Need a good laugh? Watch my DBX lose power and explode on the surface right in front of my SRV!
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I've got a DBX Explorer which doesn't have enough juice to run the thrusters and the vehicle hanger (or AFMU) at the same time so I have to land, power-up the hangar and then deploy the SRV or shut down my thrusters to use the AFMU.
I do it that way, rather than with priorities, to avoid the annoying "Power limits exceeded. Modules disabled" message being repeated after every jump.
Not sure how but I'd bet on it being caused by something like that.
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Oh, hang on...
My Anaconda has a neat trick where I sometimes land, deploy my SRV and find that my SRV has to fall about 30m to the surface cos the ship isn't actually landed after all.
In that situation, the only possible action is to dismiss the ship and then recall it.
If that happened to the OPs DBX (and he's configured the modules similar to how I have my DBX) it might result in an "airborne" ship not having enough power for the thrusters.
I do it that way, rather than with priorities, to avoid the annoying "Power limits exceeded. Modules disabled" message being repeated after every jump.
Not sure how but I'd bet on it being caused by something like that.
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Oh, hang on...
My Anaconda has a neat trick where I sometimes land, deploy my SRV and find that my SRV has to fall about 30m to the surface cos the ship isn't actually landed after all.
In that situation, the only possible action is to dismiss the ship and then recall it.
If that happened to the OPs DBX (and he's configured the modules similar to how I have my DBX) it might result in an "airborne" ship not having enough power for the thrusters.
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You should have exited the game completely rather than just exited to main menu, then started the game in non-Horizons mode - you'd have started in your ship and in orbit - then you could have seen what the problem was
That would have been my suggestion. Bit late now though Mengy, sorry and all that.
Pretty sure they will.
This will hopefully give you a laugh anyway Mengy, old clip from about a year ago - the reason I would have suggested logging out and back into non-Horizons is that it's how I sorted this out. Trust me, it's worth the wait - at least yours was only a DBX...
Still, it was a nice place for it to happen, the Robin's Egg Nebula.[video=youtube;rkfp5T7OZdg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkfp5T7OZdg[/video]
This is why I made sure my AspX has extra juice to spare (even if damaged) while outfitting for Distant Stars. I could run everything, including the dual AFMUs. The only reason I'd turn stuff off was to consume less fuel and to reduce heat. The reduced range more than made up for it, especially since I suffered catastrophic damage leaving Hades Edge. If my thrusters had cut out due to the damage to an overtaxed PP, I'd have died falling back to the planet. Was definitely worth the 0.10 reduction in jump range by using a 3A over a 2A.
I guess the question here is if your ship was using the power priorities you set, or if it had everything set to priority 1 while the AI was flying it.
Did you have any module damage to the PP?
This isn't anything against you at all, but I'm honestly having a difficult time understanding this. I suppose if I have a weakness it's having too much empathy for my own good. It even makes watching some movies very difficult for me, even though I can distinguish logically between a plot and true events in real life that have significant impacts on people.
I know I'm wearing my heart on my sleeve with my responses so far in this thread instead of "manning up" to the apparent norm. I do however understand that humor is a coping mechanism of sorts to relieve tension, and this is why I'm not holding anyone at fault or judging them bast on their reactions.
Sometimes we can take ourselves too seriously in this game, but on the other hand, and more often than not in my opinion, sometimes we don't take ourselves seriously enough.
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That's fine WR3ND, I have a weird sense of humor on life in general, keeps me sane with my 5 kids
It was like watching something out of a comedy movie, which is amusing along with the OP's written comments made it like a little comedy which I feel the poor Cmdr trying to make some good fun out of their misfortune. And at the same time as I "Stated" feel bad for them due to how far out in the void they are etc, and I am sure their heart sunk seeing their ship drop from the sky onto the planet and explode, as would any of us.
I truly hope FD come to the party and reinstate their ship and if we could do so, I would offer to go out and rescue them (FD need to look into a rescue Cmdr system) as well to bring them home to be able to hand in their exploration data.
There was no malice in my comment, and even OP mentioned to have a laugh on them - Even in their dire situation they posted about it knowing "some of us" might of giggled a bit about it.
And yes in Elite, I never take myself to serious. I am out there in the universe attempting crazy things in ships you shouldn't, and so on. If I posted all the stupid things I have done, most the forums would be LOL at me just seeing my name on the post. I do wonder how I ever got my Pilots Federation License to be honest hehe.
That holds true for a lot of folks, especially old timers. Ziggy is the official mascot, which is all T.j.'s fault.
You should have exited the game completely rather than just exited to main menu, then started the game in non-Horizons mode - you'd have started in your ship and in orbit - then you could have seen what the problem was
Asides from that, I'd be contacting Support right now to ask them to look into it and if it was a bug, they could reinstate your ship for you.
EDIT: Your ship hadn't ran out of fuel had it?
Nah, had almost a full fuel tank. In retrospect I should have logged into non-Horizons mode after I logged back into my SRV and didn't see the ship anywhere. I was half panicked and not thinking, and I was certain that it was just a bug and that relogging would fix it. I was wrong, dead wrong, lol!
Nah it's okay, watch it and laugh away! I found it super amusing until I noticed the hull wasting away. I admit though watching the video now, I do still find a tad humorous.
Maybe it was fuel? Even when on standby the ship consumes a tiny amount of fuel overtime, anyways that was a nice laugh and I hope you got your ship back
I got a similar incident a while ago, my NPC pilot somehow clipped trough the terrain and when I came close to him physics loaded back again and well you can imagine how that ended, it was a glorious explosion though.
I got a similar incident a while ago, my NPC pilot somehow clipped trough the terrain and when I came close to him physics loaded back again and well you can imagine how that ended, it was a glorious explosion though.
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Nah it's okay, watch it and laugh away! I found it super amusing until I noticed the hull wasting away. I admit though watching the video now, I do still find a tad humorous.
I mean, yeah, the irony of it and all, sure.
But honestly, I would much rather give you a hand to help you up than laugh at you when you fall. That that isn't an opinion in this game vexes me to no end.
All I wanna say is that I really care about you... All apologies if that sounds naive and cheesy.
[video=youtube_share;QNJL6nfu__Q]https://youtu.be/QNJL6nfu__Q[/video]
[video=youtube_share;aWmkuH1k7uA]https://youtu.be/aWmkuH1k7uA[/video]
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What other parts are you running other than Power plant that's under-strength?
Maybe a combination of small power plant, small distributor, big engineered thrusters and High G world took its toll?
Possibility that condition is manageable by a human with pip management but maybe the autopilot ignores pips?
I've heard that if your distributor is too small the thrusters will drain it on high G worlds.
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Maybe a combination of small power plant, small distributor, big engineered thrusters and High G world took its toll?
Possibility that condition is manageable by a human with pip management but maybe the autopilot ignores pips?
I've heard that if your distributor is too small the thrusters will drain it on high G worlds.
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Just for clarity, when my Anaconda turned itself into a lawn dart as shown in the video I linked I almost fell off my chair I was laughing that hard. It's because this is just daft stuff happening in a game. Mengy himself can clearly see the amusing side to it, as evidenced by the wording of his post.
I can only speak for myself but although humour certainly can be used as a coping mechanism, I think the issue here for the majority of players is more that we wouldn't have need of a coping mechanism to deal with the aftermath some glitchy behaviour in a computer game. I'm not going to say man up but I do think you might do well to have a think about your reactions and whether they're proportionate.
In particular, you said you feel you sometimes have an excess of empathy, but empathy is being able to see a situation from someone else's point of view. That's actually what you said you're struggling to do. It's more an excess of sympathy.
Not aiming for cod psychology with this post by the way, or making some kind of value judgement about you or your character - I wouldn't have said anything at all were it not for the fact that you raised the issue yourself.
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I mean, yeah, the irony of it and all, sure.
But honestly, I would much rather give you a hand to help you up than laugh at you when you fall. That that isn't an opinion in this game vexes me to no end.
dude, i would take you more seriously if you didn't take this so seriously.
op posted this for the lulz, it's in the title. it's called tragicomedy.
i, much like you, am very empathic, but after all it's not a video about someone backflipping and breaking his bones. i can't fathom why these blooper videos are all the rage, i can't even stand watching them. but this is just pixels!
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That's why I can't wait for SC since they promised this feature. Hopefully people needing rescue won't be victims of space kraken!
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Well, it's empathy from my point of view, putting myself in someone else's shoes, for what it's worth. I play this game as a survivalist and haven't lost ship since 3301 and only five ships in total.
Oh my, getting your ship destroyed while in the SRV, what a noob mistake, muahahaha!
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