Horizons I am so sorry

Scorpion

Scorpion
Yesterday I had what I thought was a glitch in Horizons.

Luckily I recorded the full incident on OBS and uploaded it to YouTube

Not only did this result in nearly immediate remuneration for my ship hull from the dev team which I was delighted to receive, but this video allowed me to analyse it to see what went wrong.

Some members of the community gave pointers and opinions of what they think went wrong and as such I decided to critically look at each opinion given.

Here is I worked out happened.

To increase jump range I went for a 5A power plant that I knew it was tight on power. However with SRVs and AFMUs powered down the ship was fine for getting around. When I conducted a planetary landing I obviously powered up the SRVs and the ship could handle that due to it being landed. However, not thinking, I dismissed my ship. At that point I was not near ship and did not see that it didn't, or indeed couldn't use its thrusters due to lack of power.

When I logged off for something to eat, and then relogged back in, I completed what I needed to do on the planetary surface then summoned my ship.... This is when it entered the atmosphere. It entered without any shields (I presume due to lack of power on the 5A plant) and continued to colllide with the moon surface (obviously not having any power for thrusters either). ~ if only you could have seen my face at this point!

Had I known this I would have simply entered the game in a non-Horizons version and subsequently be placed in the ship in orbit around the moon where I could have fixed the power problem manually. (this was advised by another CMDR). This was not to be, and since I couldn't get on the ship to adjust power priorities I simply looked on as it exploded.

Simply put, as I put the SRV module online I starved the Anaconda of power, thereby not allowing it to use any thrusters or power.

My bad and 100% my fault.

As a result of this, I ask Frontier Dev team to remove the remuneration they gave me for my hull as I ultimately blame myself for this incident.

Fly Safe CMDRs

CMDR Sin

You can check out the video here [video]https://gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=mtj4Ptj-P14[/video]
 

rrobes

R
A common lesson that I learned as well but was able to sort it out before I lost my ship (I couldn't accelerate to the point needed for the FSD to kick in).

Trying different configs is part of the tech side of play, pushing the boundaries.

No pain, no gain.
 

dayrth

Volunteer Moderator
dayrth
Keep the remuneration. FD take the view that everyone is entitled to one mistake and will compensate you even if it is your fault, but only for the first one you report so make sure to learn from it :)
 

Dibble

Dibble
Well you learn by your mistakes.
I put a life support into my Anaconda that only has 7.30 mins of time on it.
I lost my canopy with some NPCs. I stayed around till I blasted all of them, then realised that I only had 2 mins left on the life support.
I got right to the dock was nearly touching the toast rack thing out side when it blew up. 17 million it cost me.
Pity I did not record it for a video as it was quite funny.
 

CMDR L0wlander

C
Yep. Prioritizing your modules is crucial in any ship. What always works and always has worked very well for me is this (most people will probably use something similar, but let me share it just incase):

1. Thrusters, life support, power distributor, FSD (I only move the FSD lower if I really have no other alternative, since it cripples you if you have to jump out quickly). Heat sinks if you have any are also good in P1.
2. Shield Generator/boosters
3. Anything weapon related
4. Shield Cell Banks
5. Fuel Scoop, FSD Interdictor, Vehicle Hangar, AFMU, anything else you have. If it's too much to have on at the same time, I usually choose to turn modules on priority 5 on and off manually when I need them.

This setup will keep your ship functional under most if not all circumstances, and if you accidentally turn too many things on while in supercruise, you'll never drop out because your thrusters or FSD went offline. (I'm sure we've all experienced that at some point!)
Ofcourse certain ships require more tweaking to make everything work, but this is the basic setup I always use as a starting point. This makes sure that all things related to supercruise go offline if you are low on power when deploying weapons in normal space. (Not needed anyway) and if your ship takes off while you're in your SRV, it will shut down the vehicle hangar and things it doesn't need while it's on its own rather than its "vital organs".

Good luck CMDR, fly safe(r)! ;)
 
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HazardousMatt

HazardousMatt
This exact same thing happened to me the other day. However mine didn't explode because I logged out and loaded ED vanilla before it could. Lesson learned.
 

StiTch

StiTch
A lot of people can learn a lot from OP.

1) Provide video footage of your "bug"
2) Don't respond to "you did something wrong" with denial and indignation
3) Be more awesome

That is all. OP, your intention is spot on but people have been reimbursed for far more embarrassing and pilot-driven errors (and usually with the stance that they're entitled to it because they were dared to be killed in any manner that wasn't self destruct). Lesson learned and I'd be surprised if you had funds deducted again.
 
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