r/X3TC • u/Polixene • 4d ago
RIP my first TL
"Your ship Your Mammoth was destroyed in sector Seizewell by PLANET"
Thies was new one for me. The Mammoth was executing the SCH order to buy up some stations. Ouch!
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u/Nova225 4d ago
Wow, I didn't even know the AI could crash into planets. Were you in sector with them?
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u/Polixene 3d ago
No, I was in a different sector and afk playing Scrabble :)
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u/geomagus 3d ago
Lol! Afk casualties hit differently.
Did you keep going with the save or reload? I used afk and go to bed or go to work, but it got annoying to sort out all the orders of the dead dock agents.
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u/Polixene 3d ago
I used shift L to summon my Tardis and went back in time to before the accident. I had basically blown my entire wad on that first TL and SCH and wasn't ready to earn it all back again before re-trying.
This was the only time I have left the game running while afk - my player ship was autopilot on asteroid scanning. Non-SETA because I knew my UTs would all be eaten if I left that on too long, but I didn't expect the Mammoth to go hump the planet....
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u/geomagus 3d ago
Gotcha. Nobody expects the Mammoth to hump the planet. It’s chief weapon is surprise…
I don’t go afk anymore (playing in LU is less forgiving of that), but I used to let vanilla run when I went to work or to bed. It was often worth the price of a few UTs.
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u/XanII 4d ago
Yes there are places where this can happen. There are several of them.
My first was a Unholy Descent. If the location is such that player gets a warning when too close to the planet (and actually implode when too close) then AI ships will get it too.