Just a quick story to share, for the new comers its meant to say it happens to all of us, and for the experienced, feel free to share your oops moment.
I had recently set out on an expedition to explore the Orion Arm / Spur, and beyond. I was approximately 10,000 light years out with lots of very interesting scan data when I found a little planet 10 light seconds away from the nearby red dwarf. Upon closer inspection it had a good cross section of materials to pick up with the SRV including Arsenic at a 2.3% concentration so I thought why not.
A couple of notes here:
(a) I’m in a DBX
(b) I’m not running shields
(c) I’ve reduced my thrusters for longer range
So everything is happening like I have done hundreds of times before, I have my approach angle, hit the glide just right and exit the glide about 9 KM’s up. This is where it happened as I was flying down I looked at the gravity and it was 0.9 so nothing to major to worry about. I hit boost to get me down to the ground and this is where it all went wrong. Before my boost ended i.e momentum, inertia, for some unknown reason, that I still don’t understand this morning, I turned flight assist off. WHY?
My DBX fell like a rock, I tried to pull up and boost away but the boost was still changing and well I hit the ground and my exploration was over and rather than hundreds of first discovered and millions of credits, I was at the rebuy screen with a tab of a few hundred thousand.
Oops.
I had recently set out on an expedition to explore the Orion Arm / Spur, and beyond. I was approximately 10,000 light years out with lots of very interesting scan data when I found a little planet 10 light seconds away from the nearby red dwarf. Upon closer inspection it had a good cross section of materials to pick up with the SRV including Arsenic at a 2.3% concentration so I thought why not.
A couple of notes here:
(a) I’m in a DBX
(b) I’m not running shields
(c) I’ve reduced my thrusters for longer range
So everything is happening like I have done hundreds of times before, I have my approach angle, hit the glide just right and exit the glide about 9 KM’s up. This is where it happened as I was flying down I looked at the gravity and it was 0.9 so nothing to major to worry about. I hit boost to get me down to the ground and this is where it all went wrong. Before my boost ended i.e momentum, inertia, for some unknown reason, that I still don’t understand this morning, I turned flight assist off. WHY?
My DBX fell like a rock, I tried to pull up and boost away but the boost was still changing and well I hit the ground and my exploration was over and rather than hundreds of first discovered and millions of credits, I was at the rebuy screen with a tab of a few hundred thousand.
Oops.
But yeah, I've had a few close calls. So far my deaths have been due to doing stupid things inside the bubble, or near a base, rather than out in the field. The kinds of mistakes I make while exploring are usually along the lines of hitting a star's exclusion zone because of over-aggressive scooping (and I keep the orbit lines turned off, and so I don't see the exclusion line), or approaching a planet too rapidly from supercruise, and thus take damage dropping to normal space. Things like that.
