The compass is all you need. Ages ago in EDs history there was a problem where pad markers would vanish totally, and people had no idea where to land- it taught us to use the compass and its fantastic. Just remember the dot needs to be below you, and that its hollow if the pad is behind you (i.e. you overshot). Don't swoop in until you have the pad below and once everything is lined up gently move down.
Got stuck inside a station, literally unable to move, and thereby blown up. Now I'm stuck with 1000cr and a 2.5mcr loan.
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As you hadn’t used up your time the place where you got wedged must have been outside your pad area. You get 15 or 25 seconds if you are loitering before the shooting starts, it is possible that countdown started at pad 05 but you didn’t get far enough away from that and the other pads to stop the countdown before getting stuck.
Elite is a harsh universe, listen to the messages as you enter the stations a common one is about obstructions being cleared with lethal force.
You could also appeal to the gods
If you contact FDev they sometimes grant you a concession. It also gives them a chance to fix bugs like this. Even if you cannae remember the exact details of the incident it's worth mentioning it to them if you feel their universe has been unjustly cruel to you
Me? I've had little foibles happen to me in the past. I'd probably just shrug it off and continue the game
If you contact FDev they sometimes grant you a concession. It also gives them a chance to fix bugs like this. Even if you cannae remember the exact details of the incident it's worth mentioning it to them if you feel their universe has been unjustly cruel to you
Me? I've had little foibles happen to me in the past. I'd probably just shrug it off and continue the game
Was just going to say the same, though I played for almost 3 years before knowing this and did the same aimless looking about.
I used to fly to the back of the station and then come back to my pad once it was visible.
It's happened now, and you now know what to do next time to avoid it. I think we've all had moments like this ourselves.
I don't know if anyone mentioned it already, but toggling your landing gear is like a debug mode for when you get stuck onto things.
Just toggle the landing gear on/off and you'll clip through whatever you got stuck on.
Same here. I have a bobble head right in front of the pad number on my Corvette. Don't have a clue what pad it is unless I listen to the station manager carefully, so I rely on the compass every time now.The compass has been part of the Elite UI since 1984, I guess it's just tradition.
I've played for years & still use the compass to figure out where to dock sometimes
FDev should really have that in the training scenarios if I'm honest as it is a very important tool to have.
Ah - remember those old patches when it actually was hard to land?
Skimmer Rain : when you were happily landing and a skimmer would fall out of the sky and kill you
Missing numbers : when the landing pad numbers vanished as you went through the slot to test your memory
Kids these days
Skimmer Rain : when you were happily landing and a skimmer would fall out of the sky and kill you
Missing numbers : when the landing pad numbers vanished as you went through the slot to test your memory
Kids these days
Apparently in this instance you did need it
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OP my recommendation just before landing is to turn off flight assist and rotational correction. That should help with your docking problems
Something similar happened to me, I was using super cruise assist while approaching a station faster than usual and it dropped me between the walls of the station and died.
I was coming from the center of the galaxy for the first time and it really bother me. Luckily I got back my credits and data after sending a ticket to Frontier
I was coming from the center of the galaxy for the first time and it really bother me. Luckily I got back my credits and data after sending a ticket to Frontier
I find pad number hard to read on the Chieftain centre HUD, bobblehead or no, and sometimes there isn't a station manager's voice (eg. ouposts) but if you're quick .. your Pad Number is repeated in alerts, top right of HUD and is usually there for a couple of seconds before it rolls away off screen.
OP .. you got yourself into a financial hole but deep breath, plan your way out with some careful mission choices and high pressure landings and when you make it back to solvency you'll laugh at all this .. like I am.
Good luck o7
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I love my SCA, saves me about 10 seconds or more per trip.
I get about 10ls (I have tried it further but with mixed results) out from a station, manually increase the throttle out of the blue briefly until 7 seconds becomes 5 seconds and then decrease back into the blue marker and supercruise assist.
You will quickly hurtle to the station and come to a sudden but safe stop outside the station.
It's absolutely terrifying at first, especially if the station is in front of a planet. You get that pit of your stomach feeling when you see a planet fill your screen suddenly. Used to get the same feeling if I swan dived off a ledge on PS1 Tomb Raider.
Disclaimer: Ensure the station is in line of sight before attempting.
Pro hint - disengage your landing gear if you ever get stuck. Usually it is the part that hooks onto something and retracting it solves the issue most of the time.
Ok, have you vented?
Can we make fun of it and soon move to remember it as "fun times?
Yea, crap happens and ED is not the one to hold your hand while it happens.
Guess you got all the advices: log off on an instant when you get stuck inside the station (me guess you got slapped for trespassing/loitering) before that turns into a crime, watch the little white dot on the compass when you get inside the station and.. well... that's kinda it
Now let me share one of my stupid adventures
I was back from my first trip to Colonia, coming down the Colonia Highway, i was at an asteroid base, rather close to the bubble, Attenborough's Watch by it's name.
Nice scenery, so i decided to take screenshots right outside the mailslot. So i put my Anaconda out, take some distance, engage external camera and fiddle with controls to get better angles and better position outside the slot. Then the hell got lose and my ship blew in a matter of seconds.
I was not really phased at the moment - the rebuy was peanuts (compared with my wealth at the moment), i had sold all the exploration data before leaving the station...
then it hit me... My. Elite. Slf. Pilot... Gone.
So, yea - back then a losing a SLF pilot was for good - no rebuy for them. You had to level another one.
What's happened there was me fiddling with camera controls which made me drift in the mailslot exclusion zone.
Being in External Camera no warnings reached me (think they corrected that in the meantime).
And Photo Bombing got a new meaning for me
Never fly without an advanced docking computer
I could not agree with this statement more. Not because you need it, but because it removes some of the tedium that seems to be deliberately incorporated into the game.
Ah - remember those old patches when it actually was hard to land?
Skimmer Rain : when you were happily landing and a skimmer would fall out of the sky and kill you
Missing numbers : when the landing pad numbers vanished as you went through the slot to test your memory
Kids these days
It was a great teacher- disapearing pad markers, pad allocations changing, extreme collision damage from just touching an interior.....
goes misty eyed
As does logging out to the menu & trying again.
Oh, you mean that bit where you may actually have to fly your ship...