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MQC

I have a Type-9 set up to run trade routes without any internal modules, i.e. no shields, assist systems, vehicles, etc... just dedicating all the capacity to cargo bays.

Once, between routes, I came across a signal from a mega-ship asking for help because it was under attack, and I went over to look, thinking I could pick up escape pods... as soon as I arrived and approached the mega-ship, the ship's hud warned me of a dangerous presence, Thargoids... and I, with a Type-9 without shields and extremely heavy and slow, instead of fleeing as fast as I could, I tried to rescue the people...

I don't think I lasted two seconds when the Thargoid attacked. Yeah, it was definitely one of the biggest dumbest things I've ever done in a game.

Children, stay away from the Thargoids if you are not minimally prepared.

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St4r_Lord

Crashing into the wall of the station after boosting to the entrance, I think everyone has experienced this even if it didn't end in death

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Akemi_Whitacre

Being squashed by your own recalled ship ranks pretty high up there, I'd have to say.

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kinito00

I once stood on top of a geyser and flew about 250 meters off the ground and ended up dying from the fall, it was quite funny.

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CelestialFlea

Ah well this is an easy one but I think we've all been there and we can all relate. I think I may have posted this in a different thread before, but it's definitely the dumbest way I've died.

So imagine this; You've been away from the game for over a year. You buy yourself a type-9 with some of the credits you've gathered. But you need better cargo racks, so a quick hop to a neighbouring station shouldn't be a big deal, right? WRONG.

In my year or more of absence, I'd completely forgotten the controls and I couldn't even get the damn thing through the hole (quiet you lot!), so I somehow got my fat ass stuck in the hole against the outer railing, station security yelling at me, my ship yelling at me..and then station security taking care of the blockage.

A costly and very dumb way to die indeed.

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Alec_Turner

Trying to catch your own SRV when it falls from a great height!

https://www.youtube.com/embed/CjYYt2hBWTY?feature=oembed

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USCSS

Hello Commanders

I usually take precautions when I go out with my ship. I put some decent shields on it so it doesn't get damaged. But despite that, one time something strange happened to me. It was a stupid death but also a strange one. With my ship, which I don't remember which one it was, I landed on a planet. I had to do things at home. I thought that just leaving the ship landed on the planet wouldn't cause any problems since the planet was desolate. When I finished doing my things I went back to the PC and the screen said that I had died and the ship had been destroyed. From then on, whenever I go to do some activity at home, I exit the game to the main menu.

Now, why was the ship destroyed? I have no idea.

But I have two hypotheses:

1) Since the ship was on a bubble planet, maybe some pirate appeared on the surface of the planet and with his ship destroyed mine.

2) Maybe it ran out of fuel because even when it lands on the planet, it consumes very little fuel to keep some modules running, like life support.

And that was the dumbest death I've ever had.

(Translated with Google Translate)

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Wadd Enderas

I don't have tremendous experience with the game, but I tried to land on a planetary station without the use of auto-docking. I missed the landing pad by a little bit and bumped a nearby building a couple of times. I immediately had a bounty assigned and before I could really regain control of my craft and lift off again, I was being shot and destroyed.

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TrialByStory

When I built out my first proper trading vessel, I did the whole 'let's properly research,' thing and looked up what kind of lucrative routes/loops I could do with my fancy new frameshift drive and it's almost doubled jump range. Then I flew to the appropriate station, got myself all loaded up, and set out across the galaxy. Partway through my journey to the station I'm planning on selling to, I do my next jump then get up to grab a drink. What should be a 30 second task takes a bit longer when one of my roommates has something to talk to me about, and when I got back to my console, I was out of frameshift and piloting straight towards a sun while my ship screamed at me as it took overheat damage.

But I heroically pulled up in time and carried on my way, making the wise choice of finding a station to repair at....and on my way there I got interdicted and the lack of defensive options I'd given my slow, heavy transport, combined with the damage from the impromptu solar viewing, meant that I was easy pickings. Not a great maiden voyage for that particular ship, but it had many successful ventures after that.

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Psykokow

Ok this annoyed me sooo much, more so than docking without shields and losing a months exploration data. More than forgetting personal shields when getting into a fight in a ground base... More than landing on a high G planet.

My single most dumb way to die was 5 hours of Xeno biology scanning, finally got the last plant scanned... recalled my annaconda..

I jumped to keep clear of the ship, but seemed to be stuck under something, pushing me down towards the surface. pop

So,,, my recalled annaconda landed on me.. Lost 5 hours of work... was furious.

Other dumb ways, in a dolphin, on a convoy.. my cargo hatch failed... so a friend said he would ram the cargo out of my ship..

Large golden glow later.,.. and a nice rebuild screen appears for us both.

No idea if my cargo came out or not....

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Doc
Psykokow

I understand what you mean. I did almost the same when I was going to Colonia, but in my case I was in my SRV and decided to explore an asteroid impact crater but did not realize that it was really deep and high angle, so when the SRV started to go down I lost control and fell until I finally exploded into the bottom of the crater after days of collecting exobiology data, lol 🤣🤣

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Rac

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A really stupid way to die that also takes a bit of the fun out of the game is called White Dwarf!

After 3 months of exploration and exobiology ... the call came from the squadron that help was urgently needed in the BGS.

Neutron jumps were made until the final boss arrived, the white dwarf.

Normally with stars the area in which you shouldn't fly is shown, with white dwarfs it's a bit bigger, but this area wasn't shown to me and suddenly I was hanging in the tail, in normal space, watching my ship slowly fall apart.

Another stupid way to die:

Annoying streamers who are doing their moderation at a station in the bar and you are constantly honking there .... stupid only if you accidentally fire your weapons and die faster than you can shout “nooooooooooo”.

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Block9

When an NPC comes to scan you when you're in some settlement on the planet, just walk away and watch the magic happen... they'll just start shooting you just because you didn't let him scan you.

It reminded me of only one thing, "Hey commander, a scan or a mysterious shot? 🔫"

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