"In Character" death - what happens?

[DeafGecko]

I've been wondering this for a while, and it never seems to be explained in the game...

So my ship blows up, or I run out of fuel and then life support, or my SRV crashes into a canyon... I am presented with a screen where I can rebuy my ship etc, but how does my consciousness get to this station? given that I would assume my corpse is left floating around.

Eve Online handles this with cloning - if you die, you are uploaded to a new body, But i've not seen or read anything about this in the ED lore - I assume we don't get cloned, as cloning is illegal except in the Empire, so maybe we get escape podded back to a station, in which case if i blew up at Sagittarius A, how does it have the fuels to get back? and how does it get back instantly? If it get s teleported, why aren't we just teleporting around the galaxy?

I love this game, but this is like the single immersion breaking moment I have.

I guess it could just be a case of "It's a game, suspend your disbelief and get over it..."?

[Chew Ass and Kick Bubblegum]

Emergency escape pods with a single-use FSD device, I heard.
Note, when your SRV explodes, you don't die, you just return back to the ship on the orbit of the planet.

[Laurreth]

A moment before you blow up, you hear the computer say "eject". Immerse from there, but don't think about it too much. (That's also the point where I'd like to see permadeath for people complaining about ship transfers…)

[DeafGecko]

But you're sitting in your SRV, you can see yourself sitting there, so you must magically transport to your ship then too.

Not heard the ship say 'eject', will listen out for that next time!

[Dread Lord]

it says eject... I always thought I get send to the station by escape pod... SRV well maybe your seatcatapults you backwards into a self inflating escape pod technology shizzlebizzle sending you back... but I never died in an SRV so no clue really...

[Laurreth]

Originally posted by Dread Lord:

SRV well maybe your seatcatapults you backwards into a self inflating escape pod technology shizzlebizzle sending you back.

It's a very action-laden scene in which you get shot out of your SRV, and your ship swoops from the high heavens and gently picks you up through the cargo scoop.

[Dread Lord]

like a guardian angel :) I like

[Laurreth]

Gentleness may vary with local gravity and ship.

High-gravity version: the pilot falls out of the SRV, flat on its face. Then a Type-9 descends from the sky, slams down hard almost breaking its struts, and the pilot crawls up the ramp in a procedure that takes 30 agonising minutes.

And then we know why it is better to just handwave that stuff ☺

[raymazoida]

Originally posted by Shadowdancer:

A moment before you blow up, you hear the computer say "eject". Immerse from there, but don't think about it too much. (That's also the point where I'd like to see permadeath for people complaining about ship transfers…)

When I die I actually quit the game and don't play to the next day.

Thats plenty of time for my life pod to be recovered.

And about how long I'd be happy to wait for a ship to be moved

Funny that.....

[One Eye Jack]

I assume that your insurance covers the cost of rescue as well as your ship. Thats what I tell myself anyway. Just try not to think about it and not get blown up.

[FoxxSim]

I generally run on the assumption that when your ship is destroyed, you eject (as the computer declares) and a distress beacon in the escape pod activates, summoning the system authority, or those snazzy "Rescue Ships" I run into fairly regularly.

Presumably, they bring you back to your last port of call, where your insurance agent has your spiffy new ship ready and waiting.

Who says no time has lapsed during the time it took you to respawn? -- at least for RP and immersion reasons.

If you tend to stay inside the bubble, this makes perfect sense. Though, I've even seen rescue squads as far out as 500 my while exploring.

It does take a little suspension of disbelief, especially with regards to the time lapse, but it makes e rough sense to me to add to my immersion. :)

[Turd Ferguson]

first there's a little bit of swearing. then you pay for your rebuy. then you go into the "transactions" tab and clear out all the missions you failed. a bit more swearing.

[Savrola-Games]

You actually don't die, you wake up in the shower and realise the last 2 weeks have just been a dream.

[Turd Ferguson]

Originally posted by Savrola-H8:

You actually don't die, you wake up in the shower and realise the last 2 weeks have just been a dream.

oh God! I'm Patrick Duffy!!!

[Twelvefield]

I think of you more as Bob Newhart.

[Jordan]

Actually that is exactly what I was googling right now.... they really are the first MMO that decided not to explain how you die and get reborn again. You would think that is kind of important fact but I guess compared to the fact that it's an MMO where 99% of your players chose not to play ONLINE but is Solo mode, how you die is not much of an issue.... Frontier is just trying to tell us YOU DIE ALONE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ wasting your time on busy grinding. While the smart people just use our bugs to get all the ships they want.