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Gheera

Gheera
Huzzah! Completed an assassination mission 2 levels above me

Boo! Accidentally crashed into poor Geraint and murdered him, so am wanted and have a 5000cr bounty on me. Going to be fun to work out how to clear that, tho I did manage to dock back in the home system.

Only 2 sleeps until Imperial Hammers come available, and nearly have the MEFs to go meet Todd the Blaster.
 
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Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
Landed at my first ancient ruins... very atmospheric and I could feel the weight of history. Found stuff I need to investigate - alpha, beta etc. things - and ancient relics, urns and the like.

I suooise this could be construed as a Guardian Stonehenge:

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wAsh67

W
Huh.
After 2 years using a PS4 d-pad I finally got to test the HOTAS.
It was like starting all over again from scratch.
Attempting to manage my fully enginered Cobra 3 with the default controls, I blasted off from a Coriolis starport and requested permission to land again. Taking it slowly, I used the right MFD to drop the undercarriage and guided it into perfect hover above the assigned pad. Dead centre.
Feeling pretty smug I tried to thrust down, but the Cobra refused to move. It wouldn't go up either. With time running out I left the station and requested another landing slot, after figuring out that thrust up and down were on two buttons on the back of the throttle that I hadn't even known were there.
After obtaining permission I tried to be clever and use the buttons to drop the landing gear again rather than the right MFD. Because I'm old I hit the wrong button and deployed hardpoints instead.
You know whats coming next.
Somehow in my inept pushing of buttons trying to figure out what does what I opened up on the station with multicannons. No problem, I'll boost out of range and jump before station security can spread me all over the galaxy.
Except the undercarriage was still lowered. (I hadn't noticed because I was taking things slowly). No boost. No jump. Kaboom
Rebuy. My first since 2019. (It was only 307k so not worth crying over)
Moral of the story : - RTFM. No, I will not be wasting a slot on a DC.

Currently out in the black practicing FA off maneouvres in HGEs, capturing mats with the cargo scoop, then landing and repeating until the wife kicks me off so she can play Crash Bandicoot. Sometimes marrying a gamer girl ain't all its cracked up to be....
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
wAsh67 said:
Huh.
After 2 years using a PS4 d-pad I finally got to test the HOTAS.
It was like starting all over again from scratch.
Attempting to manage my fully enginered Cobra 3 with the default controls, I blasted off from a Coriolis starport and requested permission to land again. Taking it slowly, I used the right MFD to drop the undercarriage and guided it into perfect hover above the assigned pad. Dead centre.
Feeling pretty smug I tried to thrust down, but the Cobra refused to move. It wouldn't go up either. With time running out I left the station and requested another landing slot, after figuring out that thrust up and down were on two buttons on the back of the throttle that I hadn't even known were there.
After obtaining permission I tried to be clever and use the buttons to drop the landing gear again rather than the right MFD. Because I'm old I hit the wrong button and deployed hardpoints instead.
You know whats coming next.
Somehow in my inept pushing of buttons trying to figure out what does what I opened up on the station with multicannons. No problem, I'll boost out of range and jump before station security can spread me all over the galaxy.
Except the undercarriage was still lowered. (I hadn't noticed because I was taking things slowly). No boost. No jump. Kaboom
Rebuy. My first since 2019. (It was only 307k so not worth crying over)
Moral of the story : - RTFM. No, I will not be wasting a slot on a DC.

Currently out in the black practicing FA off maneouvres in HGEs, capturing mats with the cargo scoop, then landing and repeating until the wife kicks me off so she can play Crash Bandicoot. Sometimes marrying a gamer girl ain't all its cracked up to be....
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Ouch!

It's not our day :D

I've just had to relog into vanilla ED and restart Horizons. I had zoomed over a ridge after spying some obelisks. The SRV went airborne and landed, rear end first, on one of the aforermentioned obelisks. No amount of wriggling and thrusting, yawing and screaming at the stupid vehicle would shift it. Good job I had transferred my relics and whatnot to the ship beforehand.

I've switched from the AspX now as it's cargo capacity was 8. Pathetic really.

Right, ruin site 3, off we go.
 

aRJay

aRJay
wAsh67 said:
Huh.
After 2 years using a PS4 d-pad I finally got to test the HOTAS.
It was like starting all over again from scratch.
Attempting to manage my fully enginered Cobra 3 with the default controls, I blasted off from a Coriolis starport and requested permission to land again. Taking it slowly, I used the right MFD to drop the undercarriage and guided it into perfect hover above the assigned pad. Dead centre.
Feeling pretty smug I tried to thrust down, but the Cobra refused to move. It wouldn't go up either. With time running out I left the station and requested another landing slot, after figuring out that thrust up and down were on two buttons on the back of the throttle that I hadn't even known were there.
After obtaining permission I tried to be clever and use the buttons to drop the landing gear again rather than the right MFD. Because I'm old I hit the wrong button and deployed hardpoints instead.
You know whats coming next.
Somehow in my inept pushing of buttons trying to figure out what does what I opened up on the station with multicannons. No problem, I'll boost out of range and jump before station security can spread me all over the galaxy.
Except the undercarriage was still lowered. (I hadn't noticed because I was taking things slowly). No boost. No jump. Kaboom
Rebuy. My first since 2019. (It was only 307k so not worth crying over)
Moral of the story : - RTFM. No, I will not be wasting a slot on a DC.

Currently out in the black practicing FA off maneouvres in HGEs, capturing mats with the cargo scoop, then landing and repeating until the wife kicks me off so she can play Crash Bandicoot. Sometimes marrying a gamer girl ain't all its cracked up to be....
Click to expand...
My top tip for learning, mapping new controls is to do the training missions from the main menu. It is much cheaper when it inevitably goes wrong.
 

KnezBP

KnezBP
wAsh67 said:
Huh.
After 2 years using a PS4 d-pad I finally got to test the HOTAS.
It was like starting all over again from scratch.
Attempting to manage my fully enginered Cobra 3 with the default controls, I blasted off from a Coriolis starport and requested permission to land again. Taking it slowly, I used the right MFD to drop the undercarriage and guided it into perfect hover above the assigned pad. Dead centre.
Feeling pretty smug I tried to thrust down, but the Cobra refused to move. It wouldn't go up either. With time running out I left the station and requested another landing slot, after figuring out that thrust up and down were on two buttons on the back of the throttle that I hadn't even known were there.
After obtaining permission I tried to be clever and use the buttons to drop the landing gear again rather than the right MFD. Because I'm old I hit the wrong button and deployed hardpoints instead.
You know whats coming next.
Somehow in my inept pushing of buttons trying to figure out what does what I opened up on the station with multicannons. No problem, I'll boost out of range and jump before station security can spread me all over the galaxy.
Except the undercarriage was still lowered. (I hadn't noticed because I was taking things slowly). No boost. No jump. Kaboom
Rebuy. My first since 2019. (It was only 307k so not worth crying over)
Moral of the story : - RTFM. No, I will not be wasting a slot on a DC.

Currently out in the black practicing FA off maneouvres in HGEs, capturing mats with the cargo scoop, then landing and repeating until the wife kicks me off so she can play Crash Bandicoot. Sometimes marrying a gamer girl ain't all its cracked up to be....
Click to expand...
I'm still kinda newish since I only started playing in the spring, but I've always had my boost and landing gear buttons right next to each other on the throttle so I was expecting a different end to your story than that. I've smacked into the back of a station a few times while recording but I don't upload those ones. The internet can be a cruel place.

I do keep forgetting to try FA off though. Good to see that's working out for you there.

And nice ship. I have an iEagle and Keelback but the Cobra Mk III is my favourite by a mile.
 
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