So.. On my way to the Dweller to do 3 upgrades to some pulse lasers. On a 12 jump trip .. interdicted 9 times. All by elite ships. For 3 units of Samarium. Is this the thing now?
Interdictions.. what?
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Extremely frustrating isn't it. I like how the AI can sense when my ship has cargo and descend on me from all corners of the galaxy and yet I can't find one rock of Arsenic.
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Hahaha..
I met a buddy in open space last night so she could give me an MA and when I jumped back into SC to take it back to the Engineer I was instantly messaged by a pirate who pointed out that I had some delicious cargo. This crap is ridiculous.
yes .....
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Well me n the better half were winged up and she got pulled by Elite FAS, We take on the FAS and she is shields dropping so bugs out, I keep the FAS busy have its hull down to 23%............. Guess what she is just short of the station and gets pulled by the SAME FAS with same Hull percentage and name as the one I am still shooting at !!! Be Warned AI can now CLONE themselves !
Nice. Guess FD has more fixing to do...
Can I ask what your ratings are in exploration, combat and trading, and your rep with factions? I made a post yesterday because I don't ever seem to get interdicted, and I'm not sure why. The only thing I can think of is that I reset my save so my combat, trading and exploration ratings are quite low. I'm also still neutral with all factions.
Yes, it is apparently a thing now. And yes, it is g annoying. I've been interdicted over silly crap so many times that it doesn't even give me an adrenaline rush anymore, it's just annoying now.
Last night I was interdicted 5 times by 2 different NPCs because I had 4 units of modular terminals on my way to get my level 3 FSD upgrade from Felicity.
I was interdicted 3 times by the same stupid Python NPC just seconds away from entering orbital flight. I would get close, get interdicted, see some stupid quip from the NPC about "staying alive or staying wealthy", escape the interdiction without taking any damage, get spit back out into SC a few hundred Ls away from the planet, get interdicted again... Lather, rinse, repeat. This lasted for about 15 minutes, and it was obnoxious as all hell.
I was also farming mats out in the middle of BFE Deciat 1 and just happened to pick up some loot from a crash site the other day. Some gold or something. Had it in my cargo hold for about an hour before I needed to step away from my computer for about 5-10 minutes. Came back to find my hull down to about 20% AND my thruster module damn near at 0%, with a bunch of systems security guys fly around my ship. I looked in the text box. Sure as , there was a bunch of NPC chatter: "Your cargo, give it to me, now."..."Ok, you choose death, then." Happily I have report crimes turned on and I have a decent AFM equipped when I'm just out and about in my ASP Explorer, but still, I couldn't help but think:
First of all, I wasn't there to give you my cargo, not like you would have used it because your a NPC. And second, and the most important, HOW THE DID YOU FIND ME OUT HERE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE IN THE CRATER OF A 1.21G PLANET WITH A SINGLE UNIT OF WHATEVER THE HELL IT WAS I HAD IN MY CARGO HOLD?????
These interdictions and stupid pirate NPCs are at the point of immersion shattering stupidity, these days. This crap needs to be toned down because it's completely defeating the purpose of the interdiction mechanic.
I was out exploring and scavenging well over 1000ly out of the bubble. I quit out of the game in a system. So later I jump back into the game and go back into super cruise. "Ah there you are. The rumors were right. etc. etc." And I'm thinking are you g kidding me right now? Oh you heard a rumor that an Imperial Clipper was hundreds of light years out of the bubble and ya just had to check it out. Well here, I have 32 tons of scavenged cargo and 2 class 3 gimbled laser beams for ya. Totally immersion breaking. Why not just have me come back into the game and look at the insurance screen because I got blown up while I was away from keyboard. The mechanics are so frustration now. I need to take a break.
I thought it was all to do with the "status" of the player, regardless of their combat rank.
If the OP has a massive bounty, then the game's doing what it should be.
Please post your experiences here, so FD can hopefully get this fixed.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=257889
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=257889
Use the Force !
I know what you mean, I actually found a crapload of Platinum on Eta Draconis 7 while looking for yttrium. I almost picked it up because that that stuff goes for almost 20k a unit and there were about 5 units there, I was like "oh sweet, easy money..."
Then I thought to myself, "no, game is just going to spawn a bunch of NPC pirates to harass me. it, there are less obnoxious ways to make money."
So I left the platinum there and continued shooting metallic meteors. The constant NPC pirate thing is really sucking the fun out of finding loot in POIs, too.
Covered about 400ly today bouncing around in an eagle and viper, with multiple trips to stations / planets.
I've been interdicted about 8 times
2 I shot down - novice vultures.
2 I won the minigame
The others I boosted off and jumped system.
1 of these was a CMDR interdiction in capricorni, although it was odd as there was NPC like talk in local whilst it happened.
One interdiction was literally upon exit of high wake too, as in the sun had just loaded and it went straight to interdiction.
In all encounters I was never at risk of losing anything though.
I've been interdicted about 8 times
2 I shot down - novice vultures.
2 I won the minigame
The others I boosted off and jumped system.
1 of these was a CMDR interdiction in capricorni, although it was odd as there was NPC like talk in local whilst it happened.
One interdiction was literally upon exit of high wake too, as in the sun had just loaded and it went straight to interdiction.
In all encounters I was never at risk of losing anything though.
I don't know about you guys, but every time. Exit glide mode and try to land and have an npc almost immediately jump in behnd me and scan me. They don't shoot if my cargo is empty, but it's really weird that EVERY time, someone pops up behind me. Oh,and they stick around for a few minutes like they at waiting for me to take off with cargo. What the heck?
Anyone else have that happen? Or have random npcs slow-boat over the surface while you are in your srv?
Anyone else have that happen? Or have random npcs slow-boat over the surface while you are in your srv?
I was actually attacked by twins once. I killed them and went into SC...where I found another 2 identical ships with the same name! Quads! What are the odds. I think I upset the clan.
I have been attacked several times on take-off (or just after boarding and not yet engaged engines) and it is really annoying. The overflights are a bit unnerving when you are all exposed in your little flimsy SRV aren't they? Really freaked me out the first time it happened (sat there with the lights off just waiting to die).
Negative. It's not based on bounty status, unless you're talking about being interdicted by Security.
The interdiction issues people seem to be having happen like clockwork every time we have any type of any amount of cargo. Based on the experiences of others, that frequency of interdiction by NPC pirates seems to be linked to the players ratings (combat, exploration, trade, OR all 3 combined...).
Players with lower ranks seem to have a problem with not being interdicted at all. Players with higher rankings, well we can't fart without an NPC trying to interdict their way through the brief opening.
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