I play Permadeath almost exclusively, aside from expeditions. I know the risk you take, and I’ve lost several toons doing stupid things (got hit by lightning in my previous game because I was greedy.)

But this time, I had 128 hours into my character, and died because of a glitch while landing on my freighter. My ship suddenly popped into the interior or the freighter, and just bounced itself around until it was destroyed, and all my work with it. There was not a thing I could do to stop it.

I don’t mind dying from my own stupidity, but this put me over the edge. (And yes, I know how to cheat and keep a backup, but what’s the point of doing PD if you can game the system?)

I’m sure I’ll be down voted, because nobody likes a GBCW rant, but so be it. I needed to get this off my chest. Have fun, folks.

So I start Expedition 2 and spawn as a handsome blue and yellow Vy’keen, out in the middle of nowhere on Tibertant Alpha. All is right with the world- I do some gathering and crafting, then stumble upon a crashed freighter and start ripping open cargo pods for the sweet loot inside.

Four cargo pods later, another player shows up and almost immediately starts shooting at me, knocking me down to 2/3rds health before I could get away- and once I did, they kept following me, shooting at me when I’d use my jetpack too much.

I got a good head start though, running straight up some cliff walls and even stopping to gather from a patch of Indium before reaching my ship, a delightful blue and yellow hauler. I almost completely fix it up- but I’m short some dihydrogen, so I get out and mine a nearby patch, only to get spotted by 3 angry sentinels. Just then, my assailant shows up having followed me over 1,600u, so I hop in my ship, toss in the dihydrogen, and take off.

Looping back around, I spot three angry sentinels firing out laser blasts at my former assailant, so I figured I’d get some revenge with my Photon Cannons, chasing them across a valley before it was reported in text on the screen that they had died in combat from ship fire.

I flew into space immediately, naming my ship “The Immediate Vengeance” and feeling like one very triumphant Vy’keen.

Am I playing this right?