Awesome Moments in Evochron:

BÃ¦nlynn · Post by **BÃ¦nlynn** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 10:55 am

Was on NC, when I got a distress call from a new pilot. They'd run out of fuel over New Hope and were in an uncontrolled descent. I was up in Cerulean. So I had a few minutes at most to traverse the entire sector --not hard with JGs and a mantis drive-- the hard part was going to be locating the target in the time I'd have left.

I jumped into Sapphire and threw the ship into a hard dive, and selected New Hope starport. I was guessing where they'd be and hoping I'd have the right orientation when I came out. I jumped in a few hundred Deca-Metres from New Hope Starport still, drifting forward. The target was off to my left, I burned hard, almost trading paint with the station. I was 60Ks away, and I was 450 Ks up and I had to close that gap before we hit the atmosphere or else it'd be me that was in trouble.

I passed 3K a second 250 Ks out I wasn't going to close the gap before I hit the atmosphere I pulled back to 1200, as fast as I dared and began trying to establish a trade connection. still too far away. A few tense seconds go by, I try again, still too far. I hear the sound of atmosphere rushing over my wings and establish a connection finally. 150 Ks from impact a minute or less. But the trade connection isn't taking. Maybe it's static, connection issues, interference. Formed on a target in an uncontrolled descent, now I'm tubling the same way they are and we're 100 Ks from impact. I'm waiting for confirmation.

Finally, they get me targeted and I shoot across three fuel pods. I hit the afterburners and pull out, 60 K from impact crisis averted.

Thanks to nothing more than GRAVITY, you can have moments like this in Evochron.

Anybody else want to share?

MiaZ · Post by **MiaZ** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:01 am

I'v had a few of these moments. Sure is nice isn't it?
Good reporting. I can almost feel the tension in the air while reading this. >: )

TJJ · Post by **TJJ** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:44 am

Tension breaking I know... but couldn't you have just asked him to escape out until you got there?

Flash · Post by **Flash** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 12:55 pm

From post: 129084, Topic: tid=8810, author=TJJ wrote:Tension breaking I know... but couldn't you have just asked him to escape out until you got there?

Sure but then it wouldn't be a "Moment in Evochron"

mikeuk · Post by **mikeuk** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:10 pm

Very nice BÃ¦nlynn thanks

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 4:10 pm

At what speed was the new Pilot traveling towards the planet?.......If he was traveling towards the planet at 1400 speed he would have been fine switching to inertia, I never tried to land on a planet on inertia without fuel but I think he would have landed like a feather! And then you would have had al the time to deliver fuel to him so he could travel again. Good SAR story though, very cool!....

ngShadow · Post by **ngShadow** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:00 pm

I blew up a ship once. Then I flew threw the explosion like how you always see in Star Wars. I felt pretty cool.

BraveHart · Post by **BraveHart** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:09 pm

"A Kodak moment! wish I was there to immortalized you with a screenshot Baenlynn"

"Excellent story...keep up the good work"

Viper · Post by **Viper** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:24 pm

From post: 129137, Topic: tid=8810, author=ngShadow wrote:I blew up a ship once. Then I flew threw the explosion like how you always see in Star Wars. I felt pretty cool.

Haha I like that.

And yeah it is cool as hell.

Raynor · Post by **Raynor** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 2:29 am

From post: 129101, Topic: tid=8810, author=Maarschalk wrote:At what speed was the new Pilot traveling towards the planet?.......If he was traveling towards the planet at 1400 speed he would have been fine switching to inertia, I never tried to land on a planet on inertia without fuel but I think he would have landed like a feather! And then you would have had al the time to deliver fuel to him so he could travel again. Good SAR story though, very cool!....

Hmm, i always enter at around 1500 and have the habit to keep it on inertia until i start stalling, i never made it close to the ground before it stalled.

It's not really an awesome moment but the first time i ever took a distress call, i landed on the planet with the cargo and there was 2 seconds left. I almost burnt my ship out in the descent.

[Edited on 2-10-2012 by Raynor]

StormFaction · Post by **StormFaction** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 11:06 pm

Idk if this qualifies as epic, but a few days ago, before I started practicing combat (i literally had like only 7 kills lol), I was trying to nail the bh jump to andromeda and was ambushed by 5 vonari, and I was out of missles. after a massive 30 min skirmish i somehow managed to defeat them! I felt pretty proud haha.

the aftermath of floating around vonari space with no jump drive and crippled weapons was a bit terrifying tho lol.

epic moment in a n00b's eyes

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 11:14 pm

Very Epic indeed StormFaction, I remmember my first time to Andromeda during the time of Renegades as a noob without a tractor beam low on fuel only way to get back was through wormhole in a black hole! Must have tried 200 times before figuring it out!.....

:P

StormFaction · Post by **StormFaction** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:03 am

yea took like an hour till i noticed my y co-ords were like -25 lol and it was enough to kill me everytime xD

and maars as a noob? O.o

[Edited on 2-13-2012 by StormFaction]

SeeJay · Post by **SeeJay** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 1:48 pm

Great storyâ€™s.

I had a nice SAR rescue before the IDS multiplier was implemented.

A noob pilot was drifting dry at about 6200K and was eventually gonna hit a planet.
He screamed for help and I rushed in and jumped to his location. I just had time to see him
pass by like a meteor.

We communicated a lot and he transmitted his coordinates continuously.
That made it possible to predict his position so I could jump ahead, apply thrusters and reach 6000K
just before he entered my radar range. I could then slightly adjust speed and direction to get in close enough
to transfer a fuel pod.

He managed to stop and I build a trade station so he could refuel.

This rescue took about 1 hr.

He thanked me and jumped right into a planet LOL!:o

I learned a lot about maneuvering my ship during that rescue. Great fun!

Post by **Marvin** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:57 pm

From post: 132169, Topic: tid=8810, author=SeeJay wrote:He thanked me and jumped right into a planet LOL!:o

It only goes to prove the old Yogi-ism that it ain't over 'till it's over.

Raynor · Post by **Raynor** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:44 pm

See if i was drifting dry, i'd just auto-destruct and reload my last save... Unless i suppose they saved when they were about dry.

Post by **Marvin** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 6:15 am

Evidently, re-loading puts you at a dead stop. So, even if you saved when out of fuel, you would still be solving half the problem.

Raynor · Post by **Raynor** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 7:06 am

Yeah but i can't see why anyone would save when they are dry or nearly dry. I guess a new player might i suppose....

SeeJay · Post by **SeeJay** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 7:13 am

The pilot maybe had gotten a ton of money and/or several ranks and forgot to save and realized that
when he was drifting. Self destruct would loose all the progress he made!