Yea, its up to you to name and shame yourself.
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Yea, its up to you to name and shame yourself.
List updated....Old Man Knott thats 2 for you now.
It's funny. I've done the same thing in the past. When it comes to drinking and programming, I'm fine. No problem. But drinking and flying spaceships... not a good combo. Well, drinking a little, or just flying in SC is fine, but I've done some seriously heavy landings on planets even less than 2.5 G after a couple of scotch.
So, yeah, FUI (flying under influence) isn't always a smart decision.
Absolutely. Not only heard about it, but actually experienced it and used it intentionally a few times. No kidding. Unfortunately, it's a very short effect. Few hours or less. And I think it's more about dulling the ADD than actually improving your thought process. I produced more, but I had more bug-fixing to do the next day.
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And I think it's more about dulling the ADD than actually improving your thought process. I produced more, but I had more bug-fixing to do the next day.
...that would certainly explain my grades in all the programming classes I had to take in undergrad (Electrical Engineering, Power focus).
True dat.
I had a friend who always drank a little while studying, and had a shot before exams. Apparently it's a memory trick. Train the brain for a certain state for memorizing and recall. Never did that though.
Chalk me up....
Will have to post the location later as I need to look it's up and I'm on mobile...
But..... I was two jumps from Eagle iirc (probably going to be perpetually a week behind since details don't come out till Monday for us antipodeans) and came across a system with life.
The blatteeum anemones on a bunch of 2ish g world's. 3 or 4 per body.
Checked the first couple of bodies, no worries.
Being a Saturday late arvo, decided to have Jack Daniels and coke. Cue visiting the final body (2.2g I think). 1st site.... Yep, more anemones.
2nd site..... Woah Neddy, quick point up, and boo....... Bounce....... Poof..... And the phantom became a ghost..
The ignition of the boost ensured that debris was spread for many kilometers prior to Omega mining Corp questioning 'back so soon? '
Will have to post the location later as I need to look it's up and I'm on mobile...
But..... I was two jumps from Eagle iirc (probably going to be perpetually a week behind since details don't come out till Monday for us antipodeans) and came across a system with life.
The blatteeum anemones on a bunch of 2ish g world's. 3 or 4 per body.
Checked the first couple of bodies, no worries.
Being a Saturday late arvo, decided to have Jack Daniels and coke. Cue visiting the final body (2.2g I think). 1st site.... Yep, more anemones.
2nd site..... Woah Neddy, quick point up, and boo....... Bounce....... Poof..... And the phantom became a ghost..
The ignition of the boost ensured that debris was spread for many kilometers prior to Omega mining Corp questioning 'back so soon? '
So my death felt like a murder mystery to figure out, was a little bummed but realized it a few days later after rebuying...
I was sitting at conflux settlements, landed, in pg, watching a movie in my headset, so I had sound disabled. I had zoomed out to take a screenshot, but apparently mashed the silent running button when doing so. So I watched a movie for a good 10 minutes, I was in a relatively cool running build, thrusters were off, when all of a sudden I notice there's sparks appearing all over the cockpit. In a panic, I totally forget what button is silent running, end up swapping control schemes a couple times just so I can look up the button and mash it... Finally get it off, I've taken significant hull damage, several modules are just completely broken, but I'm alive.
Fortunately, my amfu made it, I'm on a low power build so I have to enable it, then I queue up the repair of most of my modules.. At this point I'm a little shaky but I figure, I'm landed in a pg, what could go wrong. Go afk to eat, come back to a rebuy screen.
What had happened is when I enabled my amfu, I overloaded my pp, eventually (since I queued the repairs and left), all my modules came back online. At that point, all of my group 3 modules shut down due to power failure, which included... life support!
I was so confused, now I'm just a little bummed/amused.
I was sitting at conflux settlements, landed, in pg, watching a movie in my headset, so I had sound disabled. I had zoomed out to take a screenshot, but apparently mashed the silent running button when doing so. So I watched a movie for a good 10 minutes, I was in a relatively cool running build, thrusters were off, when all of a sudden I notice there's sparks appearing all over the cockpit. In a panic, I totally forget what button is silent running, end up swapping control schemes a couple times just so I can look up the button and mash it... Finally get it off, I've taken significant hull damage, several modules are just completely broken, but I'm alive.
Fortunately, my amfu made it, I'm on a low power build so I have to enable it, then I queue up the repair of most of my modules.. At this point I'm a little shaky but I figure, I'm landed in a pg, what could go wrong. Go afk to eat, come back to a rebuy screen.
What had happened is when I enabled my amfu, I overloaded my pp, eventually (since I queued the repairs and left), all my modules came back online. At that point, all of my group 3 modules shut down due to power failure, which included... life support!
I was so confused, now I'm just a little bummed/amused.
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I'm not sure that modules can come back online..... Never have when I repaired.
I think it more likely that you queued the repair of life support too, and thus it got powered off......done it a few times myself and not noticed the sound for whatever reason while I'm staring at the repair counters synthing afmu ammo. Only when I get back to looking ahead do I see the timer..... Once as low as a minute....learned shortly after that to only repair life support when I'm actively paying attention and re-enable it right away and double check by looking ahead.
I think it more likely that you queued the repair of life support too, and thus it got powered off......done it a few times myself and not noticed the sound for whatever reason while I'm staring at the repair counters synthing afmu ammo. Only when I get back to looking ahead do I see the timer..... Once as low as a minute....learned shortly after that to only repair life support when I'm actively paying attention and re-enable it right away and double check by looking ahead.
Yes, I agree this is the most likely scenario. If you queue up your modules to repair, they're powered off instantly. Life support is turned off immediately and will stay that way until you turn it back on.
I died at the Conflux Settlements last Sunday a few hours before we received the WP4 destination. There was a big group in FleetComm mucking around and having fun - someone managed to recall their DBX and it landed underneath the settlement sign, leaving it jammed. Someone else then tried unsuccessfully to fly an anaconda underneath the same sign and a third commander jumped his SRV onto the back of the annie and drove its full length. Meanwhile some NPCs were buzzing the settlement issuing random threats. I myself spent some happy fun times jumping on to the top of the tower in my SRV. While I was up there once I fired off a few shots into the air in sheer exuberance - because why wouldn't you? A bit later I used a metal ramp to give me a boost for a huge jump up into the hills beyond the settlement, and damaged my SRV a bit. I decided to dock at my ship for repairs rather than synth them to save mats.
It was at that point that I discovered the NPCs were angry with me. They all started shooting and I lost shields almost immediately. In a panic I took off and boosted to get high enough and tried to low wake out. But of course the annie was still there mass locking my Krait... and back to Rohini I went.
I think that the NPCs turned hostile when I fired my SRVs weapons, which is annoying.
It was at that point that I discovered the NPCs were angry with me. They all started shooting and I lost shields almost immediately. In a panic I took off and boosted to get high enough and tried to low wake out. But of course the annie was still there mass locking my Krait... and back to Rohini I went.
I think that the NPCs turned hostile when I fired my SRVs weapons, which is annoying.
Had an unfortunate accident with a neutron star earlier. Was travelling from the Crux to Caravanserai, did a neutron jump from the Crux which was fine. Then tried to do a neutron jump a couple of hundred lys out from Caravanserai. The star was a very wobbly one, before my FSD had charged completely I was dumped out of super cruise into the jet cone. Cue loads of system failures, attempted to jump back into super cruise but the vector was right by the star and I couldn't hold her steady enough to jump. Eventually gave up and self destructed. Fortunately only ended up at Gargarin Gate.
Definitely won't be doing any more neutron jumps after we leave the new station.
Definitely won't be doing any more neutron jumps after we leave the new station.
PS4 using HOTAS.
The deploy landing gear button combination is to *hold* circle button (thumb button on throttle) and select down on the 4-way joystick thumb hat.
I was in the process of mapping each and every single moon in the Guardian Ancient Ruins system in the SKAUDE Sector and cataloguing all of the Geo and Bio signals on all of the moons.
On final approach to a Bark Mound site, I hit the keys to deploy landing gear.
Unfortunately, the circle button didn't register being held down while I clicked the hat switch.
Circle is also the direct key for boost.
<< ** KABOOM ** >>
Splattered my Krait all over the Bark Mounds and beyond as I boosted into the moon surface.
Instant transfer to OMEGA MINING Platform.
What makes this painful is the fact that I'm already Elite Exploration (twice) and have landed on much higher G world's many, many times before, with well over 500 miles SRV travel with this PS4 CMDR.
Unfortunate button combination is now painfully obvious when it wasn't so obvious to me before my mistake. I'll take more care in future not to make the same mistake again...
Turns out this isn't such a rare occurrence on PS4 - I now know quite a few CMDRs have splattered themselves into the back wall of space stations by boosting when they tried to select landing gear down.
Straight after the smash I doubled down and speed-explored towards the next waypoint. Lucky that I log *everything* as I explore and scan, which I can now do without slowing me down at all. So I plotted courses to the ELWs I had discovered between OMEGA and WP4. I also used economy jumps for a large part of the journey. First found a few more ELWs on the way too. Made it to WP4 prior to the mass jump, in time to meet and friend a few players I'd seen consistently in Squadron Chat. Overall made over 400 econo-jumps, honking every single system on the way and FSS discovering tens of WWs and a fair few AWs, life bearing gas giants, water giants and selected other objects.
Yesterday docked at Gagarin Gate and handed in 158MCr.
So after the incompetent boost-crash-crunch-splat destruction, I'm back on track. And enjoying the expedition.
Slàinte Mhath
Mark H
Tally Ho CMDRs o7
The deploy landing gear button combination is to *hold* circle button (thumb button on throttle) and select down on the 4-way joystick thumb hat.
I was in the process of mapping each and every single moon in the Guardian Ancient Ruins system in the SKAUDE Sector and cataloguing all of the Geo and Bio signals on all of the moons.
On final approach to a Bark Mound site, I hit the keys to deploy landing gear.
Unfortunately, the circle button didn't register being held down while I clicked the hat switch.
Circle is also the direct key for boost.
<< ** KABOOM ** >>
Splattered my Krait all over the Bark Mounds and beyond as I boosted into the moon surface.
Instant transfer to OMEGA MINING Platform.
What makes this painful is the fact that I'm already Elite Exploration (twice) and have landed on much higher G world's many, many times before, with well over 500 miles SRV travel with this PS4 CMDR.
Unfortunate button combination is now painfully obvious when it wasn't so obvious to me before my mistake. I'll take more care in future not to make the same mistake again...
Turns out this isn't such a rare occurrence on PS4 - I now know quite a few CMDRs have splattered themselves into the back wall of space stations by boosting when they tried to select landing gear down.
Straight after the smash I doubled down and speed-explored towards the next waypoint. Lucky that I log *everything* as I explore and scan, which I can now do without slowing me down at all. So I plotted courses to the ELWs I had discovered between OMEGA and WP4. I also used economy jumps for a large part of the journey. First found a few more ELWs on the way too. Made it to WP4 prior to the mass jump, in time to meet and friend a few players I'd seen consistently in Squadron Chat. Overall made over 400 econo-jumps, honking every single system on the way and FSS discovering tens of WWs and a fair few AWs, life bearing gas giants, water giants and selected other objects.
Yesterday docked at Gagarin Gate and handed in 158MCr.
So after the incompetent boost-crash-crunch-splat destruction, I'm back on track. And enjoying the expedition.
Slàinte Mhath
Mark H
Tally Ho CMDRs o7
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I've had that
I went prospecting(not on DW2) near a settlement and I got done for firing my weapons(SRV to material lode) .
Reason(same as yours I guess) : I was within the no fire zone.
Well, just like I've promised, I'm back.
I've taken serious measures against gankers and I've now got a very well protected ship, that can stand a serious fight and yet has significant jump range. But while one can engineer his FSD and shield generator it is still impossible to engineer one's brain to lower the level of stupidity
I've landed at 1 A at Spoihaae XE-X d2-9, small sphere of metal and rock better known as Monde de la Mort, the World of Death. I waited while this rock on a very eccentric orbit entered the jet of it's main white dwarf star, took some photos -- and suddenly discovered, that landed ship actually still melts! While I was trying to deploy SRV and send ship to orbit, the reactor exploded due to overload. My SRV was picked up by some hull seal and now I'm sitting in the bar at Jaques station grieving for the lost crew.
I've taken serious measures against gankers and I've now got a very well protected ship, that can stand a serious fight and yet has significant jump range. But while one can engineer his FSD and shield generator it is still impossible to engineer one's brain to lower the level of stupidity
I've landed at 1 A at Spoihaae XE-X d2-9, small sphere of metal and rock better known as Monde de la Mort, the World of Death. I waited while this rock on a very eccentric orbit entered the jet of it's main white dwarf star, took some photos -- and suddenly discovered, that landed ship actually still melts! While I was trying to deploy SRV and send ship to orbit, the reactor exploded due to overload. My SRV was picked up by some hull seal and now I'm sitting in the bar at Jaques station grieving for the lost crew.
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