Newcomer / Intro "I've got a blow out..."

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
"Vapor three! Flight comm! I can't hold it! She's breaking up! She's break..."

Well no, not quite that bad. I was interdicted and I sprinted for the escape vector. The thing was, the whole screen was shaking and the vector had me thinking I was drunk as there were two of them. I escaped and all was normal again.

I presume I was being hit with something but I didn't actually take any damage. Shields seemed unaffected. What could that have been? I seem to be getting unexpected effects lately...
 
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Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
Uhhh... not seeing it but may be I'm not looking in the right place. Under what tab would I see that (or not)?

EDIT: OK found statistics, nothing about "encounters" though.
 
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Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
sinisalo said:
Under the stats where you can see you assets, combat stats, exploration stats, engineering stats, etc.

I ask because it sort of sounds like you were hyperdicted...

BY THARGOIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Run for the hills!.....

OK< don't do that, they seem sort of friendly, even if they like blowing up starports. Well, nobody's perfect.

Did your interdiction look like this?

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/download/Number/9117/filename/hyperdicted.jpg
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Gosh no, nothing like that. It was just shaking with two escape vectors... should have grabbed a shot. Oh, nothing about encounters there either.
 

Rock Hunter

Rock Hunter
Were you on a countdown for a hyperjump? There have been a few times I’ve been interdicted just after I pressed the button for my hyperjump that I’ve been interdicted and you end up with the escape vector and your hyperjump destination vector all on screen whilst you bounce around.

The first time it happened I got confused with which one was which, not that I knew what was happening, and ended up heading for the jump vector rather than the escape vector. The next thing I knew I was in another system, lucky timing otherwise I’d simply have been interdicted.

It probably isn’t that but until someone knowledgeable comes along.....it may be that :)
 

Zerocz

Z
This used to happen all the time. Normal interdiction, but the game couldn't decide which vector to use. Probably caused by lag.
Congratulations OP, on encountering what has become a fairly rare bug!
 

aRJay

aRJay
There weren't two red ships on your scanner were there?

I was wondering if it could be two ships trying to interdict you at the same time.
 

ArchAngelofDeath

A
sinisalo said:
Under the stats where you can see you assets, combat stats, exploration stats, engineering stats, etc.

I ask because it sort of sounds like you were hyperdicted...

BY THARGOIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Run for the hills!.....

OK< don't do that, they seem sort of friendly, even if they like blowing up starports. Well, nobody's perfect.

Did your interdiction look like this?

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/download/Number/9117/filename/hyperdicted.jpg
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That was my first thought when I read his post. I'm still shaking from my first hyperdiction by them.
And it's nice to have peers that are old enough to remember the 6million dollar man intro!
 

C4R1TON

C4R1TON
I got to shake Lee Major's hand once. He made an appearance at a Toys R Us back then. I also got to shake Spiderman's hand, Geoffrey, Gigi and Baby Gee's hooves too. And yes it was the real Spiderman!:D
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
C4R1TON said:
I got to shake Lee Major's hand once. He made an appearance at a Toys R Us back then. I also got to shake Spiderman's hand, Geoffrey, Gigi and Baby Gee's hooves too. And yes it was the real Spiderman!:D
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Nice!

You know, for years I thought Steve Austin was saying "I've got a blow out! Neighbour three!"

To this day, I still don't know what he was talking about :D

And was it "vapor" or "damper"? Dunno!
 
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Krieger

Krieger
Crow Skyshrine said:
"Vapor three! Flight comm! I can't hold it! She's breaking up! She's break..."

Well no, not quite that bad. I was interdicted and I sprinted for the escape vector. The thing was, the whole screen was shaking and the vector had me thinking I was drunk as there were two of them. I escaped and all was normal again.

I presume I was being hit with something but I didn't actually take any damage. Shields seemed unaffected. What could that have been? I seem to be getting unexpected effects lately...
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That probably was a (known) bug. There is a bug in the interdiction screen that causes a sort of instability that makes the screen flip up/down rapidly. It was pretty bad in the early versions of the game and proved hard to squash for the devs. It is still not completely solved. I see it sometimes when I let the escape vector approach the edge of the screen.
 

mdmaniac44

mdmaniac44
sinisalo said:
Under the stats where you can see you assets, combat stats, exploration stats, engineering stats, etc.

I ask because it sort of sounds like you were hyperdicted...

BY THARGOIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Run for the hills!.....

OK< don't do that, they seem sort of friendly, even if they like blowing up starports. Well, nobody's perfect.

Did your interdiction look like this?

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/download/Number/9117/filename/hyperdicted.jpg
Click to expand...

Wait... Hyperdictions are a thing? That can actually happen in the game? AWESOME! I used to hate getting hyperdicted by Thargoids as there were usually a few of them and they'd each have a bunch of Thargons all shooting at me. only reason I ever carried an Energy Bomb. I hope this starts happening more often so that we actually have a reason to keep the Thargoids at bay.
 
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