[Klaustrophobia]

there's nothing interesting that far out in any other mission.  maybe the jump node in high noon, but i don't remember how far away it is.  certainly not 150 km, but outside the boundary?

The furthest Sathanas from the player in the penultimate mission is 225km away from the player. Well outside the boundary of FS2 Retail but visitable in Open.

i always thought those were part of the sun image, not actual ships.  isn't there a "sathsun" and "sathsun2" or something to that effect in FRED?

[MatthTheGeek]

What you see, visually, are those bitmaps. However, the blinking dots on your radar are SJD Sathanases.

[Crybertrance]

*After fighting off a unworldly wave of bombers escorting a Faustus, Health at 1%, no sheilds*

Le me - "Hmm, lets create a ring of fire by colliding on the rotating thing"

*bump* *BOOOOOOOM!!*

 

[Aardwolf]

I don't know if it ever actually killed me, but...

Going traitor, firing a Synaptic or a Piranha, and being hit with my own sub-munitions.

Note: this bug has already been reported and fixed, more than a year ago

[Alex Heartnet]

I've flown my unshielded Apollo into a Shivan bomb a few times...

Flying directly into bombs is highly unlikely, but is also the sort of thing that can happen more often then you would think.

[Lorric]

Public Service Announcement: Don't play chicken with the Sathanas. Unless you want to be splattered like an insect on a bus windscreen.

As for me, getting too close to the other fighters on the mission where Snipes sets up bombs on the other ships. Bomb went boom. And took me out in the explosion.

[yuezhi]

fredding at least 3 aeolus into escort formation to a convoy point only to realize they flak to hell whatever is in the middle. chasing bombers that get between cruisers is brutal.

fail.

[NGTM-1R]

Getting run down by a friendly surface-to-orbit missile strike in a mission I was building three years ago.

Not blown up.

Run down.

[LordPomposity]

i was trying to reach the third knossos in into the lion's den, when i suddenly just ****ing exploded.  apparently there IS a mission boundary.

Had you chosen any other mission you'd have been warned about it too. But on that mission (probably on most of the loop missions in fact) command messages are turned off.

That wouldn't happen on FSO BTW, the boundary is much further out now.

I once FREDed a mission with four in-mission jumps. I then tested this mission.

Upon emerging from the third jump, I was chewed out for desertion by Command, after which I promptly self-destructed.

[FireSpawn]

Accidently hit 'Esc' twice when fighting The Trancendant, while in a heading to the toilet. To this day I still wonder...."Did I really need to go that badly?"

[NGTM-1R]

To explain my last one better.

I got around the whole SSM thing by simply having the missiles be large, ground-based weapons (they were actually about the size though not the volume of a TC-TRI at conception but they shrunk over time) and using a fighter AI profile and kamikaze.

It was set during a Vasudan siege of Beta Aquilae, and you were flying defense for a high orbit installation when you basically got a whole battlegroup dumped on you. It was pretty clear you were doomed at the moment when the installation calls for support from "Battery A".

It was more or less the Sixth Wonder moment of the campaign as about twenty giant ****off missiles warp in and go about blowing things up. The problem was the mission dynamics for some reason or another meant that I tended to end up between the missiles and their targets. And they'd run me over en route to their targets.

And I designed the mission, but I died this way like three times when I tested it. It was part of the reason I stopped work on that campaign.

[Lorric]

To explain my last one better.

I got around the whole SSM thing by simply having the missiles be large, ground-based weapons (they were actually about the size though not the volume of a TC-TRI at conception but they shrunk over time) and using a fighter AI profile and kamikaze.

It was set during a Vasudan siege of Beta Aquilae, and you were flying defense for a high orbit installation when you basically got a whole battlegroup dumped on you. It was pretty clear you were doomed at the moment when the installation calls for support from "Battery A".

It was more or less the Sixth Wonder moment of the campaign as about twenty giant ****off missiles warp in and go about blowing things up. The problem was the mission dynamics for some reason or another meant that I tended to end up between the missiles and their targets. And they'd run me over en route to their targets.

And I designed the mission, but I died this way like three times when I tested it. It was part of the reason I stopped work on that campaign.

That reminds me of a mission in Colony Wars Vengeance. You have to put these trackers on capital ships, and then Jump Missiles jump in and blow them up. Only problem is they jam one of the missiles and it retargets to you. The thing is though, unlike your mission, you can avoid that missile without even thinking about it.

It specifically tells you in the briefing that the missiles may select new targets as well. Maybe you could have got around that by just saying in your briefing "Oh, the missiles don't work very well (true!) so be careful, they might come after you!"

[Rhymes]

 Nuking myself intercepting enemy bombs on any mission without shields, especially that one mission in the asteroid field with the Galatea in FS1. 

And every time I replayed FS1, I'd do it again.  Every. Single. Time.   

[Alex Heartnet]

Nuking myself intercepting Kilrathi torpedoes on any mission in Wing Commander Saga, regardless of the status of my shields.

[Pred the Penguin]

Playing a buggy mission in FS1 over and over again because I couldn't figure out what was wrong.

[Klaustrophobia]

unless you're talking about silent threat, i don't recall any of those.

[mormon_boy]

FREDing a mission so badly that all the ships commit suicide or turn on you out of vengeance

[FireSpawn]

Getting blown up by Holly and her friends at the Beach system. 

[An4ximandros]

Being blasted by a beam that you were one shot away from destroying... and have the last shot you fired kill it 

[Crybertrance]

Being blasted by a beam that you were one shot away from destroying... and have the last shot you fired kill it 

  You're not alone there...