So, I finally lost a ship.

Aurapup

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I've been flying since February, in a mixture of Private Group and Open, and loved near-enough every minute of it.
I've sampled as much of Elite gameplay as I can and RP-ing my way through various careers. I've run courier missions, explored to the edge of a spiral arm in a Sidey, run a greengrocer service, smuggled drugs and illegal rares, bounty-hunted on behalf of those drug producers, found a cause to fight for and a home system to call my own, experienced the thrill of (NPC) piracy and even participated in an Osmium-rush. I've always roleplayed out my gameplay and so tend to be cautious in my play-style, running from fights when things get hairy enough to risk my ship and my life. After a few months I wondered how long I could go without losing a ship, and what ranks I could reach before doing so. I always hoped that I'd lose my first ship in an epic battle trying to save one of my wingmates, or in defence of my favourite systems Frog and Karugbara.

Today I scanned a system on my way to join the latest Community Goal, helping spread the Cerberus Plague Cure to other systems. I had just got done scanning the system and slowed down from supercruise, entering real-space so I could go for a quick wee in peace. I returned to see my cockpit sparking, my hull at 22% and my thrusters completely gone before I could touch a button. I watched the small explosion of my ship in disbelief.

I'm guessing that a few seconds after I entered real-space, an NPC followed my ship's wake in, shot out my Cobra's drives and put an end to things.

I'm gutted. Not at the ship loss on its own (I can afford the insurance fine) but the fact that I was afk for the experience - it wasn't in any way a meaningful or epic fight for my life.
But I'd like to salvage something from the experience, and so would like to share my last screen-capture of how far I got, with a question for the community: How far did you get before your first death, and how did it happen?

Was it epic?

CMDR Aurapup - Freeman of Karugbara

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h347h

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Day one, I pull out of which ever start station I was spawned at and flew to an RES, was interdicted by a CMDR Python and killed rather quickly. That is also the only time I've died in PvP.
 

CMDR Weatherwax

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Aurapup said:
How far did you get before your first death, and how did it happen?

Was it epic?
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First day, sidewinder in a system out of jump range for available fuel. Staring at the lovely T Taurus (I think) star while the self destruct sequence counted down with a wistful smile on my face and an important lesson learnt the hard way.

Yep it was epic.
 

Jimmymick

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My first death was on my first day. While hunting bounties in Kremainn for a BB mission I came across some abandoned cargo in a USS. "Free profit" thinks I, and scoops it up. 10 minutes later I am still hunting when I get scanned by a cop. Bam, 16000 cred fine with less than a 1000 to my name.

"Well damage done" thinks I and carries on, pausing only to upgrade my cargo for some better stuff I found in another USS.....

Predictably I get scanned again and am now sitting on a 34000 cred fine, and accidentally shoot an innocent trader trying to get away from the scan. On my first day. "Crap. Best go sell this stuff," thinks I and I head of to the main station in Kremainn to get shot of it. On my way in I get scanned, show up wanted and get destroyed by the cops for my paltry 200 cred bounty.

I learned a lot of lessons that day. :D
 

Philip Foster

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Oh you got further than me. The first ship I lost was an Adder, very early game. I got distracted trying to remap a control that I didn't have to remap, whilst jumping on a rares run. First thing I knew was an NPC had interdicted me and shot me to pieces. I was Harmless, Penniless and Aimless.

My second ship was my first Cobra. I had just got to my selling point for a cargo of Chi Eridani Marine Paste. I was heading in to dock at Lave Station a bit too fast and an Anaconda was coming out. BOOM! BANG! EJECT! EJECT! You know the drill?

Fingers crossed I haven't lost a ship since although I have come close a couple of times. Once I got bored and flew my Asp into an SSS. I got away with 20% left on my hull.

Now I am in a Python or a Cobra depending on what I want to do. The Python isn't quite A spec but it is close. Combat rank is Expert (57% (almost all PvE so I don't know what my real combat rank would be in PvP)), Trade rank is Broker (37%) and my Explorer rank is Surveyor (42%).

I gave myself a fright recently hunting a RES in my Cobra. It was very dark and I hit a big rock, lost my shields and got my hull down to 78%.

I think you have done very well.
 
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CATPAIN KIRK

CATPAIN KIRK
Aurapup said:
How far did you get before your first death, and how did it happen?

Was it epic?
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My first official death on this account was during gamma. Word was there would be a reset on official release, so I deliberately smashed my Viper into a station to break my canopy and demonstrate a bug with the hud still displaying after it was blown out.

Turned out I smashed too hard and blew up.

Second was trying to be cool during gamma and facetanking a station with my Asp.

The third one was being overconfident in my freshly bought bought D-rated Python in early January. Wings wasn't introduced yet and I wasn't aware you could be jumped by multiple Commanders even back then.

The rest was multiple interdictions after having the canopy blown out, ending up suffocated once, facetanking an Asteroid in my Anaconda once, refitting my Courier without readjusting power priorities and ending up with all modules disabled whilst engaging a Python with its Vulture escort, and forgetting to log out last week.

Except for the epic failure on my part each time I died, there was nothing epic about it.
 
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Banana's_Are_Good_For_You

Banana's_Are_Good_For_You
I boosted into a station wall instead of lowering my landing gear.
Can't say it was epic but I did laugh at myself for a good while...then I changed my key bindings.
Then I went and got another beer from the fridge and all seemed right with the world once more.

Others have included self-destructing after the Gold SSS thing. Left with no means to travel. Happened very early on, had to look on YT to work out how to self-destruct.
Trying to land on the wrong pad, too drunk to notice till the station pew pew...

Most epic was probably ramming an Elite NPC Anaconda, was pretty much evens and I had a bit of a Worf moment and thought "Perhaps today is a good day to die"...when I paid for the insurance the mission showed as completed and got me 300,000 creds so I guess I got him.
:)
Cost me 1.5m but seemed like a good idea at the time.
 
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Apos

Apos
My first loss was freezing to death by running out of fuel because I didn't do any tutorials and didn't know about supercruise. I achieved absolutely nothing other than being amazed of how pretty the hypercruise sequence looks, which was the only thing I figured out.
 

Yachats

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I've lost my Type 9 three times to stupid NPCs. The game seems to say "OK you've had enough Mr D Rated Type 9" and sends a Dangerous pirate Anaconda I have no hope of escaping from. In the Type 9 I just consider that Overhead Cost.
 

Sire

Sire
I lost so many ships that I don't even remember the last one, imagine the first one! For sure it was not epic at all.
There's just one though that I remeber very well and it was the one when I smashed my 58 MCr Clipper against a rock in a RES... without insurance. I had to grind for a whole week with my other ship, a T9, to be able to rebuy it. After that I did not enter a RES anymore
 
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Chann3l

Chann3l
Apos said:
My first loss was freezing to death by running out of fuel because I didn't do any tutorials and didn't know about supercruise. I achieved absolutely nothing other than being amazed of how pretty the hypercruise sequence looks, which was the only thing I figured out.
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Hey that was mine too. I took a long journey and didn't pay attention to the starts on route and thought "oh the next one will probably be scoopable....nope....next one? Nope....I'll just park in front of this star until my systems shutdown as I now have no fuel"
 

Iskariot

Iskariot
I died several times early on.
Mostly because I realized that dying in the starter Sidewinder would cost me nothing.
So I was much more careless and experimental in the beginning.
And that was a good thing too. I learned a lot that way, especially about combat.
 

Abomination

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Was thrown into a star once, when fuel scooping with my hauler and being interdicted by some vile npc.
Think my sun burned face is still on these forums somewhere... :eek:
That wasn't the first time though. Just had the game for a few hours, learned how to fly and trade, got cocky and rammed my upgraded Sidewinder full frontal into the outer hull of some space station.
 

Redleg

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Day 1. In a sidey with basic weapons. Went to a nav to just test out the weapons. Shot at an ASP pirate lasers overheat. He takes out my drive and for the next I kid you not 8 or so minutes he pelts my ship but it wont explode. Had to lookup how to self destruct.
 

Brujah

Brujah
I really can't remember. I've died a fair few times (probably not uncountable) since Beta 1, early on typically from boosting into stations when I meant to do anything else (not a problem after I remapped my controls to make that harder).

I've been killed outright by CMDRs a few times, usually the silent ones, which is dull, once by a chatty one which was fine.

My most memorable death came by underestimating how long it would take me to dock with a blown canopy and suffocating. I had about 500k in Combat Bonds racked up and had spent around a minute just idling outside the outpost testing out my Auto Repair Module thing, so I could very easily have docked and repaired in the time I had, I just mistimed it all.
So yeah, turned a 500k profit into a 650k loss. Ouch.
 

Jypson

Jypson
I believe it was 1.1, I had just gotten my Viper for the first time and felt like a real combat pilot. I decided that I could take on a Deadly rated Dropship all on my lonesome, didn't go as hoped :(
 

Popov Le Magnifique

Popov Le Magnifique
I had gathered enough money to buy an Eagle - the ship was so nimble, the manoeuvrability was amazing! I boosted right before the mailslot and destroyed it. I cried a bit.
 
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