I just started last week, so I\'ll have more to add...

jedidia · Post by **jedidia** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 10:02 pm

Post your mess-ups here. I felt like posting the thread because I just was scooping cargo on the surface of saphire, wanted to see what I loaded and pushed F2 instead of F3... Flaming Death!!

I wonder if I could have aborted the jump by repeatedly pressing F2?

KlingonKringle · Post by **KlingonKringle** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 10:30 pm

Whilst involved in some rather hectic PvP against Ping, Chesh and Fearless very close to the canisters in Pearl, I twice attempted to jump clear of incoming missiles only to collide with the canisters. This of course was much to the amusement of my fellow combatants as I burst into flames and vapourised myself:P:P:P;)

tha_rami · Post by **tha_rami** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 11:03 pm

Shoot a Fulcrum Torpedo. It hit the target frontally.

Twohundred clicks away from me.

IckleChesh · Post by **IckleChesh** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:18 am

In SP when I 1st got the game, I managed to get hold of a fulcrum torp.

"This looks good" I thought. Must be coz it cost so much! I worked my way around the systems, finding a good place to start a fight. Found a group of rebles that were making some trouble, so I let loose my new toy, watched it sail through space, and woundered why there would be a text warning about it!

Found out soon enough!;) Problem was, I had saved after buying said torp, and it was my only profile. So I died, and lost all my money, and all I got was "IckleChesh was destroyed"!!

Fearless · Post by **Fearless** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:10 pm

Went into a cave once and got lost

warsign · Post by **warsign** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:51 pm

lol

Attacked bunch of enemies like an eagle, pull the triger, nothing happened!!!

Forgot to install weapons

Slickvic · Post by **Slickvic** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:46 pm

Originally posted by jedidia
I just was scooping cargo and wanted to see what I loaded and pushed F2 instead of F3... Flaming Death!!

X2. Now I really pay attention to what key I am pressing.

Hitting ALT-Q every once in a while is my new obsession.

BraveHart · Post by **BraveHart** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 4:52 pm

LMAO........ Yoda Say's " You have to lose in order to win"

what a Hoot it is to hear of simple mistakes He He, using f2 to to get to the mining station in lost rucker station is a Classic.....set your headings off just enough to land right into a Asteroid upon arriving is always pretty funny

. Aaaaah but the knowledge you get after each simple mistake is priceless!! Have Fun my padowans and remember to save

[Edited on 11-13-2008 by BraveHart]

warsign · Post by **warsign** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:02 am

I changed F2 to F7 two weeks later

Never lived such a problem again...

PingBosun · Post by **PingBosun** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 5:40 pm

Press the shift key to start "talking" to a fellow pilot. 8 Excals away no problem!!

Why - forgot to press "Enter" before starting to speak!!!

MMaggio · Post by **MMaggio** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:32 pm

Did the "fellow pilot" appreciate the "point" you made by your exhuberant display?;)

verbosity · Post by **verbosity** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 7:31 pm

I went planet-side to do some mining, forgot to turn ids off, used up all of my fuel, if i hadn't went totally dry I'd have been fine, I was just outside the docking city on the planet too, would have only taken 2 units to get back and refill............

Edit
Though thats nowhere as stupid as the time I implied I could take vice in a PvP

Edit 2
oh Yeah and I once tried to get Al to "put it on the tab"

[Edited on 11-14-2008 by verbosity]

PingBosun · Post by **PingBosun** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:10 pm

Originally posted by MMaggio
Did the "fellow pilot" appreciate the "point" you made by your exhuberant display?;)

No, not on any of the occassions, since I do not appear to learn from my errors!!!

Sorry Fearless!!!

Lunaraia · Post by **Lunaraia** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 6:24 pm

If you think tha's a hoot then listen to this, went to the wolf system for some exploring, then I saw this od Spiraly thingy on my jump map, "what's that?" I though and jumped to it's center......

verbosity · Post by **verbosity** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 6:29 pm

you know it is possible to fly through one of them...................

( a similar technique can render you invunerable to FT explosions too

)

BraveHart · Post by **BraveHart** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 6:47 pm

Originally posted by PingBosun
Press the shift key to start "talking" to a fellow pilot. 8 Excals away no problem!!

Why - forgot to press "Enter" before starting to speak!!!

He-He....been there done that way too many times

Wasp89 · Post by **Wasp89** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 12:10 am

I'm afraid I've done every single one of those before (except for those involving fulcrum torpedoes.)

Here are a couple more:

Went through a jump gate angled at an asteroid and pancaked,

(Repeatedly) decided to jump into a fight in Pearl whilst still facing the cargo containers that I had just used to arm my ship.

Naively jumped to a station occupied by Mehk and jovially said "hello," (and after finishing a long and arduous trade route, but without saving)

Frequently burned myself up in atmo because of an impatient finger too close to tab key.

Stubbornly refused to believe that I could not fly down to the surface of Wolf (roughly 20 times, though thankfully not all in a row)

Jumped to a sector in Thuban with my Mantis drive, saved my only profile, looked out the window and noticed that the nebula backdrop looked different. Called up the nav console and found out that I was 2000+ sectors away from civilization with only about 500 units of fuel. I wonder if that's why it says that Mantis drives are "experimental?"

More undoubtedly to come...

Lunaraia · Post by **Lunaraia** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:56 am

Did that with ship meet jumpgate hyper jump meet asteroid myself, and I did managed to fly through the black hole once, dunno how I did it though, also to ease the use of the jettison button i had asigned it to Caps Lock, then while on a delivery mission I hit shift instead, that whouldn't noramlly been a problem, if I weren't armed to the brink with Fulcrums......

Also when I started a new profile just for the fun of it the Jumpgate to Lost Rucker decided to migrate to the opposite side of the asteroid field, then when I FINALLY found it again I went in and immidietly pancaked myself on the asteroid that was hidden behind it

[Edited on 18-12-2008 by Lunaraia]

Wasp89 · Post by **Wasp89** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:42 am

Another one from tonight:

I rebound some of the keys on my joystick, shuffling a few around and swapping a few commands out for newer ones which I thought might be more beneficial in combat. Later, I decided to try them out and reached up with my innocent little thumb to press a button that was SUPPOSED to balance my shields. Instead, I imploded very neatly and was given the "Wasp was destroyed" message. I quickly discovered that I had accidentally bound the self destruct command to my joystick button. Has anyone else noticed how terribly klutzy I am in this game?

Edit:

I also managed to flatten myself on one of the cargo containers in Pearl again tonight... I changed my mind about rearming at the containers after I had jumped in and immediately tried to jump out again without slowing down or changing course. FAIL.

[Edited on 12-18-2008 by Wasp89]

BraveHart · Post by **BraveHart** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:36 am

LMAO.....Pilots cause of Death: "Impact", Those last few millimeters can really hurt

MMaggio · Post by **MMaggio** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 12:10 pm

What's the last thing to go thru a pilot's mind when he slams into a solid object?

The rest of him!

tha_rami · Post by **tha_rami** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:41 pm

Lunaraia · Post by **Lunaraia** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 4:51 pm

found a new way to die today, jumped to a location for a delivery, then i got propelled right into the ship, that understandably suffering from a hurt pride decided to go hostile on me, so the ship I waas suppose to deliver cargo to sent me straight to the junkyard

[Edited on 18-12-2008 by Lunaraia]

BraveHart · Post by **BraveHart** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:12 pm

LMAO

.......next time use a compass heading of 180 degrees before you jump to come up directly behind the ship, at least then you will know where you will be heading.....also use reverse thrusters before you come out of warp to slow down

[Edited on 12-18-2008 by BraveHart]

Wasp89 · Post by **Wasp89** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:33 pm

This one takes the cake...

I was dogfighting the bugs in Vonari today. I had a bunch of them on my tail launching missiles at me, so I flipped around and shot the missiles instead of wasting precious CM's. I noticed that my lasers had accidentally been turned off, so I reached my big fat finger over to push the "n" key. Instead, I hit the "j" key. Keep in mind, I am traveling backwards... and do you know where your cargo is jettisoned? That's right... directly aft of your ship. So I essentially dropped a big immovable object right in my flight path. I bounce off of it, come to an almost complete stop and have just enough time to say "oh crap" (or some other expletive) before about 8 missiles collide with my cockpit.

To add insult to injury, when you jettison your cargo the game auto saves... let's just say I had a good 5 mil or so worth of recently purchased Stealth and Exodus missiles in my bays... all gone when I respawned.

EPIC FAIL.