The shame! Slapped down by an NPC.

[Riedquat]

Hold Tight....

Once "The Fix" is in, you wont even be able to boost away...........interdiction will mean death to new players......grab popcorn, the forums will melt down.........

Ooh, i've missed this, what is this 'fix' ?

 

[TheDayman]

Ooh, i've missed this, what is this 'fix' ?

He's being facetious and a bit sarcastic.

 

[NailZ]

Yeah, I scrolled down his load out. 2 pulse lasers...some shields...no bother...oh, 2 rails...boom! Haha! Don't get me wrong, I'm up for this, it's just an unannounced change of gear (pardon the pun).

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I know this, and have no illusions about its offensive capability. What I wished to try out was its defensive capability. And I (or it, or both) was rotten at even basic defensive stuff against a modestly lethal Asp load out. And I didn't go up against it. I was trying to run. Got rails up my a r s e to prove it!

A bit embarrassed to admit that even after about 400 kills, I don't know how to check an opponent's loadout. Could one of you enlighten me?

 

[EddyRockSteady]

A bit embarrassed to admit that even after about 400 kills, I don't know how to check an opponent's loadout. Could one of you enlighten me?

Sub-systems panel in the left MFCD once contact locked.

 

[MaraJade]

A bit embarrassed to admit that even after about 400 kills, I don't know how to check an opponent's loadout. Could one of you enlighten me?

Sub-systems panel in the left MFCD once contact locked.

This is also how you can target a system to take out. IE, power plant or FSD.

 

[NailZ]

Sub-systems panel in the left MFCD once contact locked.

Many thanks!

 

[Zax]

Please please try to understand, you will not "force" people to play your way, you will force people to stop playing. Do you understand the difference. You can go on and on about it,but it changes nothing. It is no fun to be in a T-6 and get blown away by an NPC Anaconda that the "Pirates" now want traders to have NO chance of escaping........
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You wont get more targets if you get your way, you will get an empty galaxy and nothing to "hunt" but NPCs..........
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Now, with that on board, try to find another sollution.......not easy, I will grant you........

Yes, I'll add my support to that opinion. I set off to explore with ~500k credits to my name. The NPC not only cost me all my cartographic data, it prevents me from continuing as an explorer because the insurance cost (in excess of 300k) means I could not pay for another claim. So I'm faced with selling the Asp, reverting to a Type-6 and plodding between two systems, trading. Not something I feel remotely motivated to undertake right now.

Limiting NPC's to 250LY is a possible improvement but the explorer still has to run the gauntlet of getting back to an inhabited system to sell cartographic data. The galaxy is huge and players could conceivably spend months away from civilisation, gathering that data. Nobody is going to shrug off the loss of that and put it down to being part of the fun. One possible solution would be a means to transmit cartographic data or to send it "home" in a guided cargo capsule. In an age where ships travel at many times the speed of light, data transmission shouldn't be a ridiculous notion.