Bad Luck Thread

aRottenKomquat · Mar 25, 2015

Anyone else have stories about strings of hilariously non-stop bad luck in StarMade?

Here's mine:

I built up a decent salvage/transport ship and flew around 5 systems away to get some distance from the spawn point. When I logged in later, my ship glitched and fell THROUGH the planet due to gravity, and continued accelerating away on the other side until it disappeared. It was going faster than the speed limit and I wasn't able to catch it with a bare ship core. I returned, landed my ship core, and logged out due to frustration.

The next day I logged back in. At least I was on a planet. I mined some resources and hacked together a very small and basic salvage ship. I took it out on a mining run, upon return I landed it back on my planet and somehow landing counted as a collision. It exploded, I died, and respawned 5 systems away at the starter shop.

The next day, I got on again. I spent most of my credits building a ship this time and set course for my planet. Half an hour later, I arrived. I landed, it counted as a collision, I died, and respawned 5 systems away at the starter shop. Now I have no ship and I'm penniless too :eek:

. And I disabled collisions on the server because apparently even the slightest bump counts as a deadly collision.

Megacrafter127 · Mar 25, 2015

aRottenKomquat said:
even the slightest bump counts as a deadly collision.

That was known for a long time.

Mariux · Mar 25, 2015

Mine happened on Shattered Skies server... I settled on a grass planet, where I was going to build a base. There was a pirate station in a nearby sector, but I ignored it sice I settled in a neighbourhood of a pirate station before witout any problems. So, I build a Bumblebee, then a freighter. I flew the freighter a couple of systems away and... Got quickscoped by a random pirate I couldn't even see on the radar (the AI accuracy is set to hard). I felt quite bad since I spent a considerable amount of time building it. Also lost many blocks that I had in my inventory and 3/4ths of my credits. Luckily, I had a BP of it saved both on the server AND locally, so it didn't bother me too bad. Plus, it was made of relatively cheap blocks. Next, I decide to move out of the system, because I started worrying that the pirate station will spawn more of these OP pirate ships. So I pack up my stuff, get into the Bumble, fire up the engines... And get sniped by the pirate station. From like 15km. Ship is completely destroyed, I die. And this is where it gets really bad. On the planet, I have no power generation at all. I've lost my power supply beam on the freighter accident. There's no way for me to lift off the planet. Even when I destroy the undeathinator and suicide, it still respawns me into the place where the undeathinator was. I can't craft cores since there's no power. I was given one powersupply beam by an admin, built a factory, then a core, flew off and got killed again.

Sorry for the wall of text... I still feel really bad that I can't play on the server at all.

Lecic · Mar 25, 2015

Protip- don't play with collisions enabled.

Snk · Mar 25, 2015

Mariux said:
Mine happened on Shattered Skies server... I settled on a grass planet, where I was going to build a base. There was a pirate station in a nearby sector, but I ignored it sice I settled in a neighbourhood of a pirate station before witout any problems. So, I build a Bumblebee, then a freighter. I flew the freighter a couple of systems away and... Got quickscoped by a random pirate I couldn't even see on the radar (the AI accuracy is set to hard). I felt quite bad since I spent a considerable amount of time building it. Also lost many blocks that I had in my inventory and 3/4ths of my credits. Luckily, I had a BP of it saved both on the server AND locally, so it didn't bother me too bad. Plus, it was made of relatively cheap blocks. Next, I decide to move out of the system, because I started worrying that the pirate station will spawn more of these OP pirate ships. So I pack up my stuff, get into the Bumble, fire up the engines... And get sniped by the pirate station. From like 15km. Ship is completely destroyed, I die. And this is where it gets really bad. On the planet, I have no power generation at all. I've lost my power supply beam on the freighter accident. There's no way for me to lift off the planet. Even when I destroy the undeathinator and suicide, it still respawns me into the place where the undeathinator was. I can't craft cores since there's no power. I was given one powersupply beam by an admin, built a factory, then a core, flew off and got killed again.

Sorry for the wall of text... I still feel really bad that I can't play on the server at all.

You can always power your factory with a power supply beam. Then you use that to make a couple reactors.

Mariux · Mar 26, 2015

Snk said:
You can always power your factory with a power supply beam. Then you use that to make a couple reactors.

*facepalm* I said I lost in in the freighter accident...

JimmyJamba · Mar 26, 2015

I remember the first day of the new universe update I decided to check out EE.

Spawn in and make myself a little stealth jump ship to get as far away from spawn as possible.

Jump repeatedly for over and hour.

Jump into the middle of a bunch of pirates.

Die instantly because I didn't notice that my cloaking turned off due to lag.

Megacrafter127 said:
That was known for a long time

Please don't tell me that this bug was known for a long time, it doesn't help at all.

Rage quit and unfortunately haven't been back on EE.

Keptick · Mar 26, 2015

protip #2: Just don't land on planets, it's a terrible idea.

Snk · Mar 26, 2015

Mariux said:
*facepalm* I said I lost in in the freighter accident...

Well, that sucks. On the plus side, you could always build a hit out of wood.

Megacrafter127 · Mar 26, 2015

JimmyJamba said:
Please don't tell me that this bug was known for a long time, it doesn't help at all.

It may not help at all, but is still good to know.

Master_Artificer · Mar 26, 2015

Make a shuttle to ferry yourself between the planet and your freighter that you park in orbit!

ilec · Mar 26, 2015

Mariux said:
*facepalm* I said I lost in in the freighter accident...

Use your inventory fabrication for factories and keep selling them till you can afford a power module?

Mariux · Mar 27, 2015

ilec said:
Use your inventory fabrication for factories and keep selling them till you can afford a power module?

I can't use shops, I'm stuck on a planet.

aRottenKomquat · Mar 27, 2015

Mariux said:
I can't use shops, I'm stuck on a planet.

Sometimes you just have to give up the ghost and start again.

Megacrafter127 · Mar 27, 2015

Mariux said:
I can't use shops, I'm stuck on a planet.

A single shipcore can escape a planet, if piloted right.

Snk · Mar 27, 2015

Megacrafter127 said:
A single shipcore can escape a planet, if piloted right.

He has no PB or reactors or cores.

Megacrafter127 · Mar 27, 2015

Snk said:
He has no PB or reactors or cores.

A core is easy to craft, as long as the planet has some kind of metal ore.

Snk · Mar 27, 2015

Megacrafter127 said:
A core is easy to craft, as long as the planet has some kind of metal ore.

But he couldn't power the factory to make the cores

Lecic · Mar 28, 2015

Snk said:
But he couldn't power the factory to make the cores

Power supply gun? What'd he do, throw his out? You should always carry your astronaut tools with you at all times.

Mariux · Mar 28, 2015

Lecic said:
Power supply gun? What'd he do, throw his out? You should always carry your astronaut tools with you at all times.

Nope, you drop your inventory on death.

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