Vulture Canopy broken in RES site ♥♥♥♥

[~$iLa$ gReAvE$~]

Is there anyway i can survive? ♥♥♥♥ my 3million bounty credits is gonna ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ go to waste ♥♥♥♥ this game!

[-OrLoK- Слава Україн]

Hello there

How long is your life support?

I normally plump for the 7 minute one as thats usually more than enough to get to a close station.

Rgds

LoK

[jasonbarron]

Originally posted by ~$iLa$ gReAvE$~:

Is there anyway i can survive? ♥♥♥♥ my 3million bounty credits is gonna ♥♥♥♥ing go to waste ♥♥♥♥ this game!

Fly like a bat out of hell my friend.

I have 25 minutes of air in my FDL, but that's a bit extreme. As OrLoK said, 7 minutes can usually get you anywhere you need to go, especially if you've chozen a RES somewhere in close proximity to a station

[jasonbarron]

Originally posted by Luke3079:

I highly recommend buying life support worth 25 mins. I have 25 min life support for both my FDL and Clipper. You'll never know what will slow you down.

Yeah, I like the 25 minutes--sometimes when my canopy gets popped I'm still in the middle of battle and don't want to break off. If you can afford it, you can't have too much air

[Winsyrstrife]

The best advice I can give, is "don't panic". That will make or break you in life support situations.

[Agony_Aunt]

Carry an AMFU if you have a spare slot. Since 1.5 you can repair your canopy. Just get it to 1% and then you are not in a rush to get to a station (although you should still not delay, just the pressure is off).

[Steve]

Originally posted by ~$iLa$ gReAvE$~:

Is there anyway i can survive? ♥♥♥♥ my 3million bounty credits is gonna ♥♥♥♥ing go to waste ♥♥♥♥ this game!

Don't panic and head to the nearest port and dock!

btw losing credits, being killed, having problems etc etc is part of the game. You have to simply accept the bad with the good. Thats what makes it great.

[VanguardMk1]

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Carry an AMFU if you have a spare slot. Since 1.5 you can repair your canopy. Just get it to 1% and then you are not in a rush to get to a station (although you should still not delay, just the pressure is off).

Incorrect, only compromized canopies can be fixed. Once the canopy breaches and the glass shatters, you can no longer repair it.

[Chunkin]

Not much help after your canopy is down, but consider chosing your RES site so that you can get back to a station quickly. In Njikan there is a pristine site that I regulalry BH in, and from combat to docked at Smeaton Port and repairing is less than 60 seconds.

[Agony_Aunt]

Originally posted by VanguardMk1:

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Carry an AMFU if you have a spare slot. Since 1.5 you can repair your canopy. Just get it to 1% and then you are not in a rush to get to a station (although you should still not delay, just the pressure is off).

Incorrect, only compromized canopies can be fixed. Once the canopy breaches and the glass shatters, you can no longer repair it.

Ah, ta.

[Eddo]

Originally posted by elitistikusipäähomo:

Originally posted by -OrLoK-:

Hello there

How long is your life support?

I normally plump for the 7 minute one as thats usually more than enough to get to a close station.

Rgds

LoK

7 minutes enough?. not even close! from middle of the firefight to the nearest station without seeing the markers because of the broken canopy is not a good situation to be in. 15 minutes should be the minimun before you even leave the station..

I use the 7 minutes Life Support, is enough time provided you are close to a station <600 LS away. It takes literally couple minutes max for you to escape combat and into supercruise, give yourself 3 or 4 minutes is plenty to get to a station (3 to 4 minutes can probably get you to a station 2000 LS away anyway) and less than a minute to dock.

[-OrLoK- Слава Україн]

Originally posted by elitistikusipäähomo:

7 minutes enough?. not even close! from middle of the firefight to the nearest station without seeing the markers because of the broken canopy is not a good situation to be in. 15 minutes should be the minimun before you even leave the station..

Hello there

Use shattered remains of caanopy to see markers. 7 mins is more than enough in most situations in my experience and im a fairly poor pilot.

I usually have a few mins spare when i dock.

If not res hunting more time might be needed but im a lazy res grinder!

Rgds

LoK

[DownSouth05]

I fly a Vulture and the canopy gets popped regularly. Its way out in front of the ship and there is virtually no protection for it at all. Visibity is great though. Due the canopy being the thing that gets wrecked 2 or 3 times a day, I opted for the 15 minute life support as opposed to the 25. Mainly power problems.

[Agony_Aunt]

In a vulture, if your shields go down, you do not go head to head with targets. Otherwise, as Skinny_Legs noted, your canopy *will* get blown.

[LedoCool]

Originally posted by elitistikusipäähomo:

Originally posted by -OrLoK-:

Hello there

How long is your life support?

I normally plump for the 7 minute one as thats usually more than enough to get to a close station.

Rgds

LoK

7 minutes enough?. not even close! from middle of the firefight to the nearest station without seeing the markers because of the broken canopy is not a good situation to be in. 15 minutes should be the minimun before you even leave the station..

Srsly? What makes you land so long? Of course, i imply that you have station somewhere closer than 10,000 lightseconds.

[DownSouth05]

Ok here is a scanaro playing on the 7 minute timer.

You are in a res site, asteroids everywhere, your canopy pops and you instantly stop the fight and the guy shooting you says "oh heck his/her canopy is blown I will stop shooting so they can fly away" yea right. So you are looking for a way out of the mess of rocks so you can clear mass lock and get back to a station. You swap all power to engines and boost away multiple times to clear the mass lock, then you cruise a bit because we all know that if you turn right away to head to a station you end up right back where you started, in the rings of planet X. Now you are clear and wait...I am wanted? WTF? Now dock without getting ganked by the cops or jump out and back to clear the fine, or you get indricted on the way back to the station.

I know none of what I said ever happens and its nice that it can be done in 7 minutes. Hang from your nose on a hook for 7 minutes and it seems like forever, or go through what I just decribed and 7 minutes is notthing. :P

Flying by instruments is pretty easy and once the station is in sight you dont need the HUD, but the tension of getting their makes a normal person's brain short circuit and turn into dumb mode, so a bit of extra time is nice. :)