I just had one of those days !!!!!

There I was using my recently bought Type 6 http://www.edshipyard.com/#/L=60W,,2-5U726a3w5U3w5A,08c08c07205U05U02M02M. And I had finally found a reliable 200K round trip route of less than 20ly apart and was thinking a few good runs and ill be able to upgrade again maybe even get a an ASP and go exploring again.

Then my day of bad luck started first I undocked and as I aligned with my Jump out point I forgot the Station has one of those Poles which rotate around its axis and bang I hit it and as I run with no Shields I exploded right out side the station, thought to myself no big deal I was on my cheap leg so I only lost 75K half of which was insurance cost to replace ship and as I had nearly 2mil it wasn't much of a hit.

So I jump to my next station and fill up with 100 tonnes Paladium and undock and do the boost away and align I then press what I think is jump and the countdown begins as this happens I hear what I think is shooting behind me and I see this red glow around my cockpit, but its not until I land in next system I realise what had really happened.

Some how I had pressed the "jettison all" cargo button and 1.5mil of cargo is now sitting outside a station in a system I have just jumped out from so instead of having over 2mil I now have less than 600K left in cash :mad: not even enough to fill my cargo. I tried jumping back but I probably ended up in a new instance so my cargo was now gone !!!!

So what now well I could have rage quit but tbh I just laughed walked away for 10 minutes and spent the next hour making up the lost credits using my trade route.

moral of story check which button is mapped to "jettison all", something I hadn't done as I use a Warthog Hotas and only mapped the keys I use.

I just wish there was a "are you sure" confirmation message when you press the key just for those moments
 
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We all have one of those.
Yesterday my Conda slid into an asteroid at very slow speeds. Boom. Sure I didn't deserve a death. But hey ho.
7million insurance and about 5 million in total bounties gone. Live n learn...........................
 
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Did that, luckily only with algae, but i did it in a docking port, resulting in 100 separate fines for illegal jettisoning...

Also, +rep for you having a laugh and carrying on. When I smashed my clipper into the side of a station without enough for insurance, I must've let out the most empassioned sigh, coz my partner called out "Everything ok there?". But, these things happen, you soldier on :)

IMO, always unmap the jet all cargo key :)
 
Sorry to hear about you bad day, but the police will be over with the alcohol breath test kit :)
I too have the jettison all cargo unmapped. Don't use it enough to have to have a button or key I can accidentally press
 
that sucks man. one day i lost fdl two times (around 4 mil insurance each) one time because of boosting in station, second because of bug. today i lost 5 mil for insurance for t9 because of bug. just scratched top of ship when entering the station at normal speed and my t9 instantly blew up. i ticketed this t9 thing and i hope i will get my credits back. it is really frustrating to lose credits this way, i feel like i'm being punished for effort i put in this game.
 
Commiserations to you. I had a bad day yesterday too, as I smacked my Cobra into a large rock at a RES twice in an hour, losing about 300k in bounties plus 54k in insurance each time. The silver lining was that my combat rank went up a notch during the session, and I still had fun.

Well done for picking yourself up and moving on.
 
Way back in my beginner days, on of my cats craved attention and cuddles. Trampling all over the keyboard to get it. One of his cute little white paws hit the 'Jettison all Cargo' button naturally. Since then, that particular key-binding is removed and left empty.
 
OK, how many people reading this thread have just fired up the game to double-check they don't have any bindings for Jettison All Cargo? There's at least two of us. :)

Apologies for laughing, OP, but I'm ashamed to say I did. Some of the sentences with multiple exclamation points I actually saw in my head as subtitles to a Hitler rant. Internet memes have ruined my imagination.

I really hope ED eventually gets some sort of free-camera playback feature like DCS or GTAV, because stuff like this would be comedy gold with a third-person camera and some overdubbing.

Have a +1 for being so humorous about it.
 
While I never jettisoned cargo yet, I did crash a 200m Conda and a 100m Python without insurance and full hold. 300m down the drain. Well, what do you know, my new Conda is already worth almost 300m and insured :)
 
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Unmapped that key as soon as I saw it existed. Seems to serve little purpose but to troll players.

Yeah, I always wondered about the keybinding. I never needed it in over 5 months of playing the game. It should be unmapped by default or at least set to something thats hard to press by accident like ctrl+shift+j
 
Yes, I've been hit by one of those arm things once (but survived)... Bit of a curious design feature.

Makes me feel better about losing 4M in unclaimed bounties just now - was "experimenting" with the debug camera while automatically docking.
Yep, won't be doing that again...
 
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