Lost ships due to life support running out

SinphulAK

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So I've been grinding industrial sourcing missions (Around 200k ea) for days and throughout that process I was finally able to purchase an ASP Explorer (6.6 mil). So I take a few more sourcing missions and I'm pulling out of dock as usual and as soon as it releases me from dock I immediately get a life support message on my display. I find that unusual so I left the port and flipped around to redock but my contacts screen doesn't even register the dock, I go to system map and re-select the dock, nothing. I even left to a brand new system and dock and STILL I couldn't contact a dock to request docking. So now I'm down to less than 1 minute on life support and I'm desperate so I start pulling into the dock and I start getting slammed with fines, then, I suffocate and my ship explodes? .

So I had enough credit blanket to take the hit and I replace my ASP. This time I check my repair schedule, fuel and restockables and everything looks good so I release from dock after restarting, SAME ISSUE, right back to the life support message and me not being able to contact ANY dock but of course this time.. I can't afford the loss so I explode and I have to come back on LOANED equipment in a SIDEWINDER. I spent WEEKS grinding to get my ASP then I loose MILLIONS to some bull glitch that I have NEVER encountered before? What the hell is my incentive to keep playing this garbage? Hours and hours of my time completely wasted and this bull leasing and respawn system is completely broken. How do you justify this crap? I wanted to talk my friends into buying your product Frontier but after me losing WEEKS of hard work trying to enjoy it I don't think I'll ever play again, it's that bad. Anyone else have an issue like this before? I'm ready to put this game down for good after this..
 

Yaffle

Volunteer Moderator
Yaffle
Hello there

If it's a bug then contact support, who are usually very fast at reimbursing bug related losses.
 

Cupsuki

Cupsuki
Sounds like you didn't had enough power for your ship so that explains why everything turns off.

No sensors=You can't dock

Check your power priorities but also check if maybe you got over your power limit. Maybe you changed some weapons
 

Jimmysal

Jimmysal
Did you have enough power to run everything on the Asp? It sounds like you didn't have enough capacity in your powerplant and some modules shut down when you launched (life support and sensors).

Edit: Good googily moogily. Ninja'd by my own petard! (twice even!)
 
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Anuranium

Anuranium
I smell a power issue of some sort.
You might have screwed around with the power priority settings on your ship making your life-support and sensors not powered due to your ship consuming more power than the powerplant can handle.
Hope both you and FD figures it out though.

Good luck.

(Also ninja'd)
 
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Kietrax

Volunteer Moderator
Kietrax
Sounds like you had too much stuff enabled, not enough power and no or incorrectly set up module priorities. What you describe about the dock indicates the sensors were offline, and the life support message implies the life support system was also offline. Assuming you went and outfitted your ship, when you exited that did you get a message about needing to set module priorities?

Not entirely sure why this would happen straight after undock, but I guess you are powered by the station when docked, then as soon as you undock it switches to your power plant, only it wasn't powerful enough. When you undocked, did you get a message about power plant capacity exceeded?

Edit: damn my slow typing and you black pyjama wearing folk!
 
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AkimuMC

AkimuMC
R34per said:
Sounds like you didn't had enough power for your ship so that explains why everything turns off.

No sensors=You can't dock

Check your power priorities but also check if maybe you got over your power limit. Maybe you changed some weapons
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Agreed this was the issue.

Anytime you fit new parts, check your module tab (right hand panel) and be sure you can run what you have. If you cannot, re-fit, or re-prioritize what you NEED to run to 1st priority etc...

SinphulAK said:
<Sad story about not being aware of all game mechanics>
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Yes, you can lose a lot of work for a silly mistake like this. I personally bounced a Cutter off a High G world because I didn't look at the G's before attempting a landing... I learned a 50,000,000 credit lesson. Sounds like the game tried to teach you a 6,000,000 lesson and you failed to recognize the problem, so the game tried to teach it to you again. Unfortunately, you learned another lesson at the same time of "Don't fly what you cannot rebuy". The nice thing though, that is the only "punishment" this game has...

Certainly in the future I would recommend you troubleshoot and find a corrective action for your issue before you attempt to fly again. Obviously, if you did not change anything to solve issue, there is still issue. So...
 
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SinphulAK

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I had the best power distributer and generator credits could buy. The only thing I did was sell 4 of my 6 hardpoints to reduce weight. My power levels looked just fine, well overpowered as a whole so I don't feel this fits. Nothing else changed in my modules at all.

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As if there was ANY KIND of warning, status alert or anything to emphasize my alleged "mistakes" or give me any kinds of heads up. There was NOTHING. Get over yourself.
 

AkimuMC

AkimuMC
SinphulAK said:
I had the best power distributer and generator credits could buy. The only thing I did was sell 4 of my 6 hardpoints to reduce weight. My power levels looked just fine, well overpowered as a whole so I don't feel this fits. Nothing else changed in my modules at all.

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As if there was ANY KIND of warning, status alert or anything to emphasize my alleged "mistakes" or give me any kinds of heads up. There was NOTHING. Get over yourself.
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Now, just because you had the best power plant that credits could buy at THAT station (unless you were at Jameson), that does not inherently mean that you had what you needed. The best at that station COULD have been a size 3b?

Did you happen to get a video of anything? Honestly, I hardly notice the power plant warning any longer as every time i deploy hardpoints ever, it sounds off. After 2 years, I totally ignore it.
 

Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
SinphulAK said:
I had the best power distributer and generator credits could buy. The only thing I did was sell 4 of my 6 hardpoints to reduce weight. My power levels looked just fine, well overpowered as a whole so I don't feel this fits. Nothing else changed in my modules at all.

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As if there was ANY KIND of warning, status alert or anything to emphasize my alleged "mistakes" or give me any kinds of heads up. There was NOTHING. Get over yourself.
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Keep blaming other people, I've heared nothing but positive results about that approach to problems.
 

Iskariot

Iskariot
A power problem would have been my guess to.
But it is impossible to be sure.

After putting in a few thousand hours into this game I never encountered the 'bug' you describe myself, nor did I hear anyone else describe this problem, unless it was a simple user mistake, as others already pointed out.
The first time I really had to learn about power setups was when I bought a Vulture.
The first thing I do when I buy and outfit a new ship is testing the setup in the vicinity of the station where I outfitted it.

Nevertheless it could be a bug, who knows... Report it and ask help.
Support is very friendly and I bet they will give you your ship back.
 
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Chris Simon

Chris Simon
My guess?
OP had sensors and life support on low priority and they switched off when he took off.

If it's anything else, OP would have to be willing to work with us to find the problem, which he is evidently not.
So now, that Frontier has been properly screwed, we should let it go.
 
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