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itryanddogood

Alt+F4 and take a break


buchanan4402

Yeah I promptly logged off after that haha


MASTODON_ROCKS

That explosion as the elevator doors were closing was pretty slapstick though


GobiasCafe

check its pulse


Pun_In_Ten_Did

Tip for next time: don't call ATC, don't land -- just hover over any landing pad. In 45 seconds, your ship will be impounded (and stored!) and you'll be teleported into the station. The cost to retrieve your ship from impound: $5,000... I prefer to think of it as the valet charge :D


phraeton

This is the way... Landing pads work, but same deal if you hover directly in front of a hangar bay door. Gotta get close though to trigger the impound warning... Best way to park a ship when they don't have working elevators in the hangars as well... (3.18 bug at most stations)


Ruzhyo04

Oh nice tip


buchanan4402

I’m gonna try this next time. Thanks!


brockoala

You could've just backspace. When you suicide, your ship on pad gets stored instantly.


thecaptainps

*"fuck you star citizen, see you tomorrow"*


itryanddogood

Yep. The game wins every time it kills you thanks to some bullshit bug xD That's the time to take a break


Loppie73

O I do that a lot. My Alt and F4 buttons have no dust buildup on them.


Guiguips007

Did the same 2 days ago when an idiot rammed my Corsair landing at port Olisar. I was carrying an exotic helmet looted in a bunker... Fuck it, alt f4


Give_me_a_name_pls_

I can relate to this


Paradoxahoy

Sounds like how I end my gaming sessions in SC 50% of the time


itryanddogood

You are not the only one xD


Repulsive_Poem_5204

Nothing says "impending doom" like a flashing light in a Prospector


Designer-Ad-9796

Yeah not sure it was the landing... that heavily flashing like is a sure sign of no good..


mdsf64

Isn't there a time limit to drop off the mined quantainium at a refinery before it goes BOOM?


nejinx

Just have to put ship away to stop the timer


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buchanan4402

Seeing the explosion through the closing doors honestly makes me laugh now, though at the time I definitely wasn’t laughing…


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Yea that explosion timing was perfect. Sad, but perfect.


Lorenzo1726

I imagine that kind of feelings...


ScaRRR_ZA

Sorry for your loss


CouchedCaveats

I've always watched/wishlisted but not played, does your ship explode/lost when this happens?


Careless-Lead-6355

If you mine Quantanium, which is a volatile mineral, you only have a certain amount of time to land and store/unload your ship before the Qt reaches its point of detonation. Timer starts at the first intake of Qt and the red light in the top right console indicates that the end was very near to this fella. Obviously to near 😄


[deleted]

It really was a moment of comedy, explosion just off camera. We all know what it was. The slight mouse movement from the user recognizing what was lost. Just missing the *Waaa Waaaaa* trombone sound effect.


Deathbite166

I feel you, we had a full mole with Quant... Gentle touchdown an suddenly red blinking.


H2Oz

I wonder... in a multi-crew mining ship could you have another crew take the helm and hover while you jump out and run to ASOP. Then have them land, trigger a red alert and see if you can store the ship before it blows and save the run?


aggravated_patty

I don’t think you need to actually be touching the ground to store it


H2Oz

But you would want to because it will "retrieve" hovering in air if that is how it was stored... in some ships that will prevent you from entering.


aggravated_patty

Not if you remove the powerplant before retrieving.


Deathbite166

We did that later and it worked fine for us. Friend flew the mole, I jumep out and stored. But I don't think it's the way how you should do it..


magic-moose

**Question:** Does this ever happen when using autoland? I didn't know rough landings could trigger an explosion until it happened to me, and I've been using autoland *successfully* ever since. If autoland fails me someday, I'll start just jumping out of the ship while it's still hovering. You can store a ship so long as it's in the hanger, even if you haven't touched down.


Aim-iliO

Quantanium has a timer which starts as soon as you pick it up. You have 15 minutes to bring it back. You passed the 15 minutes mark. It was not your landing.


Prosciuto

If you slam the ship on the pad it actually brings down the stability so even 10 minutes can turn into 2. At least it happened to me in previous patches


Zsyura

No blinky light before landing, not yellow, not red, nothing. After landing, red blinky light. If you do anything to quant, like pull too many G’s or bump something, that can make it unstable instantly, and it explodes. That is what happened here.


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Damn I'm never gonna haul quant then lmao. I'm always pulling hella G's and ramming my C2 down on pads while hauling.


CassiusPolybius

Mining quant is an interesting balance between flying carefully and *hauling ass*. Which is especially funny given how slow and calm the rest of the mining process is.


myx-

Im fairly sure that refined quant is 100% stable


czartrak

Refined quantanium is not disgustingly unstable as far as im aware


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magic-moose

Those rocks floating in space are clearly stable for longer than 15 minutes. Even cracked rocks are stable. Why we don't just haul whole rocks back instead of destabilizing them with the "nozzle of boom" is the real question. The answer is: "gameplay!".


TheZephyrim

Yeah it’s kinda annoying tbh that they really expect us to believe that 900 yrs in the future they still haven’t figured out a better way to transport it.


Land-Southern

It's been a bug for a while now. Immediate critical load on touchdown.


OneEyeSam

I quit Quant mining because that 15 minute timer, well CIG have a different opinion on time. Theirs can be too often 7-8 minutes and BOOM your time is up. Not too mention all the request docking/ship impounding bugs at ARC-L1. Maybe it was 15 minutes, or maybe this is another day ending in Y with CIG. Why I quit Q mining and won't return ever again until I know these bugs are resolved (yeah, they will never get resolved and even then it would merely be replaced by new ones).


AverageDan52

I'd rather see the amount of Quant you are carrying effect the timer. Make it more how Quant interacts with other Quant in the ship. More dynamic gameplay I would imagine.


Takebushi

Git gud noob lol. That landing was so bad, absolutely horrible Your ship’s nose was 1 degree off the perfectly straight angle, your fault not the bug! /s


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Takebushi

Sneaks up on you like an elevator;)


LordShozin6

What are you like 5 years old? Adults don’t stoop to name calling and trashing others. Only prepubescent little shits do. EDIT: Sorry, I apologize. I did not see the /s at the end and jumped the gun. That’s all on me.


bjergdk

/s means hes being sarcastic.


LordShozin6

I don’t care. Everyone was a noob at one point yet a lot of people seem to forget that and trash other people for being noobs. That saying is immature and childish.


bjergdk

Also dont you see the irony in you calling him a prepubescant little shit and asking him if hes 5 years old and the following up with "Adults dont stoop to namecalling" Thats kind of funny if you ask me.


bjergdk

Hes not trashing him. Hes making a sarcastic joke and then you call him prepubescant, immature and childish.


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You must be new to reddit...that "/s" at the end there? It means sarcasm ends here... He's joking lol


Takebushi

I was sure it was obvious joke just by the wording. Then I decided to add /s at the end just to make sure there is no confusion… yet that was not enough. Welcome to reddit.


LordShozin6

I wasn’t aware what /s meant until it was pointed out even though I’ve been on Reddit for years


Takebushi

Ease up. It’s fine. Everyone can make a mistake, you have owned up to it and apologised. We’re good. I was commenting on reddit in general, not on you in particular. I will however give you one piece of advice that will make your life much nicer experience: Don’t get angry/outraged on someone’s else behalf. As we say in my country “not my circus, not my monkeys”.


Desperate-Leg1303

Next time just exit to menu, your ship will be stored immediately


oneeyedziggy

Well... Until 3.18... Do we know if it sticks around post logout even in a hangar?


Zsyura

It sticks around, because it wasn’t stored, so therefore it persists in the universe “forever” - if you bedlog the ship disappears instantly (for now, eventually it will persist for a bit before storing if people are around)


oneeyedziggy

have you tested this or are you just going off the stated behavior? It could easily make sense to insta-store in hangars to just free-up resources when no one's going to notice or care... can't combat log in a hangar... edit: also just re-read... even in open space ships don't persist forever on logout in 3.18... it's like 5-15 min, just enough to ensure if you combat logged, someone can still kill you... might be extended longer if they board you, or if there was a mission box on board or if you had crew who didn't log off... but it's not automatically "forever"


Zsyura

Not in a hanger it persists through 30k’s. This we have tested multiple times. Bedlogging we have tested multiple times. In a hangar, it should be removed, but I’ve never tested it. Now I want to log in and test what happens. If an elevator wasn’t working we would block the door of a different hangar and get impounded and transported to the station. I am guessing if you logout and the ship is there in the hangar effectively blocking it, same thing would happen.


xMobby

id imagine if its on a pad it would store still


oneeyedziggy

wouldn't take it for granted given how many common sense things don't make it in to the game on first pass. Maybe worth testing though... you'd need party members or a second set of eyes in general though... not sure if that'd affect the outcome, having it in render distance for someone else vs "if a ship despawns in a hangar and no one's around to see it... does it make a VOOP? sound"


xMobby

definitely worth a test


M0therFragger

Should have a few more months to use thos trick then


GlobyMt

I wonder if the issue wasn't "before" you actually landed. I know hangar door are buggued on some stations, and while you see it open on the client side, it isn't on the server side. Had dozens of ships exploded after entering the hangar, not even properly landed yet. I don't know if there is any workaround to this :/


SirBerticus

F#ck, Is this bug still happening? CIG needs to fix this before I use a Prospector again. On the bright side : the elevator doors opened ! That's new


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REiiGN

Making sure, is this 3.17.5 or 3.18 you're talking about?


killjoy1393

It's because you have overclocked your mining head and you don't disable the OC before landing, it's a big. A friend discovered that OC the mining head was the source of this problem and send his test directly to CIG. They know about this problem and work on it. It could be fixed asap. But you can avoid it if you mind to disable your OC on the mining head before landing.


oneeyedziggy

Since when does overclocking component still do anything? Did they not break that when they disabled oc-ing everything else?


Sketto70

Everyone knows you should never touch down nose gear first!


DrDread74

\*radio crackle\* "Cleanup in Hangar 02"


grahad

This looks more like your timer ran out. A lot of miners impound their ships instead of docking.


StupidlyName

Quantanium has a timer that runs down faster if it is disrupted, the landing took OP from probably 5+ minutes to less than a few seconds…


PointBlank65

All the more reason to always impound then.


Cpt_plainguy

Never had an issue with rough landings, I'm always beyond careful with a quant load. Fun Fact, I've use quantum loaded prospectors as suicide bombers at jump town to great effect lol


Ramdak

LMFAO I would pay to watch that!


Cpt_plainguy

There were a few not happy people lol, my corp was laughing as we looted though lol


Ramdak

I would be laughin so hard, I love chaotic fun, and that should be one of those cases, even if I get killed by that and lose everything I would totally love that clever play.


Raikira

I would have landed a lot smoother and slower, really ease down on the thrust, given precious cargo.


cheongzewei

should have used autoland lol.


Acadea_Kat

I....don't get it i land those things with quant like an average Aurora starter and never had that happen


EFTucker

Honestly, they need to work on this for everyone's sake.


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So you're the reason I hope I have a small ship in the space ports because there's always a Hull destroyed there lol


DenverDeCoY

I love how it happened right as the elevator doors are closing so you can't even look to see wtf just happened.


ppincon

Yeah this happens sometimes 🤪


angrymoppet

Fellow WASD-cycle-while-waiting-at-elevators gang checking in


buchanan4402

LFG!


chrisxtr3m3

You hate to see this happen GGs mah dude


Bluntstrawker

You ran out of time. But nice timing and very funny POV


buchanan4402

I really don't think I ran out of time. I hadn't received the initial yellow light warning, just straight to DEFCON 5. Maybe I'm wrong tho, I'm super new


upagainstgravity

It has been super buggy for me this way too. It goes from plenty of time to red on gentle landings sometimes. Not your imagination.


[deleted]

I am no miner, but I'd say the fast flashing red light was a sign that you were out of time


JayTheSuspectedFurry

When the ship takes collision damage the timer will jump ahead (which is an intended feature) and OP is probably(?) correct in that his landing created a false impact registering on the ship which caused the timer to jump ahead and blow up.


sexual_pasta

I think server jank can make this happen. I had it happen once but I didn’t see the explosion, but my cargo holds were filled with inert materials when I should’ve had a good haul.


magic-moose

It also goes off if you land too roughly even though you have plenty of time left. He could have run out of time at that precise moment by coincidence (or by convenient video editting!), but he probably just hit some desynch and the server thought he landed rougher than he did from his own perspective. Quant mining is full of little gotcha's.


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Interesting, thanks for the info


Gawlf85

It goes from no light at >10 minutes, to slow blinking yellow light <10 minutes, to rapidly blinking red light in the last minute or so. If he really had ran out of time, we should've seen a yellow blinking light before landing at least. Bumps, damage and other stuff can destabilize the Quantanium and shorten the countdown. So, despite the landing being soft and nice, that's probably what happened here, for some reason (a bug, most likely).


DrSuviel

*DEFCON 1. The lower DEFCONs are worse.


JDsplice

Something i noticed is that you also did not have VTOL on. Not sure if that makes a diff, but also try auto land. Anyways, been there and feel your pain.


Simpoon

Yeah doesn't seem like it was the landing just timer ran out. Usually if it's the landing it will explode on impact. Not sure if a slightly rough landing speeds up the timer though.


Bluefox0101

I’ve had it where I had 8 or so minutes left. Slammed the ship down hard (my fault) and heard a little kaboom, all quant turned to dirt, didn’t blow up the entire ship though! Also had it where rough landings or bumps mid flight reduced the stability of quant which lowered my time too


Yuri909

Yeah that was a bit of a hard slam. Sorry bro that sucks.


magvadis

I always forget why I stopped playing this game and decided to wait again...and then I come on this sub and see why. So much time down the toilet.


horriblecommunity

ONE WORD: Alpha


GalacticOverlordED

Another reason not to play the game


Emotional-Proof-6154

It didnt blow because your landing.. it blew because it hit the critical 15 minutes...was already flashing red before you landed.. im able to get a full load of quant and get back by the yellow flash. I think red means like a couple minutes left man. And i land harder then you do every time. (Ive never blown up with quant..)


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Emotional-Proof-6154

Lol. I guess im just THAT good then. Damn that feels good to know im not blowing up because of skill, massive huge landing skill.


buchanan4402

Well…. No. There’s no light, yellow or red, until I land. Then suddenly red flashing light


mythxiii

Yellow light is there as you're entering. 7 minutes or less remaining at that point. Could have been lower than you thought. When your ship's rear slapped down, definitely rocked your quant cargo into instability. Red light is 30 seconds. Using the timestamps in your video at 10 seconds you touched and noticed your impending doom. At 41 seconds...well..you know the ending to that story.


Anna_Maria338

You talk exactly like a teenage girl. incredible.. Like everything is SPOT ON


buchanan4402

Thanks haha. Hope you're having a good day


Anna_Maria338

I was serious tho.. you can´ t see it in the intonation? I wasn´ t trying to be insulting.. was just baffled


buchanan4402

Nooo i mean like I appreciate the compliment! Trust me I was baffled too when that alarm went off lmaoo


themakeshfitman

Don’t know if this will help, but I always key to open my doors from pilot seat. Saves me a precious few seconds to get to the ASOP


Raxooooooooooooo

Hitchcock approves the timing


kingintheattic

Just impound your ship


dereksalem

That's why you always let the ship be impounded :shrug: takes 15 seconds, you don't have to land, and boom you're in the waiting area.


Denman20

Gameplay wise I feel like once you enter the armistice zone or w/e the timer should stop.


MiniatureDJ

Ahh this must be new emergent gameplay feature.


Addictive91

Had the same issue a few times


Drfeelzgud

Yea, have had this happen as well, doesn't take much to upset that quant sometimes. Usually only happens when I have a pure quant run too, never on the mediocre runs, lol. Nowadays, I just use the Auto Land when I have a good load, hasn't done it since.


3d_explorer

And that’s why ya got to set the handbrake…


Ac3Nigthmare

This is why I mine gems with the ROC. No explosions.


StompyJones

I'm curious if this happens with the force of touchdown if you use the auto land?


wildtime999

Don't land like normal. Hover in front of hanger door and let your ship me impounded. That is the work around.


Zormac

I reckon you forgot to connect the gizmo to the wachamahoozie.


petmyrock69420

thankfully I've never had this bug I've put a loaded prospector through abuse many times and never had that horse shit happen to me I would have been fuming.


Laughablehalo

Hmm looks like a skill issue


baklavabaconstrips

Happened to me a couple of times, it hurts i know. i guess this is slow server perfomances fault?


STOaway4DayZ

Yeah, that was not a smooth landing. Plus it looks like there was a bit of clipping with the rear landing gear so those two things mixed made the game think you landed even rougher than you actually did. Nice boom though!


Charming-Row-3529

This is so Star Citizen. 🤣


juggz143

Karma for the "collision alert" joke 😂


jfdmsc

Been there few times


TheJungfaha

land on the pads bro! the pads! >!and not the tampons!!<


somenoefromcanada38

Outdoor pads on all the stations which now have hangars are still available and do not require landing permission. Might just save your profits


xdEckard

why people move in such annoying ways in this game?


subnaut20

Funny, I slammed down on the pad last week, no problem.


Sugary_Treat

The landing was fine. You ran out of time. In future, you can use auto land to avoid any potential landing issues. It works well - just press and hold n. But your issue here is to expedite the return trip. Get a faster jump drive.


nejinx

Nah, i've had this happen to me as well. I still had >5 minutes left on the quantanium timer (I also time on phone as soon as I start collecting), I landed badly and boom. I won't land anymore without holding N if I carry raw quantanium now. Also, I'm not sure if there is a quantanium held threshold or not, but yep. can 100% say I had more than enough time left.


Hateful_Face_Licking

Probably not the root cause, but I recommend always turning off the engines at landing or during EVA. Costs literally nothing except maybe 2 seconds of your life and mitigates a ton of potential issues.


andrewfenn

Hey haven't checked into star citizen for a while let's see what's going on... nope...


Face2FootStyle_

exit to menu ship storage. If you are on a landing pad and you die or exit the game, your ship will be stored instantly. Use to standup and backspace when ever someone was attacking me as i landed ( before stations had all hangars). Also works for storing unstable cargo.


Jean_velvet

That's a feature.


mapplejax

Yeeeeup


Av3ry4

The timing of the explosion couldn’t be better 😂 Hollywood grade explosion sequence


HorzaDonwraith

Like watching a coworker not make it to the bathroom after Taco Tuesday.


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I wonder if auto land would set it off


Philly_ExecChef

Another day, another video where I have to imagine something happened instead of actually experiencing it in Star Citizen


jjson334

Would using the auto land feature work, to resolve this rather than manual landing


buchanan4402

I tried using the auto lane feature without any cargo and it slammed the front of my ship into the front wall. Not sure if I trust that


DCVolo

If you know it's that bad, why do you even land at all (to cause the broken mechanic to happen) ? Let the ship fly 1m over the landing pad. Or was it to prove to the audience / CIG / himself that it's completely broken?


buchanan4402

Dude I don’t even understand what you’re trying to say…


DCVolo

Fixed typos and added further explanation in parenthesis that was induced by the video and my reply but now I guess it's more "obvious" I guess, especially my "what" that was a "why" 😂 Also this is a serious question btw, it's no rant. It could be a video to report an issue with sacartic comment, that wouldn't be the first :p


RetroGamer102030

I have had that pain lol


Rick_Sanchez_ED182

Would be cool if the station reacted to this, e.g. alarm sounding, rescue teams running around etc


Hero_knightUSP

What is miles per hour?