Dog Ate My Homework

[GreySix]

Remember that excuse from when we were kids?

Well, I was thousands of light years into my exploration trip, looking for new biologicals to scan on a moon, and my little pup jumped up on my recliner and his paw landed on the TAB button

<SMASH>

Careened my Mandalay right into a hillside ... thought I might pull out of it and survive, but spinning ...

<CRASH>

Hello, rebuy screen.

Oh well. XD

 

[Bigmaec]

Fly with proper shields, don't blame your dog?

 

[GreySix]

Fly with proper shields, don't blame your dog?

Deep space exploration and proper shields don't go together, sir.

But I did subsequently un-bind my TAB key from boost.

 

[geoffrey.hdt]

Exobio, with all these quick subsequent landings/taking off's to the next patch...calls for an undersized rank D shield
I use this:

EDSY

EDSY is a ship outfitting tool for Elite Dangerous

edsy.org

 

[Bigmaec]

Sure sure it does. I was at Semotus with a properly shielded Conda and I was at Explorers Anchorage in a properly shielded Krait Phantom kiting gankers away from there, and now fly a proper shielded Mandalay.

Pray tell me what you need more jumprange for?

Coriolis EDCD Edition

A ship builder, outfitting and comparison tool for Elite Dangerous

s.orbis.zone

 

[GreySix]

Sure sure it does. I was at Semotus with a properly shielded Conda and I was at Explorers Anchorage in a properly shielded Krait Phantom kiting gankers away from there, and now fly a proper shielded Mandalay.

Pray tell me what you need more jumprange for?

Coriolis EDCD Edition

A ship builder, outfitting and comparison tool for Elite Dangerous

s.orbis.zone

Did you afterburn into a mountain from point-blank range?

 

[Bigmaec]

Did you afterburn into a mountain from point-blank range?

No, I have no dogs

 

[DjVortex]

Deep space exploration and proper shields don't go together, sir.

My Mandalay has 4D shields engineered with "reinforced", and still manages to get 85 Ly unladen.

 

[Factabulous]

Did you afterburn into a mountain from point-blank range?

I test all my explorers by boosting them into planets and making sure they survive. Usually with a run-up so they have more speed. Makes sense now we have exobiology.

That's why I explore in a dolphin

 

[anShpan]

Did anyone else noticed that with Mandalay "landing" damage really depends on which part touched surface first? From my experience, nose and roll are OK, less than half of 4D Reinforced / Hi-cap Shields while slapping on belly takes all shield and 30-60% hull damage.
Now I'm doing exobio with couple of OE (HD / SC) shield boosters, just in case.

 

[Rat Catcher]

Deep space exploration and proper shields don't go together, sir.

Oh yes they do, and, yes, mine would survive a boost into a mountain...
50LY jump with a full tanks is plenty, in my opinion. And armament essential.
Sightseeing Mandalay

 

[nemolomen]

Did you afterburn into a mountain from point-blank range?

Been there, done exactly* that back in Horizons 3.2. Lost 4 months of Explo data.

*: It was me hit boost accidentally rather than one of the dogs though...scraped the ship up the side of a ravine, all the way to the rebuy screen. I don't generally go exploring without my carrier now.

 

[Cmdr Snuffler]

Deep space exploration and proper shields don't go together, sir.

But I did subsequently un-bind my TAB key from boost.

Disagree. My mandalay has decent shield and good armour, which would survive what happened to you. Still got 85ly jump range.
Paper thin ships have too many weaknesses for a minor increase in jump range.
Build silly ships, win silly prizes.

 

[Felix DiCestria]

Deep space exploration and proper shields don't go together, sir.

But I did subsequently un-bind my TAB key from boost.

Reminds me of my first rebuy; Just brought my Cobra out of the starter zone and going for my first planetary landing when my son decided this was the moment to jump on me...

 

[oblivionmanman 2476]

if it had been a cat it would of probaly lower youre landing gear and put you in auto land, a lot more clever then dogs lolo

 

[alexzk]

I install grade 2 guardian shield booster into my Anaconda. At such small shields there booster basically doubles it.

 

[Stealthie]

Could be worse.

My dog thinks my HOTAS throttle exists for her to rest her head on.
Can be a little disconcerting when I go to adjust my throttle and push a labrador's nose forward slightly.
Or mid-combat, when my landing gear deploys and my weapons retract cos she's leaning on the switches.

 

[GreySix]

I'm far too deep into the black to go questing for engineering upgrades for shields. Besides, it'd never been an issue before - I often scrape planetary surfaces at high speed when seeking biologicals, shields dropping no lower than 80 percent.

I'm often aiming my boat downward while tapping upward thrust - have got pretty good over the years at it. But the sudden surprise of the initial slam into the hillside, followed by spinning and everything on fire ... and that's all she wrote. My wife thought I'd be upset losing months of data, but I just laughed. TAB key's unbound - so that particular hazard won't surface again. I fly with dual Gladiator NXT sticks.

 

[alexzk]

My wife thought I'd be upset losing months of data, but I just laughed.

Looks like the symptom of the Space Madness

 

[Neilski]

Deep space exploration and proper shields don't go together, sir.

Yeah I used to feel the same (even though I've not gone all that deep), but then...

I test all my explorers by boosting them into planets and making sure they survive. Usually with a run-up so they have more speed. Makes sense now we have exobiology.

Yeah, I think a very large number of us have learned the hard way on this. I like to leave the outfitting station, retreat a km or two, and then max speed + boost into the station, with normal pips settings (2/4/0 for exploration ships).
I pretty regularly hit boost by accident, so trading off a few percent of jump range for a ship that can survive that is a real sanity saver

Did anyone else noticed that with Mandalay "landing" damage really depends on which part touched surface first? From my experience, nose and roll are OK, less than half of 4D Reinforced / Hi-cap Shields while slapping on belly takes all shield and 30-60% hull damage.

Oh dear, that's a scary feature... I've not actually tried belly-slamming tests, might have to add them to the list. My last serious damage in the wild was however from just that...