Noob need help to understand

BlackJack2566 · May 3, 2019

Hi all,

I only play Solo. Today, I lost 2 ships, Cobra MkIII with most A equipments and scanned data on the first, worth 1.5 mil all up.

I was looking for Heat exchanger for engineer 3rd grade multiCannon. INARA suggests USS (Degraded, Anachy), so I did noob my way to that.

As I scooping random materials (I didn’t find what I want), NPC attacked me. I couldn’t do much about anything at all. I couldn’t speed away nor could I boost. My ship got destroyed in seconds.

Second time around, I noticed that my speed only went to about 120 with Max Throttle. I could move the pip around. But still, I couldn’t speed away nor boost my engine. Seconds later my ship got destroyed again.

Can you please tell me what happened and why?

Factabulous · May 3, 2019

You had your cargo hatch open

viper666 · May 3, 2019

Cargo scoop left open? You cannot boost or ggo max speed with scoop or landing gear down

BlackJack2566 · May 3, 2019

Thank you both. As I thought, must have been my stupidity.

dtdionne · May 5, 2019

Also, the AI don’t usually attack unless you have actual cargo. The items you scoop in USS’s are considered materials, not actual cargo.

Stigbob · May 5, 2019

BlackJack2566 said:
Thank you both. As I thought, must have been my stupidity.

Its not stupidity when you learn from it.

wetwire · May 5, 2019

Yup, in times of panic even the simple things are overlooked. You are not the first to have had this problem. Even experiencing players hit stumbling blocks similar to this one. Frantically pressing all the buttons because boost does not work while under fire.
quickly open and close the cargo bay, deploy and retract the hardpoints, turn on the windshield wipers.

dtdionne · May 5, 2019

Indeed...i would never admit the actual number of times I accidentally boosted (to my death and a sweet rebuy), inside a station, inch’s from touchdown.

On the PS4 the O button means back, or stop, or “please make it stop” in so many games over the years...the person at fdev that choose to make it boost by default in ED is a genius.

I eventually did remap O to “FULL STOP”, but not before an embarrassing pile of hilariously yet horribly timed boosts.

Jungfaha · May 6, 2019

We talking about those times we lost our ships?

I have 23 rebuys:

19 rebuys boosting into something -_- usually in or near a space port
3 rebuys due to some glitch where I lost my Type-9, it blew up WHILE DOCKED and when I got an FDL and it also BLEW UP in hanger while docked -_-
1 rebuy cuz i bit more then i could chew with a wing mission vs pirate

Oh and I play OPEN space 99.9999999% of the time.