Tell me your funny stories when you begun playing elite dangerous

CMDR Atmosfera

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I just want to see what you commanders have to share when you were brand new newbie player and what happened to you
I was "trying"(trying is a hard word) to mine in asteroid belt in sidewinder and i had to leave the game for frw minutes-well i knew that there was an option to turn on this silent running so i figured this will just keep my ship at minimal power consumption and keep the real players off me because they couldnt detect my heat signature in silent running-little did i know i got burned down from the heat SR produced
So when i came back i was greeted by a insurance screen and i thought for the longest time some commander blew me up-that was when i thought the regular npcs were commanders as well lol
 

GilliganTX

GilliganTX
I ran 3 or 4 BB missions to Hutton Orbital in my first week and I just thought that was normal gameplay because "Space is big." I failed about half of those on mission time outs.



After I had finally gotten a cobra and fitted it "decently" (it really wasn't), I came across another CMDR flying his eagle outside of a station. He greeted me and asked if I wanted to wing up.

Up to this point, I had only traded rares and run from every NPC pirate I came across (I also thought mines worked worth a damn), and was wanting to test my hand at combat. So I winged up with this most amicable CMDR, landed and turned in my mission. I went back outside and remembered that I still had to do something inside the station (Don't remember now what it was) and fliped around to re-dock. Instead I hit the boost button and exploded myself against the face of the station. First ever re-buy.
 

MottiKhan

MottiKhan
I was doing my first fight in a Sidewinder against another Sidewinder (NPC). My wife's friend tapped me on the shoulder and asked for help with something minor. One of her kids wanted my attention with a trivial question. I put the game on "pause" and gave the child my undivided attention. In the background, I could hear something to the effect of "Ship Destroyed".

It was worth giving the child my attention, but I didn't understand that "pause" meant just continue everything, but don't show the screen or allow inputs.

To this day, I don't know why we have a "pause" button.
 

eza

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Scanning down every asteroid belt in the systems I was exploring. Getting 0 credits for them.

Discovering far-flung planets in systems by looking for the dot of light moving against the background. Then found out an advanced discovery scanner took all the fun out of that.

Boosting into and out of stations.

Fighting all the police as payback for all the times they killed me in Elites 1,2, and 3.
 

Conch

Conch
IMMA GONNA TRAVEL TO THE CENTER OF THE GALAXY!!!

just 2 hours of gametime.. no scoop nor AFM.. didnt take long before i choked to death. But the feeling of drama is verry strong at that moment.
 
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cygnusa

cygnusa
As a noobie... hit mistakenly hit eject cargo just outside the letterbox at the destination station. I forget what ship I was in.. maybe a hauler. I think the load was Gold, so it had some notable credit value. Watched all my cargo scatter and received a flurry of fines for each cargo canister dumped. I managed to gather a few of the canisters, but most were lost. I forget the actual value of it all at the time, but for a noobie player it was quite substantial. I was suppose to get a new ship right after the delivery It took a while to recoup the losses... longer to cure the embarrassment..

Lesson: Unbind eject cargo key.


Even being a long time player, its easy to make silly mistakes. Was in a pristine ring a few months back in my Python mining. As I was leaving\, a wing of pirates started attacking me. I got mass locked and got destroyed. I simply forgot to high-wake to a nearby system. I had plenty of time and easily could have. As the insurance screen popped up I just stared at it and said to myself... "I'm such a dumb**s". LOL.
 

MottiKhan

MottiKhan
cygnusa said:
As a noobie... hit mistakenly hit eject cargo just outside the letterbox at the destination station. I forget what ship I was in.. maybe a hauler. I think the load was Gold, so it had some notable credit value. Watched all my cargo scatter and received a flurry of fines for each cargo canister dumped. I managed to gather a few of the canisters, but most were lost. I forget the actual value of it all at the time, but for a noobie player it was quite substantial. I was suppose to get a new ship right after the delivery It took a while to recoup the losses... longer to cure the embarrassment..

Lesson: Unbind eject cargo key.


Even being a long time player, its easy to make silly mistakes. Was in a pristine ring a few months back in my Python mining. As I was leaving\, a wing of pirates started attacking me. I got mass locked and got destroyed. I simply forgot to high-wake to a nearby system. I had plenty of time and easily could have. As the insurance screen popped up I just stared at it and said to myself... "I'm such a dumb**s". LOL.
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LOL! I did something similar long after I unbound that key. I put a 2nd gaming computer together and didn't copy my binds from the first computer. I forgot that key altogether until I accidentally hit it. I think the cargo was water purifiers. I just let it all go and paid the fine, copying the bindings right after. :)
 

Lupin

Lupin
My first death in ED was while helping police shot down another NPC. I easy kill lock missile on, then police ship fly's across my line of fire and dies. Then I get jumped by remaining cops for crime.
Friendly fire is not :)
 

barneby

barneby
well i did a few silly things at the beginning of playing. boosting in the wrong moment^^" blowing myself for overheating on silent running or crashing in stuns xD

but i do this one rather frequent: picking up fights with bigger groups of npcs^^"
most stupid one was in my python: started a fight a 1 on 12 pirates with 2 condas and 10 fighters xD

still cant believe i did got away of that one ^^"
 

Kristov

K
My first assassination mission, still in my starter Sidey, hadn't made enough to upgrade jack, figured the game won't toss me against something I don't have a chance in hell of doing, right?

Well, hello there Mr Anaconda! A brief moment where I'm certain that NPC was laughing at me and then a rebuy screen.

Oh, right..NOW I remember, Elite...newbies are tossed into a tank full of great whites in a feeding frenzy after having your pockets filled with chum, oh, and hold this anvil, it's good luck! Guess they kept that same new player friendly attitude, which I actually love about the game.
 

xdemetrios

xdemetrios
I started playing since day one out of beta, played for about 2 weeks before giving up because I didn't understand a single thing. I kept flying to different orbitals because I didn't understand docking requests so I would fly into them and immediately get a warning to leave or hostile fire will commence. I just thought I was everyone's enemy until I had proven myself. I got lonely and eventually ran out of gas. Fast forward to about 2 months ago after not playing for all of 2015 and now I'm worth about 600mil. Thank god this community takes care of each other. The videos/walkthroughs especially on this forum helped me immensely.
 
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Lane1572

Lane1572
For a long time i thought every star system with an actual name was inhabited and thus had stations. This led to soooo many self destructs when arriving in one only to 'not be able to find' the station to put gas in.

Much laughter happened the day I found the tab of the map that lets you sort and filter.
 

Kazacy

Kazacy
In my first day of ED after i read the forums, watched youtube movies etc, i undocked with my sidey and i start to search for RES's. When i found one near Eravate, a vulture was already in and farm the npc's. I started to shoot some npc's, but i keep an eye on the vulture.
At some point the vulture became red and everyone in the site start shooting the poor guy. Because of my EVE background i also started to shoot the guy to be on the killmail. Somehow i get 200cr for the kill, but unfortunately no killmail for me :(
 

EUS

EUS
December 2014, read the manual, buy the game.
Do the training missions.
Jump into Sidewinder, head out into the black.
3 jumps later, out of fuel.
Suicide, re-read manual, and google fuel scooping.
 
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Enderby

E
I didn't realise you could disengage 'automatically' at a certain distance and always got as close as poss manually....
 

askavir

askavir
Jettisoned over 5 million worth of salvage (in a time when 5 million was a lot of credits) when what I realy wanted was to open the cargo hatch.

Crashed my brand new first uninsured Asp against the station wall while coming in to dock a full speed, after excruciating weeks in a T6 and going back to sidewinder.
 
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