.... Oh well I guess. Thanks for the advice anyway. I didn't need it because I tried it before I refreshed the page, but if I didn't, I would've appreciated it greatly.
 

Cybindis

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Imagine what I thought when I exited the galaxy map whilst scanning a black hole a couple of months back to this:



I've tried to block the whole episode out of my mind but some nights I still wake at 3am shaking. I genuinely think I may have let out a strangled scream when it happened. Just a small one.
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And then you get back and walk into the bar and overhear some wise-cracking pirate saying "Exploration is the lowest risk job!"

Just unbelievable, we're risking our lives just as much, if not more because we're risking our sanity from spending extended periods of time away from human contact.

Anybody in a stock sidewinder can sparkle at somebody.

It takes real guts to cross half the galaxy and return more or less as you left.. hopefully...
 
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WR3ND

WR3ND
For some reason this reminds me of the time when the light level sensors on my canopy and visor systems strangely seemed to have malfunctioned. Fortunately it was at a station so my augmented vision was only bombarded with relatively low levels of ionizing radiation...

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BaronDeKalb

BaronDeKalb
WR3ND said:
For some reason this reminds me of the time when the light level sensors on my canopy and visor systems strangely seemed to have malfunctioned. Fortunately it was at a station so my augmented vision was only bombarded with relatively low levels of ionizing radiation...

https://i.imgur.com/pxKcShg.jpg
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I hit this one recently also, it made docking quite difficult ^^^ All was back to normal after a reload, it was the first time i ever had a lighting issue though.
 

SirAdelaide

SirAdelaide
I'd agree it's likely the video card dying. It would explain the pink, and possibly the falling SRV as the terrain height map is computed on the gpu.
 
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