Need a good laugh? Watch my DBX lose power and explode on the surface right in front of my SRV!
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Someone needs to test this right now!
Other folks answered this pretty well, but I'd also add that it depends a lot on the context, and there are times when taking a completely serious empathetic approach is less helpful.
If I mess something up at work, or put my foot in my mouth, or do something clumsy, or get drunk and do something embarrassing, or some minor catastrophe occurs to me, I'll talk about it with my friends, and we'll laugh about it. It's therapeutic, it turns the bad thing into something that spreads laughter and brings you closer to others, and it helps put into perspective that whatever the problem is, it's not some life-shattering event, but a stupid thing that's minor enough to laugh about. It usually also opens up a dialogue where others will talk about similar stuff that happened to them, and everyone pokes fun at each other's calamities. I'm laughing, but there's an unspoken supportive pat-on-the-back implied. It's a means of support, really, a way of saying "it's not as bad as you think" and maybe "I know how you feel", without actually being so unsubtle as to say it.
Because sometimes going full-on "oh God, I'm so sorry, is there anything I can do to help?" actually makes it worse. It's intense and it makes me more likely to think "oh crap, this really is a big deal, I really should be worrying about this".
Obviously, if we're talking about something major a bereavement or getting fired, then it's the opposite. And I wouldn't just start laughing at a complete stranger; there has to be at least some social pretext, for you to be able to read how the person in question is going to take it (OP invites us to laugh right in the topic title). But I'd say a ship crashing in a game fair game, while a car crash in real life wouldn't be.
Ooooh, I can test this tonight when I get home from work. For science!
if it makes you feel any better I cant get the ship I actually landed in to come back, equally a few kly away
I don't understand - the screenshot shows your ship 38m in front of you?!
EDIT: On another note, I agree that it would be awesome if we could mount a rescue mission. FD - please make this a thing.
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If I remember rightly you do get placed back into your ship in orbit - BUT it makes using your SRV buggy if you decide to land again because there is a mismatch between the core game & Horizons.
Core believes your ship to be alive, Horizons (quite correctly) thinks it is dead & removes the ability to recall it once it takes off.
It's not always a bug that causes your ship to die however - there is the distinct possibility that it was a fuel (or lack of it) issue...
I'm probably the wrong person to ask, looking back I'm rather happy there were no actual rescue mechanics. Would have all been over in a day and I had missed all the funSo, I'd like something good to come of this conversation other than just pointing and laughing, as it were.
What are your thoughts on rescue mechanics and should this be something Frontier implements, time and viability permitting?
Gameplaywise it would be rather simple tough, pick up cmdr and deliver. Some other kind of rebuy-system would be needed tough, currently once you get to the rebuy you do get your ship back but you lose all exploration dat. But without the rebuy screen you won't get your lost ship back, unless maybe you can sell your data on board of the other cmdrs ship and then go to the rebuy screen, but that would be very weird way of doing it if you ask me.
Its not a problem when support handles things, they just bring your ship back so you can recal again and all is good, nothing lost. All you have to avoid is dying in the SRV for the time you don't have a ship.
This happened to me in my DBX when I was using 2A PP, never again. It was my own fault for not powering down the fuel scoop when using the SRV, I didn't actually intend to go far from the ship but I ended up going a couple of KM away. When I recalled the ship it fell like a brick and bounced a few times before 'BOOM' luckily I was only 400ly from the last Asteroid base I'd docked at and had bookmarked my discoveries so I just self destructed and re-traced my steps, lost about an hour or two so not too bad. Wish I had tried logging into non horizons to test the theory though.
I have an A3 PP now
I have an A3 PP now
I'm amazed Bomba didn't die during his time stranded. Especially with some of the terrain covered. I learned that a T7 makes a great support platform to help prevent SRV's falling to their deaths while traversing down what is effectively a cliff.
I'm still waiting for the tourist beacon to be added at some point!
I'm still waiting for the tourist beacon to be added at some point!
I don't understand - the screenshot shows your ship 38m in front of you?!
EDIT: On another note, I agree that it would be awesome if we could mount a rescue mission. FD - please make this a thing.
yeah there is a DBx 38m in front of me but;
1) I didn't land in the DBx I landed in a Dolphin
2) look at the dolphin in my right hand panel - that's my ship! not the DBx
Ah. Now I understand.
EDIT: Oh no, actually now I'm more confused! Why is the DBX showing as unmanned Cmdr Kenneth Mcgrew... Is that not your ship?! Did your Dolphin turn into a DBX?
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Ah. Now I understand.
EDIT: Oh no, actually now I'm more confused! Why is the DBX showing as unmanned Cmdr Kenneth Mcgrew... Is that not your ship?! Did your Dolphin turn into a DBX?
Basically yes. - when I try and board the game crashes.
Instant death bug for 2.4 contender!
We have two now. Lol
A rebuy bug, and an..err... Transformers bug?
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Sounds like it ran out of fuel... Lol
^ This, FDEV, pretty please with sugar and a cherry on top.
14 KLY is nothing
Do you own a DBX? If so, this looks awfully like some mistake in looking up which one of the ships in your CMDR's data, is the active one.
I wouldn't bother watching the videos your talking about either. It's quite a different thing when someone offers up their own stuff, like when a production company offers a gag reel at the end of a show. Laughing at oneself is cathartic, sharing the laugh with friends is sublime.
It was my first thought too, but since he's part of the circumnavigation expedition, he's going to need the SRV for future mining of jumponium, so even in that case, he would have to fly back 14kLY to get a new SRV. It would take him a couple of days, but at least he would get the credits for the honks.