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So I bought my Hauler. 28k. I had 40+k.
I was doing well, making money by trading and more profit each run with the bigger cargo hold on the Hauler. That was until...I took off in I-BOOTIS, for some bizarre reason I flew towards the entrance at full pelt...rammed into the wall, was quickly notified shields were offline and BAM! Destroyed.
No biggie - I've been making money, right...well, except for the fact that I had just loaded up with Crop Harvesters and fish...leaving me the grand total of 2436 credits. To re-buy my Hauler, I needed 2636 credits!!
You honestly couldn't make this up. I've just set myself all the way back to where I was two weeks ago for being an arse! :uglystupid2:
Oh fk you're kidding!
There's a thread on the elite beta forums about the saddest thing you've done so far...... One guy splashed everything on an anaconda, lost control at the station exit, rammed a police viper making it explode, instantly set off the stations defences and got turned to space dust without a penny in the bank..... free sidewinder sir?
Be glad it isn't Star Citizen and you haven' been paying your insurance..spaceship what so ever. A massive scam that. Insurance is a pain in real life..now having to pay it in a game!!
Quote from: undercovergeek on September 06, 2014, 01:00:03 PM
Oh fk you're kidding!
There's a thread on the elite beta forums about the saddest thing you've done so far...... One guy splashed everything on an anaconda, lost control at the station exit, rammed a police viper making it explode, instantly set off the stations defences and got turned to space dust without a penny in the bank..... free sidewinder sir?
Nope - no kidding. I'm proper gutted but kinda like "WTF were you thinking you moron!"
Yep - back on the Sidewinder with 2436 credits.
The real, REAL annoying thing is I was 200 credits short for my insurance! That was one, just ONE ton of fish!
That happened to me to :-(
I also ran into a bug where the insurance doesn't pop up correctly and you lose your ship :-(
You must give yourself room in this game before you upgrade or you are just asking for trouble.
Quote from: Swatter on September 06, 2014, 05:19:19 PM
That happened to me to :-(
I also ran into a bug where the insurance doesn't pop up correctly and you lose your ship :-(
You must give yourself room in this game before you upgrade or you are just asking for trouble.
that was fixed in 1.04 AFAIK
After reading this thread I realize I have no idea what any of you are talking about.
lol
Buying an expensive ship and then losing it without having your insurance in place sounds totally like Eve Online. Except there it's usually because some putz blew you up.
Quote from: panzerde on September 08, 2014, 05:01:04 PM
Buying an expensive ship and then losing it without having your insurance in place sounds totally like Eve Online. Except there it's usually because some putz blew you up.
Maybe I didn't look - but I didn't know how to find out how much insurance I needed. Regardless actually because I really thought I had it covered because I had been making money. What I failed to do was check how much I had AFTER I bought my goods and left the station (or tried to)...but even if I had checked how much I had, I wasn't aware how much I needed as cover. It does probably tell you in game somewhere, but I don't know where that is.
Quote from: JudgeDredd on September 08, 2014, 05:21:40 PM
Maybe I didn't look - but I didn't know how to find out how much insurance I needed. Regardless actually because I really thought I had it covered because I had been making money. What I failed to do was check how much I had AFTER I bought my goods and left the station (or tried to)...but even if I had checked how much I had, I wasn't aware how much I needed as cover. It does probably tell you in game somewhere, but I don't know where that is.
That was a compliment to the game, btw, not meant as a slight to you, at all. Heck, at least you had some insurance, I'm 100% confident that shortly after I purchase my first expensive ship I'll remember the need to buy any insurance ten seconds into a harrowing situation where I'm likely to get totally destroyed. I know this because I've done it in Eve not once, but multiple times.
I like that there are consequences like this in the game, and you don't just get to start over. Makes it worth playing in my book!
buys hauler and leaves 5k in the bank
buys 4.99k worth of fish, risks a flight across 3 zones to make a 8k profit and get some spending money
sells guns to lighten ship
comes out of hyperspace into a war zone, flies straight thru conflict area as shots ping off hull
jump into final destination with pirates in pursuit
get to within 1km of trading port and is denied access
spend the most exhilirating 8 mins in my PC gaming history flying around the space station trying to avoid pirates and get landing permission at same time
head for docking port, pirate actually follows me in, shooting me within the station itself
stations defenses kick in and destroy him as i land
sell fish
laugh and go make cup of tea with shaking hands
awesome
O0
Good skillz UCG...a big risk though :)
I didn't take it personally panzerde - I was just trying to give some explanation to my stupidity :idiot2:
id got used to dealing in the sexy items - crop harvesters, personal weapons, marine supplies - i didnt want my first job to be a bio-waste run but thats what happened and then fish, i actually plotted courses and worked out all kinds of routes to go beyond Chi Hercules last night only to exit the station and get 'Frameshift has malfunctioned'
i thought it was a bug or an error - turns out i was trying to jump beyond the 'demo' bubble into unknown space - its about 0.2 light years outside the border!! thats what led to the fish jump all the way back to civilisation at Aulin. I had a feeling id have trouble docking, its been all over the beta forums that the more new people join the bigger the queues are at popular stations not far from the starting point.
So now i have 13k, a full tank of diesel and im looking at all the mineral trading activity underneath Aulin that looks quite tasty
Quote from: undercovergeek on September 09, 2014, 06:20:44 PM
buys hauler and leaves 5k in the bank
buys 4.99k worth of fish, risks a flight across 3 zones to make a 8k profit and get some spending money
sells guns to lighten ship
comes out of hyperspace into a war zone, flies straight thru conflict area as shots ping off hull
jump into final destination with pirates in pursuit
get to within 1km of trading port and is denied access
spend the most exhilirating 8 mins in my PC gaming history flying around the space station trying to avoid pirates and get landing permission at same time
head for docking port, pirate actually follows me in, shooting me within the station itself
stations defenses kick in and destroy him as i land
sell fish
laugh and go make cup of tea with shaking hands
awesome
:2funny:
That was great,
geek. Thanks for sharing.
Quote from: undercovergeek on September 10, 2014, 04:09:05 AM
id got used to dealing in the sexy items - crop harvesters, personal weapons, marine supplies - i didnt want my first job to be a bio-waste run but thats what happened and then fish, i actually plotted courses and worked out all kinds of routes to go beyond Chi Hercules last night only to exit the station and get 'Frameshift has malfunctioned'
i thought it was a bug or an error - turns out i was trying to jump beyond the 'demo' bubble into unknown space - its about 0.2 light years outside the border!! thats what led to the fish jump all the way back to civilisation at Aulin. I had a feeling id have trouble docking, its been all over the beta forums that the more new people join the bigger the queues are at popular stations not far from the starting point.
So now i have 13k, a full tank of diesel and im looking at all the mineral trading activity underneath Aulin that looks quite tasty
Any reason why you play online instead of solo?
Quote from: JudgeDredd on September 10, 2014, 04:21:56 AM
Quote from: undercovergeek on September 10, 2014, 04:09:05 AM
id got used to dealing in the sexy items - crop harvesters, personal weapons, marine supplies - i didnt want my first job to be a bio-waste run but thats what happened and then fish, i actually plotted courses and worked out all kinds of routes to go beyond Chi Hercules last night only to exit the station and get 'Frameshift has malfunctioned'
i thought it was a bug or an error - turns out i was trying to jump beyond the 'demo' bubble into unknown space - its about 0.2 light years outside the border!! thats what led to the fish jump all the way back to civilisation at Aulin. I had a feeling id have trouble docking, its been all over the beta forums that the more new people join the bigger the queues are at popular stations not far from the starting point.
So now i have 13k, a full tank of diesel and im looking at all the mineral trading activity underneath Aulin that looks quite tasty
Any reason why you play online instead of solo?
its funny you say that, when you and JH were the first buyers my main concern was griefers and guilds and bullying in MP - but of all the games i have on my system, all of them burst to life, become more vibrant and enjoyable when there is competition and human interraction. The unpredicatability of human opponents, human pirates, the camaradarie of seeing fellow traders docking and exiting and just knowing its an 'alive' universe operating at the whim of its human players, all sat at home, headphones on doing their bit in the game just like me, make not just the 'game' but the very fact that its even possible a wonder and a joy to me
'course this all goes out of the window when some c*nt blows me up with a hull full of rifles im shipping to a civil war!!