Mistakes made that you lived through

[Loriath]

I am sure we have all had those moments when something happens and you go, uh-oh, sure that the end is near but manage to pull it out of the flames.

I had a calamity of errors yesterday that ended in me limping into a station, tail between my legs, but alive.

I was running a hauler and had accumulated about 1.2m credits. I was on the shipyard page looking at my options for the next step up, which was a Type 6. I hit purchase to see where that would leave me. With trade in on my hauler, I would be at about 800k. Not bad, but not where I wanted to be. As I went to click cancel, the dog under my desk decided to jump up and run out of the room catching my mouse cable and tossing it to the floor. Guess I now own a Type 6.

So I have a 50T trading ship, I have the insurance to cover, but not enough to really make any money unless I stay close, safe and make a lot of shirt crap runs. No Problem. I did the grind and always made sure that my insurance was clear when I filled my hold. Eventually ended up with 1m credits. Now I have breathing room. So I find a nice 2-way trip of imperial slaves (although to remain safe, I didn't max out the cargo load) and palladium.

First leg no problems. Managed to make a decent profit on the 41t I hauled. Did some quick math and saw I could do a Full Palladium load, jump under 8ly and hit the first station in the system. Perfect, and its gonna net me some good coin. Off I go.

Jump, and set my course to the station. Just get above 1c speed and I get interdicted. Quickly Throttle to zero and as soon as I can, I hit boost. That's when I check my pursuers. Two Elite Cobras. It is at this point I realize they are players. Not NPC. I must have hit open instead of group. Oh Crap.

They don't demand, they just open fire and in a few seconds, my shields are gone. I dump 5t of cargo, throw everything into boost and spool the FSD. I am praying the charge hits before the hull hits 0 and it is gonna be close. at 1% the FSD starts it countdown. I manage to escape.

I get to the station with no other issues, and land and take stock. I forget what the damage cost was, but even cashing in 45t with a good 1k/t profit, I am soaking all my credits to repair my ship.

TL;DR

If you ever read on the forums that you should NOT buy a ship till you can afford to buy it twice, IT IS NOT A JOKE.
To all Type 6 Commanders who play in Open. God Bless you all. I don't have the nerves for it.

 

[Gogster]

Pretty rough there was no demand without them first attacking. Glad you got out.

 

[[HJ]-RedRaven]

Yeah, my sympathies - I got jumped by a player a couple hours ago... mucking about trading in my Asp.

I submitted to the interdiction, slowed and opened text comms, started to say "You rang?" and awaited a response.
I think I got to "You r..." and my shields took a belting. No response, just wanted my hull.

Stuff you and stuff the forum whining about the FSD cooldown mechanic, I'm outta here!
Perma-boost away, FSD charging with 4 pips to shields (still down and hull screaming, perspex cracking). He keeps pace, still hammering my poor hull.

I did manage to get out, but at 34% hull it cost 134K to fix.

My A-fit Asp seemed to marginally outfly his Cobra, either it did or he wasn't really trying. With a hotas setup you can pull some odd manoevres fairly easily.
Good adrenaline rush but sad day for poor pirating.

Still, I play on Open, without fail. Thargoids or not, its not Eliteangerous unless you're in the mix with other humans. IMO.

*open palm come thither motion* Bring it.

 

[gamecat]

1 mill rebuy asp to a Conflict Zone only to have a 'friendly' python player ram me because they didn't like me getting bounties that they might get. The ramming bug is now fixed, but players like this deserve to be blocked. Let them play by themselves.

 

[SquidgyB]

Define "lived through"

A few times when flying Cobras/Asps when I took on a ship too big for me and got my thrusters knocked out and left drifting (although technically "alive") through space. Once in particular I had a very picturesque view - an elite npc anaconda who's attention was distracted from me just long enough by some Federal ships for him to miss laying the final blow on me - so I spun off into the cold night, intermittently getting a view of a massive ringed planet and some small dots fighting it out silhouetted against the rings.

Pretty, quiet, and with a heavy heart I pressed "Self destruct"...

 

[BaalMoloch]

After updating my FSD on my Viper I went directly to a RES to do some bounty hunting.
My first attempt was lucky and I got several wanteds.
After 1.1 they tend to help each other if one of them is attacked which is great.
The issue? I deployed hardpoints and power went out. I forgot to reset the prioirity of the new FSD.
It took me seconds to restore power and I was left with no shields and taking damage.
Started to run away, hit again, canopy compromised!
Finally got away. It's great that Viper repairs are really cheap.

 

[starsphinx]

My "D'oh" incident involved letting (OK bribing) my youngest son on the training scenarios so he could see what a game without an X box controller was like. Anyway of course he had to press every button while mucking about (he declared it boring without actually trying to complete) and returned to his phone. I load the game into open hit launch preparing to do the smooth controlled exit that makes it look like I know what I am doing.

And promptly discover that my son had switched flight assist off and instead of smooth controlled I am doing an impression of a pinball inside the station -aaahhhhh. So desperately try and get assist back on only to find my ship stuck - thrust any direction just results in horrible crunchy scrapy noises and sparks, along with a loitering warning. I am now hitting full panic and I am not good with controls at the best of times. I am mentally counting the cost of destruction when I remembered a thread I read on "cheats" about saving the game inside the station after launch and when you restart it spawns you outside the station.

So quick save restart and there I am spinning randomly but in clear space so I have all the time to sort myself out (and pray there were no cmdrs there to see it)

 

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[Seonid]

Remembering at the last minute that the Coriolis station has the ARMS OF DOOM and just avoiding getting hit for six.

 

[mistohise]

During "seeking luxuries" I was checking it out to see how it worked, got real close to one of the traders. Decided to head off into hyperspace. Sleepily pressed "tab" instead of j. Was practically inside the t9 before I was able to realise what I'd done and just avoided hitting it.

During an early undock sequence, somehow managed to get wedged lengthways in the struts outside a station. (I think something hit me on the way out but to this day I don't know what). No amount of normal thrust or yaw/roll was doing anything and the station exit seconds were counting down. Completely disorientated due to the confined view. Eventually decided to try "right-thrust" as a last-ditch attempt to get out of there. It worked, and right was the correct way to go to get out instead of further into the station. Left the markers with about 3 seconds remaining.

 

[Cmdr Pli55ken]

Hit a sun (in the starting Sidewinder). 450% Heat. Even though I hit supercruise as fast as I could (frantically looking for the escape vector) this took for-ever to cool down. All the while systems are damaged and hull goes down. Whatching whether heat would hit 150% or hull hit 0% first was...interesting.

Oh yeah...and trying to dock with that same sidwinder first time I had scooped up some cargo at a USS (not knowing that this is illegal). Got out of range of the station with 3% hull left.

To all Type 6 Commanders who play in Open. God Bless you all. I don't have the nerves for it.

Upped from a Cobra to a T6 last weekend and always play open. But I looked for a trade route way out on the edge, so I extremely rarely meet commanders. Also the route is/was mine for long enough to upgrade to an Asp shortly thereafter. The Asp has more cargo than the T6, but can definitely also take care of itself. And 6 multiguns just look so pretty when firing

 

[shadragon]

And 6 multiguns just look so pretty when firing

Unless you are on the receiving end, of course.

 

[Wolf Starslayer]

Forgot docking permission in a t9, trespassed into station; managed to turn the beast round in FA off and escape out the exit with a second or so to spare, felt like a God.

 

[DizzyRonson]

belly flop on an asteroid is not reccomended.. i somehow tried it anyways.. viper at 40% something hull and a busted canopy..

another nice thing i did was attacing an anaconda with my starting sidewinder.. that did not end well

 

[Thomas Jefferson Jones]

belly flop on an asteroid is not reccomended.. i somehow tried it anyways.. viper at 40% something hull and a busted canopy..

another nice thing i did was attacing an anaconda with my starting sidewinder.. that did not end well

Ha those are the exact same scenarios I was going to describe...

RES mindlessly eating NPC's in a Viper, - I run into a Cobra who is suprisingly adept at keeping his nose pointed at me. So we're just orbiting each other, and though I'm winning handily I'm annoyed that I haven't been able to get on his six. So flight assist goes off and I boost while leaning on the ventral thrusters while pitching and rolling, then switch to the dorsals and boost again.

My trajectory is ok for getting behind this Cobra, but I pitch down enough to see a metallic rock fast approaching the underside of my sliding ship. I've got plenty of juice in the capacitor, but boost isn't quite ready to fire again, so I make a new crater.

Shields out, single digit hull and canopy gets sucked into space. And here I'd thought I'd save weight with a crappy life-support system. But I make it into dock without too much wailing.

As an added bonus this was right after the update that let you cash in those previously unclaimable bounties. I logged in basically to go collect, but thought I'd just get a few more vouchers first. I mean, I've had 1 insurance claim since Gamma, what could go wrong...

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As for the Sideiwnder I spent a lot of time after release stubbornly staying in the Sidie. Figured I'd try some assassination missions just for the hell of it. With a burst laser, cannon and magazine of shield cells I find my target. And am doing surprisingly well. Crime reporting is on, and some cops have showed up, just faffing about but usefully drawing fire when I need to withdraw for a shield recharge. So he's down to a few hull% and i'm getting ancy. My hull is beat up, my canopy is a mess of cracks and my thrusters are malfunctioning, but I'm confident I can kill this thing before it kills me.

Those last few % points of Anaconda hull took an eternity to shave off. We ended up nose to nose and my chaff was going while he lit up space like a laser light show. My hull was disapearing, canopy blew out and I was cursing myself for not taking a more cautious approach - Aaaand he goes down.

I'm left breathing sighs of relief in my recylced dwindling air supply. Luckily there's an outpost in system and as its the first time I've made for a destination without a canopy, I'm so grateful for the distance/speed/alignment widget FD added back in beta.

 

[Mufus]

I got bored with the distance to the station ticking down so slowly so I switched the pips to full engines, hit afterburn and, somehow, I made it through the airlock despite some other (thankfully small) ship exiting - I was in an A-rated cobra. I managed to come to a stop just before hitting the far end of the docking bay but I'm pretty sure I only had a few metres to spare. I then had to find my landing pad which was "fun" as they were even less reliable then...

I now routinely perform full speed docking maneuvers just for the practice. Even in a T-6.

 

[SquidgyB]

I got bored with the distance to the station ticking down so slowly so I switched the pips to full engines, hit afterburn and, somehow, I made it through the airlock despite some other (thankfully small) ship exiting - I was in an A-rated cobra. I managed to come to a stop just before hitting the far end of the docking bay but I'm pretty sure I only had a few metres to spare. I then had to find my landing pad which was "fun" as they were even less reliable then...

I now routinely perform full speed docking maneuvers just for the practice. Even in a T-6.

Hehe, I've accidentally boosted with a T9 at the station entrance - as quickly as I could switched to full reverse flight assist off and came within (what I'd assume to be) centimetres of the pokey red lights on a fork in the middle of the station.

Fun times.

 

[Dash]

Children

 

[mossfoot]

Going head on against an Elite Python in a Cobra with no pips on SYS...

[video=youtube;McpJKodm-pU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McpJKodm-pU[/video]

Oooops.

 

[The.Doover]

Mine was pure stupidity.

Forgot docking permission, sitting in the toast rack as the warning starts, no problem I think, throwing it into reverse.... still panicking with a lack of progress, I think I know, boost will speed me up....

Crunch, only 50 percent cost to my hull, on the bright side, it stopped me flying into the station slot to almost certain death!