Rookie mistakes

babelfisch

babelfisch
In anticipation of 3.3 (and to unlock Selene Jean) I refitted my Krait for some mining. Got all the necessary modules, found a nice metallic pristine ring and was ready to go. Forgot to buy limpets though. What are your rookie mistakes after playing the game for 4 years?
 

dfgqsb

dfgqsb
Left my ship somewhere out of the station with a 1c fuel tank, and went to refuel my car. Ended up with 10 min oxygen when I got home.
 

Speedcuffs

Speedcuffs
Guardian structure. Arrived, no point defence.
Went back for PD.
Returned to site.
No SRV.[noob]
Also, first time against Thargoid Scouts... forgot to equip any weapons at all.[noob][noob]
 

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
Same.

I laughed when I saw the "Don't forget your limpets" commercial in the starport, then promptly forgot my limpets.

...

I also took my DBX out to test the new probe things in beta, and did a mini Exploration trip about 500ly out, then stopped to do a test run.

Then found out I hadn't installed a DSS.

...

Attempted repairs on my thrusters.
In supercruise.

Twice.
 

Wasp0

Wasp0
Only 2 nights ago, i was in a PvP battle and getting hammered by 5 ships, so had to leave sharpishly, choose Low wake and not High wake and got Mass Locked and got the rebuy Screen DOH!!!

6000+ hours, 3 accounts and a basic noob error like that, i deserved what i got!!!!
 

DaveB

DaveB
A long time ago decided to give mining a try and kitted out my Cobra (at the time the biggest ship in my fleet) accordingly. Soon "felt the meh" and hauled off to refit for something else. By chance, pitched up where there were some very profitable haulage missions so quickly swapped out stuff for cargo racks and snagged the missions. Along the way some pestiferous NPC starts yohoho-ing at me so I drop out of SC to toast him. Hardpoints out.. lock on.... wait.. these are still mining lasers....
 

Conch

Conch
Wasp0 said:
Only 2 nights ago, i was in a PvP battle and getting hammered by 5 ships, so had to leave sharpishly, choose Low wake and not High wake and got Mass Locked and got the rebuy Screen DOH!!!

6000+ hours, 3 accounts and a basic noob error like that, i deserved what i got!!!!
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sometimes its more manly to go out in a sea of flames.

i died aswell, but i didnt feel like running hehe.
 

Miko

M
Wasp0 said:
Only 2 nights ago, i was in a PvP battle and getting hammered by 5 ships, so had to leave sharpishly, choose Low wake and not High wake and got Mass Locked and got the rebuy Screen DOH!!!

6000+ hours, 3 accounts and a basic noob error like that, i deserved what i got!!!!
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If nobody can mass lock you then low waking can be the best form of escape. Quick.
 

Nutter

Nutter
Just a few days ago I flew towards a system I tagged that I could just about reach with my new Anaconda build (Guardian FSD Booster), the system in question sits well over 3,500ly above the core, took a lot of damage on the way, stopped off on a little moon to repair everything. Carried on my journey and when I reached my final jump I found myself 30ly short! A few naughty words later I started back to Colonia to check my build, half way back I looked at the Module tab and noticed the FSD booster was switched off!

Happy ending though, I turned around went back and made the jump! Bonus I found a Black hole higher up and on reaching the system found it had a neutron hidden in it!

Happy days and on way back to sell another 20,000ly data :)
 

13A

13A
On my newb account, decided to take on a data scan mission. Flew to the target site then remembered I had swapped my hanger for a cargo rack for the previous mission.

Luckily it was an undefended site so i managed to scan the datapoint with my ship scanner
 

pzykozomatik

pzykozomatik
I have a streak of forgetting to get docking clearance before entering the airlock at the moment. Yesterday I've arrived at the target outpost with a large ship full of transport mission cargo twice.
 

Vardaugas

Vardaugas
Misjudging your drift and massively overshooting the landing pad, getting a loitering warning from the next pad over.
 

Treveli

T
Was SCrusing around a system and adjusting modules on and off to solve a power issue. Came to the FSD on the list, thought 'I'm not leaving this system for awhile', turned FSD off....

On approach to land at a surface base, nose down, hit the boost to reach the pad quicker. 'Oh, wait, gravity wells exist', as my ship tries to join the bases' underground structures.
 

DaveB

DaveB
And another one... cruising in to a surface landing pad in the 'conda... Done this thousands of times. Looks good, approach perfect, one of my little conceits in the game is quality landings, bleeding off the power at just the right rate to come to a perfect zero/zero intercept with the pads "capture point". At precisely the right point toggle my X52 into approach mode... and promptly experience a crunching ramp strike, having failed to notice that instead of reading 0.87G, the little almost-unreadable numbers on the HUD (on the 'conda they are projected in line with a hull light and you really need to squint to read 'em) actually say 8.87G and I should NOT have tripped my approach mode macro since that bleeds off engine pips along with the other stuff it does, should have switched the functions individually and left the engine pips alone or triggered it earlier and immediately reassigned pips back to engines.
 

Siobhan

Siobhan
DaveB said:
And another one... cruising in to a surface landing pad in the 'conda... Done this thousands of times. Looks good, approach perfect, one of my little conceits in the game is quality landings, bleeding off the power at just the right rate to come to a perfect zero/zero intercept with the pads "capture point". At precisely the right point toggle my X52 into approach mode... and promptly experience a crunching ramp strike, having failed to notice that instead of reading 0.87G, the little almost-unreadable numbers on the HUD (on the 'conda they are projected in line with a hull light and you really need to squint to read 'em) actually say 8.87G and I should NOT have tripped my approach mode macro since that bleeds off engine pips along with the other stuff it does, should have switched the functions individually and left the engine pips alone or triggered it earlier and immediately reassigned pips back to engines.
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That you even survived an 8.8g landing after such a mistake speaks volumes about your approach and build, to be fair.
 

moorison

M
SLF-pilots and limpets are things I forgot multiple times.
I visited an outpost once and got distracted with the mission board. I tried to attack the target but was almost unarmed, there was no ammo in the outpost to buy.
 
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