Post your stupidest/worst mistake while exploring

Ziljan

Ziljan
Crashing into a neutron star without heat sinks in a high energy use build, then using Max boost with FAoff, then shutting down my thrusters to cool off, still have enough forward momentum to use FSD, then charging FSD but forgetting to turn the thrusters back on before entering super cruise. BAM, immediate self interdiction and 3% hull damage.

Yeah sorry that's the best I've got. Dying while exploring is like drowning in two inches of bath water. You need to be dead drunk or afk.
 
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BanzaiZAP

BanzaiZAP
Mine is especially painful.
I was just getting back from a deep space survey into the bubble. This was during the time of the Danger Zone, when the NPCs were a little berserk. I was just getting in the bubble when I was interdicted. No problem, says I, as I was in a Cobra. Easy escape! Well, it had been so long since I was in human space, that I mixed up my key binds. Instead of cheerfully Boosting away, I ... dropped landing gear. An estimated 30 million up in smoke.
 

Killasandara

Killasandara
Bound my advanced discovery snanner to the same key as my heat sink. Dropped two heat sinks before i realized what I was doing.. lol
 
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Anuranium

Anuranium
Forgetting to turn on power on the detailed surface scanner halfway into the trip. (And yes, it was on the first trip to Sagittarius A* - hence why I have been there more than once :p )
 

Willa Allason

Willa Allason
Going out to Barnard's Loop in a Hauler with no autorepair units. Having to scoop from nearly every star and screwing up one too many times. Finding out my life support module was on 7% integrity, 49 jumps from the nearest station.

I took it reeaal easy on the way back!
 

CaptainKremmen

CaptainKremmen
Choosing a Neutron Star to visit, two jumps away... then forgetting to zero my throttle as I jump, and ploughing straight into it. :p

There go some more hull plate bits, floating by my canopy. Who needs 'em?
 

-zalamander-

Z
Well,
- Tried to repair engine module while in supercruise (some nice hull damage from this one)
- Crashed to a Neutron Star while browsing ED forums (some juicy hull/module damage from this too)
- Taking some nice videos & screenshots while flying BACKWARDS (FAOFF) in an ASTEROID FIELD 15k away from civilized space? (fortunately just a little hull damage from this one.)

Fortunately learned from my mistakes and returned safely from Sag A* and back receiving Elite exploration status :cool:
 
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Mango Fizz

Mango Fizz
Must I embarrass myself here in public?...oh ok. Stuffed up a fuel scoop and came to an emergency stop, temperature rising fast and alarms going off. Panicked and shut down power while scrambling to switch heat sink back on. Got power back up then somehow thrusters cut out and ashamedly I did not know what to do about that. Frantically grabbed my trusty tablet and googled for help.... thank god google is my friend.. got the answer I needed and managed to fire up and get moving. Heat rising fast and another emergency stop on the same star due to panic mode. Somehow scraped my way out of that one but the ensuing damage to hull, modules and ego turned my decision to cut the trip short and head back for repairs. My lesson learnt...... no, I am not the fastest and best fuel scooper and complacency and exploring is not a good mix. Now on my second trip and I'm taking my time and enjoying it even better.
 

piugattuk

piugattuk
Trying to jump from between 2 stars and a black hole, I fried my ship real good.

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domaq

domaq
So basically, while exploring, avoid:
- Alcohol
- cats and small dogs
- requests from significant others for happy time
- repairing FSD while in supercruise
- in the next system, repairing thrusters while in supercruise
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Of course all these things would NEVER happen to one person within the same week...
 
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CMDR Space Lurker

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I once thought it really cool to get as close as I could to a Neutron Star that was in really close orbit around a massive O-type. Really close.. so I got close, throttled back the supercruise to its minimum of 30km/s, and crossed the safety line and dropped into normal space at like 0.1LS from the Neutron Star with a small amount of damage... after admiring the little pinpoint next to the huge glowing bulk completely dominating my vew for a short time I started charging the FSD to cruise out of there.. that's when I noticed just how hot it was with these to big objects so close, and as you know, Neutron Stars and FSDs aren't exactly friends... at least my escape vector wasn't right into the O-Type.. :)

Anyhow, that burned off quite a bit of module health all over my Cobra.. since this was back in the days of the NPC "Twilight Zone", my utility hardpoints were occupied by chaff and Point Defence.. so no Heatsinks to save the day.. :)
 

dreadspectre

D
Mine was a simple afk :( Was in SC just about to jump to the next system (approx 1800 LY from SOL) when She-who-MUST-be-obeyed wanted me to do something else, so I throttled back to 0 (still in SC) and went off to help out.. I then forgot completely that I was logged in, and came back 24 hours later to find that my ship had been destroyed. I still have no idea what happened, but lost a whole bunch of first tags on all sorts of goodies...

The second error was not noting where each discovery was (only counted what I discovered and not the system names), so now that I'm heading back I have no idea where I have been :(
 

Memoryjar

M
I don't remember if I was drunk or not...

I was exploring the last system before going to sleep. You know, this 32th last one before going to sleep. I was supercruising to the last planet, a metallic rich. Not really far from Sol, only 3 000 ly, a journey through Perseus arm.
I forgot to slow down. So, I knew I was going to overshoot it. But as the scanner start, I try to focus on the planet, hoping end the scan before overshoot. So... I crashed on the planet. Not really terrible, unless I decided to put my ship in correct conditions for an hyperspace jump, for the next day. I don't know why, I target the next star. It was behind the planet, so I decided to fly enough to have the next jump ready (remember, Elite doesn't save planed road on exit). I turn to close, so another emergency exit. As I am headstrong, another supercruise. Aligned with the next jump, I didn't see a planet's moon. Another exit.
Now, I saw my canopy with big scrashes, realizing I must stop my journey.

I learned this day, exploration is not a speed run but a marathon.
 

MarcusVatta

MarcusVatta
Newbie mistake. Last night I encountered my first Neutron star. I'd read that they were dangerous, but I was a little fuzzy as to how and why. I drop out of hyper on top of a blue giant, and the neutron star is right there, about 12 Ls out. I'm between the neutron star and the giant, still inside of scooping distance, and I think "I'll just creep up on it." I got too close, dropped. heat immediately spiked. I shut systems down to reduce heat, but I'm sitting at about 96 before I get my heat down to 99%. And then I make my second mistake: I engage FSD. Heat went 130% plus and smoke fills the cabin, lit warmly from the sparks flying off the console. I get into supercruise, and I'm so deep in the gravity well of the giant that it takes almost a full minute to get the heat down. Now I'm sure my ship looks like the one in Red Planet after Carrie Anne Moss fights the fire.
 
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