In response to Lost my brand new Cutter, can anyone beat that? 
First a disclaimer... no I'm not the guy who just grinded Quince for the easy credits (just for the last rank), I'm no expert, but I'm also no newb, unlocked most engineers, and I believe I have tackled almost all aspects of the game (except PvP), I think I played long enough to try a Cutter, at least I thought that (it's still true I think, but no experience can beat human stupdity and laziness...).
Second disclaimer, I'm using a docking computer in my trade and delivery ships at least 50% of the time. Not because I'm too stupid to dock, but I'm just lazy, I enjoy the views while docking, I love to hop away from my XBox to pack stuff when I'm getting ready in the morning, I love the immersion of 100% obeying the docking protocol, enjoy hearing the classic sound and the ship ballet, and lastly but mostly I'm just lazy.
So here it goes, finally I wanted to do ""real trading"", I achieved Duke now two or three weeks ago, credits were no problem, just had enough other fun stuff to do. But finally, I wanted to do big haulage.
Here is number 1, pure laziness:
I bought it, had some successful deliveries, couldn't believe how slow and awkward this brick handles but getting accustomed, and then, oh no, ran into an unexpected 300k ls delivery in the morning :| My better half suddenly demands to fetch something she forgot in the car... so clever me thinks kill two birds with one stone, spend the waiting time while making her happy and fetch the stuff. Til now, I never got interdicted when hauling just cargo without missions (and til today never got thereafter), but this time, you know what happened: Coming back from the car and seeing the rebuy screen, riiiding, first -20M!
Number 2, stupdity:
First, I have to tell that I am not only lazy but also greedy, too lazy to engineer a class 5 shield but too greedy to not have >700 tons, so screw you shields. I know these imperial rocket science is shield focused, but flying a cutter without shield is really hilarious. Often enough I get "Hull compromised" just for launching from the pad, not controls touched! Small ships cutting me off in the mail slot taking 10% of my beloved paper hull, but hey, no risk no fun! So I went often enough in and out through the mail slot manually with this big baby, and I got impatient, perfectly aligned with the mail slot (I thought), just centimeters before, lets try it: BOOST. Screeeeeeeech, scraaaatch, "Eject eject", another -20M rebuy
And the last but not least, number 3, not my fault I'd say, but I could have interpreted the signs earlier and better:
Up to now, I absolutely loved my docking computer for the reasons mentioned above, and I thought it was capable. In my AspX I could boost into the mail slot >200 ms, throttle down and have it land perfectly every time, besides other crazy approaches and then handing control to the docking computer. But with the cutter I already noticed it is different, sometimes it couldn't hit the slot but aimed below, almost bumping into the station, but recovering, backing up, just to repeat this forever and force me to fly manually... but I would have never thought it would betray me this hard:
Cargo full, and a nice mission delivery of clothing on board I just had to hop from one planetary base some hundred kilometers to the next. Then there was this type of base I had never seen before, a large and some smaller sky scrapers in the middle, surrounded by a big ring on the ground. So autodocking time again it was to enjoy the view of this unseen settlement. I was directly opposite side of the ring to where my landing pad was.
The docking computer again behaved strangely, zigzagging up and down very slowly around this ring. This is maybe where I should have intervened, but I thought it justs wants to present me some extra views as it had never seen such a base, too Finally, it is getting close to the landing pad, turns, nose pointing to the center at the large sky scraper, but then, what is this? "Swooooooosh", can it be? "Boooooom" Why the do you boost now (algorithm must have just decided to retry the approach or something like that)? I had not even time to disengage the docking computer before I smashed full frontal into the skyscraper, "Eject eject"... there goes my third 20M.
For the first time I have seen a sharp decline in my credits in ED (buying ships is an investment, no decline), but I learned my lessons: Don't get carefree, don't leave your big bucks alone, equip a shield, but hey, it's a game
PS: What is wrong with my beloved docking computer and larger sluggish ships, it doesn't seem to handle these well, and further it doesn't seem to know about the more extravagant bases?
First a disclaimer... no I'm not the guy who just grinded Quince for the easy credits (just for the last rank
), I'm no expert, but I'm also no newb, unlocked most engineers, and I believe I have tackled almost all aspects of the game (except PvP), I think I played long enough to try a Cutter, at least I thought that (it's still true I think, but no experience can beat human stupdity and laziness...).Second disclaimer, I'm using a docking computer in my trade and delivery ships at least 50% of the time. Not because I'm too stupid to dock, but I'm just lazy, I enjoy the views while docking, I love to hop away from my XBox to pack stuff when I'm getting ready in the morning, I love the immersion of 100% obeying the docking protocol, enjoy hearing the classic sound and the ship ballet, and lastly but mostly I'm just lazy.
So here it goes, finally I wanted to do ""real trading"", I achieved Duke now two or three weeks ago, credits were no problem, just had enough other fun stuff to do. But finally, I wanted to do big haulage.
Here is number 1, pure laziness:
I bought it, had some successful deliveries, couldn't believe how slow and awkward this brick handles but getting accustomed, and then, oh no, ran into an unexpected 300k ls delivery in the morning :| My better half suddenly demands to fetch something she forgot in the car... so clever me thinks kill two birds with one stone, spend the waiting time while making her happy and fetch the stuff. Til now, I never got interdicted when hauling just cargo without missions (and til today never got thereafter), but this time, you know what happened: Coming back from the car and seeing the rebuy screen, riiiding, first -20M!
Number 2, stupdity:
First, I have to tell that I am not only lazy but also greedy, too lazy to engineer a class 5 shield but too greedy to not have >700 tons, so screw you shields. I know these imperial rocket science is shield focused, but flying a cutter without shield is really hilarious. Often enough I get "Hull compromised" just for launching from the pad, not controls touched! Small ships cutting me off in the mail slot taking 10% of my beloved paper hull, but hey, no risk no fun! So I went often enough in and out through the mail slot manually with this big baby, and I got impatient, perfectly aligned with the mail slot (I thought), just centimeters before, lets try it: BOOST. Screeeeeeeech, scraaaatch, "Eject eject", another -20M rebuy
And the last but not least, number 3, not my fault I'd say, but I could have interpreted the signs earlier and better:
Up to now, I absolutely loved my docking computer for the reasons mentioned above, and I thought it was capable. In my AspX I could boost into the mail slot >200 ms, throttle down and have it land perfectly every time, besides other crazy approaches and then handing control to the docking computer. But with the cutter I already noticed it is different, sometimes it couldn't hit the slot but aimed below, almost bumping into the station, but recovering, backing up, just to repeat this forever and force me to fly manually... but I would have never thought it would betray me this hard:
Cargo full, and a nice mission delivery of clothing on board I just had to hop from one planetary base some hundred kilometers to the next. Then there was this type of base I had never seen before, a large and some smaller sky scrapers in the middle, surrounded by a big ring on the ground. So autodocking time again it was to enjoy the view of this unseen settlement. I was directly opposite side of the ring to where my landing pad was.
The docking computer again behaved strangely, zigzagging up and down very slowly around this ring. This is maybe where I should have intervened, but I thought it justs wants to present me some extra views as it had never seen such a base, too
Finally, it is getting close to the landing pad, turns, nose pointing to the center at the large sky scraper, but then, what is this? "Swooooooosh", can it be? "Boooooom" Why the do you boost now (algorithm must have just decided to retry the approach or something like that)? I had not even time to disengage the docking computer before I smashed full frontal into the skyscraper, "Eject eject"... there goes my third 20M.For the first time I have seen a sharp decline in my credits in ED (buying ships is an investment, no decline), but I learned my lessons: Don't get carefree, don't leave your big bucks alone, equip a shield, but hey, it's a game
PS: What is wrong with my beloved docking computer and larger sluggish ships, it doesn't seem to handle these well, and further it doesn't seem to know about the more extravagant bases?
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