Came back to play after giving it a break for months, lost everything to an elite python in a normal trade run. I quit.
So i decided to check out elite again with the Horizons expansion on the rise. I left off in my fresh type 7 and I was building my funds back up to get on the roll with my trade routes again. Deep within my powers territory (HQ in fact) i took a contract to bring in semiconduters. I found a place to buy them only a few systems away, still deep in alliance controlled space. I pick them up, leave, and get interdicted by an elite python in less than a few LS from ally HQ. No problem, I evade interdictions all the time.... and im close to home anyway. I aim at the escape vector flawlessly, hardly any time broken away from the reticle... and this is where the bull begins. The pythons meter fills up in less than 10 seconds it seemed while i was pointed at my escape vector the whole time. He broke me from SC and started firing missiles at me nonstop. I cannot outrun him even while boosting, i cannot outmaneuver his gunfire because he is elite. He is picking at my shields while i dodge fire as best as i can until FSD is ready again. i managed to evade the missiles but his proximity and lasers make my FSD take forever to spool up again. i wasnt getting out of there without taking some heat damage. around 50% FSD my shields are down and i start taking module damage and fires begin popping up. i shut down the systems that were on fire and solved my fire issue on the fly. creeping up on 80% or so FSD, my hull is at 40% and dropping quick. I just BARELY made it back into supercruise with my ship temp at 270%... it starts cooling rapidly and my hull was at 3%.... THREE PERCENT!!!! what a relief! NO....... he interdicts me AGAIN before i reach HQ to finish me off. Without taking out a loan for 880~k credits I would lose absolutely everything ive spent months building up to get.....
i hate to say it but this game totally ruined me today. I had no chance of survival and i think i did a pretty epic job with the near escape with 3% hull left. what a great way to come back to this game right? total bull. this game is a piece of . what the am i going to do, spend another month or so just paying off my debt? no. i am done playing. that wasn't even fair. i wouldnt be so mad if it were a player, but today just reminded me how absolutely stupid elite dangerous is, and how you face the same repetetive risks of losing your ass. ive only died once, ever, when i first started playing and didnt know what the i was doing. im a seasoned trader, i aimed at my escape vector perfectly, but the game decided it was time for me to lube up and take it up the rear.
yes i am mad. any of you would be too. i will not be buying horizons.
* EDIT IN CASE PEOPLE MISS THIS FURTHER DOWN *
Hey commanders, OP here. Sorry it took me so long to reply to my ragerant. I had to get the mod to reopen it back up because I wanted to sort of apologize and also say thanks to those who gave very positive/informative replies about what I could have done better, and what has changed about the game since I last played. It is obvious I am not active on these forums and it looks like I signed up just ragequit.
Admittedly, I am quite embarassed that that is true >.<
I will also admit, that in my rage I left out the fact at how epic the experience actually was. I've cooled my jets and realized that my body was shaking and I felt a level of fear that I typically don't feel in games. As maddening as the experience was, and unfortunate (despite being cocky with my new toy), it was a good story to tell my friends about the next day. I also realized I miscalculated how much of a loss I was really taking.
Soooo!!! Thank you those who gave good replies, because you must be a good kind of person to offer a bit of yourself to someone who very obviously was rage-quitting. That says a lot about you, and something about the community too.
So my form of repayment for being a crybaby about it, and to respect those good peoples out there in this dangerous galaxy, I am already, and will be giving the game another chance with a more objective mindset. I have already taken this opportunity to trade my type 7 in to pay off my claim, and bought a cobra, completely kitted it out, and I still sit on about 6.5 mil.... rebuy is about 500k i think? I've opted out of powerplay for now until I can understand it better, and I will be dabbling about the galaxy doing whatever seems good at the time until I find a something more permanent thing to do.
And yes... I will probably still get horizons because im a sucker for planetary landings <3
So i decided to check out elite again with the Horizons expansion on the rise. I left off in my fresh type 7 and I was building my funds back up to get on the roll with my trade routes again. Deep within my powers territory (HQ in fact) i took a contract to bring in semiconduters. I found a place to buy them only a few systems away, still deep in alliance controlled space. I pick them up, leave, and get interdicted by an elite python in less than a few LS from ally HQ. No problem, I evade interdictions all the time.... and im close to home anyway. I aim at the escape vector flawlessly, hardly any time broken away from the reticle... and this is where the bull begins. The pythons meter fills up in less than 10 seconds it seemed while i was pointed at my escape vector the whole time. He broke me from SC and started firing missiles at me nonstop. I cannot outrun him even while boosting, i cannot outmaneuver his gunfire because he is elite. He is picking at my shields while i dodge fire as best as i can until FSD is ready again. i managed to evade the missiles but his proximity and lasers make my FSD take forever to spool up again. i wasnt getting out of there without taking some heat damage. around 50% FSD my shields are down and i start taking module damage and fires begin popping up. i shut down the systems that were on fire and solved my fire issue on the fly. creeping up on 80% or so FSD, my hull is at 40% and dropping quick. I just BARELY made it back into supercruise with my ship temp at 270%... it starts cooling rapidly and my hull was at 3%.... THREE PERCENT!!!! what a relief! NO....... he interdicts me AGAIN before i reach HQ to finish me off. Without taking out a loan for 880~k credits I would lose absolutely everything ive spent months building up to get.....
i hate to say it but this game totally ruined me today. I had no chance of survival and i think i did a pretty epic job with the near escape with 3% hull left. what a great way to come back to this game right? total bull. this game is a piece of . what the am i going to do, spend another month or so just paying off my debt? no. i am done playing. that wasn't even fair. i wouldnt be so mad if it were a player, but today just reminded me how absolutely stupid elite dangerous is, and how you face the same repetetive risks of losing your ass. ive only died once, ever, when i first started playing and didnt know what the i was doing. im a seasoned trader, i aimed at my escape vector perfectly, but the game decided it was time for me to lube up and take it up the rear.
yes i am mad. any of you would be too. i will not be buying horizons.
* EDIT IN CASE PEOPLE MISS THIS FURTHER DOWN *
Hey commanders, OP here. Sorry it took me so long to reply to my ragerant. I had to get the mod to reopen it back up because I wanted to sort of apologize and also say thanks to those who gave very positive/informative replies about what I could have done better, and what has changed about the game since I last played. It is obvious I am not active on these forums and it looks like I signed up just ragequit.
Admittedly, I am quite embarassed that that is true >.<
I will also admit, that in my rage I left out the fact at how epic the experience actually was. I've cooled my jets and realized that my body was shaking and I felt a level of fear that I typically don't feel in games. As maddening as the experience was, and unfortunate (despite being cocky with my new toy), it was a good story to tell my friends about the next day. I also realized I miscalculated how much of a loss I was really taking.
Soooo!!! Thank you those who gave good replies, because you must be a good kind of person to offer a bit of yourself to someone who very obviously was rage-quitting. That says a lot about you, and something about the community too.
So my form of repayment for being a crybaby about it, and to respect those good peoples out there in this dangerous galaxy, I am already, and will be giving the game another chance with a more objective mindset. I have already taken this opportunity to trade my type 7 in to pay off my claim, and bought a cobra, completely kitted it out, and I still sit on about 6.5 mil.... rebuy is about 500k i think? I've opted out of powerplay for now until I can understand it better, and I will be dabbling about the galaxy doing whatever seems good at the time until I find a something more permanent thing to do.
And yes... I will probably still get horizons because im a sucker for planetary landings <3
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