I was sniffing about in the areas that Mahon was about to exploit, and something weird happened.
I lost my joystick bindings. Three Times. Bug report duly filed. Joystick fully operational (Thrustmaster Warthog), confirmed through Control Panel and other software.
I re-mapped it, and saved the game three times as well. The third time was inside a station in the Clee system. I managed to escape with only a 400 credit fine.
We need an un-docking computer. O Great Mistress Of AI's, how much chocolate do you want?
And here is the lesson: If there had been only *one* port in that system, I could have been locked out of that station. Thank Elvis for Outposts.
Paid my fine. Bindings held, this time.
PSA: If you have chosen a home system, choose one with multiple ports. Putting all of your ships in one basket is convenient- and an invitation to Murphy's Law. You can get locked away from all those pretty, and pretty expensive, ships that you have collected.
It took a lot of time and effort to collect all those discounted ships. Annoy my home port *just once*, and goodbye to tens of millions of credits.
I'm going to have to distribute my fleet further away from Roundboy, anyway. This is yet another incentive to *not* over-invest in ships. My explorers will be moving out further to the fringe. The others will be retreating about thirty light-years away from Dunkin Doughnuts.
I hate travelling to Lembava, then 9 Ceti, then to the T-1000 discount weapons systems.
Learn from my mistakes.
I lost my joystick bindings. Three Times. Bug report duly filed. Joystick fully operational (Thrustmaster Warthog), confirmed through Control Panel and other software.
I re-mapped it, and saved the game three times as well. The third time was inside a station in the Clee system. I managed to escape with only a 400 credit fine.
We need an un-docking computer. O Great Mistress Of AI's, how much chocolate do you want?
And here is the lesson: If there had been only *one* port in that system, I could have been locked out of that station. Thank Elvis for Outposts.
Paid my fine. Bindings held, this time.
PSA: If you have chosen a home system, choose one with multiple ports. Putting all of your ships in one basket is convenient- and an invitation to Murphy's Law. You can get locked away from all those pretty, and pretty expensive, ships that you have collected.
It took a lot of time and effort to collect all those discounted ships. Annoy my home port *just once*, and goodbye to tens of millions of credits.
I'm going to have to distribute my fleet further away from Roundboy, anyway. This is yet another incentive to *not* over-invest in ships. My explorers will be moving out further to the fringe. The others will be retreating about thirty light-years away from Dunkin Doughnuts.
I hate travelling to Lembava, then 9 Ceti, then to the T-1000 discount weapons systems.
Learn from my mistakes.