I have just started PP and earned my rank 5 this week and so far I really enjoy it.
So, I have flown many LYs to invade my target's back yard. I am there to kill their life line (Just as the wolf pack did to the Brits and allies in ww2) and everyone else that belongs to this system. What breaks immersion for me a bit is that when i make my presence known to the system guardians (analogous to warships in ww2)...loud and clear though an interdiction...what do they do? They dont say...aha! there you are... you should have stayed under your rock silly pilot for now your dead...no, instead they want to fleeeeee and not accept the invitation/interdiction to protect their haulers...the very reason they are there! They fight tooth and nail to win the interdiction game so they can flee and what, leave their haulers and transports sitting ducks?
I know that the extra 20 merits in PP undermining comes from having to hunt your target in supercruise and then engage
interdiction and all that comes with that, but still. These guardian ships tend to be tougher to kill anyways which in itself mitigates easy merits if they accept interdiction....
Perhaps make it a little harder...and i mean a little here FD..no overreacting please and a robust thank you..to interdict a life liner hauler etc in exchange for making the guardians actually act like they want to guard! If the transport vessel is easy to kill but harder to interdict...this adds immersion for typically transports are heavily guarded by escorts anyways (outside of ED gaming i mean)
Can you imagine if a ww2 German sub were to surface right in the face of a British battlecruiser and right in their harbour...and the cruiser Capt'n instead of immediately engaging battle goes full engines and heads away and retorts ."leave me alone, im with powerful people"...(apparently you arent one of them pal)
I'd say...Let them act with some pride and go throttle zero and fight especially within their own control system .
We are the Galactic Federal Agency charged by 6th dimensional entities and beyond to
bring order calm and peace to these lower dimensions at all costs.
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So, I have flown many LYs to invade my target's back yard. I am there to kill their life line (Just as the wolf pack did to the Brits and allies in ww2) and everyone else that belongs to this system. What breaks immersion for me a bit is that when i make my presence known to the system guardians (analogous to warships in ww2)...loud and clear though an interdiction...what do they do? They dont say...aha! there you are... you should have stayed under your rock silly pilot for now your dead...no, instead they want to fleeeeee and not accept the invitation/interdiction to protect their haulers...the very reason they are there! They fight tooth and nail to win the interdiction game so they can flee and what, leave their haulers and transports sitting ducks?
I know that the extra 20 merits in PP undermining comes from having to hunt your target in supercruise and then engage
interdiction and all that comes with that, but still. These guardian ships tend to be tougher to kill anyways which in itself mitigates easy merits if they accept interdiction....
Perhaps make it a little harder...and i mean a little here FD..no overreacting please and a robust thank you..to interdict a life liner hauler etc in exchange for making the guardians actually act like they want to guard! If the transport vessel is easy to kill but harder to interdict...this adds immersion for typically transports are heavily guarded by escorts anyways (outside of ED gaming i mean)
Can you imagine if a ww2 German sub were to surface right in the face of a British battlecruiser and right in their harbour...and the cruiser Capt'n instead of immediately engaging battle goes full engines and heads away and retorts ."leave me alone, im with powerful people"...(apparently you arent one of them pal)
I'd say...Let them act with some pride and go throttle zero and fight especially within their own control system .
bring order calm and peace to these lower dimensions at all costs.
You can chose to be either on or under that bus. Choose well.
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