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[Whiteball]

...I also got a 75cr fine for accidentally hitting the trigger while leaving a station. Maybe I should turn off automatic hardpoint deployment on trigger press.

I've done that too a couple of times, glad i'm not the only one
Note to self: Must re-map a few buttons to avoid potential future cock-ups.

[Darkflame]

I hit the boast button (tab) instinctively a few times when thinking I was navigating menus.
I now ask permission to dock quite a bit further away.

[Yak]

haha first time I ever docked I slightly overshot the pad and went to use my reverse thrust button. Which was a great idea except for (a) in landing override mode that button didn't work and (b) I accidentally pressed the boost button anyway. It made the boost noise and I rattled around a bit, then had to go around in a loop and re-approach my pad, but I didn't blow up. In fact I've never significantly damaged myself landing and I rather enjoy the process now (especially now I have forward/backward thrust as a landing override on one of my right hat switches).

Currently sitting in Freeport with about 24k credits. Maybe I'll buy myself some weapons soon.

[defsdoor]

I'm doing a back and forth run that nets me about 2-2.5k a full round trip but I've been "interdicted" a couple of times and lost my cargo So I don't have that much money yet.

I love docking - can't ever see me getting a docking computer.

[Muttley]

I'm doing a back and forth run that nets me about 2-2.5k a full round trip but I've been "interdicted" a couple of times and lost my cargo So I don't have that much money yet.

Sounds like you need to do a Brave Sir Robin rather than stand and fight until you have better equipment.

Max pips to engines and boost the hell out of there. Re-enable Super Cruise as soon as it cools down and you've put >3km between you and the pirates.

[Mat]

Well bugger. My shiny new X52 arrived today and it's got an intermittent trigger microswitch

[Yak]

I'm doing a back and forth run that nets me about 2-2.5k a full round trip but I've been "interdicted" a couple of times and lost my cargo So I don't have that much money yet.

Sounds like you need to do a Brave Sir Robin rather than stand and fight until you have better equipment.

Max pips to engines and boost the hell out of there. Re-enable Super Cruise as soon as it cools down and you've put >3km between you and the pirates.

Yeah, "scarper" has been my default mode when interdicted so far, I'll start picking fights when I've got a thicker skin and better guns, but until then legging it is the order of the day. Never been caught yet.

One trick is to boost then immediately disengage flight assist. You can basically turn the engines right down or even fully off at that point while still carrying on at full boost speed. Then as soon as frameshift comes back on line charge that sucker up and get the hell out of dodge .

[Muttley]

One trick is to boost then immediately disengage flight assist. You can basically turn the engines right down or even fully off at that point while still carrying on at full boost speed. Then as soon as frameshift comes back on line charge that sucker up and get the hell out of dodge .

Yep, and once you've done that you can put full power into sys to boost shield strength "just in case"

[defsdoor]

So those with x52 joysticks - have you bound anything else manually or do you run with the stock config ? I find half my dials and button do nothing by default.

I'd be interested in your layouts.

[Yak]

I've bound supercruise and FA on/off to the leftmost two buttons of the three on the throttle below the LCD display. I've also bound forward/back thrust to the lower hat switch on the main stick during landing override mode (when your gear is down), when combined with the lat thrusters that are on the little switch on the back of the throttle it makes manoeuvring in stations and landing on the pad pretty easy.

I've got the switches at the bottom of the main stick (T1-T6) bound to various things like gear up/down, go silent etc.

[defsdoor]

I've sorted most of my control issues. The Saitek profile programming tool sets some defaults you have to remove.

To use the mouse buttons/pov you have to set them to unprogrammed.

To use "Joy 31" (boost) you have to click on the System Tray icon and go into Control Panel, MFD and disale Clutch Mode.

You also have to remove the 3 Shift sets of controls else the Pinky stops working as expected.

[Muttley]

A good overview of how to use the galaxy map to find good trades: https://imgur.com/a/9wdOH

[Yak]

OK so I just lost my ship for I think the stupidest reason.

I was peacefully running some bertrandite from Freeport to Dahan. I drop out of SC near Dahan and as I do i notice it says "WANTED" over my heat signature. I'm like "what?" as I hadn't knowingly committed any crime - someone had bumped into me from behind as I left Freeport dock, but no biggie, nobody blew up or anything, and I hadn't stolen or murdered or aught.

I hail the station and they grant landing permission so I figure maybe I can sort whatever it is out once I'm in the service station. Wrong - as soon as I got through the letterbox I was shot to bits. Found myself back at Azeban in a new Sidewinder and quite a few thousand creds down .

Still wondering why the hell I suddenly got "wanted", I found a wiki and read the "criminality" rules, and..

- remember I said ages ago I got a 75cr fine for accidentally firing a weapon outside a station? Well, I saw that message flash up and I just assumed that for a minor thing like that they'd just beam 75cr out of my account automagically. But apparently they don't; you explicitly have to go and pay it, or after a certain amount of time that minor unpaid fine gets transformed into a crime called "public enemy", which is considered a "major crime" and punishable by shoot on sight.

So: pay your parking tickets folks, or you may just find yourself unexpectedly dead like I did.

[Cloudane]

My drives were bust. I found the self destruct option in the end

Oh, good that it has one! Last time I got into a "wanting to self destruct" pickle the only way I knew was turning off all the systems and freezing / suffocating to death (Which is pretty cool, you can watch the cockpit freeze over)

[Yak]

Bought a space van.