Death after 6000ly of exploration,

Gudjon262

Gudjon262
After exploring for many days discovering countless black holes, ammonia worlds, earth like worlds, water worlds and neutron star I died from hitting and asteroid to hard. Losing probably many millions of credits worth of data.
I wonder if anything like this has happened to anyone else here?
 

Pennyblack

Pennyblack
4Syntraph said:
After exploring for many days discovering countless black holes, ammonia worlds, earth like worlds, water worlds and neutron star I died from hitting and asteroid to hard. Losing probably many millions of credits worth of data.
I wonder if anything like this has happened to anyone else here?
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Twice... :mad:

It happens.
 

Kancro Vantas

Kancro Vantas
This is the Explorer's nightmare. Literally.

I just came back from a 3 weeks expedition and last couple of days I was having that nightmare at nights.

Needless to say, I rushed my way back!! Made it safe. Now feel relieved.

Sorry for your loss dude. Take a break for some few days, or weeks.

Planning to go to the Sag A* next month. If you want we can make up a wing and go? Some company could help!

We need a Explorer's help line! Lol.
 

Apotheos

Apotheos
I can only sympathize Commander. Hence on my voyage back I always make sure I am completely awake and sober. :D
 

Surly_Badger

Surly_Badger
Congratulations for not rage-flailing!!!!

That must have been a heart-stopping moment of "OMG NOOOOOO!!!"

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Narius Cen

N
Really sorry to hear that... that is the real challenge of exploration: don't get sucked in the beauty and the vastness; keep a level head and don't forget that the tiniest mistake can kill you. This is why I think I wouldn't make a very good pilot in real life.
 

AnnuverScotinExile

AnnuverScotinExile
Frightening. Just made it back from the core, and sold my data for just under 20M Cr. Had I lost that (and I was limping home after getting too close to Sag A* trying to take a photo of another CMDR) it would have been very hard to find the enthusiasm to start up again. Fortunately, the twilight zone was gentle.

My condolences to the OP.

Whilst it may not have helped the OP, you can see groups of explorers banding together to escort another over the last 100LY or so of the journey back home. As long as they were not out exploring themselves, of course. It would have to be arranged in private though - given the griefers we already have, you can just imagine how much fun they would have trying to prevent explorers getting home. So advertising for an escort would be a dumb idea.
 

Jackie Silver

Jackie Silver
4Syntraph said:
After exploring for many days discovering countless black holes, ammonia worlds, earth like worlds, water worlds and neutron star I died from hitting and asteroid to hard. Losing probably many millions of credits worth of data.
I wonder if anything like this has happened to anyone else here?
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Ouch, my commiserations. During Gamma I lost ships a couple of times that had lots of exploration data onboard - in both cases I had returned safely, but not been able to sell the data due to bugs and instead of waiting for UC to be fixed I thought it was a good idea to fly round fighting and trading... ^^
 

[VR] Frank_G

[VR] Frank_G
A great loss... It might not be much of a reward right now, but you have gained a lot of experience and it wont happen to you again. So... onto the next adventure!

Be seeing you in space commander :)
 

Arindor

Arindor
4Syntraph said:
After exploring for many days discovering countless black holes, ammonia worlds, earth like worlds, water worlds and neutron star I died from hitting and asteroid to hard. Losing probably many millions of credits worth of data.
I wonder if anything like this has happened to anyone else here?
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Ouch! I feel your pain OP. However I must admit that, when I go exploring, the last thing I would attempt with a ship full of data that far from home is push my luck and go for a joyride in an asteroid field. ;)
 

Jack Schitt

Jack Schitt
Condolences, comrade. The furthest I've been out is about 1,600ly and I'd have cried for weeks if I'd lost that data.

I'm sure I can't be the first to have suggested this, but wouldn't it be great if explorers could fit their own black box that always survives ship destruction, so you could head back out to your last known location and have a fair chance of retrieving it? It could add additional gameplay elements too; advanced discovery scanners could be tweaked to detect other people's lost data, giving a sense of urgency to retrieving it before another explorer fortuitously stumbles upon it. And of course it would give pirates a good reason to go after otherwise-empty explorer ships as they crossed the twilight zone on the way back to civilisation. There are already "trade data" canisters in USSs, so it's almost as though FD toyed with this idea then dropped it.

Of course all of this begs the question of why trade data can't fit into the magic escape pod and be brought back to the last-docked station along with the pilot, but then I guess sometimes gameplay needs to trump logic.
 

iain666

iain666
Ouch, that's gotta hurt. On my first real trip now, covered nearly 6kly so far (getting about 4kly from Sol but taking the scenic route...). Maybe a quarter of the way through the plan (although I keep noticing things and extending the plan...)

I really hope I don't get to feel your pain first hand.
 

Gudjon262

Gudjon262
Surly_Badger said:
Congratulations for not rage-flailing!!!!

That must have been a heart-stopping moment of "OMG NOOOOOO!!!"

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Yea I knocked my desk twice and pretty much started to tear up. But I quit the game before it became worse. After all the main reason for this trip was not for the money but for the visuals.
Next time I'm planning to cross the galaxy and then take a circle around it after that. But this time it will be a lot more stressful knowing what could happen but I now know what happens when you try to do tricks
in an asteroid belt.

here are by the way screenshots I got along the way. The last one is in an asteroid belt near an icy planet where I thought I could get some cool shots near the bubble nebula where I died.
http://imgur.com/a/Paw8C
 

Apocryphic

Apocryphic
That's painful, but what were you doing in a ring/belt with that much data?

The longer I've been out, the more carefully I play. I've also learned not to play while impaired, as clumsiness and poor decisions have caused damage and death more than once. :)
 
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