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God I love my drunk Autopilot

StaleBagelStaleBagel Member Posts: 19
in Starport: Galactic Empires

Disclaimer: This is not an attempt at trying to make anything better or an attempt at saying this game sucks (BTW I love Starport)

I just have to laugh and love my little drunk autopilot (if you have ever run into me (Cloud) on any of the servers non-Pax especially I refer to him as Jim or drunk R2D2). But I think I set a new record the other day crossing a system I managed to hit 12 planets, the sun, and at the end of my trip across the system managed to miss the warpgate by about 5 inches (I have no clue on how far that might be in lightyears, feet, kilometers, whatever so I am not even gonna attempt it) and all this while I am sitting here watching this unfold WITHOUT touching a button...lol how pimp is that image just waiting for my little Sethy to make it 45 hops across the galaxy to only get cut off after one drink at the local space pub, and find that the artifact I was after sucked a big floppy one.

Anyhoo love to hear peoples Starport Stories. Chip in as needed

Peez, StaleBagel aka Terrorist Cloud proud CEO of the Boondock Brewery Inc. Corporation

*FOR GODS SAKES JIM ITS A TOASTER, NOT A COMMUNICATOR, STOP TALKING TO IT AND MAKE ME SOME BREAKFAST*

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"I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by"

Comments

  • FaellynFaellyn Member Posts: 14

    Boy, if I had a gallon of warp fuel for every time my auto-pilot dropped me on some planet instead of the starport I wanted....

     

    OH WAIT!!  That's exactly what I would have!image

  • StaleBagelStaleBagel Member Posts: 19
    image No Joke right up there with ya, or even better yet to kick me while I'm down, or in this case flying around the flower barge full of colonists my autopilot decides to bounce us off a few planets and somehow get stuck in a GAS GIANTS gravity, WTF is up with that, lol. Got a new expierience today, so I was wandering around visiting my lil' colonies, then find a colony in one of my systems in the boondocks that got invaded...well just to make a long story short I forgot how much I stacked up the defences (emergency pod is my only deduction on how anyone could have taken it over) and I land on this god forsaken rock in my sethdar but when I land I find myself in the equivelant of hell image with about 30 Flak cannons bearing down on my skinny ass and a solar cannon that was going to turn my sethy into a wee little pod, decided wouldn't let that happen get the flock out of there. But noooo hauling balls back to the warpgate, miss it once, twice, three times, doing laps around the warpgate while being shot at, lemme think of better situationsimage Anyhoo....

    Peez,
    StaleBagel
    AKA
    Terrorist Cloud
    Proud CEO of the Boondock Brewery Inc. Corporation

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    "I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by"

  • StumpStump Member Posts: 16

    Here be a story that'll show ol' Stump can laugh at his own misfortunes.

    A guy thought he'd be smart 'n tried t'Nuke poor ol' Stump. Now this guy be a known runner iff'n the fight don't be goin' his way, so ol' Stump decided t'be patient 'n wait fer him t'log out, as the guy t'was a Red 'n ol' Stump had a good idea where he be sleepin'. So, invadin' ol' Stump goes... she t'was a pretty tough planet, took a goodly bit o' time t'finally steal it, but ol' Stump did 'n, after goin' back outside sure enough found the guy t'was sleepin there... 'n blew his arse t'smithereens. But, this guy was in a corp belonging to a friend of ol' Stump's, 'n that friend 'n ol' Stump had an agreement not t'invade each others stuff. So, in order that the feller could get his corp planet back, ol' Stump left only shoddy defenses up. The friend logs on the next day, a bit ticked he lost his planet, n' ol' Stump tells him o' the situation, 'n iff'n soneone else took the planet 'n beefed up the defences, I'd come help take it over. So that indeed t'were what happened, so off I head t'go help out. Ol' Stump twas drivin' a UN, and the friend a Sethy, so the Sethy took the role o' attractin' the Solar Cannon fire whilst ol' Stump Photon'd the turrets. When there t'was only 'bout 6 left, I decided t'go take the dome, which t'was easily done. So, seeing the Sethy t'wasn't in ol' Stump's corp, that meant he t'was still gettin' shot at... so I went back out on the planet to collect the remainin' turrets t'get them out o' the other guys way 'n make takin' the dome easier. But, ol' Stump made the mistake o' not tellin' the other guy what I t'was doin... so whilst I was pickin' up the Turrets, he ran in 'n took the dome... right whilst ol' Stump t'was over top of a turret!! That immediately changed the ownership o' the turret to the other guy, 'n ol' Stump t'was stuck upon it. Couldn't shoot it, couldn't budge, t'was right next to the Dome with the Solar Cannon blastin' away... didn't take too long fer ol' Stump t'be shot t'bits. 140k XP down the tubes in one fell swoop! Heh, such is life.image

  • StaleBagelStaleBagel Member Posts: 19

    Bit o' Shibby misshap there Stump, lol CAPTAIN WERE STUCK, SERIOUSLY USE THE FUCKING EMERGENCY WARP!!!

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    "I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by"

  • TempunautTempunaut Member Posts: 34

    Eeek! Yea 140k loss from no real fault of your own has gotta piss you off! The /warp command used to be instant, but it was abused by invaders who could type in the 5 characters, go and attack very aggressively and then when you're gettin in a bit of danger, or stuck in a rut, hit the enter key and you'd be safe and sound in outer space faster than you can say "Xira loves Starport"! :)

    I think it would be simple enough to get kicked off your planet surface if it was invaded, just like what happens if you're in the biodome non?

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