What are you doing (ingame) now?

[Schmobius]

So I'm out about 4 hours of my life I will never get back, and around 20 million credits.

I went into Exioce, expecting to be able to wing up with some random commanders again, but there was not another soul to be found. I found I was actually doing rather well, and on the one run to Fort Lawrence to get some repairs, I saw I already had a bit over a million credits in combat bonds for The Order. I didn't turn them in because I heard it counts more if you turn them in at Azrael.

I had already taken out 2 Cutters tonight, and a third came after me when I had one ring of shields after I tried to kill the capital ship, and kept getting hit by particle accelerators from cobras (which I was able to break off and kill... I'd say easily, but they were spamming so much chaff, it took a while.)

I got him down to at least 39% hull, and he was on the losing end the first several times he rammed me. I had him on the ropes, but my shields were down, so I ducked into the systems panel to turn off some shield boosters to get at least one ring up quick. Before I could exit the panel, suddenly I'm exploding.

So no joy for the Order, I lost several hundred thousand in unclaimed bounties, and I had to pay an 18 million credit rebuy, on top of several hundred thousand in repairs on two earlier sorties. I was just starting to feel like I really had the hang of this, being able to stay in a CZ for several hours, and was finally turning a decent profit on it all. But, nope.

Let me tell you what I'm not doing in-game right now, or probably ever again for all eternity: Going into a CZ unless someone is inviting me to a wing. If I were at least able to keep the combat bonds after death, I might have laughed this off, as something was accomplished, but I can't justify the effort for zero gain.

[robfm81]

So I'm out about 4 hours of my life I will never get back, and around 20 million credits.

I went into Exioce, expecting to be able to wing up with some random commanders again, but there was not another soul to be found. I found I was actually doing rather well, and on the one run to Fort Lawrence to get some repairs, I saw I already had a bit over a million credits in combat bonds for The Order. I didn't turn them in because I heard it counts more if you turn them in at Azrael.

I had already taken out 2 Cutters tonight, and a third came after me when I had one ring of shields after I tried to kill the capital ship, and kept getting hit by particle accelerators from cobras (which I was able to break off and kill... I'd say easily, but they were spamming so much chaff, it took a while.)

I got him down to at least 39% hull, and he was on the losing end the first several times he rammed me. I had him on the ropes, but my shields were down, so I ducked into the systems panel to turn off some shield boosters to get at least one ring up quick. Before I could exit the panel, suddenly I'm exploding.

So no joy for the Order, I lost several hundred thousand in unclaimed bounties, and I had to pay an 18 million credit rebuy, on top of several hundred thousand in repairs on two earlier sorties. I was just starting to feel like I really had the hang of this, being able to stay in a CZ for several hours, and was finally turning a decent profit on it all. But, nope.

Let me tell you what I'm not doing in-game right now, or probably ever again for all eternity: Going into a CZ unless someone is inviting me to a wing. If I were at least able to keep the combat bonds after death, I might have laughed this off, as something was accomplished, but I can't justify the effort for zero gain.

I feel your pain after recently losing my FDL without insurance (300k short).

Back to square one but actually enjoying it. I have ranked up enough to get a courier this time thanks to metcalf and forgot how much fun the smaller ships can be.

[Black Rose]

So I'm out about 4 hours of my life I will never get back, and around 20 million credits.

I went into Exioce, expecting to be able to wing up with some random commanders again, but there was not another soul to be found. I found I was actually doing rather well, and on the one run to Fort Lawrence to get some repairs, I saw I already had a bit over a million credits in combat bonds for The Order. I didn't turn them in because I heard it counts more if you turn them in at Azrael.

I had already taken out 2 Cutters tonight, and a third came after me when I had one ring of shields after I tried to kill the capital ship, and kept getting hit by particle accelerators from cobras (which I was able to break off and kill... I'd say easily, but they were spamming so much chaff, it took a while.)

I got him down to at least 39% hull, and he was on the losing end the first several times he rammed me. I had him on the ropes, but my shields were down, so I ducked into the systems panel to turn off some shield boosters to get at least one ring up quick. Before I could exit the panel, suddenly I'm exploding.

So no joy for the Order, I lost several hundred thousand in unclaimed bounties, and I had to pay an 18 million credit rebuy, on top of several hundred thousand in repairs on two earlier sorties. I was just starting to feel like I really had the hang of this, being able to stay in a CZ for several hours, and was finally turning a decent profit on it all. But, nope.

Let me tell you what I'm not doing in-game right now, or probably ever again for all eternity: Going into a CZ unless someone is inviting me to a wing. If I were at least able to keep the combat bonds after death, I might have laughed this off, as something was accomplished, but I can't justify the effort for zero gain.

I'm sorry to hear all that pain It really sucks to lose to much so quickly. Its gonna sound silly I guess but when I am in a CZ or even a rez, when I am down 25% hull I leave, do my turn ins, make repairs and take a breather. I find when I push it to far I mess up. I either kill a cop or 3, or I just fly poorly and end up like you did. Also, once ever 2 days I take my Asp out and hit every system where I have and unclaimed bounty. I do explorations along the way and always try to carry some cargo.

Today a bunch of fines and bounties timed out Happy Dance My fines are now down to 1.7 million and my bounties are a tad below 4 million. Also now that I am in the FAS I no longer have to run and hide when an Anaconda or a Python interdict me.

[robfm81]

was on 40% hull and shields just about to come back online when I got rammed by an Anaconda = bye bye

[clivewil]

winged up with CMDR The-Dead-Meat in the Exioce CZ, together we routed the cap ship there - and only got 50k after all that work but a great sense of achievement though, that's the first time i'd ever attacked one usually i give them a wide berth

going back soon for round 2...

[JohnLuke]

So I'm out about 4 hours of my life I will never get back, and around 20 million credits.

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Damn. Sorry to hear about your loss, bud. That was a painful experience for you, no doubt.

CZ's can be rough places, and those damn Cutters love to ram. And... as you know.... they carry one hell of a punch when they hit you.

I'll be in the CZ part time this weekend if anyone wants to wing up. (heading in now....)

[stationtostation]

Moving into RES with my Cobra. And looking for CMDRs who are interested in forming a Wing - any hints on how to go about that? In game I haven't seen anyone for days ... where is everyone?

[Tifu]

There was a point in the Exioce CZ where there were MORE commanders than OOM NPC ships combined - there were hardly any Crimsom ships left. Got chased out a few minutes ago, but it was a good day for hunting ships. I feel better about this war than the last , more alive & more real for some reason. Maybe we can thank the capship for that

[Colin The Grey]

REZ hunting to build my credits back up before I go move some more Garrison supplies around for Hudson.

Wish they would fix the Scan/Ram bug - I've developed a nervous twitch now whenever I hear the words 'Scan Detected'.

[Schmobius]

I'm sorry to hear all that pain It really sucks to lose to much so quickly. Its gonna sound silly I guess but when I am in a CZ or even a rez, when I am down 25% hull I leave, do my turn ins, make repairs and take a breather. I find when I push it to far I mess up. I either kill a cop or 3, or I just fly poorly and end up like you did. Also, once ever 2 days I take my Asp out and hit every system where I have and unclaimed bounty. I do explorations along the way and always try to carry some cargo.

Today a bunch of fines and bounties timed out Happy Dance My fines are now down to 1.7 million and my bounties are a tad below 4 million. Also now that I am in the FAS I no longer have to run and hide when an Anaconda or a Python interdict me.

The thing is, I had that other Cutter on the ropes. I had more hull than he did.... I had about 40%, he was at about 25%. I was going to kill him and then bug out for repairs. He had hurt himself a lot more than he hurt me when ramming before, but suddenly, I go from 40% to dead. I don't think I had any damage on my powerplant either... none of my modules were down, and I have a pretty tight power configuration.

I have certainly bit off more than I could chew before, and paid for it, but this was just cheap. As I said before, I might have shrugged it off if I had at least kept my combat bonds (not that they'd make a dent in my insurance claim) because now I may have actually hurt the war more than helped it.