Explorers, how do you keep safe when you step away from the PC?

WalterHWhite

WalterHWhite
I came back to a nice "ship destroyed" which I knew I'd come up against if given enough chances. I'd spent 2 hours exploring (first time) and tended to real-life for 10 minutes and came to find my ship in pieces mode.

Not here to moan about it, just wondering what you chaps are doing to mitigate/eliminate that from happening, when you don't have a spare 15 minutes to find a port.
 

Unpleasant

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WalterHWhite said:
I came back to a nice "ship destroyed" which I knew I'd come up against if given enough chances. I'd spent 2 hours exploring (first time) and tended to real-life for 10 minutes and came to find my ship in pieces mode.

Not here to moan about it, just wondering what you chaps are doing to mitigate/eliminate that from happening, when you don't have a spare 15 minutes to find a port.
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log out...
 

Cmdr PeryplusErithrea

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With no port within 9000LY's i tend to always log out to main menu if I'm going to be anything more the 2-4 minutes (usually a cuppa XD ) from my machine.
Other then that its a matter of choosing a clear direction, no suns/planets ect, Throttle to full and come back later.

its just too risky leaving yourself in orbit/floating if your not there.....
 

anikaiful

anikaiful
WalterHWhite said:
I came back to a nice "ship destroyed" which I knew I'd come up against if given enough chances. I'd spent 2 hours exploring (first time) and tended to real-life for 10 minutes and came to find my ship in pieces mode.

Not here to moan about it, just wondering what you chaps are doing to mitigate/eliminate that from happening, when you don't have a spare 15 minutes to find a port.
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Either log out, OR - reduce your speed to minimum in SC and drop out of SC. I haven't so far seen anything to enter - a player might, but as you're going exploring, it's highly unlikely that you'll meet one that's hunting anything (or even equipped with wake scanner).
 
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WalterHWhite

WalterHWhite
Logging out sounds entirely reasonable. I take it the best way is to jump to a new system so that'll be where you'll re-enter (and the previous star system's cartographics will be saved)?
 

OnePercent

OnePercent
400 light years away from human space? No? Log off, Yes? Throttle to zero, make sure you are facing away from a star. Profit.
 

Ravenov

Ravenov
anikaiful said:
reduce your speed to minimum in SC and drop out of SC. I haven't so far seen anything to enter - a player might, but as you're going exploring, it's highly unlikely that you'll meet one that's hunting anything (or even equipped with wake scanner).
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This is what i do ... although you don't need a wake scanner to drop in on someone like that so if i'm feeling paranoid i turn FA off, point it in a random direction and give it full throttle. If i'm feeling really paranoid i kill my thrusters to lower my temps.

Having said that, I'm pretty sure that for someone to follow my wake into normal space they would need to see me drop from super cruise, so if they came into the system after i dropped they wouldn't know anything about it.
 

simon terlecki

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If I need to get out of game for just a little while (not really enough to warrant logging out), I tend to drop out of supercruise, go in a direction and turn off flight assist to let myself drift away. If I'm feeling really paranoid because I'm not that far from civilization, well I also turn off everything and go silent just to be on the safe/crazy side of things.
 

WalterHWhite

WalterHWhite
>If i'm feeling really paranoid i kill my thrusters to lower my temps.

Yeah I was thinking maybe more people would do/suggest that as a minimum thing to do. Just as much hassle as logging out really, though I guess the % chance of being found and killed is tiny (cant really be sure when its AI's spawning from wherever).

Logging off is prob most convenient but it seems like dropping out of cruise and heading off on a tangent is also a nice idea.

Forgot to say... thanks!
 
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Kitiara

Kitiara
Since there's no NPC's outside 500LY to civilisation, I just point myself away from celestials.

Then again, last night this happened, 7,000 light years away from home

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xxiii

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brief absence: make sure the volume is loud enough that I can hear any interdiction or other anomaly, and that I'm not aimed at anything requiring eventual attention.

medium absence (or can't get back to the computer quickly): make sure I'm not near anything and drop out of SC.

long absence: exit to menu or exit entirely. I've found you can exit even at 2001c supercruise and be fine. when you re-enter you'll be approximately where you were when you exited, except not in SC.

I usually play in a private group, so I'm typically not worried about anything happening when I'm not in SC when there are no NPCs present.
 

jpaulwilson1982

jpaulwilson1982
Wow, finding someone else that deep in space.... indeed, that's a highly unlikely thing to happen. What's really eerie is that neither pilot tried to kill the other...

And OP, like others said, just save and exit. It'll bookmark your progress. And FYI, when you hit ESC, it doesn't pause. The sound mutes, but the game keeps going. Don't forget that.
 
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