Most Stupid Elite Moment?

[Dr Roly]

I was fighting an AI sidewinder and things had degenerated into a turning battle. Hit the sweet spot and pulled hard back. My target's exhaust trails edged closer, "c'mon turn harder" I thought. Diverted all power to engines... Still not quite there...

Suddenly, twin pulse lasers stripped my shilds. What??? How did he gain a firing angle on me?

Turns out I hadn't been concentrating and was following my own exhaust trail in an ever tighter circle!

(yes I could have looked up but currently have POV hat configured to power distribution)

After that, I decided I was too tired and really ought to get some sleep.

 

[OVMorat]

Easily done

My most stupid (So far) was fumbling for the thruster control on my X-45 throttle which I have mapped to the mouse stick nipple thing, It's right next to the little mouse button stud thing which I had mapped to boost.

Not the best choice when using thrust to fine tune above the landing pad. I don't know what they make the windows out of on the landing pad control towers but it's tougher than a Sidewinder

 

[Crimson1973]

I've got one to beat you all. Saved up my credits slowly with the sidewinders 4 cargo spots. Finally have 30k and purchased a hauler and loaded it with minerals for my first trade. Took off on my maiden voyage Used vertical thrusters to take off and slammed into one of the station pylons and blew up (forgot I was right at the end of the station) with only about 750 credits left. Time to start again lol.

 

[gravedodger]

My moment of sublime brilliance was managing to eject 30 tons of valuable cargo whilst in SuperCruise ... !

That button is now defunct

 

[Flavio]

Trying out a profitable (2500 credits) long haul mission and filled up with cargo only to find that I can't do a jump with so much on board so I sell half of my cargo at a loss and while in the station I see that I can make the jump and leave but once I am outside it says insufficient fuel so I dump a ton as it is getting late and need to complete the run. Two jumps further in I think that I can make one more jump before refuelling but select the wrong system as it has a similar name. No problem as I will just do a u-turn. Ah, insufficient fuel again. Ok better find a station, oops, none so send out a distress call and spend 1000 credits on fuel.
Finally get to my destination having made nearly nothing.

 

[letoras]

Went to the station to deliver a cargo, I somehow dropped the cargo inside the station. Because of the stations rotation the cargo was going here and there all the time and I was chasing it all around (until I messed up my ship).

 

[robdood]

Saved up a bit, bought an Eagle. Buy some new weapons for it. Set up fire groups. Check out the cockpit, oooooo such nice open windows! Realise money is low, so spend my last on some commodities so I can scrimp back up to cover insurance before I head into battle. Set my destination, undock from Starport. Lift landing gear, throttle up towards the exit. Line up, hit boost. Realise there's an [redacted] Anaconda taking up the whole doorway. No time for evasive maneuvers. Eject. Eject. Delete save file. Punch self in head.

 

[Unknown Terror]

My moment of sublime brilliance was managing to eject 30 tons of valuable cargo whilst in SuperCruise ... !

That button is now defunct

Mine was the opposite of dropping cargo, it was picking up cargo in a USS only to realise what I had done in front of the docking port at Eranin. Literally the very second I remembered the cargo was marked as stolen, I got ship scanned which made me panic and I subsequently died. If I didn't get scanned I'd have been able to keep my cool and at the most get the fine for littering. Just typical and felt really stupid after.

 

[Neillm]

While demoing the game to someone, I thought I'd be clever and undock, fly out of the slot, turn FA off and flip over to show the station in all it's glory. This was working great until I thought it was taking too long to get some distance, so I hit boost...completely forgetting that boost goes forward and NOT in the direction the ship is moving. 5 seconds of mad panic while I realise what's happening followed by smacking into the station and leaving a stain.

Much to the person I was showing's amusement.

 

[CATPAIN KIRK]

True to my name, plenty here:

- classic: for some reason boosted inside the docking slit. No confusing layout or anything - had a collision with another ship, lost orientation for a moment and just hit it due to apparent brain malfunction.
- Regulary getting in trouble with people (presumably) using docking computers. When docking, I always use the green side and I don't speed (coming in at ~150 in a cobra). If I see an NPC near the entrance, I already slow down knowing he will slow down to ridiculously slow speeds and bring his ship into the most awkwardly oblique orientation the computer can come up with.
When I see a human, I expect him to do a smooth and swift landing and swoop in in a wide, elegant curve. Most of the time that works flawlessly, except when the individual is using a docking computer.
Just rammed another cobra when docking in Dahan, because his docking computer unexpectedly slowed down to a halt right before the entrance.

They're like people suddenly standing still in an escalators exit area whilst you're directly behind them (luckily no harm was done in these incidents so far - and sorry for the scare if any of you wasn't afk).

 

[Jezzah]

I was having a great dogfight with a particular cmdr a few weeks ago. I was K scanning everyone coming out of the station - one guy pops up with an 800cr bounty. Great i thought I'll follow him out past the no fire and take him on. Viper versus Viper. Id seen he was fitted with multicannons only and i felt i had a good chance against him with my c4 cannons.

So i aggresed him and we had a a few turns at each other. I was very careful about the station which at this point was about 2-3km away. Not careful enough though As the good cmdr was coming to bear in my guns for what was probably the kill blow I let loose with a volley and saw to my horror that the station had also come into view - i missed our dear chap and smacked the station.

Dead in 3 seconds i think

 

[Ironfist]

Easily done

My most stupid (So far) was fumbling for the thruster control on my X-45 throttle which I have mapped to the mouse stick nipple thing, It's right next to the little mouse button stud thing which I had mapped to boost.

Not the best choice when using thrust to fine tune above the landing pad. I don't know what they make the windows out of on the landing pad control towers but it's tougher than a Sidewinder

Surly everyone on a HOTAS has boosted into an internal part of a station.

I still find myself pressing my right foot into the ground, trying to find my imaginary brake.

 

[Commander Haggis]

This thread is making me LOL

My stupidest moment comes on my 2nd run with a Lakon Type 6 fully loaded with fish. Thought I was used to the handling size of the ship and went to exit the station at speed.

Got the elevation a tad wrong and just flew straight into the top of the station just above the exit envelope.

Lost my ship, most of my money and Chango Dock must have been stinking afterwards with 100 tonnes of fish floating around.

I was somewhat embarrassed.

 

[Red Kite]

Jumped in to a system and tried to head for the station, only to find myself travelling straight towards the star. Assuming the station was behind the star I tried to steer round, but every time I turned back I kept meeting the star! After 10 minutes of this I realised that I had forgotten to reset my navigation lock to the station so I was still locked onto the star! Luckily I realised before frying myself!

 

[RCKJD]

I was taking out my cobra for a spin to get some variety in while doing the grind for a Lakon Type 9. Went to a station with two 1g wheels and decided just for fun to fly through them, trying to squeeze through the gap between the struts.
For some reason my brain locked up as I was flying straight towards the 2nd strut. Half of my brain wanted tog up to avoid it and part of my brain wanted to go under it. In the end we compromised and after hitting the strut part of my ship went over it and other parts of my ship when under it. I wrote it up as trying to test the insurance to see if the bug would hit me. Luckily it didn't.

 

[Rocktopper]

I was fighting an AI sidewinder and things had degenerated into a turning battle. Hit the sweet spot and pulled hard back. My target's exhaust trails edged closer, "c'mon turn harder" I thought. Diverted all power to engines... Still not quite there...

Suddenly, twin pulse lasers stripped my shilds. What??? How did he gain a firing angle on me?

Turns out I hadn't been concentrating and was following my own exhaust trail in an ever tighter circle!

(yes I could have looked up but currently have POV hat configured to power distribution)

After that, I decided I was too tired and really ought to get some sleep.

This is my favourite

 

[cassius]

Coming in to land using some newly modified joystick bindings, hitting the boost button instead of the landing gear and blasting ino the pad control tower. Bouncing around the station interior a bit then exploding

If you were at Dahan about an hour ago and saw someone do that... yeah, that was me

 

[bamber]

Computer on a power saver master, monitors and rest off an extension lead connected to the power saver slave so everything is controlled by computer base unit

New pedals

Docking using pedals - pushed back too far managed to hit switch on extensions killed power to monitors

Dive under desk switch on extension, back up wait for monitors to come back on

Ship stuck in cattle grid and shields gone -

Died

Extension lead moved

 

[Cmdr Fremen]

I was very careful, because a lot of players were around. I've shot a big one, and it started dropping gold and battle weapons. I took my time, checking every direction so that nobody comes closer under the radar while scooping up the precious loot. Asked for permission to land, and inside I've made a circle around a suspicious player. I was in a Viper, and when I touched the ground, a second later I was in pieces scattered all over the place!

...And then came the insurace bug.

 

[Kalchak]

Decided to try out some random signals in my Lakon 6, because reasons and why not.

I landed in a signal with a wanted sidewinder and a friendly that was already engaging him. Activate weapons! Engage! FIRE!

I strip his shields on the first pass and turn about to finish him off, open fire ::Bloop:: Temperature critical

One pass with beams and I'm at 150% heat, nothing wants to fire, and I'm turning modules off like a mad man to try and lower heat generation. I launched a heatsink, turned back around ::Boop:: Target shields restored

Another run, got his shields down, 150% heat... oh dear... I can see where this is going... In the end I ran out of Heat sinks and the NPC friendly had to finish him off. I nearly cooked my ship, blew a full stack of heat sinks, and all I accomplished was giving the NPC's a chuckle as they watched this lumbering Lakon 6 fry itself.

Suffice to say, lesson learned, Lakon 6 does not like lasers...