Hi, I'm new here.
Things have been going pretty well for me. I played for several days without dying once. Today, statistics caught up with me and saw to it that my noobishness would see himself killed. What happened is that I made the mistake of attacking a transport that was clean. I though that would be OK as I was in an independent system. That was a mistake, independent is not the same as anarchy, it seems. I got a small bounty on my head, and some useless cans of algae the transport left behind. I couldn't even pick them up, as my cargo was already full (I had forgotten about that before initiating my piracy act).
I decided I would get back on the right side of the law and clear my bounty. The system had no outposts, so I had to take my chances through security and dock quickly. I left super-cruise coming from the planet side, which presented me neatly facing the entrance of the station. I went full thrusters, engaged silent running and requested docking.
I made it into the letter-box entrance without being scanned, but to my horror I got a warning about loitering, and had 20s to get out. Which I did, panicked. I don't know if my grant request had been accepted by the time I entered. I'm pretty sure I did not hear it being denied.
Outside of the station, a ship initiated a scan, bad news for me. I went back into the station, possibly before the scan completed, but I'm not sure. Back inside in the station, I was instantaneously destroyed, it went so fast I never even heard the shots.
So what did I do wrong? Why did the station accuse me of loitering when I first entered? Is it illegal to enter a station when you are wanted in that system? Or was my problem due to entering to quickly, before my docking request was granted?
Things have been going pretty well for me. I played for several days without dying once. Today, statistics caught up with me and saw to it that my noobishness would see himself killed. What happened is that I made the mistake of attacking a transport that was clean. I though that would be OK as I was in an independent system. That was a mistake, independent is not the same as anarchy, it seems. I got a small bounty on my head, and some useless cans of algae the transport left behind. I couldn't even pick them up, as my cargo was already full (I had forgotten about that before initiating my piracy act).
I decided I would get back on the right side of the law and clear my bounty. The system had no outposts, so I had to take my chances through security and dock quickly. I left super-cruise coming from the planet side, which presented me neatly facing the entrance of the station. I went full thrusters, engaged silent running and requested docking.
I made it into the letter-box entrance without being scanned, but to my horror I got a warning about loitering, and had 20s to get out. Which I did, panicked. I don't know if my grant request had been accepted by the time I entered. I'm pretty sure I did not hear it being denied.
Outside of the station, a ship initiated a scan, bad news for me. I went back into the station, possibly before the scan completed, but I'm not sure. Back inside in the station, I was instantaneously destroyed, it went so fast I never even heard the shots.
So what did I do wrong? Why did the station accuse me of loitering when I first entered? Is it illegal to enter a station when you are wanted in that system? Or was my problem due to entering to quickly, before my docking request was granted?
