Is it inevitable to do something stupid and go splat?

mossfoot

mossfoot
ellay said:
Flew into a nav beacon last night with 1 500 000 of unclaimed bounties :(
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You'd think those things were made of neutron stars given that they can't budge. But if they did Nav Beacons would become football... match...es...

I think I need to make a separate post.
 

Super_Duty

Super_Duty
Just yesterday, 400t cargo, 3 day old anaconda. Release docking, tap thrusters, reach for joystick and graze the boost button, had to go change underwear... Full boost into wall, ship survived, which I can only account to my habit of setting shields to 4 pips when entering or leaving a station (lesson learned early on). I on the other hand, was rattled for hours.
 

Firebeard

Firebeard
Fighting in my lovely new vulture Vera at a RES and saw a python... "Wanted" sweet boosted towards it and hit an asteroid... No worries hull still ok and shields down... Pitched up to get away and bounced straight into the python... At least I had insurance.
 

mossfoot

mossfoot
I have a feeling Wings will be responsible for more station accidents in a week than the previous three months beforehand.

There's a reason the police don't want people talking on cell phones while driving :D


(yes, I went splat again)
 

aRtFuL

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It is inevitable unless you flying really boringly... and if you gonna do that you might as well go back to work rather than playing a game lol.

It is okay to crash in games. That's what a game is for (so you don't crash IRL).
 

Odan Brota

Odan Brota
Just spent about two hours hunting around in an extraction site, netted about 5 mil in bounties. I was on my way back to the station... by which I mean, I was on my way to the top of the ring... by which I mean I put all pips to engines and pointed my nose up, and ran smack into an asteroid.

Sigh, back to work. That huge cannon that screams "i'm totally not compensating for something" isn't going to buy itself.
 

Nomadski

Nomadski
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I've done what I thought was a standard speedy approach, and given it the quick final boost before turning the arc to the toast rack, and being in a different ship to normal, looked in horror as my fatter than usual hide drifts below the rack, rather than through it, with all the momentum taking me the wrong way.

I'd say I've learned my lesson, but I've actually done that twice now... Still, better dead than to use a docking computer!
 

Valethar

Valethar
ellay said:
Flew into a nav beacon last night with 1 500 000 of unclaimed bounties :(
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I hit one of those stupid nearly invisible turrets at an outpost once. They're hard enough to see in 'daylight', but when you're on the 'night' side, they vanish. Apparently that tiny thing has more mass than the Death Star, because bumping it while using thrusters to bring the landing pad into sight was enough to destroy a fully shielded Python that had no hull damage.

I've hit asteroids at RES zones while chasing another ship and not had my ship destroyed, but something smaller than a Sidewinder is lethal if you bump it at a far lower rate of speed.
 
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Chrisfs

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Yes,
And that is why there is insurance and why you should never ever fly without enough money to cover your insurance payout. (although you automatically get a loan for smaller amounts)
 

CharlesD

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I did a dumb one about an hour ago. I'm in Avik doing missions for Sirius Corp trying to get the permit. I'm taking all available missions and coming back when I'm done. This time around I had taken a few acquisition missions and 4 USS missions to retrieve black boxes. I got all the goods and all the black boxes save one, the one in Avik, which I saved for last so I could just dock after I got it and turn in all the missions. I jumped in with still plenty of fuel and then flew all over the system looking for the weak signal source. No signal sources showed up for over an hour and I just ran clean out of fuel super cruising around trying to get the last black box. Got dropped out of SC and lost all modules and was getting the oxygen countdown. Had to self destruct because I wasn't watching my fuel.
 

jan

jan
Space sim Truckers know this sleepyness and tunnelvison or afk will sooner or later result in a smudge on the wall. it will happen 100% chanse, its all about when.

AFK when exit jump and go hot glowing cinder as stars make you go khablaam is also a pretty common Death after station indirectly kill ya or blow you up.

After all tresspassing and loitering is punishable by DEATH. 2 most well known offences in ed universe, even station keep reminding us of this fact every time we visit em.

Even i have died 2 times in ED, resistance is futile :) in 3 months of game play i am 1 of the few Lucky whit that little Death Count.

Knight cmdr Jan of the Glorious empire :D
 

cptcman

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mossfoot said:
You'd think those things were made of neutron stars given that they can't budge. But if they did Nav Beacons would become football... match...es...

I think I need to make a separate post.
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My brother lost his brand new Asp crashing into a nav beacon (without the funds for insurance!). Ticket filed, and he got his money back.
 

The Kosls

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When I went to my first RES after moving from my Eagle to a Cobra...I quickly learned that the two ships are very different sizes when an asteroid came out of nowhere and splatted me. Good thing I learned that with cheap ships!
 

Vences

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I think I have 8 insurance claims to my name and only 3 of them from combat. The other 5, especially the first three were just part of the learning curve and the rest from stupidity, tiredness, etc.

One of those is flying into the slot and getting pinballed into the sides by a leaving ship. Probably a type 9. Those things shouldnt use letterboxes lol. After I was tossed around a little bit and didnt know anymore where up and down was I got destroyed by the nice canons of the station.

And the last one is my favourite. I just managed to get my first real cargo ship: A hauler with rare goods doing the Alliance cluster Nu run. I just ran out of fuel and no suitable sun near me.

Well, seen like that, the last two were part of the learning curve too I suppose :).
 

dismoor

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... i did get cocky yesterday. Where in a res Zone (it was night time there) with buddys. Getting bounty after bounty. 4 to 5 million ready to pay out (i don't play too often. That is money for me.) “okay the anaconda then i get My money!“ didn't saw the asteroid in which i boosted in.. and my vulture made a loud “plop“ and ... “hey i just died!“ “how did u manage that?“ “don't ask..“ :D i think mistakes just happens ^^ learn from it and don't Do it again
 

Thoemse

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Glady it only happened to me once and it was just a cobra. So far i have been a lot more careful since.
When i went splat it happened like this. I was doing my upward thrusters, retract landing gear and boosting out of the station mailslot procedure like i allways did.
If you do it right it works all in one fluid motion. If you it up and give too much upward thurst you will find yourself boosting towards the mailslot at 400 speed seeing you are too high. Inertia is a .

Since then i retract the landing gear - line up for the slot and activate the booster only when i see i have zero inertia. Haven't had an accidend since.
 
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