After 5 days getting feet wet and earning up to an asp for pure cargo runs, decided to finally try Open vs all solo so far.
First, really exhilarating meeting and getting away from player pirates since I'm only in a pure defense, no weapons cargo asp. But from lots of comments in other threads I started, I thought the whole point of player pirates was to 'give me your loot or die' and negotiate some kind of you know, insurance ala the mafia, give up some cargo - go on your way.
Before I actually encountered player pirates, kind of liked the idea - whole lot better than solo and digital NPCs for sure.
But in just 1 hour of runs between my usual trade route of 2-3 hops - my introduction to Open was lot different than some posts suggested
1- in that first 60-70 minutes, ran into 7-8 player pirate encounters - I think 3 of them from the same guy. Always at least 1 encounter each way of my route, sometimes 2 or even 3 encounters each way, which got pretty hairy getting more and more shot up and barely making some distance before next pirate jumped me.
Anyway, I'm flying this cargo route loaded down with loot - and not once, not ever - did a human pirate ask the 'gimme some cargo or die' routine. It was just straight up open fire, and not just warnings - straight up murder. So I flew defensively, and just boosted and scooted, with lots of really close calls to losing basically my entire amassed progress since I just got the asp and almost all my cash is tied up in the ship + cargo.
So question for more veterans than I obviously am after less than week in game - where the heck is the 'gimme your loot or die' demand from the player pirates who are in this for a profit and there is zero profit just shooting up a cargo hauler?
The only motivational context I got was in 1 single player pirate encounter in which the only typed text I got was something to effect of 'don't come here without a faction' - I am guessing that has some kind of reference to he doesn't like non-pledged people in "his" PP space so he's gotta murder them all?
Aside that one nut though, which at least I can chalk up to maybe some weird role play PP guy or hardcore loves his PP - the other 88% or 7 of 8 encounters in that first 60-70 minute bloodbath intro to Open was shoot first - shoot last, make no demands of loot kinda player pirates.
Is this normal? where the heck are the financially motivated pirates when you need them?
First, really exhilarating meeting and getting away from player pirates since I'm only in a pure defense, no weapons cargo asp. But from lots of comments in other threads I started, I thought the whole point of player pirates was to 'give me your loot or die' and negotiate some kind of you know, insurance ala the mafia, give up some cargo - go on your way.
Before I actually encountered player pirates, kind of liked the idea - whole lot better than solo and digital NPCs for sure.
But in just 1 hour of runs between my usual trade route of 2-3 hops - my introduction to Open was lot different than some posts suggested
1- in that first 60-70 minutes, ran into 7-8 player pirate encounters - I think 3 of them from the same guy. Always at least 1 encounter each way of my route, sometimes 2 or even 3 encounters each way, which got pretty hairy getting more and more shot up and barely making some distance before next pirate jumped me.
Anyway, I'm flying this cargo route loaded down with loot - and not once, not ever - did a human pirate ask the 'gimme some cargo or die' routine. It was just straight up open fire, and not just warnings - straight up murder. So I flew defensively, and just boosted and scooted, with lots of really close calls to losing basically my entire amassed progress since I just got the asp and almost all my cash is tied up in the ship + cargo.
So question for more veterans than I obviously am after less than week in game - where the heck is the 'gimme your loot or die' demand from the player pirates who are in this for a profit and there is zero profit just shooting up a cargo hauler?
The only motivational context I got was in 1 single player pirate encounter in which the only typed text I got was something to effect of 'don't come here without a faction' - I am guessing that has some kind of reference to he doesn't like non-pledged people in "his" PP space so he's gotta murder them all?
Aside that one nut though, which at least I can chalk up to maybe some weird role play PP guy or hardcore loves his PP - the other 88% or 7 of 8 encounters in that first 60-70 minute bloodbath intro to Open was shoot first - shoot last, make no demands of loot kinda player pirates.
Is this normal? where the heck are the financially motivated pirates when you need them?
"life" and I've given in to pirates most of the time. They only ask for 5-10 tonnes (less if you fly a smaller rig) and it doesn't really impact all that much on the figures. To avoid them, just use a trading tool and find a high security low risk route away from major populated areas, specially the ones nearby rares, cause those attract pirates like flies.
