So I'm looking in uninhabited systems for impact sites to find manufacturing instructions in my DBX built for distance exploration not fighting. I land on a few sites that are distress, impact, irregular, etc...and I find nothing but a few measly canisters at each site. I pick them up shrugging my shoulders thinking eh might at well get them while I'm here, meanwhile I think of posting why the heck won't FDev give us to better loot at crash sites...you know stuff that's actually worth our exploration time. I head back to orbit from my third explored body, and probably have cargo of some personal weapons, narcotics, and a few other assundry mundane items. I hit super cruise to go the next body, and then go to get a cup of coffee, talk to my wife for minute and then come back....TO FIND A NPC ATTACKING MY SHIP....I'VE BEEN INTERDICTED WHILE AFK, MY SHIELDS ARE GONE AND SHIP IS AT 10%. SO WHAT DO I GET FOR MY REWARD...A 650K REBUY BILL. THAT'S WHAT I CALL REWARDING GAME PLAY.
Reminded why I hate this game.
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Turn your sound up next time 
Entertaining story OP thank you for sharing
Some ships have a coffee machine in the cockpit, some don't. I just checked & my new Cobra MkV doesn't either so like you I'd be best to log out of the game to go AFK with cargo on board, or if you prefer to roleplay AFK as I do, fit some beefy shields to delay the incoming damage somewhat.
Some ships have a coffee machine in the cockpit, some don't. I just checked & my new Cobra MkV doesn't either so like you I'd be best to log out of the game to go AFK with cargo on board, or if you prefer to roleplay AFK as I do, fit some beefy shields to delay the incoming damage somewhat.
Gotta mention it before somebody else does...
The game is called Elite: Dangerous
not Elite: Perfectly Safe...
Me laughing as I just lost my Cobra V and some meta alloys and a drive component by going AFK to get rid of a coffee...
I actually did laugh, entirely my own fault for not waiting another minute and being safe.
The game is called Elite: Dangerous
not Elite: Perfectly Safe...
Me laughing as I just lost my Cobra V and some meta alloys and a drive component by going AFK to get rid of a coffee...
I actually did laugh, entirely my own fault for not waiting another minute and being safe.
Ah. See I used to offer this advice but NPCs can interdict you at full throttle & have been able to for a few years now, they just normally don't.
I had one (probably a mission spawned pirate tbh) come from in front, turn & interdict me while on a long supercruise to a distant secondary star. I wasn't AFK, I watched it happen & was quite surprised they got a tether on. Needless to say I was fine & the NPC didn't last long but still, the only place you're 100% safe is docked or logged out although beyond a few hundred (probably a few dozen now) ly from populated space there is nothing. No cargo to find, no POIs at all apart from the Thargoid sensor fragment ones. If a Cmdr normally leads the hermit life out in the black it can be easy to become complacent.
There are heaps of games where NPCs will turnup and attack you if you decide to have long convos with the missus.
That's your problem. He said deep space. NPCs can only interdict you when the time interval between you and them is in a certain range. There's a short window when you're accelerating and a longer window when you slow down. If you're headed to another body you will slow down.
Turn your sound up next time
I once did a murder stint at something like 4am and had the sound off - somehow I missed the ATR warning....I was in a nearly unengineered Clipper and almost made a biowaste- so your advice is very apt.
It wasn't a problem & it was during the acceleration phase (and I had been on that path for 5+minutes of a ~20 min trip), I wasn't pointing at the distant target, just headed straight out from the entry star.
I no longer give that advice
I think the soundest advice is: use your hands and regularly touch the controls.It wasn't a problem & it was during the acceleration phase (and I had been on that path for 5+minutes of a ~20 min trip), I wasn't pointing at the distant target, just headed straight out from the entry star.
I no longer give that advice
Pocket change. I mean, not for me as my balance has never reached a billion in ten years. But for the OP, certainly.
Never feel sorry for a man who owns a carrier.
Always log off when you are afk. Only way to stop the game from playing with you (which is what happened here).
Nah, just drop to normal space between objectives. Perfectly fine.
That is, in my experience, only 99% reliable or so. Sometimes, an NPC will show up to be interesting for you.
Cmdrs posting their L online...
No need for surface poi surfing for mi. Manufacturing instructions are now plenty as mission reward. I usually get 15 per mission.
No need for surface poi surfing for mi. Manufacturing instructions are now plenty as mission reward. I usually get 15 per mission.
I’ll take that 1% risk over having to break immersion and the flow of the game. Besides, I always keep an ear out, and I like to listen to the hum of the engines while I prepare a beverage or take a waz.