Hairy exits - what were yours

Tacyon · Jul 29, 2015

So, I'm busy shuttling basic meds back and forth in my Python in a feeble attempt to stem the tide of the Cerberus plague in this system I've been hanging out in. I'd just loaded 284 tonnes of cargo in my cargo hold and requested departure permission from this Orbis station. As I'm coming topside I notice that a Lycon Type 9 heavy has just left the pad to the right of me headed for the slot. So as soon as my landing dock maglocks release, I apply 4 seconds of vertical thrusters at the same time bring the mains online to 25% and head for the slot as well.
There was a split second what I as the captain thought .. "no, just reduce speed and hang back, you're not in THAT big of a hurry". Just as I was about to throttle down a bit and hand in behind this type 9, I see another type 9 entering the slot on the left, green side. I'm still behind and below the first type 9 and we're approaching the slot at about 20` down. That moment of distraction from the 2nd type nine, I'd repositioned my hand on the flight pad controls and pressed what I was expecting to be the down throttle cmd. Only to be met with the howl of my mains coming up to 100% and boosting !!!

I had a quick "coming to jesus" moment and used some fancy down and then up thrusters to make a ventral pass on the first type 9 and then try to get the best approach angles and position in the slot as I quickly calculated that both the 2nd type 9 and I would be there at the same time !
I made it. Not even so much as a scratch on the paint ! Okay .. the locals were probably fairly off at the Python that just left port at 308 m/s ... but hey, they'll get over it.

What "coming to jesus" moments have you had leaving port that weren't necessarily planned ?

Apos · Jul 29, 2015

When I rammed a FDS with my vulture to finish it off, resulting in all my shields going down on top of my canopy, with obviously a class D life support.

At the time I wasn't that good at navigating the galaxy, so I went back to my system of comfort...which had the closest station at 10K Ls.

With all the inbetween travel time, I got to the station's docks with 10 seconds of oxygen remaining. Obviously the entry was with a boost and risking everything if I miss.

Not what you requested per se, but it has been my biggest adrenaline rush in the game so far.

I've destroyed my FDL at least a couple times by boosting by mistake while going out, but I ended up laughing with myself instead.

Nicholas Powell · Jul 29, 2015

Shieldless Type-7, back in March or maybe April, running a quick Tea run or somesuch trading hijinks. I close on the station in supercruise and, distracted from dropping out at a sensible distance, find myself coming out of 'cruise inside the damn thing. A definite first. Surprise. Adrenaline. Amusement. I manage not to bounce off too many solid objects, swerving about like a loon in a flying brick.
Did I mention shieldless? Hull takes a bending. Well, that was interesting, if painful, maybe it could be repeated for the ultimate smuggling tacti... What's that? No docking clearance? Leave the dock or be splashed. What?! Oh, have a heart!
Who am I kidding? They kill for loitering, never mind materialising inside the dock without clearance and bouncing off other ships and the wall.
I did make it out in time before they opened fire, though this was unquestionably more luck than skill. Don't remember seeing Cmdr Jesus about, though I was kind of preoccupied with swearing at the screen a lot and hoping it didn't happen again in a hurry.

Alex Brentnall · Jul 29, 2015

Haha, this made me laugh having had a similar moment in a T9 today.

I boosted out of the back of the station (Just landed and knew from radar that there were no CMDR's present). Elite did that annoying loading thing where the mailslot acts as a solid screen until it draws the other side. Anyway, as it drew I discovered there was both another T9 and an Orca very close to the slot on approach. Never before have I felt like I was threading a needle this small. To evade I applied a second boost, roll, pitch and a choice curse word to literally corkscrew between them at 210m/s.
Totally "expletive" moment followed by a "drop the mic" moment which livened up my trading a fair bit

Dphin · Jul 29, 2015

Again, not leaving port, but I went to have a go at opposing an expansion/preparation attempt by Arissa Lavigny-Duval in Pancienses. Basically, it spawns combat zones between her imperial ships and the local police, and to oppose the expansion you fight on the side of the locals.

I was doing OK in my cobra, having bagged a few imps and was working on a python. It was at 22% hull, 29% power plant; I was at 60% hull. We both had shields: mine at about 2/3, the python at 1/3. Suddenly 3 big ships lock lasers on me. I tried to get out of the beams, but my shields dropped almost instantly, my hull started failing, and my canopy breached. By the time I managed to frame shift, I was at 8% hull with no canopy. And an info panel full of "Boost failed" messages!

I kept the video, and I just love the mismatch of the desperate flight in my crippled ship with the chilled out music that was playing on Radio Sidewinder at the time.

h347h · Jul 29, 2015

Was half tempted to take a picture of my hairy exit and post it but I might get banned from the forums for that.

Wartface · Jul 29, 2015

Smuggling run in my A class Cobra....was sneaking in with a hold full of mixed illegal goods and 400k worth of smuggling missions...The station I was sneaking into was on Lockdown and, at around the outer Advertising signs had a "Ship scan detected" so instinctively hit Boost...and hit the back wall at a full 405+ speed. Needless to say I was doing a great real life impression of fat bloke in a fast car and leaning so far back in my chair I nearly fell backwards. Only a few thousand credits of repairs and no scan.

Moral of the story...smuggling pays off kids.

Scudmungus · Jul 29, 2015

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Dis tred not bout wot mi tinkin it bein bout!

Hagledesperado · Jul 29, 2015

I totally miscalculated the drift of my trusty Asp as I was about to exit Brunel City fifteen minutes ago. I took down two rings of my 5A shields on the inside of the station wall before I lurched through the letterbox and boosted out of there blushing. Checking my radar, not a CMDR in sight. What a relief.

bendover · Jul 30, 2015

Most people have hairy exits,unless they shave them and if your that way inclined they can entrences as well

Banana's_Are_Good_For_You · Jul 30, 2015

Took my brand new Asp out for a spin, tried to land it like I would a Vulture.
Not such a good idea it seems as I had a terrible habit of boosting into stations because of smuggling...
Can remember screaming "STTTOOOOPPPP!!!" while approaching the far station wall and that big spike like thing that protrudes from it which I'd never noticed before.
Some evasive manoeuvres later and I survived okay but definitely had my attention for a while.

More an entrance than exit though.

Linwig · Jul 30, 2015

I think my worst was route plotting in Sag A. The PC locked up and the FPS went to one frame every 5 seconds. The ship somehow went out of control and was spinning around and the speed was going up and down. I started getting freeze frames of the black hole and 'SLOW DOWN' in red letters. After about 5 minutes of this blind panic and a sense of accepting my doom it settled down and I jumped the hell out of there!

I have also had the odd jump into a black hole out of supercruise and no time to avoid it even with the throttle zero'd. Quite often it puts you 25 KM from the centre and it's all a bit overwhelming.

Tacyon · Jul 30, 2015

These are all great stories save those that have [sphincter] fixations. I've recently been victim to the "stuttering" of the game. Something that I've not really had a problem with in the past. Coming in for finals on a pad and doing a flare out, the game "freezes" for like 2 seconds, but instead of it freezing totally, whatever I was last telling it to do, it continues on with that. When control returns I find myself heading at high speed to the other end of the docking bay. Not really my fault but an attention getter none the less.

Brimstone · Jul 30, 2015

I had alt-tabbed out to look something up for a fellow commander, when I came back I realized I had launched my Anaconda from the pad before I alt-tabbed, and had 20 or so seconds to . Needless to say, I panicked, lined myself up and hit boost. Well I didnt line myself up perfectly, because I was then looking at the insurance screen.