Just last night I got grommed by a smaller ship, I forgot where my low wake button was bound and gave them an opening to shut down my fsd again while I worked it out.
Bye bye, sweet space cow.
Bye bye, sweet space cow.
What’s your most recent rookie mistake?
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Oh, yeah, rookie mistakes while bounty hunting. Wondered why I got outmanoeuvred in my Vulture all of a sudden. One case: Had my cargo scoop open. Another case: Had no throttle set and was only using lateral thrusters with FA on. Which reminds me, maybe I should try out that FA off thing again one day. Though it may be hard to do with keyboard and mouse. I can barely handle the keyboard to begin with. I think I suffer from keyboard blindness. Never know where my fingers are.
Nah, it is WAAAY easier with keyboard and mouse, but you do need to switch to relative mouse.
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Worked one of the installations in Sirius last night to boost my CG contributions a bit, only to find out when I handed in the 15m in bounties that it was for the wrong faction, so it didn't count.
Edit - and to add insult to injury, because of a trigger happy Elite (yeah, right) SLF pilot (who was then grounded for the remainder of the sortie) and the odd stray bullet from my all MC Vette despite being extra careful trying not to hit the installation, I had to return to the local Coriolis three times to clear bounties, making the entire thing taking even longer than if I had just worked the Pirate Activity SS6. Still, was fun to do a few megaship scenarios and it still paid well all the same.
Edit - and to add insult to injury, because of a trigger happy Elite (yeah, right) SLF pilot (who was then grounded for the remainder of the sortie) and the odd stray bullet from my all MC Vette despite being extra careful trying not to hit the installation, I had to return to the local Coriolis three times to clear bounties, making the entire thing taking even longer than if I had just worked the Pirate Activity SS6. Still, was fun to do a few megaship scenarios and it still paid well all the same.
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Not entirely related but somewhat, I got attacked by a Chieftan last night at the CNB while in my gimballed Vette, he must've observed me for a while and taking advantage of my shields getting softened up by the NPCs, his ship featured all the annoying things (higher speed, higher maneuvrability, chaff, drag munitions iirc, target lock breaker, feedback cascade LR rails) and I was fumbling about how to approach this, while completely forgetting I had a bunch of reverb torpedoes fitted for gankers (though highly likely it wouldn't have done much good, either they would've avoided them altogether and it was also likely they were running a hull tank).
I initially fought back which was an exercise in relative frustration due to the above, reverski didn't work either to keep ToT up, then I just pondered what to do while he kept plugging away at my shields which were down to one ring. It reminded me again how much I would love those silly experimental effects to be gone - which won't happen of course so there's not much point to fight back and just safely low wake out which I did in the end. Must've looked like a complete noob to him though lol.
Ah, man, I have a CZ one. I finally got around to engineering SCBs and went off in my vette to a high CZ. I got attacked by a player at the same time as the spec ops wing, went to fire a SCB and hit the silent running button instead.
Still got out, though. Don't skimp on hull!
Still got out, though. Don't skimp on hull!
I’ve got a two-fer. I’ve been working on unlocking Marco Qwent. I got my permit to Sirius from Davy Dock in the Procyon system. I did a passenger mission that rewarded me with 33 modular terminals for the required donation to Marco. Except my ship only had 32 tons of cargo capacity. In frustration, I accepted one of the other rewards, and then went to the outfitting shop to add another cargo rack. It was at this moment that I realized I’d screwed up, and should have added the cargo rack before completing the mission...
One passenger mission later, with my modular terminals loaded, I head to Sirius to meet Marco. Only, once in the system, Marco wasn’t showing up on the map. I thought the current CG icon on the Sirius system was the engineer icon, but I had never gotten Elvira Martuk to level 3 so she would tell me about Marco. Nothing like skipping step 1!
One passenger mission later, with my modular terminals loaded, I head to Sirius to meet Marco. Only, once in the system, Marco wasn’t showing up on the map. I thought the current CG icon on the Sirius system was the engineer icon, but I had never gotten Elvira Martuk to level 3 so she would tell me about Marco. Nothing like skipping step 1!
I flew full steam ahead straight into the exclusion zone of a neutron star recently... I know: that's a feat to accomplish. Luckily the game isn't too realistic and I could limp out of it. Lots of my equipment was medium to well done but I lived.
I also recently accepted a big haulage mission while in a medium ship. To a medium landing pad. So I cancelled the mission. Redeemed myself by being a mobile E-mail server. So that was no biggie either.
I also recently accepted a big haulage mission while in a medium ship. To a medium landing pad. So I cancelled the mission. Redeemed myself by being a mobile E-mail server. So that was no biggie either.
Oooh yeah. I once clicked launch from a Coriolis station and opened fire instead of accelerating.
No Limpets - every single time.
Forgetting to collect cargo - multiple times.
But true rookie mistake - engineered equipment on my ship, decided I didn't like the ship so sold it, with engineer equipment still on it.
Coming back to the forums after a break
EDIT: Not backing up (or even taking sceenshots) of my keybindings and loosing the lot when my computer died.
Forgetting to collect cargo - multiple times.
But true rookie mistake - engineered equipment on my ship, decided I didn't like the ship so sold it, with engineer equipment still on it.
Coming back to the forums after a break
EDIT: Not backing up (or even taking sceenshots) of my keybindings and loosing the lot when my computer died.
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Forgot to request docking for the first time in ages, panicked when I got the trespass warning and nearly died trying to reverse out of there.
