Newcomer / Intro Hello! It finally happened...

[BarrowBloke]

I've been lurking on these boards since I started playing in Jan (I pre-ordered but didn't have alot of time for play over Xmas) and thought I'd say hello and tell my sorry tale...

I'd managed to avoid having any nasty crashes all this time but last night I thought I'd do a couple of trade runs in my cobra(brand new and I'd only just saved enough cash to fill out its 44 ton cargo space with superconductors). I launched from the station, fully laden, turned to face my destination and found I had to fly either through or around the Orbis station. I think you can tell where this is going...
I chose the fastest/laziest route through the Orbis station's ring...and I boosted into one of the support arms. Eject, eject...

I had enough to pay the insurance but not enough to replace the cargo. So it was back to trading 18 tons a time until I rebuilt my cash supply. It took me an hour and a half to get back to where I started.

Ah well, I won't be doing that again in a hurry!

Take care, see you in the black etc etc.

 

[Lupin]

Sorry to hear of your loss, bitter experience but experience none the less.

Complacency is dangerous. Specially when you have a new ship.

 

[Evyl Minkey]

I have managed to avoid that particular form of accident so far but I think I've covered all of the others, always through complacency.

My favourite near miss was in my newly refitted Asp, just short of the rebuy value and thought I would take it carefully out of the station. Easing away from the landing pad, reminding myself not to do anything stupid I inexplicably hit boost. I really thought I was back to a sidewinder and was planning clearing my save and what my new name should be. Somehow I squeezed through the letterbox with only minor scratches. Never fly without your rebuy.

 

[Ancipital]

Ah, at least it was only a small setback, you wisely covered the insurance.

I did something similar when I kitted out my T7, had to run smaller cargo loads for a few legs until the profit let me fill the hold with Palladium. It took even longer before I had enough spare to pay insurance and fully replace the cargo, had I stuffed it into a station. It's a lesser risk, a calculated one. That's what we keep telling ourselves. Cough.

I've even stopped boosting through the arms now, unless I'm flying my Viper. I keep an A-fit Viper in the stable precisely so I can fly like a when I want to I have a weird addiction to the big Lakon T-series freighters, which do demand a slightly cooler head- they're so relaxing to fly.

Oh well, you were a bit careless, but not massively unwise, sounds like you'll be just fine. It'd be insufferable if you were perfect, wouldn't it?

 

[Crazy Jedi]

I've been lurking on these boards since I started playing in Jan (I pre-ordered but didn't have alot of time for play over Xmas) and thought I'd say hello and tell my sorry tale...

I'd managed to avoid having any nasty crashes all this time but last night I thought I'd do a couple of trade runs in my cobra(brand new and I'd only just saved enough cash to fill out its 44 ton cargo space with superconductors). I launched from the station, fully laden, turned to face my destination and found I had to fly either through or around the Orbis station. I think you can tell where this is going...
I chose the fastest/laziest route through the Orbis station's ring...and I boosted into one of the support arms. Eject, eject...

I had enough to pay the insurance but not enough to replace the cargo. So it was back to trading 18 tons a time until I rebuilt my cash supply. It took me an hour and a half to get back to where I started.

Ah well, I won't be doing that again in a hurry!

Take care, see you in the black etc etc.

I fly like an old man so I've never tried any tricks like that.
I have had a few near misses though. Several of them occurred when I was either entering or leaving docking bays and just missing someone coming the other way (surely a traffic light system is in order?)

The daftest thing I have done is to get over frustrated when landing and palm mashed the K/board which sent me smashing around the pad like a pinball

 

[Hudsonn]

I've been lurking on these boards since I started playing in Jan (I pre-ordered but didn't have alot of time for play over Xmas) and thought I'd say hello and tell my sorry tale...

I'd managed to avoid having any nasty crashes all this time but last night I thought I'd do a couple of trade runs in my cobra(brand new and I'd only just saved enough cash to fill out its 44 ton cargo space with superconductors). I launched from the station, fully laden, turned to face my destination and found I had to fly either through or around the Orbis station. I think you can tell where this is going...
I chose the fastest/laziest route through the Orbis station's ring...and I boosted into one of the support arms. Eject, eject...

I had enough to pay the insurance but not enough to replace the cargo. So it was back to trading 18 tons a time until I rebuilt my cash supply. It took me an hour and a half to get back to where I started.

Ah well, I won't be doing that again in a hurry!

Take care, see you in the black etc etc.

Ouch! I had a couple of near misses myself when aligning near a station. I did crash into an anaconda last night while undocking. I didn't see it until I hit it, but lucky we were both going quite slowly so it was only some paintwork damage....but still, my heart jumped out of my chest. I think I will start putting my lights of while undocking the in the future.....

 

[purf]

my cobra(brand new [...]).

I'm telling you! The maiden flights!

This, from my Cobra's:

 

[Kuroshio]

Oh yeah, the Orbis ring support struts... When I saw my first, I decided to go sightseeing and kept having that nagging feeling. Couldn't place it while I admired the view. And then it slowly dawned on me: It was the question "What's holding that ring in place?".

Answered by a terrible grinding noise.

Welcome aboard!

 

[Newt Loranas]

Complacency WILL kill me sooner or later. I've got to the point where I fly in a graceful loop right through the slot at the front of the station at 200m/s or more while docking slowing only at the last minute to land on the pad. It really is only a matter of time before I get a Type-9 in the face or brief game freeze smacks me into the docking face.

I did learn the hard way to disable the boost button while mining after hitting boost instead of cargo scoop and smeared myself into thin bio-metallic veneer. ( I guess that asteroid gave higher % after that)

 

[Anuranium]

Welcome Bloke!

If your target destination is "behind" the station, keep boosting straigt out of the slot, and do so until you are no longer mass locked. Start firing up your FSD, when it's ready, turn towards the target and accelerate. If done correctly, you don't have to circumnavigate the station at all

 

[Ancipital]

Complacency WILL kill me sooner or later. I've got to the point where I fly in a graceful loop right through the slot at the front of the station at 200m/s or more while docking slowing only at the last minute to land on the pad. It really is only a matter of time before I get a Type-9 in the face or brief game freeze smacks me into the docking face.)

Oh goodness, I got jammed against the letterbox cage last night by an NPC T9 which suddenly appeared when I was halfway into the letterbox from inside. It shoved me into the cage- I couldn't go forwards or backwards, was totally wedged. Because I was only in a T7, I couldn't push it out of the way. The grinding and screaming noises were incredible- and the AI is so utterly terribad that it just sat there blankly trying to travel forwards.

In the end, I managed to sort of grind and corkscrew out, using boosters, lateral thrusters and giving it a lot of rudder. It wasn't pretty. Had I not managed this, I would have died very slowly indeed- or possibly faster once the station got upset. I really wish the ship AI was faintly responsive to this sort of thing. My only comfort is that the station is probably as stupid as the T9, so maybe it would have been destroyed first in an attempt to hit me, giving me a chance to boost away

 

[rightsideupsidedown]

I did a similar thing in my sindwinder. I was getting so good and confident at flying full speed in and around docks with thrusters and a hotkey for 50% and 0% throttle. I could trade for hours without overshooting. Then one day a station denied my landing request because the pads were full. I jumped back into the screen to make another request assuming it was a glitch while simultaneously making a fine strafing maneuver and WHAM! I hit a communication needle and exploded to bits. My horror was replaced with a smile when I realized how awesome it was to watch my ship disintegrate into the void for the first time. As for the cargo, well, those guys probably didn't need more gallite anyway. I toned it down a bit but it's still fun to fly like a cowboy there's just something so satisfying about clearing the gap on an incoming Type 9 whilst boosting into a barrel roll departing a station. It's funny reading the other experiences, apparently a lot of players were Han Solo in a previous life and that's awesome.

 

[Ancipital]

apparently a lot of players were Han Solo in a previous life and that's awesome.

I fear that there's something in that. I catch myself flying a freighter like it's a sidey sometimes

 

[Cmdr Silon]

I do this a lot in my type 6. I try to fly it way to much like a fighter XD. I've only lost it once, luckily empty. Most of the time i don't line up the slot right when exiting and boost right into the control bay above the airlock

 

[Starnr]

I would venture that i have amassed well over $5000000.00 cr in assorted trianing fees, or what i call Dumb Asp Fees Training(DAFT) for short.
I still need more training it seems

 

[cmdr lowest]

Complacency set in for me once when I boosted to get near the slot at George Lucus in my Cobra and I couldn't slow down in time and flew right into the side of the station...

At least you only do these things once eh?