So i just got back to a station after many hours of exploration and scanning, getting about halfway to the core and looping back again. As im drifting into the station, i get clipped by an npc which causes me to clip the entrance to the station with the underside of my ship. The station then destroys me. I quit in anger. Not sure if i'll ever play again
So Frustrating
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I have been thinking this many times.
The death penalty for explorers losing their data is way too harsh.
Some people have spent months out exploring.
Making it possible to lose possibly months of work due to docking computer messing up, a griefer in an orca having fun, or any other "act of God", was probably not the best of ideas.
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Bit late but top advice is to use outposts after exploring, quieter, easier to dock and generally better all around...
There is a wing/escort thread for returning explorers (again a bit late) but next time it may help for a 2nd pair of eyes on the situation.
Condolences to you, there was a chap lost 2 months of data a while back which is pretty devastating too...
There is a wing/escort thread for returning explorers (again a bit late) but next time it may help for a 2nd pair of eyes on the situation.
Condolences to you, there was a chap lost 2 months of data a while back which is pretty devastating too...
Totally respect your decision to quit.
I remember there was this one part in Half-Life where you had to jump over an elevator and catch a ledge. I must have tried 300 times. Finally I quit for a few months. I came back and kicked it later.
If a game frustrates you, sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's not. And if it's the bad frustration - quit. This is not a career.
I remember there was this one part in Half-Life where you had to jump over an elevator and catch a ledge. I must have tried 300 times. Finally I quit for a few months. I came back and kicked it later.
If a game frustrates you, sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's not. And if it's the bad frustration - quit. This is not a career.
Was my own fault. Think I'll go back to bounties
Sorry to hear that. A little break from the game might help, although I recommend shooting stuff in CZ, possibly other Commanders 
You will also almost certainly come across an outpost first: it will be an extraction ecomony well beyond the last system with other economies.
There is no way I am going to advertise my return on a wing/escort thread. We have already had a griefer at Sag A*: I would expect some of the dregs of society to target returning explorers, for the lols. I am still heading outwards with nearly 1000 systems under my belt. I have not docked since before 1.2! (though I have had some time off in between). When I get ready to return, I suspect I, too, would find it hard to carry on if I lost it all.
I keep my Asp parked at an orbital near the edge of human-space. When I want to explore, I fly out to it in my Clipper; park the Clipper, and explore in the Asp. Reverse process on return: I go to sell my data in my Clipper, with its ridiculous shields and super guns and docking computer.
A change of pace is definitely the best way to shake it off but I can do nothing but empathise with what happened. Being to the core and back I can take a fairly educated guess to how I'd feel if I'd lost it all. You have my genuine sympathy and sorry that it happened. Hope you can climb back on the horse and take another trip to the core at a later date. Definitely second the outpost advice, if you're in an explorer Asp then that's definitely the way forward, especially with the new speed limits. Whilst I know some explorers strip them back to the barest of minimums I always went weaponised with semi decent shielding for those just in case moments. Also, whilst I'm a proponent of Open, as an Explorer there is no shame in coming back in Solo, those weeks of travel are far too valuable.
Did you die because the station attacked you, or simply from a collision between your explorer ship (with weak shields or no shields) and the station?
I thought that with the new 100m/s ship collision rules, you got a bounty only if the collision caused the destruction of another ship, not if you only damaged it.
Argh, sorry for the loss. That would serious wee me off as well
If you need a hull full of Palladium to compensate for the loss, shoot me a pm.
Problem is exploration has never been meant 'let's travel to center of the galaxy pronto'. Its heavily dis-balanced now. Modules should fail and you would have to turn back at some point.
So problem is people getting this impression there are justifiable reasons to do months long exploration.
Yeah although there are a ton of CMDR's there that I'd trust with weeks/months of data (Whitrose, 777driver, murishiani etc who are all pretty hardcore explorers).
That also includes the very chap who flew to Sag A* in an Anaconda to deal with said dreg of society. Would I trust someone I've never heard of on the forum, no. The exploration sub-forum also tends to have less crazies on than the main forum and indeed the game as a whole..
Personally my plan is to park at the first high tech economy and fit my Anaconda for heavy combat. Should do the trick getting to Lembava for the community goal..
Whilst I agree that exploration isn't about heading to the centre as soon as you can, you also shouldn't have modules fail on a dice roll. Careful flying and planning should be able to keep you damage free. It's a massively time consuming task to get anywhere so adding extra dice roll "now you have damage" mechanics would just make it too frustrating and unfair for anyone to do it.
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I didn't know someone went there to take care of business. Whoever it is deserves massive bows and rep. I'm glad to hear that the dreg was dealt with.
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