So............have you died yet?

Bokugo

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If not what was your closest call?

I have yet to die, but I'm not really doing any dangerous jobs. Honest work is fine with me....for now.

But I remember one time back in my sidewinder I was bounty hunting at a nav beacon and decided to take on a competent viper. I had the upper hand do to slightly more maneuverability for the majority of the fight. Then my shields went down and my pants got a bit soggy. I went down to about 30% pretty quick and instinctively went to run away full speed. Then I noticed he only had 15% hull left and still no shields. I turned FA off, (I had never used it before in combat and practice makes perfect, especially under pressure) flipped my ship to face the viper while still going backwards, then we just unloaded on each other. After what I'm sure was only a few seconds but felt like 10 minutes later, the viper exploded and I was left at about 22%. I only won because he had fixed guns and I had gimballed, plus I was constantly using the side thrusters. Afterwords I fixed everything up and went right back out there :p
 

Sparkie

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The first time made me laugh.

First day, solo play, needed to do something AFK. Pressed escape and the screen went dark and engine sounds stopped. Forgot I wasn't in a regular game with a pause :)

After returning, I'd smacked my face into the side of the station I'd cruised to. New Sidewinder, please!
 

Praetor

P
My first and only death so far was in my Freagle... I was flying into Yaping Enterprises in LHS 3447 and smacked right into a small antenna thing.. Lol.. Such a dumb way to go.
 

skyforger

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died loosing my ship(350000 credits and 1.2 million of cargo) to a program wanting too update and over riding elite in priority, sailed straight into the wall of the station, and boom
 

Phosphora

Phosphora
Ever so slightly forgot to request docking permission. I noticed the red trespass warning, and thought "oh look, some fool didn't request docking". The fool was me.

The death penalty for trespass seems a little harsh at times.

Cheers, Phos.
 

ethelred

ethelred
Done the boost thing into exit aperture trying to show off and died by interdiction once (first combat so I didn't know what I was doing)

Most exciting was getting bounties for illegal goods and being pursued by system security - you can't beat screaming at the FSD to spool up quickly as you watch your hull go down.!
 

Mikey2305

Mikey2305
hmm not since gamma come to think of it. had a couple of near misses using my new fuel scoops. have leart to wait patiently when exiting as it isnt a good plan to try and barge big ships out of the way...
 

adoredtv

adoredtv
Yes, twice yesterday while mining for the first time (Hauler, no shields) and 2nd time was running out of fuel.
 

Vicis

Vicis
My shields have only been dropped once so far - I've got around 10 hours of gameplay clocked since launch.

My closest encounters have been collisions!
 

McWafflez

McWafflez
Notice how everyone has died from smacking into things and running out of fuel. Barely anyone has been killed by the incompetent AI.
 

GrimThara

GrimThara
As of full 1.0 release I've died twice I think. Once from an accidental ram with an NPC and once from being shot to death by one.

Before 1.0 I did it all, got shot by players, crashed into a station and died to NPC's.
 

Bambi

Bambi
McWafflez said:
Notice how everyone has died from smacking into things and running out of fuel. Barely anyone has been killed by the incompetent AI.
Click to expand...

I was first killed by the system authority for accidentally hitting them. Actually that's not quite true, I managed to escape their first attack, but impressively they had set up an ambush at my next location.
 

cfww

cfww
Let's see... I have 11 insurance claims. The majority of them are due to collisions with NPC ships or objects usually unseen as I'm pew-pewing. One was definitely getting pwnd by a player in Sol. One was taking station guns after it didn't like the look of my ship. Most deaths were in the Eagle, a couple in a Viper. I don't think I've had any really stupid deaths and have around 500 kills. Loving it so far. :D
 

Bnethor

B
Twice, the first time I was bounty hunting in my adder and decided to finish an asp or something head on since its hull was low. Well I managed to expose my cockpit to the vacuum.. Unfortunately I choked to death (blew up!?) about 4 seconds before entering a station :p I did upgrade my life support module after that.

Second time I was yet again hunting in an adder and decided to challenge a wanted anaconda in an asteroid field. The thing had turreted guns and I messed up during the fight a couple of times and took too much damage. The fight got to a point where I had 13% hull left and the anaconda had 21%. I was spooling my FSD to flee but then I decided to turn around and go out in a blaze of glory if need be. The anaconda survived with 8% or so. I knew about chaff launchers at that point but I had just changed one for a wake scanner. Shield cell bank thingy would've actually fit in the ship and it would've made that fight so much easier - but I feel I've learned to fly better without using one.

No deaths in my cobra yet and I'm fairly sure that there won't be any against NPCs for a while (I don't think I'll go to a war zone or challenge a capital ship anytime soon) but there's bound to be a pirate or a wanted player who's gonna give me a beating one of these days. 8 of those have met their own demises at my hands thus far though :)
 

Gelegeus

Gelegeus
Face planted an asteroid when mining, lost one dogfight against a deadly NPC Cobra. Best near death was dogfighting an Adder and he decided to ram me taking my hull to 8% but he died and I got 55k bounty. Repairs came to 15k and 7k for ammo so came out up on the deal.
 

Flossy

Volunteer Moderator
Flossy
I have died once after getting too close to a sun while fuel-scooping - I just couldn't seem to get away from the heat, sustaining more and more damage and eventually my canopy was breached. I finally managed to get away but only had 10 minutes of oxygen remaining so headed for the nearest station. Unfortunately, I ran out of oxygen just after exiting supercruise. :( I have now upgraded my Life Support, giving me 25 minutes of oxygen if i ever have this situation again. I tried not to think how much I lost in the full hold of rare goods I was carrying!
 
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Luftwolfe

Luftwolfe
Too many times. Once from interdiction (first combat), once from being straight overwhelmed in my eagle from several pythons and cobras, and once for trying to impress my girlfriend with a fancy spin through the Dalton Gateway (LHS 3447) station entrance :D
 
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