Elite: Dangerous PvE - Mobius

So... I was leaving one of my allied stations in the Vette, and cleared the slot at a speed that was a little over the 100km speed limit, like I've done thousands of times before. After clearing the slot, I boosted as I turned toward my jump target system. I nicked an incoming NPC ship in the process. I saw a message about a 500 credit fine for reckless flying. I thought to myself.... no biggie, I'll cover that when I stop in next time. I've gotten a few dozen of those fines in the past.

The next thing I know the station defenses have opened up on me, and my fully battle ready Vette was destroyed in a few seconds.

Holy crap!

Speed truly kills, commanders. It's a new world out there.

Yeah, I heard they boosted station defences for this update.
I think David Braben actually mentioned it in one of the streams, I believe he said it was to
combat newbie griefing in starter star-ports, but obviously it looks like all of them have been boosted.

Ouch, though, expensive re-buy I'd imagine.

Yup.
Stations now kill you in 3.5 seconds instead of 8.

Dead is still dead in my book.

TorTorden wrote:Yup.
Stations now kill you in 3.5 seconds instead of 8.

Dead is still dead in my book.

But, Pre 2.2 I was never fired upon from the station for bumping an NPC while leaving the slot. I was just given the fine and 'be on your way, commander'. Now it's insta-death. HUGE difference!

JohnLuke wrote:

TorTorden wrote:Yup.
Stations now kill you in 3.5 seconds instead of 8.

Dead is still dead in my book.

But, Pre 2.2 I was never fired upon from the station for bumping an NPC while leaving the slot. I was just given the fine and 'be on your way, commander'. Now it's insta-death. HUGE difference!

You probably clipped something small, that then crashed with the station and blew up.
This gives you a murder bounty, but you probably don't notice in the three seconds before you get blown up and it clears.
I dI'd it with my first trade conda last year.

That could be it. It all happened so fast it was amazing.

I wish to God that I had ShadowPlay running at the time so that I could have gotten a better idea of exactly how it all happened.

The whole speed limit zone feels much larger now, don't know if i'm only imagining things..

I actually recorded this last september

https://youtu.be/k5WPNp3C3F8

I had to put one of those useless tracks on the audio, cause I was playing music in the background.
And it tripped the youtube copy protection of course...

JustSomeGuy wrote:The whole speed limit zone feels much larger now, don't know if i'm only imagining things..

Agreed. It's all the way out to the end of the No Fire Zone. I don't remember it being that large before.

TorTorden wrote:Stations now kill you in 3.5 seconds instead of 8.

Maybe in a Vette, but about .5 seconds in a Sidey. You don't even have time to say Oh Shit!
Tested doing stupid stuff in the beta.

I do like the idea of speed limits, but maybe 100 inside stations and 150 outside.
NPCs sure don't pay any attention to the speed limit after they exit the station!