I fell in love with Apex. It wasn't supposed to happen, yet it did anyway.
If I could get them to carry me onto the Concourse, that would be even better thanks!
Anyway to the point. I've been embarrassing myself quite well in "on foot" missions. I really stink at them, that's fine, they're fun to me even when I am boning myself.
I screwed the pooch on one yesterday and, I wasn't keeping accurate details, but I think I retained all my stuff I'd pilfered while on the mission that I had just failed. All the Optical Pieces, the circuits, that sort of thing.
I woke up in prison, they'd left my Union Flag painted Viper MkIII back on the mission planet, cheers now I have to go fetch that too, so I did. This is when I noticed I still had a load of things more than I thought I should have. I am more accustomed to losing my stuff on a ship death, yet it seems a foot death does not do this.
I'm ignoring the crazy way illegality happens with my ship being a seperate legal entity to my body.
I am concentrating on how I retain stuff on foot, when I die. Seems to happen that way.
Anyway, back to Apex, I would prefer to Apex to mission sites. Because I fell in love with NOT having to fly the ship. First I fell in love with super cruise assist... kind of enjoy dock/land assist... but then Apex happened and I was all aglow...
If I Apex to a mission, I don't get an SRV of course... so no easy mode mowing down of NPCs and with no ship or SRV I get no easy-mode replenishments.... but that might be a sacrifice worth making if I am confident I don't lose stuff on death... which is frequent... I'm just sick of fetching ships back from mission planets.. it was better when I used to get in my ship to attempt escape only to have it destroyed by base cannons (took 3 ships to figure this out!) and now all my Vipers are called "Red Shirt" because I only use them to go down to planet surfaces and they almost never return.
Only now I've started dying on foot... and now I have to keep moving "Red shirts" around, which is bothersome.
So, leaving ships at home so I can die alone on a planet? Any other downsides to note?