How many deaths?

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Re: How many deaths?

Postby Flip » Wed Feb 11, 2015 4:04 pm

These are not deaths, just insurance claims.

I don't know how many I have, somewhere around 15, I think. But a bunch of these come from Gamma, when we thought there would be a wipe before release. Some others were from being rammed by NPC's, some from being overconfident attacking Anacondas or Pythons, some caused by my own mistakes (like boosting in a station), and some from self-destructing when it was less expensive to replace a ship than to repair it.

As you can tell, these don't matter to me at all. It's gonna be another story if/when they implement the ironman mode, but in the meantime I'm perfectly OK with my ship being destroyed, as long as I survive. :)

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Re: How many deaths?

Postby Philip Coutts » Wed Feb 11, 2015 4:50 pm

In the final release I think 2. Once dying gloriously trying to assassinate a General for the glory of the Empire and the cheeky bugger rammed me. The second time I do not wish to talk about but it involved smuggling, high speed docking and a misplaced boost button press, theeeennn a lot of banging, crashing and eventually a massive explosion.
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Re: How many deaths?

Postby Cmdr Kharma » Wed Feb 11, 2015 6:22 pm

3 times.......So far.....

1st one can't remember....Prob doing sthg stoopid......

2nd one in my Cobra.....Rammed by a dropship on an assassination mission........

3rd one in my Cobra.....Assassination mission again.....Dropship again....Nasty battle....I won.....But breached canopy.....Got to platform....With 3 mins to spare......Docking comp faffed around.....Tried to land manually 3 times....Comp always took over and lifted me up again......I went boom....Air went blue....
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Re: How many deaths?

Postby Kiltrathi » Wed Feb 11, 2015 7:00 pm

Now that I've had a chance to check, it's 10 deaths, total damage: 2,676,391 Cr. Apparently there were two deaths that I can't even remember.
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Re: How many deaths?

Postby Crisp_89 » Wed Feb 11, 2015 7:37 pm

Only 2 times for me thus far:

1) My first interdiction a couple days into the game proved to be fatal for my unmodded (at the time) Eagle.
2) A day or so later, got in over my head after picking a dogfight with a viper in the same (only slightly modded) Eagle.

At least the insurance claim wasn't too bad that early in the game. :-)
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Re: How many deaths?

Postby Siobhan » Wed Feb 11, 2015 8:28 pm

Cmdr Kharma wrote:3rd one in my Cobra.....Assassination mission again.....Dropship again....Nasty battle....I won.....But breached canopy.....Got to platform....With 3 mins to spare......Docking comp faffed around.....Tried to land manually 3 times....Comp always took over and lifted me up again......I went boom....Air went blue....


Pretty much why I don't see the point of a docking comp. I could land at max speed on a BBC B with analogue stick back in the day and I am damned if I won't do the same now.
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Re: How many deaths?

Postby Cmdr Kharma » Wed Feb 11, 2015 8:36 pm

Got used to the docking comp now......

Used it because of the disappearing pad markers on platforms......

THAT was a pig.......

After playing 1.1 beta for the week.....Looks like the comp is sorted on platforms now.....Much smoother....
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Re: How many deaths?

Postby Corsaire31 » Wed Feb 11, 2015 10:13 pm

Use your radar and the pad lights can go off. Never had a problem docking even without lights. :)
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Re: How many deaths?

Postby Emanon » Wed Feb 11, 2015 10:45 pm

Cmdr Kharma wrote:Got used to the docking comp now......

Used it because of the disappearing pad markers on platforms......

THAT was a pig.......

After playing 1.1 beta for the week.....Looks like the comp is sorted on platforms now.....Much smoother....


Yeah even if the AI is a little more trustworthy with its auto-docking skills, I'm not sure I want to get one. I can simply do it better and faster, and the faster part is more important when you're trying to get in the best profits per hour trading runs. But I'm glad they improved it for those that do use them. Supposedly they improved the NPC's AI as well, but I noticed last night some NPCs doing some wonky things, like just floating in the middle of the station not going anywhere (perhaps it was just a glitch in the matrix).
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Re: How many deaths?

Postby Niddi » Thu Feb 12, 2015 7:39 am

Not once yet *keeps fingers crossed* But I've also been exploring for a while now and the only real danger for me is getting to close to a star and melting.


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