It's been a week!

Zeeman

Zeeman
...Since I last boosted into a station wall and.. Um... Exploded.

To mark the occasion, last night upon my first docking at a space station, I hit the boos tbutton instea dof reverse thrust button when flying through the letterbox in in brand new Python.

Yeay me!

I did a pretty good job of flipping around and throttling up, thus reducing my splat damage, so I only destroyed 93% of my hull, and broke my canopy.

Seeing the repair bill, I was not altogether sure whether I woul dhave been better off just letting it explode and buying a new one!

Anyway, at least it's still been a week since I destroyed a ship by accidental boost...

Z...
 

Troubletcat

Troubletcat
I have never, not even once when I first started playing, destroyed my ship by accidentally boosting. I don't actually understand how this keeps happening to people. Like, do you just flail wildly and slam your hand on every button at once? I don't get it. I've bumped into stuff before but never hard enough to destroy whatever I was flying, and never because I mashed on the boost button when I meant to do something else.
 

Jetset

J
I use an xbox controller for flying and B used to be boost until I did the same thing as OP.....twice. Now my B button is set for 75% engine speed & if I want to boost I have to use my keyboard. Makes much more sense :)
 

Zeeman

Zeeman
Tends to be when my cat jumps on my lap. or nuzzles my throttle hand.

Actually, the solution is to drop landing gear, then boost doesn't boost...

I like where my binding are for combat. still, I should probably re-bind my landing gear...

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Gorodd

Gorodd
Troubletcat said:
I have never, not even once when I first started playing, destroyed my ship by accidentally boosting. I don't actually understand how this keeps happening to people. Like, do you just flail wildly and slam your hand on every button at once? I don't get it. I've bumped into stuff before but never hard enough to destroy whatever I was flying, and never because I mashed on the boost button when I meant to do something else.
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For me, it was simply an involuntary muscle memory twitch...*splat*
 

Zeeman

Zeeman
Troubletcat said:
I have never, not even once when I first started playing, destroyed my ship by accidentally boosting. I don't actually understand how this keeps happening to people. Like, do you just flail wildly and slam your hand on every button at once? I don't get it. I've bumped into stuff before but never hard enough to destroy whatever I was flying, and never because I mashed on the boost button when I meant to do something else.
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Most of the time it's one of my cats decided to nuzzle my throttle hand at the worst moment, other times, it's because I have been alt tabbing or doing something else whilst docking, and putting my hand on the throttle in the wrong position.

All my own fault, of course...


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Ghostickles

G
Zee, lols, practice scoop boosting, it will save your life. :)
Scoop boosting:
Boost > deploy cargo scoop (retards momentum) >F/A off > maneuver > retract cargo scoop > F/A on.
Best hairpins. If this becomes second nature you wont hit the back wall ever again.
 

Arthur_two_sheds_Jackson

Arthur_two_sheds_Jackson
Troubletcat said:
I have never, not even once when I first started playing, destroyed my ship by accidentally boosting. I don't actually understand how this keeps happening to people. Like, do you just flail wildly and slam your hand on every button at once? I don't get it. I've bumped into stuff before but never hard enough to destroy whatever I was flying, and never because I mashed on the boost button when I meant to do something else.
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Ditto, My boost button is well out of the way, I dont drop the undercarriage till im through the keyhole
 

Zeeman

Zeeman
Ghostickles said:
Zee, lols, practice scoop boosting, it will save your life. :)
Scoop boosting:
Boost > deploy cargo scoop (retards momentum) >F/A off > maneuver > retract cargo scoop > F/A on.
Best hairpins. If this becomes second nature you wont hit the back wall ever again.
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Interesting - my cargo scoop binding is kinda out of the way, may have to do some binding changes and give this a go... Could be fun in combat...

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daddyNumbers

daddyNumbers
Assign boost to a switch, on the wall, in the next room, thus ...

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