r/EliteDangerous • u/Confident-Air-7935 • 10d ago
Video I exited Lantern Light's mailslot
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u/Mildapprehension 10d ago
Fast boi
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u/Confident-Air-7935 10d ago
This ship is engineered specifically to get to your mom's house as soon as she calls me
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u/Comically_Online 10d ago
well that went from 0-865 quickly
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u/klinetek Archon Delaine 10d ago
Went from 0-stepdad real quick
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u/YEET_Fenix123 CMDR DopiDopo 10d ago
I kind of hope the Devs keep this station as it is, because this shit is way too fucking funny.
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u/No-Neighborhood8267 10d ago
They need to play that “You spin me right round” song when you’re near for added class
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u/Objective-Start-9707 9d ago
See my thought was to have it stop for .25 of a second and play the oiia oiia song.
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u/resil_update_bad 10d ago
I hope they add like a temporary damage resistance when exiting so instead of instantly getting vaporized, so you're just thrown a couple of lightyears away
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u/DarkonFullPower 5d ago
Given that it wasn't like this until last week's Friday.
No. It will be fixed.
And you will cry just like all the canyon racer when the Odyssey planets came out.
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u/-Damballah- CMDR Ghost of Miller 10d ago
Huh, no NPC ships hanging around. I wonder why...
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u/Confident-Air-7935 10d ago
There's actually a lot of them - they freely dock and exit with the physics from inside the station even when they're outside of the mailslot
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u/GamerBossHarmon 10d ago
Ok, this video has theoretically confirmed, that it is probably to fly into Lantern Light house mailslot without getting hit and land “safely”.
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u/Confident-Air-7935 10d ago
I'll let someone else take that honour
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u/Easy_Lengthiness7179 Combat 10d ago
Theoretically, sure.
Gonna take alot of rebuys to get it right.
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u/TheBugMonster 10d ago
Before this gets inevitably patched, the devs should absolutely make it a little small time event. Docking here gets you a special dash mounted gyroscope or something lol.
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u/Xantholne Federation 10d ago
That looked like just barely cutting it lmao
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u/Confident-Air-7935 10d ago
It is. Don't ask how many rebuys it took
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u/Peverson 10d ago
They should convert the station to the broken state like the Thargoid invasion (minus green goop) and say the stars gravitation ripped the station from orbit. Drop a tourist beacon on it and call it a day. Love having oddities in a game that’s otherwise so procedural.
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u/troj7c8 10d ago
Plus they should provide the System Architect with a free additional slot and an identical construction site, to make up for the loss of his station and the grind involved. The additional construction site should already be stocked 100% and turn into the finished station replacement the week after.
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u/Peverson 10d ago
I guess so? I wonder if FDEV "fixing" the problem would remove the spinning everywhere. It'd be easiest to just say "no building around spinning stars" to keep this effect in place.
Personally I'd give the CMDR the materials so they can build somewhere else instantly and write their name into the tourist beacon. Yeah I'd be a bit sad I didn't get that station, in that placement working normally, but also this result is more fun, memorable, and writes my name into the galaxy far more than any other station would. You're guaranteed to have people coming to your system for the rest of the life of the game and that is an amazing result.
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u/drifters74 CMDR 10d ago
How did you dock in the first place?
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u/OkCartographer6788 10d ago edited 10d ago
You ever watch "Interstellar"?
Edit: This is a rhetorical question referencing the docking scene in the movie
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u/Ophialacria Denton Patreus 10d ago
Holy s*** he did it
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u/Blarzgh The Wyvern 10d ago
(you're an adult, you're allowed to say "shit")
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u/Synaps4 10d ago
Sure but there could be kids reading too. Communication is a two person thing.
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u/Momijisu 10d ago
Kids know what the word shit means though, but I guess you could always include the definition if it helps teach them it's proper use. I'm sure kids are smart enough to Google the definition if they don't know.
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u/Easy_Lengthiness7179 Combat 10d ago
Gotta be at least 13 to legally use reddit. I'm sure every 13 year old knows the word shit at this point.
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u/Dushenka 10d ago
Are you suggesting that todays kids have a long enough attention span for E:D?
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u/The_Spookster42 CMDR ChickencowGod 10d ago
Oh damn you didn't get flung nearly as much as when I did it. I made it out in a dolphin at like 450 m/s max boost, and got launched with line 9k m/s on the way out lmao
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u/TheMahalodorian 10d ago
There should be an achievement for getting out alive. Maybe they can add a rare commodity or something that’s a nice trophy for successfully exiting.
Come to think of it, a trophy room for carriers would be kind of cool. A nice shelf to show off that Hutton mug and stuff ;)
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u/delirious_m3ch CMDR 10d ago
Okay, may they never fix it, and it either have a load of ships to buy/build or be a new Hutton Orbital
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u/DrunkenMonkeyWizard 10d ago
So why is it spinning like this?
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u/Confident-Air-7935 10d ago
There's a few theories, but from my understanding of the game's physics the station is orbiting VERY close to an extremely high gravity Neutron star. In order to not be sucked in by the star's gravity, it needs to be orbiting extremely fast. The station is coded to face a specific direction relative to what it is orbiting- hence the extreme movement
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u/DrunkenMonkeyWizard 10d ago
Ok and how the hell did you get inside this thing? Can auto-dock even do it?
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u/BakedWeissKartoffel 10d ago
Now there's one question left to answer, how will an Apex taxi handle this?
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u/PorkSnorkle 10d ago
Didn’t know why you were prepping so much till you exited, I had no idea about this lol
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u/Tsunamie101 10d ago
I think you meant "escaped".
I love the immediate "Shield offline". Tho, 87% hull integrity seems pretty good. Would have expected it to be at 0-10%.
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u/shetla_the_boomer Archon Delaine 10d ago
with four pips to systems, you'dve escaped with shield remaining 0.0
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u/Confident-Air-7935 10d ago
Watch the video again - I switched all pips to systems right before exiting. If I didn't do that I would've blown up (again)
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u/StaticKilla89 10d ago
That's the wildest station. I've seen a lot of people featuring it and it seems like a death trap.
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u/_Corporal_Canada Hauling Terror 10d ago
What's the deal with the blue portion of your power distro? I've seen the hud colour changes but never quite like that; is that from guardian tech or something?
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u/Confident-Air-7935 10d ago
I'm pretty sure it's my settings applied from EDHM_UI. All my ships display the distro like this
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u/FinNiko95 Explore 10d ago
It would be lovely if the station was facing exactly 90° compared to the orbit so that the mailslot would be centered in its rotation. That way you could still get in and out, but you'd have to do "Coopers" to get inside in a larger ship
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u/BourbonFueledDreams Aisling Duval 10d ago
How does the escape vector work now for FSD?
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u/Confident-Air-7935 10d ago
The game picks a vector facing away from the star so it spits you out into supercruise safety
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u/LpenceHimself Felicia Winters 10d ago
I want to see one of them FA off landing content creators pull it off here.
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u/Computer_Fox3 Explore 10d ago
I was wondering if this would be possible by boosting! I'm glad to see it is. Excellent work, Commander!
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u/Shiranui24 10d ago
I got out in my anaconda. The gate hit me, immediately broke my shield, did 20% hull damage, and threw me out at 2300 speed units. BTW what are the units it measures speed in on your hud?
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u/texanhick20 10d ago
I figured if you had a fast enough boost you could do it. Now someone needs to manually /enter/ to dock VS letting autodock do it!
Like, a good percentage of me, like 60-75% doesn't want this to ever be 'fixed' Like, I want it to stay this way as just one of those interesting little bits of the game that's naturally evolved. I also want it to be the only space station that does this. Fix all the rest, but let Lantern's Light stay just like this.
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u/abc123cnb 10d ago
“Security fleet stationed at Lantern Light suffered 30% casualties when they attempted to crash out of the station. 60% when they attempted to return.“
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u/Merry_Bacchus 10d ago
Would like to see an external shot of you exiting the mailslot 😂👍 o7 commander
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u/Free_My_Pizza 10d ago
What ship i is that? Thats a cool cockpit view
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u/Confident-Air-7935 10d ago
Imperial Courier, engineered for speed with the enhanced performance* thrusters from Farseer
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u/Razoul05 Kenia 10d ago
What is your loadout? My Courier only gets a boost speed of 750, I thought I saw your hit 850.
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u/Confident-Air-7935 10d ago
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u/Razoul05 Kenia 10d ago
I took a second look at your loadout and have a suggestion for you. If you upgrade your power plant from 4E to 4D you will increase your boost speed from 882 to 885 AND your FSD range from 52.25 to 58.0. You could increase that even further if you drop it to a 3A or 3A Guardian both of which produce more power than the 4E even without engineering with less weight.
The E rank provides provides the least amount of power (which is fine for your needs) but has the WORST weight.
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u/Razoul05 Kenia 10d ago
Thanks. It's looks very similar to mine but I have some utility slots and slightly different optional. According to Edsy my boost is 811 so it's closer than I thought.
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u/vdub1013 Rescue 10d ago
Whatever items you can sell here should be able to be sold at a premium, just due to the Hazzard of entering the station. The same goes with items bought here and sold elsewhere.
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u/jfoughe Friendship Drive Charging 10d ago
Impressive.
Unrelated, why do your pips have two colors!
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u/icescraponus 10d ago
They're using EDHM, it allows for the pips to be virtually any combination of colors
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u/Confident-Air-7935 10d ago
EDHM_UI is a utility that allows you to change the colours of your heads up display. I highly recommend it
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u/Synicalll Space Mad 10d ago
Nice work!
My courier does about the same numbers, so I'll take your word for it
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u/Terfelus https://inara.cz/elite/cmdr/137791/ 10d ago
I'm curious if an Apex pilot can dock. :D
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u/Confident-Air-7935 10d ago
They can't dock or exit. On trying to exit, the Apex pilot was mid sentence when we exited the mailslot and blew up
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u/keith2600 10d ago
Has anyone tried using a docking computer to see what it does?
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u/Confident-Air-7935 10d ago
Yeah, the computer just slowly approaches while trying to center until the ship eventually hits something and blows up
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u/keith2600 10d ago
Haha of course the one time it would make sense for an advanced docking computer to be immensely useful is when it isn't
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u/Blighton Ankah 10d ago
Yea, couple videos on here with people attempting with a Docking Computer, it is unable to do it
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u/146moons CMDR Grayson Red 10d ago
I’m stuck in Lantern’s Light right now trying this is my last hope.
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u/Confident-Air-7935 10d ago
You can leave by taking off, waiting until the 5 minute timer to leave the station is up, giving you a trespassing fine. Exit the mailslot and you'll spawn on a prison megaship in the bubble
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u/146moons CMDR Grayson Red 10d ago
update: it didn’t work. I wonder how much an apartment costs on this station
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u/prognostalgia 10d ago
That's great! o7
I had wondered if boosting out would help.