I have been participating heavily in the recent station CGs and now Onion head. With all of the traffic in the mailslot, I got really used to sharing the crowded space with BIG ships like T-9s and Anacondas that can't really move out of the way. Smaller faster ships that would elbow their way in before me. And of course the occasional medium ship that would pretend like my ship was invisible as they entered on the wrong side of the slot. As a result, my muscle memory has been honed to brake/evade and let them pass, mostly because the alternatives usually involve speeding and/or costly repairs.
Well tonight I was on the freeway and there was a crazy semi-truck (basically an 80,000 lb train car with a giant truck on the front of it) that couldn't decide which lane he wanted to be in near a freeway off ramp. At the last moment he committed to exiting the freeway by swerving into the lane next to mine, after a few brief seconds he declared that my lane was empty and proceeded to attempt to occupy the same spacetime location as my mini cooper. To my right was a 3 ft wide shoulder and a solid concrete wall. Stuck between a hammer and an anvil with my option quickly diminishing, my mailslot training kicked right in, without thought or hesitation, I took exactly 0.3 seconds to make sure the lane behind me was clear and slammed on my brakes while blaring my horn to attempt to avoid the collision. The front end of my car only narrowly avoided being crushed under his rear tires, and though it seemed to take an eternity for his truck trailer to pass me, in reality the whole event took maybe 5 seconds from start to finish.
So I just wanted to say, thank you to Frontier for creating the Mail Slot docking mechanic, and of course for making this amazing game. Thank you to all the CMDRs who participate in CGs and keep that mail slot crowded 18 hours a day. Thank you to the Pirates who work tirelessly to keep my evasion reflexes snappy. And thank you to mini cooper for making break pads that work so well on a 11 year old car!!!
Well tonight I was on the freeway and there was a crazy semi-truck (basically an 80,000 lb train car with a giant truck on the front of it) that couldn't decide which lane he wanted to be in near a freeway off ramp. At the last moment he committed to exiting the freeway by swerving into the lane next to mine, after a few brief seconds he declared that my lane was empty and proceeded to attempt to occupy the same spacetime location as my mini cooper. To my right was a 3 ft wide shoulder and a solid concrete wall. Stuck between a hammer and an anvil with my option quickly diminishing, my mailslot training kicked right in, without thought or hesitation, I took exactly 0.3 seconds to make sure the lane behind me was clear and slammed on my brakes while blaring my horn to attempt to avoid the collision. The front end of my car only narrowly avoided being crushed under his rear tires, and though it seemed to take an eternity for his truck trailer to pass me, in reality the whole event took maybe 5 seconds from start to finish.
So I just wanted to say, thank you to Frontier for creating the Mail Slot docking mechanic, and of course for making this amazing game. Thank you to all the CMDRs who participate in CGs and keep that mail slot crowded 18 hours a day. Thank you to the Pirates who work tirelessly to keep my evasion reflexes snappy. And thank you to mini cooper for making break pads that work so well on a 11 year old car!!!
