I dun goofed

[imashination]

Lakon Type 7
216 tonnes of Palladium worth 3 million CR
Set up my route on the map, "hmm, what does that dotted line mean? meh, probably a bug". I make my first jump, then go to make the second one.... Not enough fuel. No stations, not enough fuel to reach anywhere else... So, I self destruct.

30 seconds later I realise if I had jettisoned some cargo, I'd probably have had enough range to get somewhere, saving my 1.3 million insurance cost and some of my 3 million cargo.

Derp.

 

[CmdrKull]

Fuel scooping in an L7 can be like watching paint dry (because I know I'M not giving up a good cargo slot for it!) but it is absolutely essential. I think the full fuel bill is 15,000 credits. Yes I could afford that, but why should I give up that profit?

 

[Sarduca]

Oh well we all make mistakes, I remember not long ago when I entered a station but forgot to ask permission so I immediately hit reverse and waited just outside the letter box and i just noticed the timer running down to 1 then 0 and B00M station blow me away, I tell ya that cost me 64,000cr.....was well gutted.

but ill never make that mistake again

 

[Antoon]

There's an distress beacon to call for help, or did they remove that?

 

[Inodoro Pereyra]

Nothing like the pain of a self inflicted damage to sharpen the mind and learn something new or remember something obvious forever.
So, add to the pre-flight list one more item...

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There's an distress beacon to call for help, or did they remove that?

No more... Just shed weight until being able to jump or self destroy.

 

[Redrigo]

Beat my first Python, and as it died I stopped manouvering to watch it blow up ...it was burning away, in its death throws and as I stood there admiring it, it face planted itself in my windscreen .. that was a 100k + 200K cargo loss ... re-spawned ..re cargo-ed, hit max thrust from station .. Lakon 9 dropped into the slot ...face plant again 100k+200k cargo.. I was fuming at myself, 600K lost out of my 1 mil cr balance in 5 mins