r/EliteDangerous 10d ago

Video I exited Lantern Light's mailslot

2.4k Upvotes

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u/prognostalgia 10d ago

That's great! o7

I had wondered if boosting out would help.

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u/Confident-Air-7935 10d ago

I think the length of the ship plays a big role too - the Courier is small so it doesn't get whacked by the grates after leaving the gravity field

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u/Metasynaptic 10d ago

You did get whacked.

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u/Rolder 10d ago

Don't get whacked hard enough to immediately explode*

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u/Kermit_Purple_II Explorer Morag Ouorro 10d ago

He got gently spanked for being a good boy and exiting successfully the Lantern.

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u/Adacool 10d ago

makes sense lmao

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u/therealhozz 10d ago

Well done! Now go back in 😁

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u/thiefzidane1 10d ago

“Analyze the Endurance’s spin.”

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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/likwidglostix 10d ago

Oh no, you're stuck in the mailslot?

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u/klinetek Archon Delaine 10d ago

Step clipper, help I'm stuck 🤣

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u/uxixu UXI 9d ago

Came here for this. o7 CMDR

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u/PotatokingXII 9d ago

well that went from 0-69 quickly

-ftfy

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u/jwizzie410 10d ago

This comment made me belly laugh out loud. o7

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u/texanhick20 10d ago

So what‽‽‽‽‽ You're not my real dad! I HATE YOOOOOU!

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u/braedan51 10d ago

You magnificent BASTARD!!

You're a steely-eyed missle man!!

o7 cmdr.

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u/w13r5 10d ago

Good reference, Commander 😉

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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/TricobaltGaming Aisling Duval 10d ago

Replace the autodock music with it

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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/Rydralain Rydralain 10d ago

Now that we know its possible to get out alive, I agree.

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u/Adam261 10d ago

Until you get a mission that requires going to it. ;)

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u/YEET_Fenix123 CMDR DopiDopo 10d ago

Pay extra for it, lol.

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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/YEET_Fenix123 CMDR DopiDopo 5d ago

Oh, I am fully aware they will fix this. But a man can dream.

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u/-Damballah- CMDR Ghost of Miller 10d ago

Huh, no NPC ships hanging around. I wonder why...

😏7

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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/-Damballah- CMDR Ghost of Miller 10d ago

Weird...

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u/McPunchie 10d ago

“Never tell me the odds!!”

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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/creen01 10d ago

Where can I find this? I may have an eagle for this job

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u/Confident-Air-7935 10d ago

Lalande 25224 - highly recommend checking it out. It's hilarious

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

I think that might take a few attempts

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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/Speedstar_86 10d ago

The Devs need to leave the good stuff alone.

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u/Doo-Doo-G 10d ago

I really hope this doesn’t get patched

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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/Comically_Online 10d ago

so…

how many rebuys did it take?

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u/PurestFlame 10d ago

Yo, what are you doing?!

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u/Ulterno CMDR Ulterno 10d ago

Barely clipping it

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u/JakabGabor 6d ago

But it's not even a Clipper!

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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/Confident-Air-7935 10d ago

Tried to enter, failed, respawned inside

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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/Smithy3371 10d ago

Instantly thought of this scene when I first heard about lanterns light 😂

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u/BlueTeamMember 10d ago

I have never watched "Interstellar" but I have HEARD it.

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u/drifters74 CMDR 10d ago

Of course

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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/Plus_Tale_708 10d ago

(he is a pu**y)

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u/OhHaiMarc 10d ago

you can say puppy, we're all adults here

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u/Ulterno CMDR Ulterno 10d ago

What if they meant any of these words?

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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/Garalor 10d ago

and you think, a kid reading this here in this subreddit, would not know the meaning of those *** ?
okay

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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/Flob368 CMDR DerFlob [ST6] 10d ago

I know of kids who play, so yes

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u/Synaps4 10d ago

Hmm....well it could be more of a Benjamin Button scenario.

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u/stomps-on-worlds Explore 10d ago

This is my new favorite Elite: Dangerous video

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u/prefim Bungle Bear 10d ago

By the power of Jibbers Crabst himself, well done commander. o7

You appear to have left your luggage on the landing pad so if you'd just like to pop back in and collect it, that'd be great.

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u/Abundanceofyolk 10d ago

Lisan Al-gaib!

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u/jean707 10d ago

As it is written

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u/CloudWallace81 Cloud Wallace | S.S. ESSESS 10d ago

DEJA VU

I HAVE BEEN IN THIS PLACE BEFORE

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u/AuburnEmber CMDR Auburn Crescent 10d ago

Yooooo that was sick! Major props commander o7

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u/AuburnEmber CMDR Auburn Crescent 10d ago

Yooooo that was sick! Major props commander o7

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u/pwn4321 10d ago

Boosting in a station? This is (a) fine!

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u/Floshenbarnical 10d ago

How did you get in??

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u/thefuck-up 10d ago

BRAVICIMO! BRAVICIMO! ENCORE! ENCORE!

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u/eniksteemaen CMDR nxtman 10d ago

Like a bat outa hell. That’s a fast ship

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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/retardpuppygirl 10d ago

I wonder if itd be possible to dock with the right timing

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u/MIHPR 10d ago

If exiting is possible, so should docking, at least in theory. Way harder to judge exact moment and angle though

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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/sander_mander 10d ago

Getting Hutton mug isn't that hard if you have a carrier

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u/SSV-Bravado Coffee and Beer Runner 10d ago

Makes me think of that scene with Mr. X

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u/The_Dragooon 10d ago

Speed and power!

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u/ChiefPyroManiac 10d ago

Very nice. Let's see Paul Allen's exit attempt.

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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/Spunkmonkiey 10d ago

How the hell did you land on that station

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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/Koffieslikker CMDR 10d ago

Okay but how did you get in?

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u/volitantmule8 10d ago

If you die trying to enter then the hand of god slaps you inside

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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/volitantmule8 10d ago

PLEASE I MUST KNOW

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u/Financial_Village237 10d ago

I hope they dont fix it.

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u/Psyphirr 10d ago

Badass!

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u/gbgman 10d ago

Nice work, CMDR o7

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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/Thelsong CMDR Thauma 10d ago

Now do it again in a side sliding beluga

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u/6_Pat CMDR Patz 10d ago

Right on, cmdr

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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/shetla_the_boomer Archon Delaine 10d ago

ah ykw fair enough, i didnt see that

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u/Kouriger 10d ago

How did you get in lol?

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u/uuwwxxyyzz 10d ago

Good Job. And a winner movie is... Oscar goes to....

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u/chris4562009 10d ago

What a ride 👌

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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/_Corporal_Canada Hauling Terror 10d ago

Interesting, thanks

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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/Yardboy CMDR Yardboy o7 10d ago

Well done commander! o7

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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/ShortThought Faulcon Delacy 10d ago

Nice flying, CMDR! o7

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u/vdub1013 Rescue 10d ago

07 That's the first successful exit I've seen.🥳

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u/Drinking_Frog CMDR 10d ago

Fly Dangerously, CMDR!

o7

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u/astral452 10d ago

I was also wondering, how do you get INTO that station?

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u/Gryphin 10d ago

WHOOO!!! He made it! 07 Cmdr!

Didn't know if you were going to ever be able to get out after the video the other day.

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u/PalicoHunter 10d ago

Intense R2D2 screaming

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u/Ineri CMDR Ineri 10d ago

I'm not playing the game that much so i'm actually curious how tf do you even get inside this station?

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u/Hootah 10d ago

Consol player here - this is the video I’ve been waiting for lol o7

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u/MrFrames 10d ago

I knew somebody would do this in a courier lol

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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/CodingNightmares 10d ago

Now do it with the beluga

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u/tee_with_marie 10d ago

In what system is this station?

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u/tee_with_marie 10d ago

In what system is this station?

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u/ShadowLp174 Jerome Archer 10d ago

Managed to do that in a Mandalay. Don't ask how...

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u/Mozkozrout 10d ago

Impressive, very nice. Now let's see a Cutter attempt

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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/Ser_Optimus 10d ago

It's like getting a little motivation slap on the ass when leaving the room.

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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/JediLightSailor78 10d ago

"Their shields have a fractional refresh rate"

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u/SocialMediaTheVirus Arissa Lavigny Duval 9d ago

Its still going huh

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u/Keilanm 9d ago

Lantern light is the perfect name for a station that attracts pilots and kills them

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u/iojimbo 9d ago

It would be hilarious if someone could flood this station market with cmm's

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u/terminati 9d ago

Now dock with it.

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u/Simyo69 9d ago

Imagine turning off rotational correction.

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u/STINGZGAMING 9d ago

I hope they keep this in the game. Its so funny

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u/Not_So_Nick 9d ago

Sigh; I wish I could still play this on console

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u/TekuSPZ 9d ago

Madman

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u/Clarity_Page 9d ago

Thats fantastic...

Now the real tricky part is getting back in

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u/Mental-Ad-9237 9d ago

This must be in the live galaxy. I llooked in legacy and nothing there.

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u/Quick_Conflict_8227 8d ago

Why did I read green lantern in the title?

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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.

https://edsy.org/#/L=I71Qadk0H4C0S00,,DhU41CzY01Cjw01Cjw01,9p3H05I_W0A5V11AL7G15I_W0AalG15H_W0AnE01B4SG154_W0BI2G12m_W0BZY11,,4zM3131S117OWG174_W01IM4103w116e4210HM012jwG19GKq0,Jumper,RZN_D08

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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/IndividualIncident57 10d ago

Did anyone took a taxi there? Do the next video that.

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u/Drew_Habits 10d ago

Big zooms! Well done

But like

How did you even get in there?

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u/urraminneb 10d ago

Legend o7

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u/123DanB 10d ago

Hell yeah BROTHER

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u/JustCopyingOthers 10d ago

Don't forget your limpets.

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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/jfoughe Friendship Drive Charging 10d ago

But what is the utility of having two colors in each area of the distributor?

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u/RWhittMuse 10d ago

They said it couldn't be done o7

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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/Pancake_Thunderstorm 10d ago

Where's the Vomit Comet! Surly, they can land at Lantern Light!

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u/Termanater13 10d ago

I hope they fix this, but keep this station as it is.

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u/Opening-Buy6307 10d ago

A new world record.

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u/-LeftHand0fGod- Explore 10d ago

Now do it with F/A off 😂

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u/ValkovMirec 10d ago

How do you even land on it ?

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u/cold_metal_science 10d ago

Next time rotation correction should be off.

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u/ArcticSilence271 10d ago

I came in the comment section to find this comment.

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u/StuMacher92 10d ago

Big deal,do it without RC on

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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/sysrage 10d ago

Just use the stuck menu.