Schrödinger's Docking Sequence

Odo987 · Post by **Odo987** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:39 am

I just executed a sub-standard docking (45 degree approach, with fuel injectors) and was greeted by the "Game Over" message, layered on top of the technicolour entrance animation.

Due to an earlier misunderstanding with a Q-mine, I'm wanted dead or alive. But I currently appear to be both dead and alive.

aegidian · Post by **aegidian** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:35 am

Wow. What happened when you pressed space?

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 11:38 am

That happened to me once too, I could resume the game as if nothing had happened.

lex_talionis · Post by **lex_talionis** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 11:43 am

i've had that before.

Odo987 · Post by **Odo987** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 5:36 pm

It's definitely repeatable. Just slam into the side walls of the docking tunnel on afterburners and you'll either:

a) dock
b) die
c) dock & die
d) pass right through the station

I've done each several times. When you 'dock & die' the space key doesn't do anything. It seems to be a spurious message that stays on screen for a while. You can actually relaunch and fly around with "Game Over" written across the screen. Here's a screenshot of the actual docking. Nice shields.

Also fun is launching, and holding down the fuel injector key. Nine times out of ten you smash your ship against the nav beacon. The tenth time you fly through the beacon.

aegidian · Post by **aegidian** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 6:17 pm

Well! That was FUN to test and debug.

Okay, I found a simple solution and committed a bug fix. No more Commander Schrodinger - he has exploded, he has ceased to be.

Draco_Caeles · Post by **Draco_Caeles** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:50 pm

Are we certain about that?

Has the act of disposing of Cmdr Schrödinger actually made him still more real?

Cmdr. Wombat · Post by **Cmdr. Wombat** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:57 pm

Draco_Caeles wrote:
Are we certain about that?

Has the act of disposing of Cmdr Schrödinger actually made him still more real?

Cmdr Heisenberg says we cannot be certain about that since we can determine either Cmdr Schrödinger's position or reality, but not both.

Star Gazer · Post by **Star Gazer** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:20 pm

.....aaaarrrrrgggghghhhh... the uncertainty of it all..... ...aaarrrrrghhhhh...

Commodore Sics D'fore · Wed Jun 28, 2006 11:00 pm

Ha. Now with "Game Over" superimposed on them, the docking/witchspace rings remind me even more of Looney Toons..... I expect to see Porky Pig pop out and say "b-dt b-dt b-dt b-dt That's all folks!"

Draco_Caeles · Post by **Draco_Caeles** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 11:37 pm

*laughs*

Thinking of a discussion elsewhere on the forums, perhaps when you launch a missile your console should say in the voice of Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck, "Of course you realise this means war..."